Writing Projects | |
Thematic Contents | |
Preface | |
A Rhetoric for Writers | |
Thinking Rhetorically About Good Writing | |
Good Writing Can Vary from Closed to Open Forms David Rockwood | |
A Letter to the Editor Thomas Merton | |
A Festival of Rain | |
Distinctions between Closed and Open Forms of Writing | |
Where to Place Your Writing Along the Continuum | |
Good Writers Pose | |
Questions about Their Subject Matter | |
Shared Problems Unite Writers and Readers | |
Posing Your Own Subject-Matter Questions | |
Brittany Tinker, Can the World Sustain an American Standard of Living? | |
Good Writers Write for a Purpose to an Audience within a Genre | |
How Writers Think about Purpose | |
Purpose as Rhetorical Aim | |
Purpose as a Response to a Motivating Occasion | |
Purpose as a Desire to Change Your Readers View | |
How Writers Think about Audience | |
How Writers Think about Genre Chapter Summary | |
Brief Writing Project 1: Posing a Good Subject-Matter Problem | |
Brief Writing Project 2: Understanding Rhetorical Context | |
Thinking Rhetorically about Your Subject Matter | |
Professors Value Wallowing in Complexity | |
Learning to Wallow in Complexity | |
Seeing Each Academic Discipline as a Field of Inquiry and Argument | |
Good Writers Use Exploratory Strategies to Think Critically about Subject Matter Problems | |
Freewriting | |
Focused Freewriting | |
Idea Mapping | |
Dialectic Talk | |
Playing the Believing and Doubting Game | |
Believing and Doubting Paul Therouxs Negative View of Sports | |
A Strong Thesis Surprises Readers with Something New or Challenging | |
Trying to Change Your Readers View of Your Subject | |
Giving Your Thesis Tension through Surprising Reversal Concept | |
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