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Compose, Design, Advocate, 3rd edition

  • Anne F. Wysocki, 
  • Dennis A. Lynch

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Overview

Compose, Design, Advocate is a genre-based writing guide designed to help you choose effective strategies, arrangements, and media for different communication contexts. With this user-friendly text, you'll learn how to use both words and images in writing and speaking. The authors offer a systematic approach for analyzing communication situations, while also providing concepts and vocabulary applicable to the many genres and modes of composition that you'll encounter in the text and beyond. Instruction in, and samples from, diverse writing genres provide guidance throughout. An advocacy chapter is also included with strategies for using communication to effect change in your life and in your community.

The 3rd Edition introduces new readings, visual samples, and learning outcomes, along with an enhanced focus on multimodality and rhetoric.

Published by Pearson (July 14th 2021) - Copyright © 2018

ISBN-13: 9780137537044

Subject: Composition

Category: Rhetorics

Overview

PART 1: Designing Compositions Rhetorically

  1. A Rhetorical Process for Designing Compositions
  2. Composing a Statement of Purpose
  3. Composing a Design Plan

PART 2: Researching to Support Composing

  1. About Argument and Advocacy
  2. Researching for Argument and Advocacy
  3. About Written Modes of Communication
  4. About Oral Modes of Communication
  5. About Visual Modes of Communication
  6. About Multimodal Communication

PART 3: Analyzing the Arguments of Others

  1. Rhetorical Analysis
  2. Analyzing Posters
  3. Analyzing Documentary Photography
  4. Analyzing Editorials and Opinion Pieces
  5. Analyzing Essays
  6. Analyzing Videos

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