What is included with this book?
Guide to Visual Design | |
Preface | |
Writing and Reading | |
Introduction: The Call to Write | |
Identifying and Responding to the Call to Write | |
Reflecting on Your Writing | |
What Is Writing? | |
Analyzing Literacy Events | |
Writing in Everyday Life | |
Lists | |
Keeping a Literacy Log | |
Writing in the Workplace | |
FEMA and Katrina | |
Memo to a Thief | |
Writing in the Public Sphere | |
Ethics of Writing: Graffiti | |
Gallery of Signs | |
Writing in School | |
High School Research Paper | |
College Response Paper | |
Analyzing a Literacy Event | |
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" | |
"One Writer's Beginnings" | |
"Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High" | |
Writing Assignment: Analyzing a Literacy Event | |
Understanding The Rhetorical Situation: The Choices Writers Make | |
The Rhetorical Situation Writer's Orientation Audience Genre | |
ACORN Katrina Survivors Association | |
Case Study: The Somali Pirates | |
Strategies for Reading First Questions to Ask of Readings | |
Doing a Close Reading | |
Underlining | |
Annotation | |
"Kill the Pirates" | |
Summary | |
Sample Summary of "Kill the Pirates" Describing the Writer's Strategy | |
Sample Description of a Writer's Strategy | |
Writing Strategies | |
Exercise: Doing a Close Reading | |
"You Are Being Lied to About Pirates" | |
Ethics of Reading: Boredom and Persistence | |
Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation: The Somali Pirates Writer's Orientation Audience | |
Genre | |
Checklist: Analyzing the Writer's Language | |
Tone | |
Denotation/Connotation | |
Figures of Speech | |
Stereotypes | |
Analysis of a Rhetorical Situation | |
"My Culture at the Crossroads" | |
Sample Analysis | |
Writing Assignment: Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation | |
Persuasion And Responsibility: Analyzing Arguments | |
Working Together: Successful Persuasion | |
Understanding Argument | |
What Is Argument? | |
Dealing with Reasonable Differences | |
Ethics of Writing: The Writer's Responsibility | |
Exchange of Letters | |
What Do Readers Expect from Arguments? | |
Sample Argument | |
"Roadside Memorials" | |
Entering a Controversy | |
Analyzing Issues | |
Types of Issues | |
Issues of Substantiation | |
Issues of Evaluation | |
Issues of Policy | |
Sample Exploration of a Controversy | |
Taking a Position: From Issues to Claims | |
Developing a Persuasive Position | |
What Are the Rhetorical Appeals? | |
Analysis of Persuasive Appeals | |
"The Ballot or the Bullet" Ethos | |
Pathos | |
Logos | |
Constructing an Appropriate Rhetorical Stance | |
Sample Letters of Application | |
Working Together: Rhetorical Stance | |
Making an Argument | |
What Are the Parts of an Argument? | |
Claims, Evidence, and Enabling Assumptions | |
Sample Evaluations | |
Claims | |
Evidence | |
Questions to Ask About Evidence | |
Enabling Assumptions | |
Sample Interviews. | |
Working Together: Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Enabling Assumptions | |
Differing Views 81 | |
Summarize Differing Views Fairly and Accurately | |
Refuting Differing Views | |
Conceding Differing Views | |
Negotiating Differing Views | |
Qualifiers | |
Negotiating Differences | |
Beyond Pro and Con | |
Dialogue with Others | |
An Electronic Exchange of Views | |
Recognizing Ambiguities and Contradictions | |
"Abortion Is Too Complex To Feel All One Way About" | |
Locating Common Ground | |
Call for a Moratorium on Executions | |
Rhetorical Analysis of an Argument | |
Sample Analysis of the Argument in "Call for a Moratorium on Executions" | |
Writing Assignment: Analyzing an Argument | |
Writing Projects | |
Introduction: Genres of Writing | |
Writing and Genre Knowledge | |
Letters | |
Thinking About the Genre | |
Readings | |
Open Letter | |
Meth Science Not Stigma: Open Letter to the Media | |
Letters to the Editor | |
"Commit a Crime, Suffer the Consequences" | |
Letter from Kristin Tardiff | |
Letter from John N. Taylor Text Messages | |
"The Pleasures of the Text" | |
Letter of Appeal | |
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) | |
Report: DRC: Treating Victims of War | |
Letter as Essay | |
"My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew" | |
Ethics of Writing: Using the Internet | |
