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9/11xlii, 703 pages : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine derived contents note: Detailed Contents --
-- -- Guide to Visuals -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- -- Writing and Reading -- Introduction: The Call to Write -- Identifying and Responding to the Call to Write -- Factors That Writers Take Into Account -- Reflecting on Your Writing: The Call to Write -- What Is Writing? Analyzing Literacy Events -- Reflecting on Your Writing: What Is Writing? -- Writing in Everyday Life -- Analyzing Writing in Everyday Life: A Shopping List -- Writing in the Workplace -- Analyzing Writing in the Workplace: -- David F. Gallagher, "Just Say No to H2O" -- Ethics of Writing -- Writing in the Public Sphere -- Analyzing Writing in the Public Sphere: Newsletter -- Going Online: Organizing Online Networks -- Writing in School -- Analyzing Writing in School: Samples from Grade 3 -- Samples of Writing in School -- Sample 1: High School Research Paper -- Sample 2: College Response Paper -- Analyzing a Literacy Event -- Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -- Eudora Welty, from One Writer's Beginnings -- Margaret J. Finders, from Just Girls -- Writing Assignment: Analyzing a Literacy Event -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- Reading Strategies for Academic Purposes: Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation -- Reading as Research -- Getting Started: Previewing -- Strategies for Close Reading -- Underlining -- Annotation -- Jonathan Kozol, from Distancing the Homeless -- Summarizing -- Sample Summary of Distancing the Homeless -- Exploratory Writing -- Sample Exploratory Writing -- Outlining -- Sample Outline -- Describing the Writer's Strategy -- Sample Description of the Writer's Strategy -- Working Together -- Strategies for Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation -- Using Background Information -- The Context of Issues -- The Writer -- The Publication -- Analyzing the Writer's Purpose and Relationship to Readers -- Analyzing the Writer's Language -- Tone -- Denotation/Connotation -- Figures of Speech -- Stereotypes -- Sample Analysis of a Rhetorical Situation -- Kevin Powell, My Culture at the Crossroads -- Rhetorical Analysis of "My Culture at the Crossroads" -- Writing Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- -- Ethics of Reading: Boredom and Persistence -- Writing Strategies -- Going Online: Evaluating Web Sites -- Persuasion and Responsibility: Analyzing Arguments -- Working Together: Successful Persuasion -- Understanding Argument -- What Is Argument?: Dealing with Reasonable Differences -- Darcy Peters and Marcus Boldt: Exchange of Letters -- Working Together: Looking at Differences -- What Do Readers Expect from Arguments? -- Entering a Controversy -- Analyzing Issues -- Types of Issues -- Issues of Substantiation -- Issues of Evaluation -- Issues of Policy -- Controversy: Should High Schools Abolish Tracking and Assign Students to Mixed-Ability Classrooms Instead? -- Taking a Position: From Issues to Claims -- Developing a Persuasive Position -- What Are the Rhetorical Appeals? -- Malcolm X, from "The Ballot or the Bullet" -- Analysis of Persuasive Appeals in "The Ballot or the Bullet" -- Constructing an Appropriate Rhetorical Stance -- Two Letters of Application -- Letter 1 -- Letter 2 -- Working Together: Rhetorical Stance -- Making an Argument -- What Are the Parts of an Argument? -- Claims, Evidence, and Enabling Assumptions -- Questions to Ask About Evidence -- Working Together: Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Enabling Assumptions -- Working Together: Backing an Argument -- Differing Views -- Summarize, Differing Views Fairly and Accurately -- Refuting Differing Views -- Conceding Differing Views -- Negotiating Differing Views -- Qualifiers -- Putting the Parts Together -- Working Together: Analyzing the Making of an Argument -- "Vigilant Neighbors or Big Brother Informants" -- Negotiating Differences -- Beyond the Pro and Con -- An Electronic Exchange of Views -- Going Online: Handling Differences -- Recognizing Ambiguities and Contradictions -- Anna Quindlen, Abortion Is Too Complex to Feel All One Way About -- Call for Moratorium on Executions -- Sample Rhetorical Analysis for an Argument -- Writing Assignment: Analyzing an Argument -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- -- Ethics of Argument: The Writer's Responsibility -- -- Writing Projects -- Introduction: Genres of Writing -- Genre Choices -- Understanding Genres of Writing -- The Arrangement of the Chapters -- Letters: Establishing and Maintaining Relationships -- Thinking About the Genre -- Exploring Your Experience -- Readings: Letters on Iraq -- Project for the New American Century to President William J. Clinton -- Mary A. Wright to Secretary of State Colin Powell -- U.S. Navy Corpsman email from Iraq -- Analysis: Identifying the Rhetorical Situation -- Readings: Letters to the Editor -- Mark Patinkin, "Commit a Crime, Suffer the Consequences" -- Kristin Tardiff, Letter to the Editor -- John N
