Books by David S. Kaufer

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Over the past several years, David Kaufer and his colleagues have developed a software program for analyzing writing (DocuScope). This book illustrates the concepts and rhetorical theory behind the software analysis, examining patterns in writing and showing writers how their writing works in different categories to accomplish varying objectives.

This volume presents a theory of writing as representational composition. It envisions texts not as words and clauses forming sentences and high-level linguistic units but as words forming imagery-rich narrative worlds and invitations for readers to interact with them.

This work questions the rhetoric/technical knowledge split to examine what is at stake in rhetoric's traditional classification as a "practical" art. It explores the distinction between practical and design arts, and enumerates the skills criteria cited in literature to count as an art of design.