Coffey, Margaret Pogemiller.

Communication through writing / Margaret Pogemiller Coffey ; photographs by Haissam M. Chehab - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall Regents, c1987 - xviii, 190 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

To the instructor. - Strategies for gathering information. - Transitions : words that link one idea to another. - 1. Introduction to the short essay. - 2. Narration. - 3. Description. - 4. Illustration. - 5. Instructional process. - 6. Classification. 7. Cause and effect. - 8. Comparison and contrast. - 9. Definition. - 10. Persuasion. - 11. Problem solving. - 12. A final look : extra practice in writing the short essay. - Index.

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English language--Rhetoric.
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Written communication--Problems, exercises, etc.
Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc.

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