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- Book Title
- The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers - Sec
- ISBN
- 9780691174457
- Subject Area
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Publication Name
- Imaginative Argument : a Practical Manifesto for Writers-Second Edition
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- Rhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Features
- Revised
- Item Weight
- 19 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691174458
ISBN-13
9780691174457
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237915293
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Publication Name
Imaginative Argument : a Practical Manifesto for Writers-Second Edition
Language
English
Subject
Rhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year
2017
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2017-954047
Reviews
Praise for the previous edition: "Kudos to the author for nicely making the point that creative writing is not solely the property of those who write fiction." --James L. Adams, Stanford University, author of Conceptual Blockbusting, Praise for the previous edition: " The Imaginative Argument is a model of the kind of writing college students should be producing." --Valerie Sayers, author of Brain Fever , and Professor of Creative Writing, University of Notre Dame, Particularly helpful [and] offers sound suggestions. . . . [These] are pointers all writers can use. ---Erika Dreifus, The Writer, "Particularly helpful [and] offers sound suggestions. . . . [These] are pointers all writers can use." --Erika Dreifus, The Writer, "It's not enough to have an opinion or an idea. Writing well means making your reader follow, understand, agree or disagree, care. To do that you'll need the 'imaginative argument' Frank Cioffi explores here. With its sympathetic diagnoses of writing goals and writing problems, this useful book celebrates the kind of writing that actually gets work done." --William Germano, author of From Dissertation to Book, "Would that I had read this book or taken Frank Cioffi's class fifty years ago. Better yet, I wish the contents of this book resided in the minds of all of us who produce soporific sentences in the name of 'technical' or 'professional' writing. If it did, we would all benefit. God knows I would read more technical papers. And kudos to the author for nicely making the point that creative writing is not solely the property of those who write fiction." --James L. Adams, Stanford University, author of Conceptual Blockbusting, Praise for the previous edition: "Anyone interested in the process of writing will learn a great deal from this book." --Murray Sperber, Indiana University, Bloomington, " The Imaginative Argument is an extremely useful writing guide. Cioffi makes a good case for the importance of writing in our day-to-day lives-as a tool for clarifying our thoughts, persuading others, and enhancing our lives. Writing teachers as well as students will find it interesting and accessible." --Kathryn Watterson, University of Pennsylvania, "This book is a significant contribution to the expository writing field. Cioffi's ideas about imagination and his suggestions for teaching it are brilliant and provocative. His own writing is consistently sparkling, frequently witty, and serves as a model for students." --Alfred E. Guy, Jr., Yale University
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
808/.042
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
More than merely a writing text, The Imaginative Argument offers writers instruction on how to use their imaginations to improve their prose. Cioffi shows writers how they can enliven argument--the organizing rubric of all persuasive writing--by drawing on emotion, soul, and creativity, the wellsprings of imagination. While Cioffi suggests that arg, More than merely a writing text, The Imaginative Argument offers writers instruction on how to use their imaginations to improve their prose. Cioffi shows writers how they can enliven argument--the organizing rubric of all persuasive writing--by drawing on emotion, soul, and creativity, the wellsprings of imagination. While Cioffi suggests that argument should become a natural habit of mind for writers, he goes still further, inspiring writers to adopt as their gold standard the imaginative argument: the surprising yet strikingly apt insight that organizes disparate noises into music, that makes out of chaos, chaos theory. Rather than offering a model of writing based on established formulas or templates, Cioffi urges writers to envision argument as an active parsing of experience that imaginatively reinvents the world. Cioffi's manifesto asserts that successful argument also requires writers to explore their own deep-seated feelings, to exploit the fuzzy but often profoundly insightful logic of the imagination. But expression is not all that matters: Cioffi's work anchors itself in the actual.Drawing on Louis Kahn's notion that a good architect never has all the answers to a building's problems before its physical construction, Cioffi maintains that in argument, too, answers must be forged along the way, as the writer inventively deals with emergent problems and unforeseen complexities. Indeed, discovery, imagination, and invention suffuse all stages of the process. The Imaginative Argument offers all the intellectual kindling that writers need to ignite this creativity, from insights on developing ideas to avoiding bland assertions or logical leaps. It cites exemplary nonfiction prose stylists, including William James, Ruth Benedict, and Erving Goffman, as well as literary sources to demonstrate the dynamic of persuasive writing. Provocative and lively, it will prove not only essential reading but also inspiration for all those interested in arguing more imaginatively more successfully. This edition features new chapters that cover the revision process in greater depth, as well as the particular challenges of researching and writing in the digital age, such as working with technology and avoiding plagiarism.The book also includes new sample essays, an appendix to help instructors use the book in the classroom, and much more., More than merely a writing text, The Imaginative Argument offers writers instruction on how to use their imaginations to improve their prose. Cioffi shows writers how they can enliven argument--the organizing rubric of all persuasive writing--by drawing on emotion, soul, and creativity, the wellsprings of imagination. While Cioffi suggests that argument should become a natural habit of mind for writers, he goes still further, inspiring writers to adopt as their gold standard the imaginative argument: the surprising yet strikingly apt insight that organizes disparate noises into music, that makes out of chaos, chaos theory. Rather than offering a model of writing based on established formulas or templates, Cioffi urges writers to envision argument as an active parsing of experience that imaginatively reinvents the world. Cioffi's manifesto asserts that successful argument also requires writers to explore their own deep-seated feelings, to exploit the fuzzy but often profoundly insightful logic of the imagination. But expression is not all that matters: Cioffi's work anchors itself in the actual. Drawing on Louis Kahn's notion that a good architect never has all the answers to a building's problems before its physical construction, Cioffi maintains that in argument, too, answers must be forged along the way, as the writer inventively deals with emergent problems and unforeseen complexities. Indeed, discovery, imagination, and invention suffuse all stages of the process. The Imaginative Argument offers all the intellectual kindling that writers need to ignite this creativity, from insights on developing ideas to avoiding bland assertions or logical leaps. It cites exemplary nonfiction prose stylists, including William James, Ruth Benedict, and Erving Goffman, as well as literary sources to demonstrate the dynamic of persuasive writing. Provocative and lively, it will prove not only essential reading but also inspiration for all those interested in arguing more imaginatively more successfully. This edition features new chapters that cover the revision process in greater depth, as well as the particular challenges of researching and writing in the digital age, such as working with technology and avoiding plagiarism. The book also includes new sample essays, an appendix to help instructors use the book in the classroom, and much more.
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PE1433.C56 2017
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