The Composition of Everyday Life: A Guide to Writing - Softcover

Mauk, John; Metz, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1428289801 ISBN 13: 9781428289802

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, 2008

Synopsis

Encouraging you to be an inventive thinker and writer, THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Concise Edition, Third Edition, illustrates how the act of writing is connected to your daily life as it helps you rediscover concepts, uncover meaning, and rethink the world around you. With a more reader-friendly design than ever, the third edition begins with an entire chapter devoted to helping you transition into college-level thinking and writing. It emphasizes the invention process throughout and offers twelve chapters to help you invent ideas more than any text on the market. Its seventy-plus reading selections by both professional and student writers expose you to a variety of disciplines. Breaking down the opposition between the personal spaces of everyday life and the critical discourse of academia, this text delivers pedagogy for making meaning and generating writing at the intersection of academic and nonacademic life. It is an excellent preparation for the academic reading and writing activities you will encounter throughout your college experience and well beyond.

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"I like the "fresh language" for discussing rhetorical approaches and composition strategies. For example, instead of the usual references to audience, the authors write about public resonance. That creates a very different regard for writers in deciding how to direct their thesis to readers."

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1428289801
• ISBN 13: 9781428289802
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 541