COLLEGE WRITING &ndash A RHETORIC AND HANDBOOK © 1977 (Catlett, VA)

COLLEGE WRITING &ndash A RHETORIC AND HANDBOOK © 1977

Local pick-up preferred (please call first) but will ship at the buyer s expenseKingston Books 15 IMG_7555Author J. Harold JanisPublisher Macmillan Publishing Co. IncNot Illustrated Block Diagrams Sample essaysPrefaceThis is a rhetoric and handbook for a first course in composition It is designed to meet the need for a textbook founded on literary principles yet pragmatic enough to aid all students only a few of whom will ultimately find themselves in literacy practice.My experience in university teaching and conducting writing classes in government and business has convinced me that for talented and ambitious individuals the need to write effectively is as compelling as the need to excel in the other facets of their work. In College Writing I have therefore treated composition not as an introduction to literature or to Composition as Art although under certain conditions it surely deserves to be so treated but as a necessary tool for getting things done.Contents by Chapter (in brief)Part I College WritingGETTING STARTEDThe Craft of Writing ..3 Topic and Plan ..18 Drafting the Paper ..42 EXPOSITPORY WRITINGInformal Discourse ..67 Narration Personal Experience ..83 Description ..96 Analytical Methods ..114 Argument and Persuasion ..135 THE LIBRARY PAPERResearching and Organizing the Library Paper ..170 Writing and Documenting the Library Paper ..188 BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITINGBusiness Letters ..201 Job Applications ..225 Memorandums and Reports ..232 Part II A Handbook of EnglishGRAMMARThe Grammar of Sentences ..255 Sentence Fragment ..285 Comma Fault ..287 Agreement of Subject and Verb ..290 Agreement of Pronoun and Antecedent ..296 Case ..299 Reference of Pronouns ..303 Adjectives and Adverbs ..307 Verbs ..310 PUNCTUATIONEnd Punctuation ..318 The Comma ..322 The Semicolon ..327 The Apostrophe ..330 Quotation Marks ..334 Other Marks ..342 Unnecessary Punctuation ..348 MECHANICSCapitals ..352 Underlining (Italics) ..358 Abbreviations ..362 Numbers and Amounts ..366 SPELLINGSpelling ..372 WORD USEWord Use ..383 SENTENCESSentence Sense ..417 Unity ..422 Order ..427 Dangling Modifiers ..430 Parallel Structure ..434 Faulty Omissions ..439 Point of View ..443 Emphasis and Variety ..446 PARAGRAPHSParagraphs ..458 Index ..489Paperback 502 pages ISBN 0-02-36 0230-9