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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cioffi, Frank L., 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Report writing.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
English language > Rhetoric.
Report writing > Problems, exercises, etc.
English language > Rhetoric > Problems, exercises, etc.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) > Problems, exercises, etc.
Textbooks.
Problems and exercises.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Getting started. On the writing of essays
  • Audience : your projected reader(s)
  • Prewriting and the writing process
  • Features and fundamentals of the imaginative argument. The thesis
  • Developing an argument
  • The research-based argument in the digital age
  • Paragraph design
  • New forms, avant-garde strategies. Different structures, novel organizational principles
  • Saying something new : ways toward creativity
  • Continuous composing : streamwriting
  • Revising and reimagining. Rewriting and revising
  • Figures and fallacies, or being forceful but not cheating at argument
  • The argument of style
  • Creativity and originality in the epoch of the post-original. Technology and writing : on being imaginative now
  • Concluding a manifesto : the future of writing
  • Instructors' guide : how to use this book in class
  • Sample essays.

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