Writing in Different Circles: A Student's Handbook for Interdisciplinary Composition and Rhetoric

by Jeffrey Foster

eBook Version   You will receive access to this electronic text via email after using the shopping cart above to complete your purchase.   Writing in Different A Student’s Guide to Interdisciplinary Composition and Rhetoric is not designed to teach grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, nor is its purpose to instruct you, the student, on how to construct introductions, paragraphs, transitions, or other such basic elements of essay composition. This book should be used as a supplement to the instruction that students receive in college composition courses. Taking an element-by-element approach to essay writing is inefficient. After all, introductions, body paragraphs, transitions, conclusions, development, and organization do not exist in isolation in a well-wrought essay; an essay is a symbiotic construction. Therefore, doesn’t it make sense to plunge right into writing an essay as a complete construction?  Do you really need to read 15–20 pages devoted to defining a thesis statement? Let’s face it, you became more than familiar with thesis statements (and most other parts of personal and academic essays) in your high school English courses. You’re knowledgeable and sophisticated enough to write complete essays right now. Certainly, you will also receive assistance throughout the semester from your instructor and your classmates (during peer review) to identify and strengthen the weaker parts of your essay writing.

94 pages, Paperback

Published December 7, 2012