Introduction
Writing Better Essays - A Simple Rhetorical Guide to Process, Structure, and Coherence (second edition) - David L. Rogers
David L. Rogers [+]
Kingston University, London
David L. Rogers is Emeritus Senior Fellow at Kingston University, London, having previously been Head of the School of Humanities at Kingston and Director of the Kingston Writing School. Having earned his PhD in American Literature at Rutgers University, he taught English and American literature, essay writing, composition and grammar, rhetoric, creative writing and journalism in universities in the US and the UK before retiring from Kingston in 2018 after twenty-five years there. He now runs the annual Athens International Creative Writing Summer School in partnership with the British Council.
Description
The Introduction explains the key premises of the textbook, including the importance of understanding the writing of argumentative essays as a process and the simple rhetorical methods upon which the book relies and reassuring them that the ways in which the book will encourage them to achieve the circular and reiterative structure that characterises the best argumentative essays will not require wholesale changes to their current methods of writing as long, that is, they are willing to commit themselves to revising their initial drafts.