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Language Arts & Disciplines General

Writing Prose

Revised Canadian Edition

by (author) Thomas S. Kane, Leonard J. Peters, David Jackel & Maurice R. Legris

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 1987
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195405712
    Publish Date
    Apr 1987
    List Price
    $49.95

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Out of print

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Description

This edition offers a wide range of writing samples that focus on specific techniques and problems of composition. Sections are grouped under traditional rhetorical headings: Exposition; Definition; Persuasion; Description; Description of Character, Narration; Beginnings and Closings;Personal Writing; Writing about Literature; and Style. The editors follow each section first with questions that focus on precise matters of purpose, organization, sentence style, and diction, and second with exercises that encourage students to apply what they have learned to their own writing. Abrief headnote introduces each section, identifying the author, summarizing the context of the passage, and indicating the principal writing techniques. In addition, precise assignments about dictation and structure follow each selection.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

Leonard J. Peters, both at University of Connecticut.