Variables of Composition: Process and Product in a Business Setting (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)

By Glenn J. BroadheadRichard C. FreedAssociate Professor Glenn J Broadhead PhD, et al.

Writing is written within and for dis­course communities, whose values, tra­ditions, and beliefs condition the writer's own values and influence both the pro­cess of composition and the products is­suing from that process.

To understand how writers compose and revise within the business and industry community Broadhead and Freed examine the revision practices of proposal writers in a management-consulting firm. They describe the writ­ers' motives and intentions in changing a text. This study provides a firmly based theory of composing and revising that will enable business writers to achieve a balanced perspective by focusing on the ends as well as the means of compos­ing--that is, by focusing on the interplay of product and process.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080931262X
• ISBN13: 9780809312627
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"