Taylor, Letter to the Editor -- Analysis: A Public Forum -- Readings: A Correspondence on Sweatshops -- John Peretti, "No Sweat, No Slang" -- Analysis: Transforming the Customer Letter -- Readings: Open Letters -- Open Letter: James Baldwin, "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew" -- Analysis: Private and Public Audiences -- Visual Design[[emdash]]Letter of Appeal from Doctors Without Borders -- Analysis: The Visual Design of Letters of Appeal -- Further Exploration: Letter -- Genre Choices -- Ethics of Writing: Using the Internet -- Going Online: Instant Messages -- Working Together: Designing a Letter of Appeal -- Writing Assignment -- Composing a Letter -- Alternative Assignments -- Rhetorical Analysis -- Working with Sources -- Invention -- Identifying the Call to Write -- Exercise: Identifying a Topic -- Exercise: Writing a Statement of Purpose -- Understanding Your Readers -- Exercise: Addressing Your Reader -- Background Research: Finding Models -- Planning -- Establishing the Occasion -- Arranging Your Material -- Working Draft -- Beginnings and Endings: Using an Echo Effect -- Using Topic Sentences -- Peer Commentary -- Revising -- Strengthening Topic Sentences for Focus and Transition -- Writers' Workshop -- Michael Brody, Letter to the Editor -- Michael Brody's Commentary -- Workshop Questions -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- A Closing Note -- Memoirs: Recalling Personal Experience -- Thinking About the Genre -- Exploring Your Experience -- Readings -- Gary Soto, "Black Hair" -- Analysis: A Moment of Revelation -- Annie Dillard, "Throwing Snowballs" -- Analysis: Re-creating Experience -- Tariq Ali, "An Atheist Childhood" -- Analysis: Using Episodes -- Visual Design[[emdash]]American Splendor: Comics as Memoir -- Analysis: Mixing Genres -- Ethics of Writing: Bearing Witness -- Further Exploration: Memoirs -- Genre Choices -- Going Online: Visiting Home Pages -- Working Together: Creating a Time Capsule -- Writing Assignment -- Writing Memoir -- Alternative Assignments -- Rhetorical Analysis -- Working with Sources -- Invention -- Sketching -- Working Together: Creating a Sketch -- Guidelines for Sketching -- Past and Present Perspectives -- Exercise: Exploring Past and Present Perspectives -- Background Research: Putting Events in Context -- Planning -- Arranging Your Material -- Working Draft -- Beginnings and Endings: Framing Your Memoir -- Selecting Detail -- Peer Commentary -- Exercise: Analyzing Your Draft -- Revising -- From Telling to Showing -- Writers' Workshop -- Jennifer Plante's Commentary -- Jennifer Plante, "Sunday Afternoons" -- Workshop Questions -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- A Closing Note -- Public Documents: Codifying Beliefs and Practices -- Thinking About the Genre -- Exploring Your Experience -- Readings -- Encounters with Public Documents -- Abraham Verghese, from My Own Country -- Ellen Cushman, from The Struggle and the Tools -- Analysis: Encountering Public Documents as Literacy Events -- Ethics of Writing: Plain Language -- Manifestos -- The Mentor, "Hacker's Manifesto, or the Conscience of a Hacker" -- "Call of the World Social Movements" -- Analysis: The Rhetorical Situation -- Gallery of Petitions -- Kerwood Wolf Education Centre, "Stop the Aerial Slaughter of Alaska's Wolves" -- Amnesty International, "Call for Human Rights in Russia" -- Jason Pierce, "Tiger Woods[[emdash]]Stand Up for Equality[[emdash]]Augusta National Golf Club" -- Analysis: Looking at Voice in Petitions -- Visual Design[[emdash]]Paula Scher, "Defective Equipment: The Palm Beach County Ballot" -- Analysis: Breaking Visual Design Conventions -- Further Exploration: Public Documents -- Genre Choices -- Going Online: WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition -- Working Together: Writing a Class Charter -- Writing Assignment -- Invention -- Clarifying Purpose and Genre -- Background Research: Understanding the Rhetorical Situation -- Planning -- Readability and the Visual Design of Public Documents -- Exercise: Using Parallel Structure -- Working Draft -- Tone and Rhetorical Distance -- Peer Commentary -- For Manifestos, Petitions, and Class Charters -- For Analysis of a Document -- Revising -- For Manifestos, Petitions, and Class Charters -- For Analysis of a Document -- Locating Common Ground -- Writers' Workshop -- The Warehouse State Honor Code -- Workshop Questi
