Writing Analytically with Readings

by David Rosenwasser

Clear, concise, and extremely practical, WRITING ANALYTICALLY WITH READINGS, 3E emphasizes producing smarter, more perceptive academic writing--skills that can be carried over into any kind of writing you do throughout college and your career. This brief rhetoric combines the authors' best-selling writing guide with cutting-edge readings. It delivers a methodical approach to what many consider to be the primary activity of academic discourse--careful analysis. The consistent focus on writing as a tool of thought and a vehicle for analysis remains a hallmark of the book as it provides careful focus on analysis and thesis and paper development. The exciting new Third Edition also now offers online integration with Enhanced InSite.

Genres: Education, Textbooks, Nonfiction

480 pages, Paperback

First published February 3, 2012

Reviews

[Caleb Chan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Academically life-changing. Practical. Pulses with lucid insight, throbs with suitable examples, and is heartily direct. Will change the way you think against, toil for, smell down, write up, and submit to an essay. Practical. Gets postermodern-preachy at times on the theory of meaning—you can decide whether or not this is a good thing. And practical.

Originally assigned for INI203

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Returning to this textbook in 2023. Still so good!

[Kelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think the 5-step analysis is bullshit, but we had to learn it for class. The rest of the book is pretty useful, though.

[Bobby · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the essential book for student writers and their teachers.

[Iraida]

WRITING ANALYTICALLY WITH READINGS is two books in one, a guide to writing with a reader, that teaches you how to have ideas and develop them in an academic setting and beyond. The writing guide offers a book-length treatment of analysis, a form of thinking and writing required in virtually all college courses.

[T · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I'd had this book at the beginning of my academic career.