RHETORICAL CONTENTS
Preface xiii
INTRODUCTION: 1
Thinking, Reading, and Writing
CHAPTER 1 33
DESCRIPTION: Exploring Through the Senses
CHAPTER 2 77
NARRATION: Telling a Story
CHAPTER 3 125
EXAMPLE: Illustrating Ideas
CHAPTER 4 167
PROCESS ANALYSIS: Explaining Step by Step
CHAPTER 5 211
DIVISION/CLASSIFICATION: Finding Categories
CHAPTER 6 257
COMPARISON/CONTRAST: Discovering Similarities and Differences
CHAPTER 7 311
DEFINITION: Limiting the Frame of Reference
CHAPTER 8 351
CAUSE/EFFECT: Tracing Reasons and Results
CHAPTER 9 405
ARGUMENT/PERSUASION: Inciting People to Thought or Action
CHAPTER 10 465
DOCUMENTED ESSAYS: Reading and Writing from Sources
CHAPTER 11 511
ESSAYS ON THINKING, READING, AND WRITING
Credits 521
Index of Authors and Titles 525
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