The Aims and Strategies of good writing - Softcover

Bob, Sherrin; Bill, Schermbrucker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0135028043 ISBN 13: 9780135028049

Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2011

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Aims and Strategies of Good Writing takes an aims-based approach which is grounded in the philosophy that good writing fulfills the aim for which it is written.  It provides six aims, and the strategies to fulfill them, with real-life examples to illustrate key points.

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Bob Sherrin is a graduate of the University of British Columbia.  Since 1981, he has taught in the Humanities department of Capilano College, where he served several terms as a coordinator of the English department and was editor of The Capilano Review for eight years.  He has given lectures at UBC, the University of Vienna, and the University of Graz, Austria.  His writing has been published in Canada, Scotland, Switzerland, and India.

 

Bill Schermbrucker is a retired college English instructor and Instructor Emeritus of Capilano College.  He holds a BA (Cape Town), MA, PhD (UBC), and Post Grad. Cert. Ed. (U London, England).  He taught high-school English and Latin in Kenya before moving to Capilano College.  He has been editor of The Capilano Review, a board member of the Canadian Periodical Publishers’ Association, and a Council member of The Writers’ Union of Canada.  His fiction and literary reviews have been widely published.

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Good writing fulfills the aim for which it is written

 

In Aims and Strategies of Good Writing, James L. Kinneavy’s A Theory of Discourse is developed into simple strategy for today’s student writers.  This innovative theory is based on simple concepts; that there are only six reasons (or aims) to write anything: to inform, to prove something to be true, to search for an answer to a perplexing question, to persuade a reader, to express emotion, or to create literature (or to “play” with language).

Traditional approaches to essay writing, such as definition, comparison/contrast, narration, and argument, are techniques that writers use to help fulfill these aims, but they never are the reason for putting pen to paper. 

 

Aims and Strategies of Good Writing provides today’s writers with a clear, logical, and natural approach to writing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0135028043
• ISBN 13: 9780135028049
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
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