Writing with Purpose and Passion: A Writers Guide to Language and Style
by Jeff Stalcup, Mike Rovasio
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Written with a love for writing that transcends to its readers, this book helps users develop their writing skills and learn how to read even the most basic of forms by combining an overview of the five most commonly used modes of rhetoric with a similar overview of the most common elements of grammar, punctuation, style and usage. It includes many samples of student writing to demonstrate the rhetorical modes and principles of style and usage.Arranges chapters in a graded progression of easier to more difficult concepts, and stresses the inter-relatedness of all aspects of writing. Offers a thorough treatment of prewriting and editing and shows how writing is an ongoing and continuous process. Includes student essays to illustrate rhetorical mode writing styles of description, narration, comparison, persuasion, and causal analysis. Compliments lessons with extensive and varied readings, as well as related rhetorical and grammatical material, activities, exercises and integrated vocabulary words.For writers, aspiring writers, and teachers of English development.