Further Exploration: Letters | |
Rhetorical Analysis | |
Genre Awareness | |
Writing Assignment: Letters | |
Invention | |
Identifying the Call to Write | |
Understanding Your Readers | |
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 | |
Reflecting on Your Writing | |
Memoirs | |
Thinking About the Genre | |
Writing from Experience | |
Readings | |
An American Childhood | |
"Fortunate Son" | |
"Teenage Angst in Texas" | |
Audio Memoirs | |
Story Corps Graphic Memoirs | |
Persepolis | |
"In the Shadow of No Towers" | |
"The Ninth Letter of the Alphabet: First-Person Strategies in Nonfiction" | |
Ethics of Writing: Bearing Witness | |
Further Exploration: Memoirs Rhetorical Analysis Genre Awareness | |
Writing Assignment: Memoirs | |
Invention | |
Past and Present Perspectives | |
Background Research: Putting Events in Context | |
Planning | |
Arranging Your Material | |
Selecting Details | |
Working Draft | |
Beginnings and Endings: Framing Your Memoir | |
Peer Commentary | |
Revising | |
From Telling to Showing | |
Writers' Workshop | |
Jennifer Plante's Commentary | |
Jennifer Plante, Sunday Afternoons | |
Reflecting on Your Writing | |
Public Documents | |
Thinking About the Genre | |
Writing from Experience | |
Readings | |
Manifestos | |
Declaration of Independence. | |
First Things First 2000 | |
Encounters with Public Documents | |
My Own Country | |
The Struggle and the Tools | |
Petitions | |
Amnesty International, Call on Kenya to Ease the Suffering of Nairobi's 2 Million Slum Dwellers | |
"Stimulate the Economy--Forgive Student Loans" | |
"Tiger Woods--Stand Up for Equality--Augusta National Golf Club" | |
Mission Statements | |
NRA Foundation | |
PEN Center USA | |
The Hiphop Archive | |
Advocacy Campaign | |
Greenpeace, Kleercut Campaign | |
Further Exploration: Public Documents | |
Genre Awareness | |
Writing Assignment: Public Documents | |
Invention | |
Clarifying Purpose, Audience, and Genre | |
Background Research: Understanding the Rhetorical Situation | |
Planning | |
Readability and the Visual Design of Public Documents | |
Working Draft | |
Tone and Rhetorical Distance | |
Peer Commentary | |
For the Design and Production of a Document | |
For Analysis of a Document | |
Revising | |
Locating Common Ground | |
Writers' Workshop | |
The Warehouse State Honor Code | |
Reflecting on Your Writing | |
Profiles | |
Thinking About the Genre | |
Writing from Experience | |
Readings | |
"Insurgent Images: Mike Alewitz, Muralist" | |
Profiles and Publicity | |
Poster | |
Iwaskai Library, Emerson College | |
Phonak Ad | |
Profile of a Community Organization | |
"An Empire for Poor Working Women, Guided by a Gandhian Approach" | |
Photo Essay | |
"Cancer Alley: The Poisoning of the American South" Soundmap | |
"Folk Songs for the Five Points" | |
Interview | |
"A Conversation with Pauline Weissner: Where Gifts and Stories Are Crucial to Survival" | |
Ethics of Writing: Responsibility to the Writer's Subject | |
Further Exploration: Profiles | |
Rhetorical Analysis | |
Genre Awareness | |
Writing Assignment: Profile | |
Invention | |
Finding a Subject | |
Clarifying Your Purpose | |
Background Research: Deciding What Information You Need | |
Planning | |
Deciding on the Dominant Impression | |
Arranging Your Material | |
Working Draft | |
Beginnings and Endings: Letting Your Subject Have the Last Word | |
Peer Commentary | |
Revising | |
Establishing Perspective from the Beginning | |
Writers' Workshop | |
"A Lawyer's Crusade Against Tobacco" [Working Draft] | |
Richard Quitadamo's Commentary | |
Reflecting on Your Writing | |
Reports | |
Thinking About the Genre | |
Writing from Experience | |
Readings | |
News Reports | |
Associated Press, "Mentally Ill People Aren't More Violent, Study Finds" | |
"Studies of Mental Illness Show Links to Violence" | |
Fact Sheets | |
The Sentencing Project, "Facts About Prisons and Prisoners" | |
National Report | |
Pew Hispanic Center | |
Executive Summary | |
A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants | |
"Warmer, Fuzzier: The Refreshed Logo" | |
An Informational Web Site Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University, "The Triangle Factory Fire" | |
Scholarly and Popular Articles | |
"Uncertainty and the Use of Magic" | |
