TY - BOOK AU - Skwire, Sarah E. TI - Writing with a thesis: a rhetoric and reader SN - 9781133950875 AV - PE 1417 .Sk87 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Wadsworth/Cengage Learning KW - College readers KW - English language KW - Report writing N1 - Includes index N2 - This edition continues to use of the ten "Office Hours" introduced in the previous edition. They're short. They're practical. They replicate the real life office hours experience. They focus on the ups and downs as well as the ins and outs of the writing process. Much has not changed, the persuasive principle remains as central to thinking as ever. The readings continue to be short, accessible and lively. Swift rhetorical classic, "A Modest Proposal", remains the final piece in this edition, as it has been in every edition of the book. The discipline of success and the nearly unanimous message of user surveys not to mess with what works have made it easy to resist indulging in massive overhauls for their own sake ER -