The Writer's Style: A Rhetorical Field Guide - Couverture souple

Butler, Paul

 
9781607328094: The Writer's Style: A Rhetorical Field Guide
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1607328097 ISBN 13 : 9781607328094
Editeur : Utah State University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Designed to help all writers learn to use style as a rhetorical tool, taking into account audience, purpose, context, and occasion, The Writer's Style is not only a style guide for a new generation but a new generation of style guide. The book helps writers learn new strategies inductively, by looking at firsthand examples of how they operate rhetorically, as well as deductively, through careful explanations in the text. The work focuses on invention, allowing writers to develop their own style as they analyze writing from varied genres.

In a departure from the deficiency model associated with other commonly used style guides, author Paul Butler encourages writers to see style as a malleable device to use for their own purposes, rather than a domain of rules or privilege. He encourages writing instructors to present style as a practical, accessible, and rhetorical tool, working with models that connect to a broad range of writing situations--including traditional texts like essays, newspaper articles, and creative nonfiction as well as digital texts in the form of tweets, Facebook postings, texts, email, visual rhetoric, YouTube, and others.

Though designed for use in first-year composition courses in which students are learning to write for various audiences, purposes, and contexts, The Writer's Style is a richly layered work that will serve anyone considering how style applies to their professional, personal, creative, or academic writing.

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À propos de l?auteur

Paul Butler is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston and is recognized as an expert on the study of style in rhetoric and composition. He is the author of The Writer's Style, Out of Style and Style in Rhetoric and Composition. His recent scholarship focuses on the intersection of style, the public sphere, multimodal composition, and the digital humanities.

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Éditeur
Utah State University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1607328097
ISBN 13 
9781607328094
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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Personne responsable
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