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Course Description

Academic Year 2010-2011 • Grade 9 and above • Writing Sequence

For reference only; see current year course listing for course availability and details.

Rhetoric, Grammar, and Style

Sections and Teachers

Section 1:

Instructor: Emily Pearson

Starts: February 1, 2011
Ends: May 31, 2011

Dates and times to be arranged with enrolled students.

Tuition: $325.00

This class focuses on the elements of the craft of writing: rhetoric, grammar, and style. Students will study how to meet a rhetorical end through the effective use of words and their structural relationships (grammar), and through pleasing and clear arrangements of those words (style).

Recommended background

Students in grade 8 may enroll only with the instructor's permission.

Teacher's notes:

This is a one-semester course. Textbook information to be added later.

Textbooks and Materials

This item is required:

Rhetorical Choices: A Reader for Writers [Edition or Version: 2], Authors: Gilyard, Holdestein, Schuster

ISBN: 0321444922

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This item is required:

Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects [Edition or Version: 5], Authors: Martha J. Kolln

ISBN: 0321397231

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This item is required:

Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace [Edition or Version: 8], Authors: Williams

ISBN: 0321288319

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This item is recommended but not required and its use is optional:

The Elements of Style , Authors: Strunk and White

ISBN: 0205313426

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Other information: Any edition is acceptable.


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