Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing, Edition 3

Elizabeth Losh · Jonathan Alexander · Kevin Cannon · Zander Cannon

set. de 2020 · Vendido por Macmillan Higher Education

Sobre este e-book

After shaking up writing classrooms at more than 550 colleges, universities, and high schools, Understanding Rhetoric, the comic-style guide to writing, has returned for a third edition! Understanding Rhetoric encourages deep engagement with core concepts of writing and rhetoric. With brand-new coverage of fake news, sourcing the source, podcasting as publishing, and support for common writing assignments, the new edition of the one and only composition comic covers what students need to know—and does so with fun and flair.

Sobre o autor

Elizabeth Losh is the Gale and Steve Kohlhagen Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at William and Mary. Previously she directed the Culture, Art, and Technology program at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (MIT Press), The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University (MIT Press), and Hashtag (Bloomsbury).

Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where he served as the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Writing and Communication and is currently associate dean in the Division of Undergraduate Education. The author, coauthor, or coeditor of sixteen books, he writes frequently about how people learn to write with a variety of digital tools. He’s also a proud nerd who enjoys reading and writing about science fiction, comics, movies, and young adult fiction.

Kevin Cannonis an award-winning cartoonist, children’s book illustrator, and cartographer. His most recent graphic novel, The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy, was published by Hill and Wang. A Minneapolis native, Cannon spends his free time camping, reading dusty books about arctic explorers, and drawing cartoon maps.

Since 1993, Zander Cannon has written and drawn comics about astronauts, robots, paleontologists, feng shui masters, demons, and police officers. His latest comic book series, the Eisner-nominated KAIJUMAX, about a prison for giant monsters, is published by Oni Press. He lives in Minnesota with his strong wife, Julie, and his above-average son, Jin.