Making Sense A Real-World Rhetorical Reader

by Glenn, Cheryl

• ISBN13: 9780312463830
• ISBN10: 0312463839
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-03
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Cheryl Glenn takes the familiar rhetorical reader genre in exciting new directions, revealing to students how the nine classic rhetorical methods underlie a surprising range of daily discourse from restaurant menus to online catalogs to campaign speeches as well as the writing they will need to do in college and beyond.Making Senseoffers many well-known selections that have long served as excellent classroom models, but it also provides a stimulating choice of new readings, visual elements, and supporting instruction to show how the rhetorical methods continue to serve the needs of today's writers both inside and outside the classroom, including civic and other public contexts.

Author Biography

Cheryl Glenn is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Glenn's rhetorical scholarship has earned her many awards, including three National Endowment for the Humanities awards, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)'s Richard Braddock Award, and Rhetoric Review's Outstanding Essay Award. She has served as President of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, a member of the CCCC Executive Committee, and Chair of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition. She spends her summers teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English.

Table of Contents

Preface

 

1 Introduction: The Reading-Writing Connection

What’s Reading Got to Do with Writing?

Reading Actively and Critically

Practical Reading Strategies

Making Sense of Visuals

The Readings and Visuals in Making Sense

Writing Well

What’s Rhetoric Got to Do with Writing?

      Understanding the Writing Task

      Focusing on Your Purpose, Audience, and Subject

Practical Writing Strategies

Generating Ideas

      Deciding on a Tentative Thesis

      Organizing Your Ideas

      Drafting

      Using Visuals

      Collaborating

      Revising, Editing, and Proofreading

JENNIFER FAVORITE, I Played the Nanny (STUDENT ESSAY)

Making Sense with Your Writing

Finally

 

2 Narration

What Is Narration?

Why Use Narration?

How Do You Use Narration in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read a Narrative?

How Do You Write a Narrative?

"Reading" Visuals in Narration

Understanding and Using Narration

Checking Over Narrative Writing

MALCOLM X, Prison Studies

DAVID SEDARIS, Me Talk Pretty One Day

* Jessica Lugo, Memories of Grandma (STUDENT ESSAY)

JEFF DRAYER, Bedside Terror

MAYA ANGELOU, Finishing School

*BARBARA EHRENREICH, Serving in Florida

*ALFREDO CELEDÓN LUJÁN, Piñón Hunting

Additional Suggestions for Writing

 

3 Description

What Is Description?

Why Use Description?

How Do You Use Description in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read a Description?

How Do You Write a Description?

"Reading" Visuals in Description

Understanding and Using Description

Checking Over Descriptive Writing

GAVIN REMBER, Closing Doors [STUDENT ESSAY]

SUSAN ORLEAN, The American Man, Age Ten

N. SCOTT MOMADAY, The Way to Rainy Mountain

*SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS, Buckeye

*SARAH M. BROOME, A Yellow House in New Orleans

ANNIE DILLARD, The Deer at Providencia

BARRIE JEAN BORICH, What Kind of King

GOURMET, Plum Delicious [VISUAL]

Additional Suggestions for Writing 

 

4 Exemplification

What Is Exemplification?

Why Use Exemplification?

How Do You Use Exemplification in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read Exemplification?

How Do You Write Using Exemplification?

"Reading" Visuals in Exemplification

Understanding and Using Exemplification

Checking Over the Use of Exemplification

BRENT STAPLES, Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space

EVA PAYNE, Handy [STUDENT ESSAY]

*PHIL LEITZ, The Greatest Automotive Flops of the Last 25 Years

*BARACK OBAMA, Memorial Day, Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery

*DAVID BROWNE, On the Internet, It’s All About "My"

*CHRISTINE ROSEN, Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism

Additional Suggestions for Writing 

 

5 Classification and Division

What Are Classification and Division?

Why Classify and Divide?

How Do You Use Classification and Division in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read Classification and Division?

How Do You Write Using Classification and Division?

"Reading" Visuals in Classification and Division

Understanding and Using Classification and Division

Checking Over the Use of Classification and Division

CAROLYN FOSTER SEGAL, The Dog Ate My Flash Drive, and Other Tales of Woe

STEPHANIE ERICSSON, The Ways We Lie

*BILL PRATT, Interview Questions: Most Common, Illegal, and Questions You Should Never Ask

*SUZANNE GROVE, Hunter S. Thompson: Three Ways (STUDENT ESSAY)

*BILL BRYSON, Varieties of English

AMY TAN, Mother Tongue

Additional Suggestions for Writing 

 

6 Comparison and Contrast

What Are Comparison and Contrast?

Why Use Comparison and Contrast?

How Do You Use Comparison and Contrast in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read Comparison and Contrast?

How Do You Write Using Comparison and Contrast?

"Reading" Visuals in Comparison and Contrast

Understanding and Using Comparison and Contrast

Checking Over the Use of Comparison and Contrast

SUZANNE BRITT, Neat People vs. Sloppy People

DAVE BARRY, Guys vs. Men

DEBORAH TANNEN, Cross Talk

*LYNN TAN, Summer Reading vs. Reading for School [STUDENT ESSAY]

*GREG BEATO, Amusing Ourselves to Depth: Is The Onion Our Most Intelligent Newspaper?

*MALCOLM JONES, Who Was More Important: Lincoln Or Darwin?

