Short Essays

Short Essays covers the rhetorical modes and strategies important to a student writer. Organized according to Kinneavian principles, the text is structured rhetorically in five parts: Organizing and Developing the Essay, Expressive Writing, Exposition, Arguing and Persuading, and Effective Sentences and Diction. Features: * Contains 77 readings. * Presents part and section openers with detailed introductions and brief examples. * Prepares reader for the essay by giving information about the author and essay in the headnotes. * Offers commentary on each of the essays. * Suggests writing assignments relating a rhetorical principle or content issue to student's own experience. * Provides Questions for Study and Discussion on content and essay rhetoric. * Lists key words and questions about key words to encourage dictionary use. * Contains glossary of terms and vocabulary study. New to this edition: * Features 21 new essays on a wide range of thought-provoking topics.