Preface: Sense and Nonsense: A Humanistic Aproach to Writing
p. 1
Communication: Humans, not Radios
p. 4
The Basics: Discourse and the Appeals
p. 13
The Great Divide: Oral and Written Discourse
p. 42
Purposes and Methods: Modes of Written Communication
p. 49
The Modes: Patterns of Experience; Patterns of Thought
p. 72
Persuasion or Assertion: What's It All About?
p. 87
"To err is human": Informal Logic and the Evaluation of Sources
p. 94
Something Old; Something New: Patterns in Grammar
p. 100
Use and Abuse: Words for Writers
p. 107
Another Way of Speaking: Figurative and Literal; Reference and Allusion
p. 135
The Craft: Revision and Editing
p. 153
Style and Substance: Sentence Reformulation
p. 158
Paragraphing: Mechanics and Art
p. 164
The Length and the Width: Larger Forms
p. 171
The New World: A Matter of Discovery
p. 195
Nexus: Imitation and Creativity
p. 207
Notes on Teaching Writing
p. 211
The Sources of Modern English
p. 218
Selected Bibliography
p. 226
Index
p. 229
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