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Understanding rhetoric : a graphic guide to writing
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This comics-style collaboration between rhetoricians Elizabeth Losh and Jonathan Alexander and illustrator team Big Time Attic presents the content of the composition course in a form designed to d...
This comics-style collaboration between rhetoricians Elizabeth Losh and Jonathan Alexander and illustrator team Big Time Attic presents the content of the composition course in a form designed to draw students in. Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing covers what first-year college writers need to know - the writing process, critical analysis, argument, research, revision, and presentation - in a visual format that brings rhetorical concepts to life through examples ranging from Aristotle to YouTube.
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- Creator
- Elizabeth Losh, Jonathan Alexander, Kevin Cannon, Zander Cannon
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- Books
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- English
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- Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2013]
- ©2014
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- xi, 291 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780312640965, 031264096X
- OCLC
- ocn816029179
- Includes index.
- Introduction : Spaces for writing ; Discovering contexts for writing ; Going boldly through writing processes ; Exploring visual literacy ; reframe : why rhetoric? why a comic book? -- Issue 1 : Why rhetoric? ; Piecing together a definition of rhetoric ; Reanimating ancient views of rhetoric ; Setting rhetorical concepts loose on the world ; reframe : what does Aristotle have to do with me? -- Issue 2 : Strategic reading ; Investigating texts and analyzing meaning ; Putting the pieces together with synthesis ; Using reading strategies ; Imagining ideal readers ; reframe ; how do I read this? -- Issue 3 : Writing identities ; Leaping into identities in writing ; Trying out choices for different audiences ; Revealing the performer within the text ; reframe ; what's my identity? -- Issue 4 : Argument beyond pro and con ; Spotlighting strategies for argument ; Setting the scene for arguable assertions ; Zooming in on claims and evidence ; Focusing on effective organization ; reframe ; the office hour! -- Issue 5 : Research : more than detective work ; Keeping the story straight ; Tracking down sources ; Deciding which sources to trust ; Making sources talk : summary, paraphrase, quotation ; Coming clean with citation ; reframe ; get a clue! -- Issue 6 : Rethinking revision ; Looking beyond the red ink ; Reviewing rhetorically ; Seeing through others' eyes ; Revising radically ; reframe ; am I missing something? -- Issue 7 : Going public ; Launching into the future of genres ; Navigating among media ; Entering the final frontier with publication ; reframe ; how does this look?