178 Pages
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Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1984, in Rhetoric of Everyday English Texts, the author uses over 100 short texts from educated writers in all walks of life to demonstrate that when we communicate there is a powerful unspoken linguistic consensus as to what is ‘relevant’ to our purpose in writing a particular text for a particular audience. His aim is to make us aware of how the nature of information... Read more
Preface List of Examples with Sources 1. Introduction 2. Short Texts as Summaries 3. The Basic Metastructure of Information 4. Incomplete, Summary and Condensed Structures 5. The Signalling of Problems and Improvement 6. Recognising Different Problems in Texts 7. Evaluation Principles 8. Evaluating Old and New Solutions 9. Comparative Evaluation and Test Procedures Appendix Indexes
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Michael P. Jordan
