Purpose and Process: A Reader for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi

by Stephen P. Reid, Melanie Barthelme, Toby Fulwiler

This innovative reader focuses on writers' purposes and processes for reading and writing, and on the connections between, reading and writing. Every chapter integrates purpose, process, and rhetorical strategies for achieving specific writing goals. Sixty-four selections by both professional and student writers illustrate these purposes. The readings address reading and writing purposes and processes, observing, remembering, investigating, explaining, evaluating, problem solving, and arguing. For those interested in improving their reading, writing and research abilities.

626 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1990

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[Abigail (42stitches) · Rating 4 out of 5]

A text I picked up on the "free" shelf in the English department of my university. Oddly enough, a pretty good book. Ideas and motivation for "critical reading". Which is a skill that everyone should continue to develop all their life. More on that later...