Contents
ChapterOneWritinginPerspective
1.1ACommunicativeViewofWriting
1.2AContextualViewofWriting
1.3ARhetoricalViewofWriting
1.3.1RhetoricalTriangulationinWriting
1.3.2OverarchingRhetoricalPrincipleExercises
ChapterTwoInventioninWriting
2.lAudienceAnalysis
2.I.1IdentifyingAudience
2.1.2AnalyzingaGeneralAudience
2.1.3AnalyzingaSpecificAudience
2.2InventionSchemes
2.2.1ATripartite-TopoiSystem
2.2.2Brainstorming
2.2.3Cubing:
2.2.4Journalists'FiveW'sand
2.2.5TagmemicDiscoveryModel
2.2.6StasisModel
Exercises
ChapterThreeDictionandRhetoricalStrategies
3.lLevelsofWords
3.2MeaningsofWords
3.3SpecificVSGeneral,andConcreteVSAbstractWords
3.4DynamicVSStaticWords
3.5FiguresofSpeech
3.5.1Simile
3.5.2Metaphor
3.5.3Personification
3.5.4Metonymy
3.5.5Synecdoche
3.5.6TransferredEpithet
3.5.7Hyperbole
3.5.8Onomatopoeia
3.5.9Euphemism
3.5.10Oxymoron
3.5.11OtherFiguresofSpeech
Exercises
ChapterFourSentenceConstructionandRhetoricalStrategies
4.1NotionofSentence
4.2ClassificationofSentences
4.2.1Simple,Compound,Complex,andCompound-Complex
Sentences
4.2.2Declarative,Interrogative,Imperative,andExclamatory
Sentences
4.2.3Loose,PeriodicandBalancedSentences
4.2.4ShortandLongSentences
4.3PrinciplesofSentenceConstruction
4.3.1From-Shared-to-NewPrinciple
4.3.2End-FocusandEnd-WeightPrinciples
4.3.3Head-and-TailPrinciple
4.4RhetoricalPerspectivesinSentenceConstruction
4.4.1Emphasis
4.4.2Conciseness
4.4.3Balance
4.4.4Variety
4.5CommonSentenceErrorsandMistakes
4.5.1CommaSplice
4.5.2MisplacedModifier
4.5.3DanglingModifier
4.5.4Run-onSentence
4.5.5SentenceFragment
4.5.6FaultyParallelism
Exercises
ChapterFiveParagraphConstructionandRhetoricalStrategies
5.1NotionofParagraphandItsBasicStructure
5.2FormulatingaTopicSentence
5.3WaysofParagraphDevelopment
5.3.1Narration
5.3.2Description
5.3.3Exemplification
5.3.4Process
5.3.5ComparisonandContrast
5.3.6Classification
5.3.7CauseandEffect
5.3.8Definition
5.3.9CombinationofMethods
5.4ParagraphasArgumentandRhetoricalStrategies
5.4.1StructureofArgument
5.4.2Micro-StructureofParagraphasArgument
5.4.2.1APointofDeparture:Sentenceas Argument
5.4.2.2SimilarityBetweenSentenceandParagraph
5.4.3Macro-StructureofParagraphasArgument
5.4.4IdentificationalStrategiesforConstructingParagraphas Argument
5.5ProblemstoAddress
5.5.1DisunityandIncoherence
5.5.2ShallowReasoning
Exercises
ChapterSixEssayConstructionandRhetoricalStrategies
6.1StructureofEssay
6.2FormulatinganOutline
6.3FormulatingaThesisStatement
6.4TraditionalModesofDiscourse
6.4.1Narration
6.4.2Description
6.4.3Exposition
6.4.4Argumentation
6.5WholeEssayasArgument
6.5.1SimilarityBetweenParagraphandWholeEssay
6.5.2Macro-StructureofEssayasArgument
6.5.3ldentificationalStrategiesforConstructingEssayas Argument
6.6RhetoricalStrategiesforBeginningandEnd
6.6.1RhetoricalStrategiesforIntroduction
6.6.2RhetoricalStrategiesforConclusion
6.7AppropriateTone
6.8ACommonProblemtoTackle
6.8.1ChineseSpiralFormVSEnglishLinearForm
6.8.2ASolutiontotheProblem:AnInteractionModel
Exercises
Bibliography