Compose design advocate a rhetoric for integrating written visual and oral communication

Synopsis

This innovative new genre-based writing guide for freshmen composition courses, teaches students how to use both words and images, in writing and in speaking. To be truly successful communicators in today's world, students need to be fluent in multiple modes of communication: written, visual, and oral. Providing instruction in, and samples from, diverse genres of writing, Compose, Design, Advocate also provides an advocacy focus that encourages students to use written, visual, and oral communication to effect change in their lives and communities. With compelling reading selections, in-depth Thinking through Production writing assignments, and excellent coverage of research, Compose, Design, Advocate is a highly teachable text that will challenge and engage students.