How to Write Anything : A Guide and Reference

by Ruszkiewicz, John J.

• ISBN13: 9780312452261
• ISBN10: 0312452268
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-05
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Designed to be clear and simple,How to Write Anythingcombines the thoughtfulness of rhetorics with the efficiency of brief handbooks. Through memorable visuals and honest talk, John Ruszkiewicz shows students how to write in any situation wherever they are in their writing process.With everything you need to teach composition, the Guide lays out focused advice for writing common genres, while the Reference covers the range of writing and research skills that students need as they work across genres and disciplines. An intuitive, visual cross-referencing system and a modular chapter organization that's simple to follow make it even easier for students to work back and forth between chapters and stay focused on their own writing.

Author Biography

JOHN J. RUSZKIEWICZ is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin where he has taught literature, rhetoric, and writing for more than thirty years. A winner of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, he was instrumental in creating the Department of Rhetoric and Writing in 1993 and directed the unit from 2001-05. He has also served as president of the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE) of Texas. For Bedford/St. Martin's, he is co- author, with Andrea Lunsford, of The Presence of Others (2008), and Everything’s An Argument  (2007) and co-author, with Andrea Lunsford and Keith Walters, of  Everything's an Argument with Readings (2007).

Table of Contents

Genres

Narrative Understanding personal narratives Tell a story

Make a point – usually

Observe details closely

Reflection:Peggy Noonan , from ""We Need to Talk""

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