Reading Rhetorically, Brief Edition

by John C. Bean, Virginia A. Chappell, Alice M. Gillam

This brief guide teaches students how to read rhetorically and write about what they have read with rhetorical insight. Offering concise, yet comprehensive treatment of academic reading and writing in college, Reading Rhetorically shows students how to analyze texts by recognizing their strategies and genre conventions, and how to use other texts when writing about research. Two important features distinguish this reader from (1) its emphasis on reading as an interactive process of composing meaning, and (2) its emphasis on academic writing as a process in which writers engage with other texts. This brief rhetoric teaches students how to see texts positioned in a conversation with other texts, how to recognize their bias or perspective, and how to analyze texts for both content and method. Bean Reading Rhetorically brief SMP FINAL.doc Page 1 of 1

169 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2003

Reviews

[Oscar · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this for school which is appropriate since its one of the most pedagogically based books that I have read during the course of this year. In fact, most of this book reads as a how to guide, which may or may not be of interest to you depending of whether or not you have any desire to teach reading/writing rhetorically. The main goal of this book is to discuss how to teach reading rhetorically, that is, how to examine a text through a rhetorical lens. As such, this book overlooks standard literary theory with a more rhetorical approach that seeks to examine texts through their rhetorical context and the manner in which they seek to address the rhetorical demands that seem to be placed upon them.

This is definitely one of the seminal works on how to teach texts rhetorically, but obviously, someone who seeks to teach texts through a more literature based pedagoigy will not find a lot of what is said in this book relevant.

[Enrique López · Rating 3 out of 5]

The third edition is a student/teacher friendly text to improve reading and writing rhetorically. Some great reading and writing strategies to be used in the classroom or by an indepenedent writer.