Writing Prose: Techniques and Purposes, Canadian Edition - Softcover

Writing Prose is designed to acquaint students with the techniques of good prose through a range of writing samples including classics, such as Swift's 'A Modest Proposal', as well as contemporary essays by lesser-known authors. Ranging in length from short paragraphs to complete essays, the readings are grouped according to traditional rhetorical categories―exposition, argument, description, and narration, along with definition, persuasion, and 'writing about writing'.

Maurice Legris is Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Alberta. Thomas Kane and Leonard Peters are both at the University of Connecticut.