Seeing and Writing

by Donald McQuade and Christine McQuade

Book Overview

The first full-color composition reader truly to reflect visual culture, Seeing & Writing is based on a simple principle: Careful seeing leads to effective writing. Students actively and critically see the details of each verbal and visual text, think about its composition and the cultural context within which it operates, and then write thoughtfully and convincingly about it. With a new look, new features, and new essays and images, Seeing & Writing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312476043
• ISBN13: 9780312476045
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Bedford Books
• Length: 808 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Seeing and Writing 3

Great seller who sold this to me. Fast shipping, great communication and well packed. The book is really helpful for my class. I would recommend it!

I can see and write now.

I bought this book for a writing class. It taught me to be more observant-sort of, and helped me to write with greater ease- kind of. I saw, I wrote. I wrote about what I saw. My teacher saw what I wrote about. I think I improved my level of observation too much, because now I look very critically at everything. It ruining my life. I can't get anything done at all, with my eyes taking so much time staring at one thing. I've become like some freakin' zombie now. But that only serves as a testament to the effectiveness of this here book. You will be looking at things in a whole new way. I'm more alert to my surrounding now. Perhaps paranoid. This book made me a schitzo. People now look at me like I'm a psychotic fool. I don't know whether to recommend this book or tell you to pass on this one. It was a good book. Buy it now. And see for yourself. You'll see things in a new light. But don't study too hard, it might drive you crazy.