Machine derived contents note: Detailed Contents --
-- -- Guide to Visuals -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- -- Writing and Reading -- Introduction: The Call to Write -- Identifying and Responding to the Call to Write -- Factors That Writers Take Into Account -- Reflecting on Your Writing: The Call to Write -- What Is Writing? Analyzing Literacy Events -- Reflecting on Your Writing: What Is Writing? -- Writing in Everyday Life -- Analyzing Writing in Everyday Life: A Shopping List -- Writing in the Workplace -- Analyzing Writing in the Workplace: -- David F. Gallagher, "Just Say No to H2O" -- Ethics of Writing -- Writing in the Public Sphere -- Analyzing Writing in the Public Sphere: Newsletter -- Going Online: Organizing Online Networks -- Writing in School -- Analyzing Writing in School: Samples from Grade 3 -- Samples of Writing in School -- Sample 1: High School Research Paper -- Sample 2: College Response Paper -- Analyzing a Literacy Event -- Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -- Eudora Welty, from One Writer's Beginnings -- Margaret J. Finders, from Just Girls -- Writing Assignment: Analyzing a Literacy Event -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- Reading Strategies for Academic Purposes: Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation -- Reading as Research -- Getting Started: Previewing -- Strategies for Close Reading -- Underlining -- Annotation -- Jonathan Kozol, from Distancing the Homeless -- Summarizing -- Sample Summary of Distancing the Homeless -- Exploratory Writing -- Sample Exploratory Writing -- Outlining -- Sample Outline -- Describing the Writer's Strategy -- Sample Description of the Writer's Strategy -- Working Together -- Strategies for Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation -- Using Background Information -- The Context of Issues -- The Writer -- The Publication -- Analyzing the Writer's Purpose and Relationship to Readers -- Analyzing the Writer's Language -- Tone -- Denotation/Connotation -- Figures of Speech -- Stereotypes -- Sample Analysis of a Rhetorical Situation -- Kevin Powell, My Culture at the Crossroads -- Rhetorical Analysis of "My Culture at the Crossroads" -- Writing Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- -- Ethics of Reading: Boredom and Persistence -- Writing Strategies -- Going Online: Evaluating Web Sites -- Persuasion and Responsibility: Analyzing Arguments -- Working Together: Successful Persuasion -- Understanding Argument -- What Is Argument?: Dealing with Reasonable Differences -- Darcy Peters and Marcus Boldt: Exchange of Letters -- Working Together: Looking at Differences -- What Do Readers Expect from Arguments? -- Entering a Controversy -- Analyzing Issues -- Types of Issues -- Issues of Substantiation -- Issues of Evaluation -- Issues of Policy -- Controversy: Should High Schools Abolish Tracking and Assign Students to Mixed-Ability Classrooms Instead? -- Taking a Position: From Issues to Claims -- Developing a Persuasive Position -- What Are the Rhetorical Appeals? -- Malcolm X, from "The Ballot or the Bullet" -- Analysis of Persuasive Appeals in "The Ballot or the Bullet" -- Constructing an Appropriate Rhetorical Stance -- Two Letters of Application -- Letter 1 -- Letter 2 -- Working Together: Rhetorical Stance -- Making an Argument -- What Are the Parts of an Argument? -- Claims, Evidence, and Enabling Assumptions -- Questions to Ask About Evidence -- Working Together: Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Enabling Assumptions -- Working Together: Backing an Argument -- Differing Views -- Summarize, Differing Views Fairly and Accurately -- Refuting Differing Views -- Conceding Differing Views -- Negotiating Differing Views -- Qualifiers -- Putting the Parts Together -- Working Together: Analyzing the Making of an Argument -- "Vigilant Neighbors or Big Brother Informants" -- Negotiating Differences -- Beyond the Pro and Con -- An Electronic Exchange of Views -- Going Online: Handling Differences -- Recognizing Ambiguities and Contradictions -- Anna Quindlen, Abortion Is Too Complex to Feel All One Way About -- Call for Moratorium on Executions -- Sample Rhetorical Analysis for an Argument -- Writing Assignment: Analyzing an Argument -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- -- Ethics of Argument: The Writer's Responsibility -- -- Writing Projects -- Introduction: Genres of Writing -- Genre Choices -- Understanding Genres of Writing -- The Arrangement of the Chapters -- Letters: Establishing and Maintaining Relationships -- Thinking About the Genre -- Exploring Your Experience -- Readings: Letters on Iraq -- Project for the New American Century to President William J. Clinton -- Mary A. Wright to Secretary of State Colin Powell -- U.S. Navy Corpsman email from Iraq -- Analysis: Identifying the Rhetorical Situation -- Readings: Letters to the Editor -- Mark Patinkin, "Commit a Crime, Suffer the Consequences" -- Kristin Tardiff, Letter to the Editor -- John N
