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Public and Professional Writing

Ethics, Imagination and Rhetoric

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  • © 2005

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  1. Anne Surma
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Anne Surma
    Pages 1-14

  3. Marking the Space: Writing as Ethical, Imaginative and Rhetorical Praxis

    • Anne Surma
    Pages 15-35

  4. The Struggle to Relate: Writers and Readers of Corporate and Public Documents

    • Anne Surma
    Pages 36-74

  5. Public Information: Up for Debate or Up for Sale? Writing via the Internet

    • Anne Surma
    Pages 75-106

  6. Challenging Unreliable Narrators: Writing and Public Relations

    • Anne Surma
    Pages 107-130

  7. Being Professional by Email: Who/How are You?

    • Anne Surma
    Pages 131-153

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 154-183
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About this book

This book offers something quite new - an advanced textbook that considers professional writing as a negotiated process between writer and reader. Arguing that ethics, imagination and rhetoric are integral to professional writing praxis, the book encourages students to look critically at various writing practices in a range of contexts. A textbook for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in Linguistics, Communication, Journalism and Media Studies.

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'Surma's broad definition of professional writing (which includes many forms of public writing) and the three-part rubric that she uses to frame her analysis of professional writing practices, are key strengths of this book, along with her approach to ethics and communication and her international perspective.' - Jim Porter, Director of Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University

About the author

ANNE SURMA is Lecturer in English and Professional Writing, School of Arts, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. She has also worked as an editor and writing consultant in the commercial sector.

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