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Rewriting.


Rewriting re·write  
v. re·wrote , re·writ·ten , re·writ·ing, re·writes

v.tr.
1. To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise.

2.
 

Joseph Harris The name Joseph Harris is shared by, amongst others:
  • Joseph Harris, Surrey cricketer (18th century)
  • Joseph Harris ("Gomer"), Welsh Baptist minister, author, and journal editor (1773–1825)
  • Joseph Harris, Canadian grain merchant (1835–1899)
 

Utah State University Utah State University, mainly at Logan; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1888, opened 1890. It publishes Utah Science, Western Historical Quarterly, and Western American Literary Journal.  

7800 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-7800

0874216427 $19.95 www.usu.edu/uspress

Written by Duke University Writing Program director Joseph Harris, Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts is a guide written especially for college students and professionals seeking to refine their academic writing technique. Leaning away from the static ideas of thesis, support and structure and toward a more naturally flowing and dynamic writing style, Rewriting challenges the reader to think of writing an adaptive, social activity and shape one's written intellectual opinions and discussions accordingly. Presented strategies for coaxing a more persuasive and intuitive tone into one's logical academic written arguments include forwarding (taking words, images, or ideas from text and putting them to use in new contexts), countering (suggesting different ways of thinking rather than simple nullification nullification, in U.S. history, a doctrine expounded by the advocates of extreme states' rights. It held that states have the right to declare null and void any federal law that they deem unconstitutional.  of a given ideal), and much more. Recommended for intermediate to advanced academic writers for its solid recommendations to make prose more readable read·a·ble  
adj.
1. Easily read; legible: a readable typeface.

2. Pleasurable or interesting to read: a readable story.
, immersive, thought-provoking and natural-sounding.
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