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Making Sense

A Real-World Rhetorical Reader

Third Edition ©2010

ISBN-10: 0-312-46383-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-46383-0
Paper Text, 816 pages

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51 new readings, including five by students, on stimulating contemporary topics.

  • Greg Beato suggests that parody journalism may reveal truths its "straight" counterpart conceals in "Amusing Ourselves to Depth: Is The Onion Our Most Intelligent Newspaper?"

  • Connie Eble’s Slang and Sociability: In-Group Language among College Students explores how today’s students talk to each other.

  • Christine Rosen’s Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism looks at how online social networking paradoxically focuses users’ attention on themselves.

A new focus on academic and public writing throughout the book.

  • A new chapter on synthesizing rhetorical strategies and sources into academic and public writing includes a pair of sample essays and a pair of sequenced essay assignments. The two items in each pair are based on the same topic but intended for different purposes and audiences, one professional/academic and the other public/civic.

  • A section on academic writing in each chapter introduction explains and illustrates how that chapter’s rhetorical pattern is used in this genre.

  • Thematically paired reading selections in each chapter are accompanied by an assignment calling for academic or public writing.

A new annotated reading in each chapter helps point out to students the key features of the rhetorical method, as well as other crucial features such as thesis statements and transitions.

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