Compose, Design, Advocate

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For courses in First-Year Composition - Rhetoric.



Helps students determine the most effective strategies, arrangements, and media for different communication contexts.

Compose, Design, Advocate is an innovative, genre-based writing guide for composition courses that 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, the text also has an advocacy focus that encourages students to use communication to effect change in their lives and communities. A highly teachable text that challenges and engages students, the authors offer a systematic approach for analyzing communication situations, with the concepts and vocabulary necessary to make thoughtful choices, helping students to gain confidence and fluency in communication. The 3rd Edition introduces new readings, visual samples, and learning outcomes, along with an enhanced focus on multimodality and rhetoric.