Heilker contends that writing instructors should employ—and their students should compose—essays in their writing classes along with the antithetical thesis/support form that currently dominates students' thinking and writing. He advances this argument because he believes that, as the sole construct in composition classes, the thesis/support form is inadequate from developmental, epistemological, ideological, and feminist rhetorical perspectives.epistemological, ideological, and feminist rhetorical perspectives.
206 pp. 1996. Grades 11–College. ISBN 0-8141-1584-5.
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