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<body>  <a href="#lastcrumb" title="Skip Breadcrumb Navigation" onfocus="expandMenu('breadskip');" onblur="hideSkip('breadskip');" ><img src="/wps/media/styles/1480/_skins_/D/default_vanilla/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Skip Breadcrumb Navigation" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"></a><div class="submenu" id="breadskip"><span class="breadcrumbs">[Skip Breadcrumb Navigation]</span><noscript>: <a href="#lastcrumb"><span class="breadcrumbs">[Skip Breadcrumb Navigation]</span></a></noscript><br> </div> <table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0"> <tr align="left" valign="top">  <td align="left" valign="top"><a href="/long_alfano_envision_2/64/16465/4215148.cw/index.html" target="_top" class="breadcrumbs" >Home</a></td>  <td align="left" valign="middle"> <img src="/wps/media/styles/1480/_skins_/D/default_vanilla/breadcrumb_arrow.gif" alt=" arrow " width="21" height="9" hspace="0" vspace="2" border="0"> </td>  <td align="left" valign="top"><span class="breadcrumbs"><a name="lastcrumb" id="lastcrumb">About the Book</a></span></td> </tr> </table> <p /> <span class="breadcrumbs">No Frames Version</span><br> <span class="homepageTitle">About the Book</span><p /> <P><b><i>Envision</i></b> <br>Concise, flexible, practical, and innovative: <i>Envision</i> is the first brief guide to argument and research designed for students learning to write in today's visual world. <P><i>Envision: Writing and Researching Arguments</i> is intended for composition courses focusing on argumentation and researched writing. Taking visual culture as its central theme and context, <i>Envision</i> is concerned with the fundamentals of writing in powerful and effective ways. By exploring and responding to a wide variety of visual texts and artifacts, students using Envision will learn how to analyze and craft arguments, design and conduct research projects, and produce persuasive visual texts. <P>Visit this text's <A HREF="http://www.ablongman.com/catalog/academic/product/0,,0321462513,00.html" TARGET="_blank" >catalog page</A> for information about this book including<ul> <li>Description <li>Table of Contents <li>Features <li>Appropriate Courses <li>Valuepacks <li>Purchasing Information </ul> <P><b><i>Envision in Depth</i></b> <br><i>Envision in Depth</i> teaches core skills in argument and research with over 100 readings on issues that engage students and provide occasions for persuasive writing. <P><i>Envision in Depth: Reading, Writing, and Researching Arguments</i> is a combined rhetoric and reader intended for composition courses focusing on argumentation and research-based writing. Taking contemporary culture as its central theme and context, Envision in Depth is concerned with the fundamentals of analyzing and writing powerful, effective arguments. Students using Envision in Depth will learn how to analyze and compose arguments, design and conduct research projects, and produce persuasive visual and oral presentations in response to over 100 contemporary arguments in a wide range of verbal and visual genres. <P>Visit this text's <A HREF="http://www.ablongman.com/catalog/academic/product/0,,0321355717,00.html" TARGET="_blank" >catalog page</A>. <P><b>About the Authors</b><br> The authors are full-time permanent lecturers at Stanford University's Program in Writing and Rhetoric, drawing on many years of teaching experience at the university level. At Stanford, they are involved in forging a new curriculum which places the analysis and production of visual rhetoric and multimedia texts at the center of its pedagogical objectives. Contact <A HREF="mailto:alfano@stanford.edu" >Christine L. Alfano</A> or <A HREF="mailto:aobrien@stanford.edu" >Alyssa J. O'Brien</A> <br> <p /> <ul> <li> <a href="/long_alfano_envision_2/64/16465/4215149.cw/sitenav/index.html">Site Navigation</a><br /> <li><a href="/long_alfano_envision_2/64/16465/4215148.cw/jumpto/index.html">Navigate by Book Section</a><br/> <li> <a href="/long_alfano_envision_2/64/16465/4215149.cw/leftnav/index.html">Navigation for About the Book</a> <ul> </body>