"Can a Lucky Charm Get You Through Organic Chemistry?" | |
Further Exploration: Reports | |
Rhetorical Analysis | |
Genre Awareness | |
Writing Assignment: Report | |
Invention | |
Clarifying Your Purpose and Your Readers' Need to Know | |
Background Research: Surveying the Information at Hand | |
Planning Organizing the Information | |
Drafting Introducing the Topic | |
Peer Commentary | |
Revising Getting the Right Order | |
Writers' Workshop | |
"Lost in a Smog"--Draft in Progress | |
Reflecting on Your Writing | |
Commentary | |
Thinking About the Genre | |
Writing from Experience | |
Readings | |
"Remember When Public Spaces Didn't Carry Brand Names?" | |
"How to Fight the New Epidemics" | |
Spoof Ads | |
Adbusters | |
Blogs | |
"Portraits of Thinking: An Account of a Common Laborer" | |
Art as Social Commentary | |
"Ethics of Writing: In Whose Interest?" | |
Further Exploration: Commentary | |
Rhetorical Analysis | |
Genre Awareness | |
Writing Assignment: Commentary | |
Invention | |
Naming the Topic | |
Background Research: Assessing Your Knowledge of the Topic | |
Identifying the Issue | |
Planning | |
Framing the Issue | |
Planning the Introduction | |
Planning the Ending | |
Working Draft | |
Emphasizing Your Main Point and Distinguishing Your Perspective | |
Peer Commentary | |
Revising | |
Maintaining a Reasonable Tone | |
Writer's Workshop | |
Rachel Smith, First Draft | |
Rachel Smith, Revised Version: Socially Acceptable Discrimination? | |
Interview with Rachel Smith | |
Reflecting on Your Writing | |
Proposals | |
Thinking About the Genre | |
Writing from Experience | |
Readings | |
"Workers Without Borders" | |
Visualizing the Debate | |
About Undocumented Immigrants | |
Federation for American Immigration | |
Reform Movement for an Unconditional Amnesty | |
Community Group Proposal | |
The Be Green Neighborhood Association, "Proposal for a Neighborhood Street Tree Program" | |
Research Proposal | |
"Training Fighters, Making Men: A Study of Amateur Boxers and Their Trainers" | |
"Beware the Manipulation of the Funk" | |
Ethics of Writing: Problems and Conflicts | |
Further Exploration: Proposals | |
Rhetorical Analysis | |
Genre Awareness | |
Writing Assignment: Proposals | |
Invention | |
Background Research: Formulating the Problem | |
Assessing Alternatives | |
Planning | |
Relative Emphasis on the Problem and the Solution | |
Developing a Working Outline | |
Working Draft | |
Matching Problems and Solutions | |
Peer Commentary | |
Revising | |
Writers' Workshop | |
Proposal for a Campus Coffee House | |
Writers' Commentary | |
Reflecting on Your Writing | |
Reviews | |
Thinking About the Genre | |
Writing from Experience | |
Readings | |
Reviews | |
"The Queen: Beyonce, At Last" | |
Notice Reviews | |
Christian Hoard | |
"Beyonce, I Am ? Sasha Fierce" | |
"Orphan's Life Out of Hell Could Be a Game Show in Mumbai" | |
Travel Guides | |
"DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides: San Francisco" | |
"Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism?" | |
Ethics of Writing: Reviewing as a Partisan Activity | |
Further Exploration: Reviews | |
Rhetorical Analysis | |
Genre Awareness | |
Writing Assignment: Reviews | |
Invention | |
Exploring Your Topic | |
Establishing Criteria of Evaluation | |
Assessing Your Criteria | |
Planning | |
Considering the Relation Between Description and Evaluation | |
Using Comparison and Contrast | |
Working Draft | |
Distinguishing Your Views | |
Peer Commentary | |
Revising | |
Options for Meaningful Endings | |
Writers' Workshop | |
"More Than Just Burnouts" [Working Draft] | |
Reflecting on Your Writing | |
WRITING AND RESEARCH PROJECTS | |
Introduction: Doing Research and the Need to Know | |
The Research Process: Critical Essays And Research Projects | |
Understanding the Genre: Critical Essays and Research Projects | |
What Are Faculty Looking For? | |
Understanding Academic Writing | |
Sample Student Papers for Analysis | |
Sample Critical Essay in MLA Format | |
"Jigsaw Falling Into Place?: Radiohead and the Tip-Jar Model" | |
Sample Research Paper in APA Format | |
"The Prison Privatization Debate: The Need for a New Focus" | |
The Research Process: An Overview | |
Defining a Research Question | |
Analyzing the Assignment | |
Preliminary Research | |
