Real World Reader

From academic essays to blogs magazine articles to social media posts newspaper editorials to public service announcements and advertisements to emails <em>The Real World Reader </em>brings together a wide collection of formal writing with an equally diverse array of popular writing from everyday life. This innovative rhetorical reader for first-year composition courses divides the process of rhetorical analysis into logically sequenced steps that focus on five key concepts-purpose audience argument voice and credibility. Author James Miller encourages students to use this step-by-step process in order to identify analyze and master the multiple modes of writing that they will encounter at school work and home. <p/><strong>Features </strong> <br>* <strong>Uses a rhetorical framework to teach writing</strong>--rather than examining different modes of writing in isolation--and reveals what all forms of writing have in common<br>* <strong>Introduces rhetorical concepts through a variety of informal and formal writing examples</strong> showing students how rhetorical patterns intersect <br>* <strong>Combines step-by-step writing instruction with a scaffold of sixty-seven diverse readings</strong> allowing students to critically write and read four distinct types of selections: informal formal and academic selections and sample student essays<br>* <strong>Connects rhetorical analysis to cultural analysis</strong> with content that ranges from debates on multiculturalism to discussions of online privacy and from critiques of modern political campaigning to analyses of modern consumerism<br>*<strong> Focuses on familiar real world writing </strong> demonstrating the important role that writing plays in everyday life