Taylor, Letter to the Editor -- Analysis: A Public Forum -- Readings: A Correspondence on Sweatshops -- John Peretti, "No Sweat, No Slang" -- Analysis: Transforming the Customer Letter -- Readings: Open Letters -- Open Letter: James Baldwin, "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew" -- Analysis: Private and Public Audiences -- Visual Design[[emdash]]Letter of Appeal from Doctors Without Borders -- Analysis: The Visual Design of Letters of Appeal -- Further Exploration: Letter -- Genre Choices -- Ethics of Writing: Using the Internet -- Going Online: Instant Messages -- Working Together: Designing a Letter of Appeal -- Writing Assignment -- Composing a Letter -- Alternative Assignments -- Rhetorical Analysis -- Working with Sources -- Invention -- Identifying the Call to Write -- Exercise: Identifying a Topic -- Exercise: Writing a Statement of Purpose -- Understanding Your Readers -- Exercise: Addressing Your Reader -- Background Research: Finding Models -- Planning -- Establishing the Occasion -- Arranging Your Material -- Working Draft -- Beginnings and Endings: Using an Echo Effect -- Using Topic Sentences -- Peer Commentary -- Revising -- Strengthening Topic Sentences for Focus and Transition -- Writers' Workshop -- Michael Brody, Letter to the Editor -- Michael Brody's Commentary -- Workshop Questions -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- A Closing Note -- Memoirs: Recalling Personal Experience -- Thinking About the Genre -- Exploring Your Experience -- Readings -- Gary Soto, "Black Hair" -- Analysis: A Moment of Revelation -- Annie Dillard, "Throwing Snowballs" -- Analysis: Re-creating Experience -- Tariq Ali, "An Atheist Childhood" -- Analysis: Using Episodes -- Visual Design[[emdash]]American Splendor: Comics as Memoir -- Analysis: Mixing Genres -- Ethics of Writing: Bearing Witness -- Further Exploration: Memoirs -- Genre Choices -- Going Online: Visiting Home Pages -- Working Together: Creating a Time Capsule -- Writing Assignment -- Writing Memoir -- Alternative Assignments -- Rhetorical Analysis -- Working with Sources -- Invention -- Sketching -- Working Together: Creating a Sketch -- Guidelines for Sketching -- Past and Present Perspectives -- Exercise: Exploring Past and Present Perspectives -- Background Research: Putting Events in Context -- Planning -- Arranging Your Material -- Working Draft -- Beginnings and Endings: Framing Your Memoir -- Selecting Detail -- Peer Commentary -- Exercise: Analyzing Your Draft -- Revising -- From Telling to Showing -- Writers' Workshop -- Jennifer Plante's Commentary -- Jennifer Plante, "Sunday Afternoons" -- Workshop Questions -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- A Closing Note -- Public Documents: Codifying Beliefs and Practices -- Thinking About the Genre -- Exploring Your Experience -- Readings -- Encounters with Public Documents -- Abraham Verghese, from My Own Country -- Ellen Cushman, from The Struggle and the Tools -- Analysis: Encountering Public Documents as Literacy Events -- Ethics of Writing: Plain Language -- Manifestos -- The Mentor, "Hacker's Manifesto, or the Conscience of a Hacker" -- "Call of the World Social Movements" -- Analysis: The Rhetorical Situation -- Gallery of Petitions -- Kerwood Wolf Education Centre, "Stop the Aerial Slaughter of Alaska's Wolves" -- Amnesty International, "Call for Human Rights in Russia" -- Jason Pierce, "Tiger Woods[[emdash]]Stand Up for Equality[[emdash]]Augusta National Golf Club" -- Analysis: Looking at Voice in Petitions -- Visual Design[[emdash]]Paula Scher, "Defective Equipment: The Palm Beach County Ballot" -- Analysis: Breaking Visual Design Conventions -- Further Exploration: Public Documents -- Genre Choices -- Going Online: WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition -- Working Together: Writing a Class Charter -- Writing Assignment -- Invention -- Clarifying Purpose and Genre -- Background Research: Understanding the Rhetorical Situation -- Planning -- Readability and the Visual Design of Public Documents -- Exercise: Using Parallel Structure -- Working Draft -- Tone and Rhetorical Distance -- Peer Commentary -- For Manifestos, Petitions, and Class Charters -- For Analysis of a Document -- Revising -- For Manifestos, Petitions, and Class Charters -- For Analysis of a Document -- Locating Common Ground -- Writers' Workshop -- The Warehouse State Honor Code -- Workshop Questi
Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine derived contents note: Detailed Contents --
-- -- Guide to Visuals -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- -- Writing and Reading -- Introduction: The Call to Write -- Identifying and Responding to the Call to Write -- Factors That Writers Take Into Account -- Reflecting on Your Writing: The Call to Write -- What Is Writing? Analyzing Literacy Events -- Reflecting on Your Writing: What Is Writing? -- Writing in Everyday Life -- Analyzing Writing in Everyday Life: A Shopping List -- Writing in the Workplace -- Analyzing Writing in the Workplace: -- David F. Gallagher, "Just Say No to H2O" -- Ethics of Writing -- Writing in the Public Sphere -- Analyzing Writing in the Public Sphere: Newsletter -- Going Online: Organizing Online Networks -- Writing in School -- Analyzing Writing in School: Samples from Grade 3 -- Samples of Writing in School -- Sample 1: High School Research Paper -- Sample 2: College Response Paper -- Analyzing a Literacy Event -- Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -- Eudora Welty, from One Writer's Beginnings -- Margaret J. Finders, from Just Girls -- Writing Assignment: Analyzing a Literacy Event -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- Reading Strategies for Academic Purposes: Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation -- Reading as Research -- Getting Started: Previewing -- Strategies for Close Reading -- Underlining -- Annotation -- Jonathan Kozol, from Distancing the Homeless -- Summarizing -- Sample Summary of Distancing the Homeless -- Exploratory Writing -- Sample Exploratory Writing -- Outlining -- Sample Outline -- Describing the Writer's Strategy -- Sample Description of the Writer's Strategy -- Working Together -- Strategies for Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation -- Using Background Information -- The Context of Issues -- The Writer -- The Publication -- Analyzing the Writer's Purpose and Relationship to Readers -- Analyzing the Writer's Language -- Tone -- Denotation/Connotation -- Figures of Speech -- Stereotypes -- Sample Analysis of a Rhetorical Situation -- Kevin Powell, My Culture at the Crossroads -- Rhetorical Analysis of "My Culture at the Crossroads" -- Writing Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- -- Ethics of Reading: Boredom and Persistence -- Writing Strategies -- Going Online: Evaluating Web Sites -- Persuasion and Responsibility: Analyzing Arguments -- Working Together: Successful Persuasion -- Understanding Argument -- What Is Argument?: Dealing with Reasonable Differences -- Darcy Peters and Marcus Boldt: Exchange of Letters -- Working Together: Looking at Differences -- What Do Readers Expect from Arguments? -- Entering a Controversy -- Analyzing Issues -- Types of Issues -- Issues of Substantiation -- Issues of Evaluation -- Issues of Policy -- Controversy: Should High Schools Abolish Tracking and Assign Students to Mixed-Ability Classrooms Instead? -- Taking a Position: From Issues to Claims -- Developing a Persuasive Position -- What Are the Rhetorical Appeals? -- Malcolm X, from "The Ballot or the Bullet" -- Analysis of Persuasive Appeals in "The Ballot or the Bullet" -- Constructing an Appropriate Rhetorical Stance -- Two Letters of Application -- Letter 1 -- Letter 2 -- Working Together: Rhetorical Stance -- Making an Argument -- What Are the Parts of an Argument? -- Claims, Evidence, and Enabling Assumptions -- Questions to Ask About Evidence -- Working Together: Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Enabling Assumptions -- Working Together: Backing an Argument -- Differing Views -- Summarize, Differing Views Fairly and Accurately -- Refuting Differing Views -- Conceding Differing Views -- Negotiating Differing Views -- Qualifiers -- Putting the Parts Together -- Working Together: Analyzing the Making of an Argument -- "Vigilant Neighbors or Big Brother Informants" -- Negotiating Differences -- Beyond the Pro and Con -- An Electronic Exchange of Views -- Going Online: Handling Differences -- Recognizing Ambiguities and Contradictions -- Anna Quindlen, Abortion Is Too Complex to Feel All One Way About -- Call for Moratorium on Executions -- Sample Rhetorical Analysis for an Argument -- Writing Assignment: Analyzing an Argument -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- -- Ethics of Argument: The Writer's Responsibility -- -- Writing Projects -- Introduction: Genres of Writing -- Genre Choices -- Understanding Genres of Writing -- The Arrangement of the Chapters -- Letters: Establishing and Maintaining Relationships -- Thinking About the Genre -- Exploring Your Experience -- Readings: Letters on Iraq -- Project for the New American Century to President William J. Clinton -- Mary A. Wright to Secretary of State Colin Powell -- U.S. Navy Corpsman email from Iraq -- Analysis: Identifying the Rhetorical Situation -- Readings: Letters to the Editor -- Mark Patinkin, "Commit a Crime, Suffer the Consequences" -- Kristin Tardiff, Letter to the Editor -- John N
