The Best Rhetoric Books 2025

1. Pre-Owned, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - On Writing Well is a bible for a generation of writers looking for clues to clean, compelling prose. -New York Times A beloved classic, this definitive volume on the art of writing nonfiction celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. On Writing Well, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the warmth of its style. It is a book for anybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts, or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you both fundamental principles as well as the insights of a distinguished practitioner. With over a million copies in print, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valued resource for writers and would-be writers.

Pre-Owned, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, (Paperback)

2. The Little Red Writing Book (Paperback)

Providing readers with principles to ensure their writing is readable, concise, convincing, and grammatically correct, this clever guide contains easy-to-read, concise explanations and covers essential elements such as clearness, efficient style and structure, and readability. For Writers from All Walks of Life! There's no need to fear the big, bad world of writing with The Little Red Writing Book in hand. Brimming with clever advice, this book offers writers, students, and business professionals a concise guide to penning strong and effective work for all occasions. The Little Red Writing Book is designed for visual appeal and ease of use. Elegant yet practical, it will be an intriguing, inviting reference you'll turn to again and again. Author Brandon Royal offers concise explanations and nonintimidating instruction based on the four pillars of sound writing: structure, style, readability, and grammar. His discussion centers on 20 immutable writing principles as well as 30 commonly encountered rules of grammar. A wealth of examples, charts, and engaging exercises make The Little Red Writing Book an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to master those skills that will make a good writer even better.

• Author: Brandon Royal • ISBN:9781582975214 • Format:Paperback • Publication Date:2007-07-06

3. Atwan Best American Essays 3ed

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Paperback, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 2004, ISBN13 9780618042975, ISBN10 0618042970

4. Images of Women in Literature

Images of Women in Literature, Fifth Edition, is an anthology of literature--short fiction, poetry, and drama--by a broad range of female and male writers depicting the roles of women in literature.

Images of Women in Literature (Paperback)

5. American Mosaic : Multicultural Readings in Context

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6. Pre-Owned, The St. Martin's Guide to Writing with 2016 MLA Update, (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATES Our editorial team has updated this text based on content from The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. Whether you have years of experience as a teacher or are new to the classroom, you and your students can count on The St. Martin's Guide to Writing to provide the support you need in first-year composition, with a rhetoric, an array of engaging readings, a research manual, and a handbook, all in a single book -- and available online. Thousands of instructors and their students rely on the Guide's proven approach because it works: the Guide's acclaimed step-by-step writing guides to 9 different genres offer sure-fire invention strategies to get students started, sentence strategies to get students writing, and thoughtful revision strategies to help students make their writing their own, no matter what their major. With its hands-on activities for reading like a writer and working with sources, there is no better text to help students bridge reading analytically to successful writing in first-year composition and beyond. In keeping with the Guide's tradition of innovation and based on instructor feedback about what assignments they give their students, the new edition integrates new types of writing that reflect the range of genres being assigned in first-year composition, including a reimagined Chapter 5 that provides a bridge from personal and expository to argumentative writing by following a scaffolded approach. The eleventh edition is available with LaunchPad for The St. Martin's Guide to Writing, an online course space of pre-built units featuring the full e-book, tutorials, and adaptive LearningCurve activities to help students hone their understanding of reading and writing. To order or purchase the print text with LaunchPad, use ISBN 9781457698484 for the Cloth-bound version, ISBN 9781319016036 for the Paper-bound version, or ISBN 9781319016067 for the Short Edition.

Pre-Owned, The St. Martin's Guide to Writing with 2016 MLA Update, (Paperback)

7. The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume A: The Ancient World, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume A offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the ancient world.

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume A: The Ancient World, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

8. Pre-Owned The Norton Reader with 2016 MLA Update 9780393617405

The Norton Reader features the largest and most diverse collection of essays, from classic to contemporary--155 in the Full edition, 95 in the Shorter. With 60 new essays almost all written in the last decade, a new ebook option, and a unique companion website that makes the book searchable by theme, genre, rhetorical mode, author, keyword--and more, the Fourteenth Edition is ideal for today's composition classes.

Title: The Norton Reader with 2016 MLA Update Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 0393617408 EAN: 9780393617405 CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

9. The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Introduction [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, The History and Theory of Rhetoric illustrates how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily worlds. Students gain a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both written and visual media. This new 6th edition includes greater attention to non-Western studies, as well as contemporary developments such as the rhetoric of science, feminist rhetoric, the rhetoric of display, and comparative rhetoric. Known for its clear writing style and contemporary examples throughout, The History and Theory of Rhetoric emphasizes the relevance of rhetoric to today's students.

The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Introduction, Used [Paperback]

10. How to Write Themes & Essays 4th ed (HOW TO WRITE THEMES AND ESSAYS), Used [Paperback]

ARCO's series of concise writing guides - covering essays, themes, research papers and other common writing projects - has been a favourite with school and college students for nearly three decades. Ideal as home-study aids for all types of English courses, these small format paperbacks provide clear step-by-step writing instructions, topic selection strategies, style guidelines, and definitions of important literary terms. Each one is packed with numerous illustrative examples, sometimes including full-length literary work.

How to Write Themes & Essays 4th ed (HOW TO WRITE THEMES AND ESSAYS), Used [Paperback]