Developing a Research Question | |
Writing a Proposal | |
Finding Sources | |
The Web and the Library: What They Offer Research Projects | |
What the Web Is Good For | |
What the Library Is Good For | |
How to Identify Relevant Sources | |
Keeping a Working Bibliography | |
Evaluating Sources | |
Making an Argument | |
Planning and Drafting Your Project | |
A Closing Note | |
Working With Sources | |
Working with Sources to Answer Your Research Question | |
What Is Plagiarism? | |
Avoiding Plagiarism: How to Cite Properly | |
What Do I Have to Cite? | |
Problem 1: Copying and Failing to Cite Properly | |
Problem 2: Copying Sentence Structure and Failing to Cite Properly | |
Options for Integrating Sources | |
Short Quotations | |
Words | |
Phrases | |
Sentences | |
Long Quotations | |
Fitting Quotations to Your Sentences | |
Ellipses | |
Brackets | |
Quotations Within Quotations | |
Checklist for Using Quotes Effectively | |
Do You Need the Quote? | |
Is It Clear Where Sources Start and Stop? | |
Are Sources Used Purposefully or Just Strung Together? | |
Do You Provide Commentary Where It Is Needed? | |
Documenting Sources: MLA and APA Style | |
In-text Citations | |
Sources with One Author | |
Sources with Multiple Authors | |
Sources with No Author Listed | |
Electronic Sources | |
Indirect Quotations | |
Works Cited (MLA) and References (APA) | |
Books | |
Two Listings by One Author | |
Books with Multiple Authors | |
Books by a Corporate Author or Organization | |
Books by an Anonymous Author | |
An Edition of an Original Work | |
An Introduction, Preface, Foreword, or Afterword | |
Edited Collections | |
Works in Collections and Anthologies | |
Translations | |
Books in a Later Edition | |
Dictionary Entries and Encyclopedia Articles | |
Government Documents | |
Unpublished Doctoral Dissertations | |
Articles in Periodicals | |
Magazine Articles | |
Newspaper Articles | |
Editorial | |
Review | |
Letter to the Editor | |
Online and Electronic Sources | |
Web Sites | |
Web Sites: Secondary Pages | |
Online Books and Reports | |
Online Scholarly Articles | |
Online Magazine or Newspaper Articles | |
Sources Accessed Through Online Subscription Service | |
Online Posting to Electronic Forum | |
Miscellaneous Sources | |
Films and Videocassettes | |
Television and Radio Programs | |
Records, Tapes, and CDs | |
Interviews | |
Lecture or Speech | |
A Guide To Print, Electronic, And Other Sources | |
Types of Print Sources | |
Books | |
Periodicals The Library The Library Catalog Reference Books Electronic Resources | |
Electronic Databases | |
Search Engines | |
How to Use Keywords | |
Government Publications | |
Other Sources | |
Performances and Events | |
Museums | |
Media | |
Fieldwork And The Research Report | |
Ethics of Research: Informed Consent | |
Understanding the Genre: Research Reports | |
"Food Sources in South Providence" | |
Designing a Field Research Project | |
Writing a Proposal | |
Observation | |
The Process of Observation | |
Planning | |
Three Consideration to Take into Account When You Do Observations | |
Conducting Observations | |
Analyzing Your Notes | |
Interviews | |
The Interview Process | |
Planning | |
Four Types of Interviews | |
Setting Up the Interview | |
Conducting an In-person or Telephone Interview | |
After the Interview | |
Analyzing the Transcript | |
A Final Note on Interviews | |
Surveys | |
The Process of Designing and Conducting a Survey | |
Getting Background Information | |
Selecting Participants | |
Ethics of Research | |
Designing the Questionnaire | |
Types of Questions | |
Conducting the Survey | |
Compiling, Analyzing, and Presenting Results | |
Writers at Work | |
Introduction: Understanding the Writing Process | |
Reflecting on Your Writing | |
The Writing Process: A Case Study Of A Writing Assignment | |
Case Study of a Writing Assignment | |
Invention | |
Understanding the Call to Write | |
Understanding Readers | |
Exploring the Topic | |
Planning | |
Drafting | |
Peer Commentary | |
Describe the Writer's Strategy | |
Analyze the Organization | |
Evaluate the Argument | |
Revising | |
Final Touches | |
Directions for Editing | |
Directions for Proofreading | |
Talking to Teachers | |
Going to the Writing Center | |
The Shape Of The Essay: How Form Embodies Purpose | |
Thinking About Form | |
