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Freshman Composition/Rhetoric

  

Freshman Composition/Rhetoric
 

Chapter 2 (pdf) Chapter 3 (pdf)

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Alfano/O'Brien
Envision: Persuasive Writing in a Visual World

Concise, flexible, practical, and innovative: Envision is the first brief guide to argument and research designed for students learning to write in today's visual world.
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Chapter 4 (pdf) Chapter 8 (pdf)

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Ballenger
The Curious Writer

The Curious Writer by Bruce Ballenger is an assignment-oriented, all-in-one rhetoric-reader-handbook that stresses the connections between personal and academic writing.
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