Scenes of Writing : Strategies for Composing with Genres

Based in current genre theory, this guide helps writers make more informed rhetorical choices and participate more effectively within academic, workplace and public contexts.

This text illustrates how to use genres to assess, understand, and write within different scenes or writing situations.

Discussions of writing for academic contexts cover writing analysis, argument, and research-based genres.

Public and workplace writing is illustrated though discussions of other genres-letters, resumes, proposals, reports.