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The Imaginative Argument : A Practical Manifesto for Writers - Second Edition /

"More than merely a writing text, The Imaginative Argument offers writers instruction on how to use their imaginations to improve their prose. Cioffi shows writers how they can enliven argument--the organizing rubric of all persuasive writing--by drawing on emotion, soul, and creativity, the we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cioffi, Frank L., 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Edición:Second edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Getting started.  |t On the writing of essays --  |t Audience : your projected reader(s) --  |t Prewriting and the writing process --  |t Features and fundamentals of the imaginative argument.  |t The thesis --  |t Developing an argument --  |t The research-based argument in the digital age --  |t Paragraph design --  |t New forms, avant-garde strategies.  |t Different structures, novel organizational principles --  |t Saying something new : ways toward creativity --  |t Continuous composing : streamwriting --  |t Revising and reimagining.  |t Rewriting and revising --  |t Figures and fallacies, or being forceful but not cheating at argument --  |t The argument of style --  |t Creativity and originality in the epoch of the post-original.  |t Technology and writing : on being imaginative now --  |t Concluding a manifesto : the future of writing --  |t Instructors' guide : how to use this book in class --  |t Sample essays. 
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