Analyze, Organize, Write - Paperback

by Arthur Whimbey (Author), Elizabeth Lynn Jenkins (Author)

This book offers students a method for understanding and mastering the rhetorical patterns that comprise expository writing. Its exercises ask students to arrange jumbled sentences into logical order, forming model essays for standard rhetorical patterns such as comparison/contrast, classification, and thesis support. These techniques force students to see the basic logic of different writing patterns. The goal of Whimbey's workbook is to teach the student to write concise and original essays on any topic.

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This book presents a systematic method for teaching writing skills by carefully detailing how to write each major type of paper, by demonstrating verbal reasoning underlying effective prose and providing numerous exercises and opportunities for the reader to imitate good writing.