Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing

Pros: This book teaches the rhetoric of writing a paper in a great comic book way. It really helps when you're writing a paper and want to look back at whats missing from your paper.Cons: Some of the other students in my class had a really hard time reading the comics and prefered a regular book.Would recomend this book for anyone taking a english class or to anyone who is having a hard time with essay writing.

Required for a course I'm taking in college. I'm not convinced that the graphic format is all that helpful. Probably what it does the most in my case is slow me down and make it easier for me to absorb what I'm reading.

I like it, out of the ordinary makes reading easier and has great relatable examples. I will recommend it

Worst writing textbook ever published.

Boring! Font difficult to read. Graphics not as communicative as expected. Difficult to make sense of this very scattered content.

It’s a decent textbook, but the pictures are honestly just distracting

GOOD BOOK

excellent book for understanding rhetoric.

This was a novel way to present information on rhetoric. I was looking for a text to teach this subject to first year university students, and it is very useful. It describes the type of questioning that writers need to ask themselves to frame their essays, including voice, tone, audience, genre etc. There is a small amount devoted to Plato and Aristotle, and an even briefer mention of Cicero (hence the four, not five, stars). One thing I'm not sure I liked was the authors placing themselves in the story, making themselves commentators, while also telling the story of two students learning the information. It is still good even though the framing is strange, and they do weave a lot of useful information throughout (such as 9/11 featured in a graphic novel, and the explanation of Frederick Douglass ' slave narrative as viewed through a rhetorical lens). Overall, this is a very useful text and I do recommend it for students and teachers.