Moves Writers Make

This book identifies and examines the various rhetorical skills employed by writers—the wealth of subtle and normally invisible "conceptual moves"—in an effort to develop the tools that students need to make these moves themselves. The rhetorical names that it applies reveal and explore the techniques and tactics that writers take pains to hide. The text offers a fresh approach to the methods of development by pointing out the universal necessity and utility of the modes in thinking and writing and demonstrating how these modes work together.