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Summary: I had to use this book for AP English...
Review: And let me say that it helped me a lot. My writing got better, and, more importantly, my reading comprehension got better. The "try this" exercises bring out the AWESOMENESS in you... as do the end of the chapter exercises. Not buying this book would be a mistake.
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Summary: Boring and repetative
Review: Rosenwasser and Stephen demonstrate that knowing how to write is knowing how to think. This is a resource I used throughout college and still use today.
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Summary: A great resource from two great professors!
Review: Rosenwasser and Stephen demonstrate that knowing how to write is knowing how to think. This is a resource I used throughout college and still use today.
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Summary: analysis analyzed
Review: rosenwasser's insight into the difference between criticism and analysis is of partiular interest to me. ''writing analytically'' explores the discipline that is the journalist's, the intellegence gathering professional's and the academic's with a lively, engaging style that resembles more the work of such popular non-fiction writer/academics as stephen jay gould and loren teshenti.
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Summary: Boring and repetative
Review: There are better books out there about writing than this book. The book was very boring and repetative. The authors talk to you as if you are a teenager.
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Summary: Excellent book for freshman comp
Review: This is one of the few rhetoric's that deals exclusively with how to think and write analytically. It is very methodical and it gives younger students concrete tools that they can use. It helps students break away from boring, static 5-paragraph themes that state the painfully obvious.I use the book as the only textbook in a college-level Rhetoric and Writing class. The book is honestly a revelation for most of my students, and it improves their writing and thinking exponentially. The book does suffer from tone problems, and it is occasionally condescending. It does indeed relate to the reader as a teen/novice, but then again that is who the book is for. It is also not the book for those who need help with style, basic clarity or grammar. Writing Analytically is intended for just that: learning the craft of academic analysis. I highly recommend it for any instructor who is struggling to help their students learn to think critically.
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