Call to Write, The (hardcover)
by Trimbur, JohnEdition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary
With a real-world genre orientation, attention to diverse media, focus on visual literacy, and emphasis on the ethics of writing, the Fourth Edition ofThe Call to Writecontinues to break new ground in composition. Exposes the reader to a real-world genre orientation for writing. General Interest, improve writing
Table of Contents
| Writing And Reading | |
| Introduction: The Call to Write | |
| What Is Writing? Analyzing Literacy Events | |
| Writing in Everyday Life | |
| Writing in the Workplace | |
| Letters by and to Michael Brown? | |
| Memo, "TO: The Thief that has been stealing pens from the IBM" Writing in the Public Sphere | |
| "ACORN Katrina Survivors Association" Writing in School | |
| Sample high school research 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 | |
| Reading Strategies for Academic Purposes: Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation | |
| Reading as Research | |
| Jonathan Kozol, from Distancing the Homeless | |
| Strategies for Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation | |
| Sample Analysis of a Rhetorical Situation | |
| Kevin Powell,My Culture at the Crossroads | |
| Writing Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis | |
| Persuasion and Responsibility: Analyzing Arguments | |
| Understanding Argument | |
| Exchange of Letters | |
| Entering a Controversy | |
| Taking a Position: From Issues to Claims | |
| Developing a Persuasive Position | |
| Malcolm X, from The Ballot or the Bullet | |
| Making an Argument | |
| Vigilant Neighbors or Big Brother Informants | |
| Negotiating Differences | |
| Call for Moratorium on Executions | |
| Sample Rhetorical Analysis for an Argument | |
| Writing Assignment: Analyzing an Argument | |
| Writing Projects? | |
| Introduction: Genres of Writing | |
| Letters: Establishing and Maintaining Relationships | |
| Thinking About the Genre | |
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