ABOUT BOOK

Rhetoric Matters: A Guide to Success in the First Year Writing Class offers students necessary concepts and practice to learn all the elements needed for successful first year writing and set the stage for future writing success in college.Chapter 1: The IntroductionChapter 2: Reading in Writing ClassChapter 3: Thinking and Analyzing RhetoricallyChapter 4: Writing a Summary and SynthesizingChapter 5: The Writing ProcessChapter 6: Structuring, Paragraphing, and StylingChapter 7: Revising and RefiningChapter 8: Multimodal Reading and Visual RhetoricChapter 9: The Research ProcessChapter 10: Sources and ResearchChapter 11: Ethical Source Integration: Citation, Quoting, and ParaphrasingChapter 12: Documentation Styles: MLA and APA