Download or read book Public and Professional Writing written by A. Surma and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-02-09 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers something quite new - an advanced textbook that considers professional writing as a negotiated process between writer and reader. Arguing that ethics, imagination and rhetoric are integral to professional writing praxis, the book encourages students to look critically at various writing practices in a range of contexts. A textbook for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in Linguistics, Communication, Journalism and Media Studies.