Contents
- RHETORICAL SITUATIONS
- 1. Purpose
- 2. Audience
- 3. Genre
- 4. Stance
- 5. Media • Design
- GENRES
- GUIDES TO WRITING 4 BASIC GENRES
- 6. Writing a Literacy Narrative
- Rick Bragg, All Over but the Shoutin’
- Richard Bullock, How I Discovered the Power of Writing
- Shannon Nichols, "Proficiency"
- 7. Analyzing a Text
- David S. Rubin, It’s the Same Old Song
- William Safire, A Spirit Reborn
- Doug Lantry, "Stay Sweet as You Are": An Analysis of Three Soap and Mouthwash Ads
- 8. Reporting Information
- The 9/11 Commission, The Hijacking of United 175
- Cathi Eastman and Becky Burrell, The Science of Screams: Physics and Roller Coasters
- Jeffrey DeRoven, The Greatest Generation: The Great Depression and the American South
- 9. Arguing a Position
- Anna Quindlen, Still Needing the F Word
- Lawrence Lessig, Some Like It Hot
- Andy McDonie, Airport Security: What Price Safety?
- BRIEF GUIDES TO SOME OTHER COMMON GENRES
- 10. Abstracts
- 11. Annotated Bibliographies
- 12. Evaluations
- Ben Leever, In Defense of Dawson’s Creek
- 13. Lab Reports
- Sarah Thomas, Effect of Biofeedback Training on Muscle Tension and Skin Temperature
- 14. Literary Analyses
- Stephanie Huff, Lift Not the Painted Veil: Metaphors and Society in Shelley’s Sonnet
- 15. Memoirs
- Chanrithy Him, When BrokenGlass Floats
- 16. Profiles
- Bob Merlis, Shirley Barnes, M.D.
- 17. Proposals
- Tracey King and Ellynne Bannon, The Burden of Borrowing
- 18. Reflections
- Bernard Cooper, The Fine Art of Sighing
- 19. Reviews of Scholarly Literature
- 20. Résumés and Application Letters
- Debra Johnson, Balanced Reading Instruction: A Review of the Literature
- PROCESSES
- 21. Collaborating
- 22. Generating Ideas and Text
- 23. Drafting
- 24. Assessing Your Own Writing
- 25. Getting Response and Revising
- 26. Editing and Proofreading
- 27. Compiling a Portfolio
- STRATEGIES
- 28. Beginning and Ending
- 29. Guiding Your Reader
- 30. Analyzing Causes and Effects
- 31. Classifying and Dividing
- 32. Comparing and Contrasting
- 33. Defining
- 34. Describing
- 35. Dialogue
- 36. Explaining Processes
- 37. Narrating
- 38. Reading Strategies
- RESEARCH
- 39. Developing a Research Plan
- 40. Finding Sources
- 41. Evaluating Sources
- 42. Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing
- 43. Acknowledging Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism
- 44. Documentation
- 45. MLA Style
- 46. APA Style
- MEDIA / DESIGN
- 47. Print Text
- 48. Spoken Text
- 49. Electronic Text
- GLOSSARY / INDEX
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