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KeyConcepts of Writing | |
Reasons for Writing | |
Reading: "Learning to Read" | |
Writing from Personal Inspiration | |
Reading: "Letter to a Restaurant Manager" | |
Writing as a Citizen | |
Reading: TrueMajority, "'Computer Ate My Vote' Scores | |
Coast to Coast Wins" (web page) | |
Writing in College Writing in the Workplace | |
Reading: "Norming Groups" (office memo/email) | |
Critical Analysis for Writing Student | |
Writing: "The Car Accident" (draft) | |
Student Writing: "The Car Accident" | |
Interrogating the Obvious | |
Reading: "Male Body Image in America" | |
Reading: From The Silent Takeover Investigating Assumptions | |
Reading: "The False Controversy of Stem Cells" | |
Seeing Patterns | |
Reading: From Limbo | |
Reading: "Curriculum Is a Political Statement" Avoiding Poor Reasoning | |
Awareness of Audience Student | |
Writing: "Sexuality Orientation" | |
Targeting Potential Readers | |
Reading: "Voices: The Damage Done: Crack Babies Talk Back" | |
Anticipating Reader Needs | |
Reading: "Death Penalty's False Promise" | |
Reading: "From Outside, In" Responding to Possible Objections | |
Student Writing, "Curse of the Ouija Board" | |
Using Real Readers in Peer Groups Revision | |
Strategies for Organizing Your Ideas | |
Student Writing: "Humor in Society" | |
Reading: "Tools for Research" | |
Reading: "The Problem with Being a Thing" | |
Introducing Your Subject | |
Transitioning from Ideas | |
Reading: "The Right Chemistry" | |
Placing Your Thesis | |
Reading: "The Same Difference" | |
Finishing Your Thoughts | |
Reading: "The Lottery" | |
Reading: "The Worst-Laid Plans: Why Was Emergency Planning So Awful?" | |
Reading: "Mommy, What Does 'Nigger' Mean?" | |
Language Choices in Writing Student | |
Writing: "Negative Cliques in Schools | |
Mediating Experiences | |
Reading: "I Have a Dream" | |
Describing and Shaping | |
Reading: From The Mind at Work | |
Reading: From The Lost Grizzlies Euphemisms | |
Reading: From Perfectly Legal | |
Reading: "Life Under the Chief Doublespeak Officer" | |
Finding Your Voice | |
Confronting Writing Tasks | |
Discovering Your Writing Process | |
Seeing Your Own Patterns Breaking | |
Through Writer's Block | |
Reading: From Lau's | |
Laws on Hitting Discovering Strategies for Drafting and Revision | |
Reading: From 'Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History | |
Editing and Proofreading | |
Uses of Collaboration | |
Reading: "Inside Dope" | |
Beyond the In-Class Response Group | |
Assigning Tasks in Group Projects Student | |
Writing: "Jim's Progress Log" Synthesizing Ideas | |
Reading: "Nowhere to Roam" | |
Reading: "How to Live to Be 100" | |
Taking Responsibility | |
Purposes and Strategies for Reading | |
Reading: "Executive Pay in the U.S." | |
Knowledge, Safety, and Awareness as Consumers Social and Civic Engagement | |
Reading: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, "Smearing Anti-War Activists? | |
NY Times Op-Ed Laments Anti-War Funeral Protests" | |
Reading: Ohio Department of Public Safety, "Where to Ride on the Road" Information Retrieval | |
Reading: From The Vanishing Hitchhiker Academic Achievement Developing | |
Reading Strategies for College Student | |
Writing: "An Analysis of the Dietary Habits of a Known Bookworm" | |
Comprehension Student | |
Writing: "Molly Egan's Freewrite" | |
Writing with Evidence Student | |
Writing: "Sex and Religion" Student | |
Writing: "Instincts vs. Rules" (draft) Student | |
Writing: "Instincts vs. Rules" Examining Evidence | |
Reading: "To Hell with Lipitor" | |
Establishing Criteria for a Claim Checking Information | |
Integrating Sources | |
Reading: From Blackbeard and Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast Student | |
Writing: "Extract from Claudia's Essay" | |
Reading: From The Tender Carnivore Student | |
Writing: "Extract from Sherry's Essay" | |
Writers and Research Locating | |
Critical Knowledge | |
Reading: Trish Boreta, and Project | |
Censored, "The Top Censored News Stories of 2005-2006" | |
Evaluating Online Sources | |
Reading: Green Party website: "2006 Green Party Candidate Spotlight" | |
When Sources Collide | |
Reading: "Questioned Marks" | |
Reading: "Statement to Judge Paul Benson" Giving Credit Where It Is Due | |
Topics for Writing | |
Holidays and Celebrations | |
Reading: "The Symbols of Halloween" | |
Reading: "The Reformation of Guy Fawkes Day" | |
Reading: "Festivals, Rites, and Presents" | |
Reading: "Thanksgiving" | |
Reading: "A History of Anglo-Saxon Wedding Customs" | |
Reading: "The Twentieth Anniversary of Earth Day" | |
Hobbies | |
Reading: "Risk" | |
Reading: "Leonard Lauder: The Beauty of Small Things" | |
Reading: "Con Games" | |
Reading: "Fantasy World" | |
Reading: "Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities" | |
Reading: "Indiana's Potato Chip | |
Lady: Myrtle Young of Seyfert Foods, Inc." | |
The Supernatural | |
Reading: "Whitman's Haunted Bed" | |
Reading: "UFO's, Skepticism, and Belief" | |
Reading: "Four Stops on a Bigfoot Hunt" | |
Reading: "Is God in Our Genes?" | |
Reading: Associated Press, "Courthouse Camera Captures a Ghost" | |
Reading: Associated Press, "Courthouse Ghost Identified as Insect" | |
Reading: "Talking to Heaven | |
Through Television: How the Mass Media Package and Sell Medium John Edward" | |
Humor | |
Reading: "Is Laughter Contagious?" | |
Reading: "The Darwin Awards" | |
Reading: "Me Talk Pretty One Day" | |
Reading: "Seriously, the Joke Is Dead" | |
Reading: "How Laughter Works" | |
Reading: "All I Think Is That It's Stupid: Dave Barry on Laughing at Very Big Government" | |
Honesty and Deception | |
Reading: "The Insufficiency of Honesty" | |
Reading: "I'm a Bad Liar" | |
Reading: "The Lightning Struck Lost Mine" | |
Reading: "The Big Lie" | |
Reading: "Censor or Victim of Censorship?" | |
Reading: "We Like Our Bad Guys to Be Honest About It" | |
Pets, Pests, and Beasts | |
Reading: "Face of a Spider" | |
Reading: "Women Like Men Who Like Cats" | |
Reading: "The Indian Dog" | |
Reading: "The Snake" | |
Reading: "Treat It Right" | |
Reading: "Drainage Ditch" | |
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