Table of Contents
I. A RHETORIC FOR COLLEGE WRITERS.
1. Posing Problems: The Demands of College Writing.
2. Exploring Problems, Pursuing Claims.
3. Thinking Rhetorically about Purpose, Audience, and Genre.
4. Thinking Rhetorically about How Messages Persuade.
II. WRITING PROJECTS.
Writing to Learn.
5. Seeing Rhetorically: The Writer as Shaper/Observer.
6. Reading Rhetorically: The Writer as Strong Reader.
Writing to Inform.
7. Writing an Informative (and Surprising) Essay.
Writing to Analyze and Synthesize.
8. Analyzing Images.
9. Analyzing and Synthesizing Ideas.
Writing to Persuade.
10. Writing a Classical Argument.
III. A GUIDE TO COMPOSING AND REVISING.
11. Writing as a Problem-Solving Process.
12. Composing and Revising Closed-Form Prose.
IV. A RHETORICAL GUIDE TO RESEARCH.
13. The Rhetoric of Web Sites.
14. Citing and Documenting Sources.