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A rhetorical reader for first-year composition courses. Part One of this text introduces and examines the relationships between reading, critical thinking and the writing process. Part Two consists of nine chapters, representing nine rhetorical strategies. Each of these chapters begins with a definition of the strategy and an introduction to writing an essay using the strategy. It then presents pieces of classic non-fiction, a poem and a short story, and ends with writing assignments. Each reading selection is preceded by a headnote describing the author's biography, publications and awards.

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1. Why read? How Can Reading These Essays Help Me? 2. The Writing Process. 3. Narration. 4. Description. 5. Process. 6. Definition. 7. Illustration. 8. Comparison and Contrast. 9. Division and Classification. 10. Cause and Effect. 11. Persuasion and Argument.

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Jean Wyrick is Professor Emerita of English at Colorado State University, where she was Director of Composition for 11 years. She has more than 25 years of experience teaching writing, training writing teachers, and designing writing/writing-across-the-curriculum programs. Her other textbooks include THE RINEHART READER and DISCOVERING IDEAS. She has presented over a hundred workshops and papers on the teaching of writing, American literature, American Studies, and Women's Studies.

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