Reading Rhetorically

Reading Rhetorically

<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Offering concise yet thorough treatment of academic reading and writing in college, <I>Reading Rhetorically, 4th.ed., </I>shows students how to analyze texts by recognizing rhetorical strategies and genre conventions, and how to incorporate other writers’ texts into their own research-based papers.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Four important features of this text:</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>1. </B>Its emphasis on academic writing as a process in which <B>writers engage with other texts</B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>2. </B>Its emphasis on reading as an <B>interactive process of composing meaning</B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">3. Its treatment <B>rhetorical analysis </B>as both an academic genre that sharpens students' reading acuity and as a tool for academic research</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>4. </B>Its analytical framework for understanding and critiquing how <B>visual texts interact with verbal texts</B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">This brief rhetoric teaches students how to see texts positioned in a conversation with other texts, how to recognize a text's rhetorical aims and persuasive strategies, and how to analyze texts for both content and method.</P>