Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres

by Amy Devitt, Mary Jo Reiff, Anis Bawarshi

Based in current genre theory, this guide helps writers make more informed rhetorical choices and participate more effectively within academic, workplace and public contexts. This text illustrates how to use genres to assess, understand, and write within different scenes or writing situations. Discussions of writing for academic contexts cover writing analysis, argument, and research-based genres. Public and workplace writing is illustrated though discussions of other genres—letters, resumes, proposals, reports.

608 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2003

Reviews

[Mandy]

A useful text, but poorly arranged. This textbook is aimed at an audience of student writers without a lot of experience with genre studies, but is arranged like a graduate-level text. It's dense and unapproachable in a lot of ways, which is too bad since the information and skills in it are incredibly useful.