The Essential Rhetoric Author:Jocelyn Siler The Essential Rhetoric offers readers a brief yet comprehensive guide to writing. Unlike brief style guides and error-correction manuals, this book focuses on rhetorical concepts and presents writing as a process with discernible steps. It is the first book of its kind to bring both current rese... more »arch on writing and contemporary ideas about writing to a general audience. In addition, The Essential Rhetoric pares the writing process down to its essentials and focuses on problem-solving. For writing-across-the-curriculum programs and for writing instruction in non-academic environments.« less