Download or read book Public and Professional Writing written by Anne Surma and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04-16 with total page 240 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, 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.