Contents
- Part I. RHETORICAL SITUATIONS
- 1. Purpose
- 2. Audience
- 3. Genre
- 4. Stance
- 5. Media/Design
- Part II. 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 Broken Glass 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
- Part III. 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
- Part IV. 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
- Part V. 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
- Part VI. MEDIA / DESIGN
- 47. Print Text
- 48. Spoken Text
- 49. Electronic Text
- Part VII. READINGS
- 50. Literacy Narratives
- Tanya Barrientos, Se Habla Español
- Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read
- Malcolm X, Literacy Behind Bars
- Amy Tan, Mother Tongue
- Mike Rose, Potato Chips and Stars
- 51. Textual Analyses
- Denise Noe, Parallel Worlds: The Surprising Similarities of Country Western and Rap
- Katharine Q. Seelye, Lurid Numbers on Glossy Pages! (Magazines Exploit What Sells)
- Peter Stiglin, Seeing as Believing: The Paintings of Judith Belzer
- Beverly Moss, Pulpit Talk
- Diana George, Changing the Face of Poverty
- 52. Reports
- Lev Grossman, Meet Joe Blog
- Eleanor J. Bader, Homeless on Campus
- Robb Walsh, Stinkfruit
- Rod Usher, A Whistle a Day Keeps Globalization Away
- Dara Mayers, Our Bodies, Our Lives
- 53. Arguments
- Stephen L. Carter, Just Be Nice
- Gregory Mantsios, Class in America—2003
- Shelby Steele, On Being Black and Middle Class
- David Brooks, The Triumph of Hope over Self-Interest
- Maggie Cutler, Whodunit—The Media?
- Grant Penrod, Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids
- 54. Evaluations
- Consumer Reports, Best Phones: Basic Features Matter Most
- Rachel Forrest, Craft, Care at Flatbread Co., Makes up for Sparse Menu
- Michiko Kakutani, The End of Life as She Knew It
- Craig Outhier, Potter Power
- Paul Krugman, California Screaming
- 55. Literary Analyses
- Philip Nel, Fantasy, Mystery, and Ambiguity
- Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare on Marriage
- Patricia Hampl, The Invention of Autobiography: Augustine’s Confessions
- Leslie Marmon Silko, Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective
- Willow D. Crystal, “One of us . . .”: Concepts of the Private and the Public in “A Rose for Emily”
- An Album of Literature
- William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
- Rita Dove
Dawn Revisited
The First Book - Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
- 56. Memoirs
- David Sedaris, Us and Them
- Valerie Steiker, Our Mother’s Face
- Henry Louis Gates Jr., A Giant Step
- Richard Rodriguez, None of This Is Fair
- Susan Jane Gilman, Mick Jagger Wants Me
- 57. Profiles
- Kathleen Norris, Seeing
- Nicholas Howe, Writing Home: High Street
- Joan Didion, Georgia O’Keefe
- Jeremy Olshan, Cookie Master
- Sean Smith, Johnny Depp: Unlikely Superstar
- 58. Proposals
- Dennis Baron, Don’t Make English Official—Ban it Instead
- Stanley Fish, Who’s in Charge Here?
- Peter Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty
- The 9/11 Commission, Prevent the Continued Growth of Islamist Terrorism
- Heidi Pollock, You Say You Want a Resolution?
- 59. Reflections
- Cameron Stracher, In Praise of Zeal
- Liz Dunn, Honk if You’re Hoardy
- Geeta Kothari, If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?
- Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me
- Joan Didion, Grief
- Part VIII. HANDBOOK
- SENTENCES
- 1 Complete Sentences
- 2 Fragments
- 3 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
- 4 Verbs
- 5 Subject-Verb Agreement
- 6 Pronouns
- 7 Parallelism
- 8 Emphasis within a sentence
- 9 Shifts
- 10 Sentence Variety
- PUNCTUATION/MECHANICS
- 1 Commas
- 2 Semicolons
- 3 End Punctuation
- 4 Quotation Marks
- 5 Apostrophes
- 6 Other Punctuation Marks
- 7 Capitalization
- 8 Italics
- 9 Abbreviations
- 10 Numbers
- WORDS
- 1 Precise Words
- 2 Appropriate words
- 3 Language That Builds Common Ground
- 4 Unnecessary Words
- 5 Adjectives and Adverbs
- 6 Commonly Confused Words
- 7 Flow
- GLOSSARY / INDEX
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