Meeting of the Minds A Brief Rhetoric for Writers and Readers

This inquiry-based rhetoric provides students with a thorough grounding in writing, reading, researching, and visual literacy. This progressive guide helps students understand the processes of reading and writing as a dialogue between the writer and the audiencea meeting of minds. It teaches students how to analyze rhetorical situationsthe ways reader, writer, subject and purpose influence the writer's workand how to choose effective rhetorical strategies, structures, reasons, and appeals to fit the writing situation. While focusing primarily on academic writing, A Meeting of Minds also connects academic ways of understanding to personal writing and writing about community concerns. Research is presented as extended inquiry, rather than as a separate genre. Visual texts and document design are treated as rhetorical considerations and are linked together in discussions of the rhetoric of web pages. Sample student works, as well as professional readings from a variety of sources, appear in every chapter. To provide realistic models of inquiry, the text closes with three casebooks of multi-sided readings on provocative issues: The Vote on declining voter participation, English Only on language policy, and He said/She said on gender and communication style. A complete composition resource, A Meeting of Minds offers a rhetoric, readings, and guides to revision and editingall in one brief paperback.Callaghan, Patsy is the author of 'Meeting of the Minds A Brief Rhetoric for Writers and Readers', published 2003 under ISBN 9780321092168 and ISBN 0321092163.