Taylor, Letter to the Editor -- Analysis: A Public Forum -- Readings: A Correspondence on Sweatshops -- John Peretti, "No Sweat, No Slang" -- Analysis: Transforming the Customer Letter -- Readings: Open Letters -- Open Letter: James Baldwin, "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew" -- Analysis: Private and Public Audiences -- Visual Design[[emdash]]Letter of Appeal from Doctors Without Borders -- Analysis: The Visual Design of Letters of Appeal -- Further Exploration: Letter -- Genre Choices -- Ethics of Writing: Using the Internet -- Going Online: Instant Messages -- Working Together: Designing a Letter of Appeal -- Writing Assignment -- Composing a Letter -- Alternative Assignments -- Rhetorical Analysis -- Working with Sources -- Invention -- Identifying the Call to Write -- Exercise: Identifying a Topic -- Exercise: Writing a Statement of Purpose -- Understanding Your Readers -- Exercise: Addressing Your Reader -- Background Research: Finding Models -- Planning -- Establishing the Occasion -- Arranging Your Material -- Working Draft -- Beginnings and Endings: Using an Echo Effect -- Using Topic Sentences -- Peer Commentary -- Revising -- Strengthening Topic Sentences for Focus and Transition -- Writers' Workshop -- Michael Brody, Letter to the Editor -- Michael Brody's Commentary -- Workshop Questions -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- A Closing Note -- Memoirs: Recalling Personal Experience -- Thinking About the Genre -- Exploring Your Experience -- Readings -- Gary Soto, "Black Hair" -- Analysis: A Moment of Revelation -- Annie Dillard, "Throwing Snowballs" -- Analysis: Re-creating Experience -- Tariq Ali, "An Atheist Childhood" -- Analysis: Using Episodes -- Visual Design[[emdash]]American Splendor: Comics as Memoir -- Analysis: Mixing Genres -- Ethics of Writing: Bearing Witness -- Further Exploration: Memoirs -- Genre Choices -- Going Online: Visiting Home Pages -- Working Together: Creating a Time Capsule -- Writing Assignment -- Writing Memoir -- Alternative Assignments -- Rhetorical Analysis -- Working with Sources -- Invention -- Sketching -- Working Together: Creating a Sketch -- Guidelines for Sketching -- Past and Present Perspectives -- Exercise: Exploring Past and Present Perspectives -- Background Research: Putting Events in Context -- Planning -- Arranging Your Material -- Working Draft -- Beginnings and Endings: Framing Your Memoir -- Selecting Detail -- Peer Commentary -- Exercise: Analyzing Your Draft -- Revising -- From Telling to Showing -- Writers' Workshop -- Jennifer Plante's Commentary -- Jennifer Plante, "Sunday Afternoons" -- Workshop Questions -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- A Closing Note -- Public Documents: Codifying Beliefs and Practices -- Thinking About the Genre -- Exploring Your Experience -- Readings -- Encounters with Public Documents -- Abraham Verghese, from My Own Country -- Ellen Cushman, from The Struggle and the Tools -- Analysis: Encountering Public Documents as Literacy Events -- Ethics of Writing: Plain Language -- Manifestos -- The Mentor, "Hacker's Manifesto, or the Conscience of a Hacker" -- "Call of the World Social Movements" -- Analysis: The Rhetorical Situation -- Gallery of Petitions -- Kerwood Wolf Education Centre, "Stop the Aerial Slaughter of Alaska's Wolves" -- Amnesty International, "Call for Human Rights in Russia" -- Jason Pierce, "Tiger Woods[[emdash]]Stand Up for Equality[[emdash]]Augusta National Golf Club" -- Analysis: Looking at Voice in Petitions -- Visual Design[[emdash]]Paula Scher, "Defective Equipment: The Palm Beach County Ballot" -- Analysis: Breaking Visual Design Conventions -- Further Exploration: Public Documents -- Genre Choices -- Going Online: WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition -- Working Together: Writing a Class Charter -- Writing Assignment -- Invention -- Clarifying Purpose and Genre -- Background Research: Understanding the Rhetorical Situation -- Planning -- Readability and the Visual Design of Public Documents -- Exercise: Using Parallel Structure -- Working Draft -- Tone and Rhetorical Distance -- Peer Commentary -- For Manifestos, Petitions, and Class Charters -- For Analysis of a Document -- Revising -- For Manifestos, Petitions, and Class Charters -- For Analysis of a Document -- Locating Common Ground -- Writers' Workshop -- The Warehouse State Honor Code -- Workshop Questi