Three Patterns of Organization | |
Top-down Order | |
"I Shop, Ergo I Am: The Mall as Society's Mirror" | |
Culminating Order | |
"Minneapolis Pornography Ordinance" | |
Open Form | |
"Los Angeles Notebook" | |
Seeing Patterns of Organization: How Form Embodies Purpose | |
Top-down Order | |
Culminating Order | |
Open Form | |
A Note on Mixed Form | |
Putting the Parts Together | |
Introductions | |
Endings | |
Connecting the Parts: Keeping Your Purposes Visible | |
Use Reasons to Explain | |
"Building the Third Wave" | |
Create Topic Chains | |
Use Transitions | |
Common Types of Transitions | |
Designing Paragraphs | |
Seeing Paragraphs: The Visual Dimension | |
Unity and Coherence: The Psychological Dimension | |
Topic Sentences and Unity | |
Discussion and Unity and Coherence | |
A Note on the Placement of Topic Sentences | |
Working Together: Collaborative Writing Projects | |
Collaborative Writing | |
Working Together: Exploring Experience | |
Guidelines for Collaborating in Groups | |
Recognize That Group Members Need to Get Acquainted and That Groups Take Time to Form | |
Clarify Group Purposes and Individual Roles | |
Recognize That Members Bring Different Styles to the Group | |
Recognize That You May Not Play the Same Role in Every Group | |
Monitor Group Progress and Reassess Goals and Procedures | |
Quickly Address Problems in Group Dynamics | |
Encourage Differences of Opinion | |
How to Work Together on Collaborative Writing Projects | |
Organizing the Group | |
Group Size | |
Group Composition | |
The First Meeting | |
Division of Labor, or Integrated Team? | |
Organizing the Project | |
The Proposal | |
Productive Meetings | |
Progress Reports | |
Confidential Self-Evaluation | |
Drafting, Revising, and Editing | |
Giving Credit | |
Final Presentation | |
Online Collaboration | |
Reflecting on Your Writing | |
PRESENTING YOUR WORK | |
Introduction: Delivering the Message | |
Visual Design | |
How Visual Design Embodies Purposes | |
Identification | |
Information | |
Textual Graphics | |
Representational Graphics | |
Numerical Graphics | |
Ethics of Information Design: Data Distortion | |
Persuasion A Note on Reading and Seeing | |
Visual Design: Four Basic Principles | |
Use the Four Principles to Redesign Documents Redesigning a Resume | |
Redesigning a Flyer | |
Working with Type | |
Serif and Sans serif Typefaces | |
Display Typefaces | |
Mixing Typefaces | |
Visual Design Projects | |
Preliminary Considerations | |
Working Sketches | |
Flyers | |
Newsletters | |
Brochures | |
Web Design | |
The Rhetorical Purposes of Web Design | |
Identification | |
Information | |
Persuasion | |
The Structure of Web Design | |
The Visual Design of Web Sites | |
Writing Assignment: Planning a Web Site | |
Reflecting on Your Writing | |
Oral And Powerpoint Presentations | |
Understanding the Differences Between Written and Oral Presentations | |
Developing an Oral Presentation | |
Preliminary Considerations | |
Planning the Oral Presentation | |
Designing PowerPoint Slides | |
Designing Visuals | |
Using Visual Aids in a Presentation | |
Rehearsing Your Presentation | |
Guidelines for Evaluating Oral Presentations | |
Further Thoughts on PowerPoint | |
"PowerPoint Is Evil" | |
"PowerPoint Do's and Don'ts" | |
Essay Exams | |
Analyzing Essay Exams | |
Surveying the Format | |
Analyzing Exam Questions | |
Identification Items (IDs) | |
Short-Answer Questions | |
Essay Questions | |
Common Essay Exam Questions | |
Planning Your Answer | |
Writing a Good Answer | |
Sample Essay Answers | |
Writing Portfolios | |
Some Options for a Writing Portfolio | |
A Reflective Letter | |
Jennifer Principe, Sample Reflective Letter | |
Revised Writing Assignments | |
A Case Study | |
Introduction, "Putting the Life Back into Premedical Education" [Working Draft, Peer Commentary, and Final Draft] | |
Peer Commentary | |
"Putting the Life Back into Premedical Education" [Final Draft] | |
Peer Commentary | |
Margaret King, Sample Introduction to Peer Commentary Commentary on Collaborative Writing | |
David Sanchez, Sample Introduction to Collaborative Writing | |
Samples of Exploratory Writing | |
John Hogan, Sample Introduction to Exploratory Writing | |
Miscellaneous | |
Credits | |
Index | |
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