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Rewriting: How To Do Things With Texts

By Joseph Harris

Book information

Publisher
Utah State University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0874216427, 9780874216424
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1199869 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
150\149
Time added
2022-01-23 22:12:50

Description

"Like all writers, intellectuals need to say something new and say it well. But unlike many other writers, what intellectuals have to say is bound up with the books we are reading . . . and the ideas of the people we are talking with." What are the moves that an academic writer makes? How does writing as an intellectual change the way we work from sources? In Rewriting, a textbook for the undergraduate classroom, Joseph Harris draws the college writing student away from static ideas of thesis, support, and structure, and toward a more mature and dynamic understanding. Harris wants college writers to think of intellectual writing as an adaptive and social activity, and he offers them a clear set of strategies—a set of moves—for participating in it.

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