Public and Professional Writing: Ethics, Imagination and Rhetoric

by Anne Surma

This book offers something quite new - an advanced textbook that considers professional writing as a negotiated process between writer and reader. Arguing that ethics, imagination and rhetoric are integral to professional writing praxis, the book encourages students to look critically at various writing practices in a range of contexts. A textbook for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in Linguistics, Communication, Journalism and Media Studies.

192 pages, Paperback

First published February 9, 2005

Reviews

[Clare Carter · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had to read this stupid ass textbook and I'm only marking it on here because I want it to count for something somewhere and I wasted too much of my life on it.

It's supposed to be about Professional Writing and isn't professionally written and I hate it. :)

[Anna Jaskiewicz · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading about most of the topics that Surma chooses to discuss throughout this work. I failed to see the connections between certain topics such as the section on e-democracy and its relation to the main idea of the text. I also think a lot of the topics within this book are already considerably dated even though it was only published in 2005. Topics such as writing for the internet have drastically changed since the time of this book’s publication, so a lot of that information is obsolete. Nonetheless, I still appreciate Surma’s professional tone throughout the book and many of her descriptions and examples regarding professional writing as a whole are still quite relevant and well written.