Prepares students for the work required of writers in a variety of discourse communities, each of which operates from distinct assumptions and within specific rhetorical and social parameters. This book is useful for undergraduate/graduate courses in Advanced Composition, Professional Writing, and Advanced and Honors Freshman English.

Professional and Public Writing: A Rhetoric and Reader for Advanced Composition offers you the rhetorical knowledge and research practices needed to write successfully for any discourse community within which you might find yourself-as students, professionals, and citizens.