The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers - Second Edition

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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

Frank L. Cioffi is professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY. He has taught writing and literature at Eastern New Mexico University, Central Washington University, Scripps College, Princeton University, and the University of Gda?sk in Poland. His books include One Day in the Life of the English Language (Princeton).

"Particularly helpful offers sound suggestions. . . . [These] are pointers all writers can use."---Erika Dreifus, The Writer