Analyze, Organize, Write

by Arthur Whimbey, Elizabeth Lynn Jenkins

This book offers students a method for understanding and mastering the rhetorical patterns that comprise expository writing. Its exercises ask students to arrange jumbled sentences into logical order, forming model essays for standard rhetorical patterns such as comparison/contrast, classification, and thesis support. These techniques force students to see the basic logic of different writing patterns. The goal of Whimbey's workbook is to teach the student to write concise and original essays on any topic.

232 pages, Paperback

Published September 12, 1987

Reviews

[Catherine Johnson]

Every school in the country should be using this book to teach expository writing, probably starting in middle school (although the book was written for college freshmen who are "basic writers.")