Praised as “Strunk and White for technical and business writers . . . . excellent integration of linguistic and rhetorical principles” Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Revising Professional Writing is an affordable textbook for courses in scientific and technical writing, business writing, and other types of advanced writing. Each chapter explains principles for revising or editing a single feature of a draft. Students then solve revision and editing problems in the applications section of each chapter.
FEATURES:
–Over 400 revision and editing problems covering rhetorical context, development, organization, style and tone, and mechanics.
–Problems range from sentences and paragraphs to 11 full-length texts.
–All problems are downloadable as Microsoft Word files to allow the use of track changes for revisions (if desired by the instructor).
–Examples from a variety of texts: memos, letters, résumés, proposals, instructions, definitions, and reports.
–All revising and editing problems drawn from the actual writing of college students.
–Self-contained chapters, allowing flexible use with other textbooks.
ISBN: 979-8-218-42627-9
The Contributors
Kathryn Riley, Illinois Institute of Technology (Professor Emerita)
Kim Sydow Campbell, University of North Texas
Alan Manning, Brigham Young University (Retired)
Frank Parker, Louisiana State University (Retired)
Contents
- Revising Persuasive Prose
- Providing a Claim, Evidence, and Interpretation
- Developing Effective Evidence: Quantify When Possible
- Developing Effective Evidence: Share Your Data
- Using Appropriate Evidence
- Interpreting Evidence Persuasively
- Addressing Potential Objections
- Organizing Persuasive Elements
- Revising Persuasive Prose Video Supplement
- Revising Persuasive Prose Exercises
- Revising for Parallel Structure
- General Revision Strategies
- Faulty Parallelism Caused by Mixing Tenses
- Faulty Parallelism Caused by Mixing Verb Voices
- Faulty Parallelism Caused by Mixing Different Types of Verbals
- Faulty Parallelism Caused by Mixing Verbals And Nominals
- Faulty Parallelism Caused by Mixing Different Types of Noun Clauses
- Faulty Parallelism Caused by Mixing Clauses or Phrases with Sentences
- Revising for Parallel Structure Exercises
- Editing Sentence Fragments
- Fragments Consisting of Phrases
- Fragments Consisting of Dependent Clauses
- Fragments Consisting of Present Participle Clauses
- Fragments Consisting of Relative Clauses
- Fragments Consisting of Indirect Questions
- Editing Sentence Fragments Video Supplement
- Editing Sentence Fragments Exercises
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