For over fifty years, this classic, grammar-driven handbook has taught millions of students the best way to write and revise their papers.
The first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and praxis of kairos: that is of the role timeliness or right-timing plays in deliberation, speech, and action.
College Writing Skills With Readings, 5th Edition, features Langan's renowned clear writing style and wide range of writing assignments and activities that reinforce the four essentials of good writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills.
Acutely sensitive to the anxieties that plague social science writers, Becker does a brilliant job of speaking to the moral and emotional problems at the root of bad writing. He shows students (and post-graduates) what they are doing wrong in their attempts to write and offers eminently useful suggestions about what they should be doing instead.
What you have here is a whole bunch of new plays written by the teenaged playwright. Writing for teens can be difficult if you're no longer of a "certain age." And as much as I pride myself into thinking that I am young and hip and cool . . . the fact of the matter is, I'm not sixteen anymore. That's probably a good thing. But to write material for this age group can be challenging. So I went to the source. The plays found here are written by playwrights fourteen to twenty years old. The subject matters are diverse, the voices are distinct, and the eclectic genres will provide considerable challenges for young actors. Immediate gratification can be a good thing. If you get bored with a 10-minute play, hang in there, because another one is on its way. It's like switching channels on a television set. However, I feel confident that the plays in this book will not bore you, but delight you. Enjoy reading them, acting in them, and if they inspire you, you might find yourself writing one of your own! Debbie Lamedman
(*CR*)Aunque el debate es la forma de interacción más extendida y más típicamente humana, se suele afrontar confiando simplemente en el instinto y la experiencia. Pero, como es bien sabido, no siempre se impone la mejor tesis, sino la mejor argumentada. En esta original guía Adelino Cattani analiza las estrategias encaminadas a defender la opinión personal y a convencer a la otra parte. Con abundantes citas de la tradición retórica clásica y de la literatura, y numerosos ejemplos de la vida cotidiana, presenta un repertorio de técnicas y recursos -cómo blindar una tesis, manipular la lógica del contrario, elegir los ejemplos más eficaces, trucos para ganar tiempo, el empleo de la ironía, la manipulación del lenguaje, etc.- para vencer en un enfrentamiento dialéctico.(*CR*)-
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