Product Description

The first full-color rhetorical reader with an integrated CD-ROM, FRAMES OF MIND: A RHETORICAL READER WITH OCCASIONS FOR WRITING treats the traditional rhetorical patterns not only as methods for effective writing, but as frames for critical thinking.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #586236 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 704 pages

Review
"Another innovative feature is the authors’ genuine effort to integrate reading with writing. Too often, anthologies--whether rhetorical readers or lit-for-comp texts--do little more than pay lip service to the reading-writing connection. In FM, the connection is made explicit by the "Occasions," which walk students step-by-step through a process of discovery, showing them how to use the "mode" in question as a means of moving from invention through analysis toward formulating a thesis and developing a full paper. Very few textbooks provide this kind of detailed, explicit--and imaginative--writing pedagogy."

"The innovative ways in which Hoy and DiYanni have resurrected "conventional" patterns of development and arrangement is important to composition studies-and to students of writing. In the preface to FRAMES OF MIND the editors make clear that they make use of these familiar patterns to add "richness and complexity" to student writing, not to impose rigid, old ways of thinking and writing. And they do this remarkably."

About the Author
Robert DiYanni is the best-selling author of over 20 textbooks, including The Scribner Handbook for Writers, Modern American Prose: A Reader for Writers; and the best selling Literature: Reading, Fiction, Poetry Drama and the Essay. He currently works with the College Board’s Advanced Placement program for high schools.

Customer Reviews

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