Machine derived contents note: Detailed Contents --
-- -- Guide to Visuals -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- -- Writing and Reading -- Introduction: The Call to Write -- Identifying and Responding to the Call to Write -- Factors That Writers Take Into Account -- Reflecting on Your Writing: The Call to Write -- What Is Writing? Analyzing Literacy Events -- Reflecting on Your Writing: What Is Writing? -- Writing in Everyday Life -- Analyzing Writing in Everyday Life: A Shopping List -- Writing in the Workplace -- Analyzing Writing in the Workplace: -- David F. Gallagher, "Just Say No to H2O" -- Ethics of Writing -- Writing in the Public Sphere -- Analyzing Writing in the Public Sphere: Newsletter -- Going Online: Organizing Online Networks -- Writing in School -- Analyzing Writing in School: Samples from Grade 3 -- Samples of Writing in School -- Sample 1: High School Research Paper -- Sample 2: College Response Paper -- Analyzing a Literacy Event -- Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -- Eudora Welty, from One Writer's Beginnings -- Margaret J. Finders, from Just Girls -- Writing Assignment: Analyzing a Literacy Event -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- Reading Strategies for Academic Purposes: Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation -- Reading as Research -- Getting Started: Previewing -- Strategies for Close Reading -- Underlining -- Annotation -- Jonathan Kozol, from Distancing the Homeless -- Summarizing -- Sample Summary of Distancing the Homeless -- Exploratory Writing -- Sample Exploratory Writing -- Outlining -- Sample Outline -- Describing the Writer's Strategy -- Sample Description of the Writer's Strategy -- Working Together -- Strategies for Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation -- Using Background Information -- The Context of Issues -- The Writer -- The Publication -- Analyzing the Writer's Purpose and Relationship to Readers -- Analyzing the Writer's Language -- Tone -- Denotation/Connotation -- Figures of Speech -- Stereotypes -- Sample Analysis of a Rhetorical Situation -- Kevin Powell, My Culture at the Crossroads -- Rhetorical Analysis of "My Culture at the Crossroads" -- Writing Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- -- Ethics of Reading: Boredom and Persistence -- Writing Strategies -- Going Online: Evaluating Web Sites -- Persuasion and Responsibility: Analyzing Arguments -- Working Together: Successful Persuasion -- Understanding Argument -- What Is Argument?: Dealing with Reasonable Differences -- Darcy Peters and Marcus Boldt: Exchange of Letters -- Working Together: Looking at Differences -- What Do Readers Expect from Arguments? -- Entering a Controversy -- Analyzing Issues -- Types of Issues -- Issues of Substantiation -- Issues of Evaluation -- Issues of Policy -- Controversy: Should High Schools Abolish Tracking and Assign Students to Mixed-Ability Classrooms Instead? -- Taking a Position: From Issues to Claims -- Developing a Persuasive Position -- What Are the Rhetorical Appeals? -- Malcolm X, from "The Ballot or the Bullet" -- Analysis of Persuasive Appeals in "The Ballot or the Bullet" -- Constructing an Appropriate Rhetorical Stance -- Two Letters of Application -- Letter 1 -- Letter 2 -- Working Together: Rhetorical Stance -- Making an Argument -- What Are the Parts of an Argument? -- Claims, Evidence, and Enabling Assumptions -- Questions to Ask About Evidence -- Working Together: Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Enabling Assumptions -- Working Together: Backing an Argument -- Differing Views -- Summarize, Differing Views Fairly and Accurately -- Refuting Differing Views -- Conceding Differing Views -- Negotiating Differing Views -- Qualifiers -- Putting the Parts Together -- Working Together: Analyzing the Making of an Argument -- "Vigilant Neighbors or Big Brother Informants" -- Negotiating Differences -- Beyond the Pro and Con -- An Electronic Exchange of Views -- Going Online: Handling Differences -- Recognizing Ambiguities and Contradictions -- Anna Quindlen, Abortion Is Too Complex to Feel All One Way About -- Call for Moratorium on Executions -- Sample Rhetorical Analysis for an Argument -- Writing Assignment: Analyzing an Argument -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- -- Ethics of Argument: The Writer's Responsibility -- -- Writing Projects -- Introduction: Genres of Writing -- Genre Choices -- Understanding Genres of Writing -- The Arrangement of the Chapters -- Letters: Establishing and Maintaining Relationships -- Thinking About the Genre -- Exploring Your Experience -- Readings: Letters on Iraq -- Project for the New American Century to President William J. Clinton -- Mary A. Wright to Secretary of State Colin Powell -- U.S. Navy Corpsman email from Iraq -- Analysis: Identifying the Rhetorical Situation -- Readings: Letters to the Editor -- Mark Patinkin, "Commit a Crime, Suffer the Consequences" -- Kristin Tardiff, Letter to the Editor -- John N