ZORA NEALE HURSTON, How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Additional Suggestions for Writing 

 

7 Process Analysis

What Is Process Analysis?

Why Use Process Analysis?

How Do You Use Process Analysis in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read a Process Analysis?

How Do You Write a Process Analysis?

"Reading" Visuals in a Process Analysis

Understanding and Using Process Analysis

Checking Over the Use of Process Analysis

*DAVE ROOS, How to Start Investing

RACHEL DILLON, Mission Possible [STUDENT ESSAY]

JESSICA MITFORD, The Embalming of Mr. Jones

BERNICE WUETHRICH, Getting Stupid

*MONSTER.COM, How to Interview

Additional Suggestions for Writing 

 

8 Cause-and-Effect Analysis

What Is Cause-and- Effect Analysis?

Why Use Cause-and- Effect Analysis?

How Do You Use Cause-and- Effect Analysis in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read Cause-and-Effect Analysis?

How Do You Write Using Cause-and-Effect Analysis?

"Reading" Visuals in Cause-and-Effect Analysis

Understanding and Using Cause-and-Effect Analysis

Checking Over the Use of Cause-and-Effect Analysis

*TAYLOR CLARK, Plight of the Little Emperors

*JACK MCCALLUM, Steroids in America: The Real Dope

ROBYN SYLVES, Credit Card Debt among College Students: Just What Does It Cost?[STUDENT ESSAY]

*MALCOLM GLADWELL, Excerpt from Outliers

*ATUL GAWANDE, Hellhole

HellholeHe*CLAUDIA WALLIS, The Multitasking Generation

*NICHOLAS CARR, Is Google Making Us Stupid?*NICHOLAS CARR, Is Goodlge Making Us

SUSAN GLASPELL, A Jury of Her Peers [FICTION]

Additional Suggestions for Writing 

 

9 Definition

What Is Definition?

Why Use Definition?

How Does Definition Work?

How Do You Use Definition in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read a Definition?

How Do You Write Using Definition?

"Reading" Visuals for Definition

Understanding and Using Definition

Checking Over the Use of Definition

*BRIANE GREENE, Put a Little Science in Your Life

*W. L. RATHJE, How Garbage Got to Be an -Ology

JUDY BRADY, Why I Want a Wife

PAUL THEROUX, Being a Man

*MARY INKS, Dancing through the Learning Process [STUDENT ESSAY]

*NICHOLAS LEMANN, Journalism without Journalists

*CONNIE EBLE, from Slang and Sociability: In-Group Language among College Students

Additional Suggestions for Writing 

 

10 Argument

What Is Argument?

Why Argue?

How Do You Use Argument in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read an Argument?

How Do You Write an Argument?

"Reading" Visuals in Argument

Understanding and Using Argument

Checking Over an Argument

CASEBOOK: COLLEGE ATHLETICS

JAMES L. SHULMAN AND WILLIAM G. BOWEN, How the Playing Field Is Encroaching on the Admissions Office

LYNDA RUSH, Assessing a Study of College Athletes

*ANDREW WIBLE, It’s the Sports Teams That Make the College—Not Vice Versa [STUDENT ESSAY]

WILLIAM F. SHUGHART II, Why Not a Football Degree?

CASEBOOK: THE DRAFT AND NATIONAL SERVICE

CHARLES B. RANGEL, Bring Back the Draft

CHARLES MOSKOS AND PAUL GLASTRIS, Now Do You Believe We Need a Draft?

*THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Uncle Charlie Wants You!: The Draft Would Weaken the World’s Best Military

MAGGIE KOERTH, Women in Draft Necessary Part of Quest to End Discrimination[STUDENT ESSAY]

PAIRED ARGUMENTS

THOMAS JEFFERSON, The Declaration of Independence

*SENECA FALLS CONFERENCE (1848), The Declaration of Sentiments

 

*JOSEPH C. GFROERER, LI-TZY WU, and MICHAEL PENNE, Marijuana Is a Gateway Drug

*STUART TAYLOR, JR., Marijuana Should Be Decriminalized

 

*TIMOTHY WHEELER, Assault-Weapons Ban, R.I.P.

*JIMMY CARTER, Assault-Gun Ban Should Be Reinstated

 

Additional Suggestions for Writing

*11 Synthesizing Strategies and Sources into Academic and Public Writing

The Continuum from Academic to Public Writing

Academic Writing

      Purposes of Academic Writing

      Kinds of Academic Writing

      Features of Academic Writing

      Combining Strategies in Academic Writing

Public Writing

      Purposes of Public Writing

      Kinds of Public Writing

      Features of Public Writing

      Combining Strategies in Public Writing

      *CATHERINE LEECE, Energy for the Community [STUDENT ESSAY]

      *KEITH BRADSHER, The Ascent of Wind Power

      An Academic Writing Assignment

            Doing Research

            Thinking about Strategies and Planning the Essay

            Synthesizing and Acknowledging Your Sources

      A Public Writing Assignment

            Doing Research

            Thinking about Strategies and Planning the Essay

            Synthesizing and Acknowledging Your Sources

 

Appendix: Using and Documenting Sources

 

       Summarizing and Paraphrasing

      Using and Integrating Quotations

      Avoiding Plagiarism

      MLA Style for Source Citations in the Text

       MLA List of Works Cited

            Books

            Periodicals

            Electronic Sources

            Other Sources

Glossary of Terms

Index

 

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