Subject Guides: Writing Studies & Rhetoric: Books, Theses & Dissertations

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P301-301.5 Style.Composition. Rhetoric

P302-302.87 Discourse analysis

P87-96 Communication. Mass media

PN101-245 Authorship

PN172-239 Authorship-Technique. Literary composition, etc.

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