A Rhetoric of Literate Action
Bazerman, Charles
A Rhetoric of Literate Action Literate Action Volume 1 Charles Bazerman - 1 online resource - Open textbook library. .
Front Matter -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Rhetorics of Speaking and Writing -- Chapter 2. Knowing Where You Are: Genre -- Chapter 3. When You Are -- Chapter 4. The World of Texts: Intertextuality -- Chapter 5. Changing the Landscape: Kairos, Social Facts, and Speech Acts -- Chapter 6. Emergent Motives, Situations, Forms -- Chapter 7. Text Strategics -- Chapter 8. Emergent Form and the Processes of Forming Meaning -- Chapter 9. Meanings and Representations -- Chapter 10.Spaces and Journeys for Readers: Organization and Movement -- Chapter 11. Style and Revision -- Chapter 12. Managing Writing Processes and the Emergent Text -- References
The first in a two-volume set, A Rhetoric of Literate Action is written for "the experienced writer with a substantial repertoire of skills, [who] now would find it useful to think in more fundamental strategic terms about what they want their texts to accomplish, what form the texts might take, how to develop specific contents, and how to arrange the work of writing." The reader is offered a framework for identifying and understanding the situations writing comes out of and is directed toward; a consideration of how a text works to transform a situation and achieve the writer's motives; and advice on how to bring the text to completion and "how to manage the work and one's own emotions and energies so as to accomplish the work most effectively."
In English.
9781602354753
Humanities--Textbooks
Rhetoric--Textbooks
PE1408
A Rhetoric of Literate Action Literate Action Volume 1 Charles Bazerman - 1 online resource - Open textbook library. .
Front Matter -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Rhetorics of Speaking and Writing -- Chapter 2. Knowing Where You Are: Genre -- Chapter 3. When You Are -- Chapter 4. The World of Texts: Intertextuality -- Chapter 5. Changing the Landscape: Kairos, Social Facts, and Speech Acts -- Chapter 6. Emergent Motives, Situations, Forms -- Chapter 7. Text Strategics -- Chapter 8. Emergent Form and the Processes of Forming Meaning -- Chapter 9. Meanings and Representations -- Chapter 10.Spaces and Journeys for Readers: Organization and Movement -- Chapter 11. Style and Revision -- Chapter 12. Managing Writing Processes and the Emergent Text -- References
The first in a two-volume set, A Rhetoric of Literate Action is written for "the experienced writer with a substantial repertoire of skills, [who] now would find it useful to think in more fundamental strategic terms about what they want their texts to accomplish, what form the texts might take, how to develop specific contents, and how to arrange the work of writing." The reader is offered a framework for identifying and understanding the situations writing comes out of and is directed toward; a consideration of how a text works to transform a situation and achieve the writer's motives; and advice on how to bring the text to completion and "how to manage the work and one's own emotions and energies so as to accomplish the work most effectively."
In English.
9781602354753
Humanities--Textbooks
Rhetoric--Textbooks
PE1408