Acting on words
Subtitle: an integrated reader, rhetoric and handbook
By: David Brundage, Michael Lahey
Contributors: Lahey, Michael, 1954-
Publisher: Prentice Hall; Prentice Hall Health
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9780131200937
Subjects: College readers; Exposition (Rhetoric)
Description: Acting on Words is a reader, rhetoric, handbook which cultivates the skills and awareness needed for sound writing and critical thinking. This text provides a comprehensive blend of readings, instruction, usage guidelines, and ESL help, all developed to provide clear accurate and complete information that serves, rather than dictates, a student's method to approaching composition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. The reader. Self and other; title: Knowledge and ideas; title: Tomorrow and tomorrow; title: Part 2. The rhetoric. Preparing; title: Drafting; title: Types of writing; title: Revising; title: Oral presentations; title: Part 3. The handbook. Forms (including the nine parts of speech); title: Punctuation terms; title: Fifteen common errors.