Rhetorical tactics Book

READ FOR ENGL 207

Not bad considering a lot of people find this aspect of English really boring. Course wise, the first half of this was very similar to Linguistics. Parsing sentences, figuring out verb types and sentence structures, etc. The book wasn't very helpful in this regard, though. It gives sentence examples but doesn't show you structurally how to break things down when diagramming a sentence. The second half is more directly helpful, since it talks about techniques to recognize at the sentence level more than at the word level, which helps with analyzing writing, whether your own or someone else's.