Rhetoric Made Plain

A comprehensive text designed for Freshman Composition courses, Rhetoric Made Plain covers all elements of the writing process and provides students with solid, highly practical and effective methods on the basic principles of composition. It also includes a brief handbook at the back of the book. Features: * Teaches students to write for a specific audience, find supporting materials for their ideas, organize a paper, and make a subject a workable topic. * Focuses on techniques of argumentation as well as the rewriting process. * Expands and revises section on controlling idea. * Incorporates end-of-chapter exercises, appendix of student essays, and a list of reference works in the section on the research paper. New to this edition: * Presents seven professional essays. * Provides new section on pronoun usage and agreement to help identify errors in inconsistencies with person and indefinite pronouns and integrates exercises for students to correct. * Includes Discovery section in the discussion of recursive writing. * Places emphasis on modes most frequently used by students in the index. * Diminishes emphasis on outline format.