Taylor, Letter to the Editor -- Analysis: A Public Forum -- Readings: A Correspondence on Sweatshops -- John Peretti, "No Sweat, No Slang" -- Analysis: Transforming the Customer Letter -- Readings: Open Letters -- Open Letter: James Baldwin, "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew" -- Analysis: Private and Public Audiences -- Visual Design[[emdash]]Letter of Appeal from Doctors Without Borders -- Analysis: The Visual Design of Letters of Appeal -- Further Exploration: Letter -- Genre Choices -- Ethics of Writing: Using the Internet -- Going Online: Instant Messages -- Working Together: Designing a Letter of Appeal -- Writing Assignment -- Composing a Letter -- Alternative Assignments -- Rhetorical Analysis -- Working with Sources -- Invention -- Identifying the Call to Write -- Exercise: Identifying a Topic -- Exercise: Writing a Statement of Purpose -- Understanding Your Readers -- Exercise: Addressing Your Reader -- Background Research: Finding Models -- Planning -- Establishing the Occasion -- Arranging Your Material -- Working Draft -- Beginnings and Endings: Using an Echo Effect -- Using Topic Sentences -- Peer Commentary -- Revising -- Strengthening Topic Sentences for Focus and Transition -- Writers' Workshop -- Michael Brody, Letter to the Editor -- Michael Brody's Commentary -- Workshop Questions -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- A Closing Note -- Memoirs: Recalling Personal Experience -- Thinking About the Genre -- Exploring Your Experience -- Readings -- Gary Soto, "Black Hair" -- Analysis: A Moment of Revelation -- Annie Dillard, "Throwing Snowballs" -- Analysis: Re-creating Experience -- Tariq Ali, "An Atheist Childhood" -- Analysis: Using Episodes -- Visual Design[[emdash]]American Splendor: Comics as Memoir -- Analysis: Mixing Genres -- Ethics of Writing: Bearing Witness -- Further Exploration: Memoirs -- Genre Choices -- Going Online: Visiting Home Pages -- Working Together: Creating a Time Capsule -- Writing Assignment -- Writing Memoir -- Alternative Assignments -- Rhetorical Analysis -- Working with Sources -- Invention -- Sketching -- Working Together: Creating a Sketch -- Guidelines for Sketching -- Past and Present Perspectives -- Exercise: Exploring Past and Present Perspectives -- Background Research: Putting Events in Context -- Planning -- Arranging Your Material -- Working Draft -- Beginnings and Endings: Framing Your Memoir -- Selecting Detail -- Peer Commentary -- Exercise: Analyzing Your Draft -- Revising -- From Telling to Showing -- Writers' Workshop -- Jennifer Plante's Commentary -- Jennifer Plante, "Sunday Afternoons" -- Workshop Questions -- Reflecting on Your Writing -- A Closing Note -- Public Documents: Codifying Beliefs and Practices -- Thinking About the Genre -- Exploring Your Experience -- Readings -- Encounters with Public Documents -- Abraham Verghese, from My Own Country -- Ellen Cushman, from The Struggle and the Tools -- Analysis: Encountering Public Documents as Literacy Events -- Ethics of Writing: Plain Language -- Manifestos -- The Mentor, "Hacker's Manifesto, or the Conscience of a Hacker" -- "Call of the World Social Movements" -- Analysis: The Rhetorical Situation -- Gallery of Petitions -- Kerwood Wolf Education Centre, "Stop the Aerial Slaughter of Alaska's Wolves" -- Amnesty International, "Call for Human Rights in Russia" -- Jason Pierce, "Tiger Woods[[emdash]]Stand Up for Equality[[emdash]]Augusta National Golf Club" -- Analysis: Looking at Voice in Petitions -- Visual Design[[emdash]]Paula Scher, "Defective Equipment: The Palm Beach County Ballot" -- Analysis: Breaking Visual Design Conventions -- Further Exploration: Public Documents -- Genre Choices -- Going Online: WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition -- Working Together: Writing a Class Charter -- Writing Assignment -- Invention -- Clarifying Purpose and Genre -- Background Research: Understanding the Rhetorical Situation -- Planning -- Readability and the Visual Design of Public Documents -- Exercise: Using Parallel Structure -- Working Draft -- Tone and Rhetorical Distance -- Peer Commentary -- For Manifestos, Petitions, and Class Charters -- For Analysis of a Document -- Revising -- For Manifestos, Petitions, and Class Charters -- For Analysis of a Document -- Locating Common Ground -- Writers' Workshop -- The Warehouse State Honor Code -- Workshop Questi
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