An expanded introduction provides help with teaching rhetorical concepts. The introduction shows how students can expand their sense of what writing is and how it relates to reading. It lays out the key concepts all students should know, concepts further explored in each chapter’s readings and assignments.
A new chapter on multimodal composition. This chapter examines recent questions about what counts as writing, the often unstated assumptions we have about print-based composing, and the ways new technologies influence how we write.
27 new professional essays (including 7 in e-Pages) and 12 student essays. New authors and readings include
- Victor Villanueva
’s excerpt from Bootstraps: From an Academic of Color - William Covino
and David Jolliffe’s "What is Rhetoric?"- James Sosnoski’s "Hyper-Readers and their Reading Engines" (in e-Pages)
- A dozen student essays.
Drawn from publications such as Stylus, these student texts include literacy narratives, an activity analysis, a genre analysis, a rhetorical analysis, a process narrative, and studies of writing and texting.
e-Pages give students even more ways to understand and explore the topics. Readings essays and interactive Web sites and prompts for responding to and producing creative texts.
Increased teaching support. An updated instructor’s manual now includes sample syllabi, and an alternative table of contents allows instructors to chart just the right path through the book.