Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook

by James A. Reinking, Andrew W. Hart

This best-selling rhetorically-organized writing guide combines four books—a rhetoric, a research guide, reader, and handbook—into one convenient and flexible teaching tool while offering the reader  an exceptional value.  

The authors of Strategies for Successful Writing: a Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook have strived to achieve the same steadfast goals that have motivated them from the beginning: create a rhetorically-organized writing guide that combines four books into one convenient and flexible teaching tool.

Genres: Writing, Reference, Nonfiction

681 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[BlackbirdFrenzy Meagher]

It's fine as a technical overview but nothing special. Reading about writing isn't writing.

[Katy]

Here's the thing: this text is bare bones and mostly "just the facts Ma'am"; just the thing for community college or non-English major students. I've found the "Reader" section, which contains real-life essays on topics from immigration to machsimo to defining family, to be a useful supplement for modeling examples of writing topics, strategies, and architecture. Plus, the TOC sports a cross-reference that matches up the categories of the essays in the "Reader" section to the "Rhetoric" section, so I don't have to flog my brain, and, gasp -- do it myself.

[Meltha]

While not perfect, this really does work as a good composition textbook. It's clear, provides a workable number of readings from which to select, and succeeds in getting to the point. I admit, though, that I've never used the grammar section.

[Samantha Garlock]

Hey it is a textbook give me a break! ;)

[Lucille]

I still refer to this book.

[Kareena]

Read the chapters that were required for my English course. [March 27, 2015]