The Call to Write

by Trimbur, John

• ISBN13: 9780321084927
• ISBN10: 0321084926
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

As a highly successful first edition rhetoric, The Call to Write, Second Edition, is organized by the genres of writing and is grounded in the reality of student's lives. Organized by genres, The Call to Write gives students the practice they need to write both in college and in the public sphere. This text connects writing to the real worlds of everyday life, college, and work, giving students reasons to write and the skills to help them succeed. A strong emphasis on public writing promotes civic involvement through writing- to inform the public, to shape opinion, to advocate change, etc.- while relevant, provocative readings underscore when and why citizens are called to write. The Second Edition retains the best features of the first edition while expanding the coverage of multimedia and adding an additional genre chapter on brochures and web sites. This hardcover version, also, includes a grammar handbook.

Table of Contents

Detailed Contents	v
Guide to Visuals	xxxi
Preface	xxxv
Acknowledgments	xli
PART 1 WRITING AND READING	1	(106)
Introduction: The Call to Write	2	(5)
What Is Writing? Analyzing Literacy Events	7	(25)
Reading Strategies: Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation	32	(31)
Persuasion and Responsibility: Analyzing Arguments	63	(44)
PART 2 WRITING PROJECTS	107	(314)
Introduction: Generes of Writing	108	(3)
Letters: Establishing and Maintaining Relationships	111	(34)
Memoris: Recalling Personal Experience	145	(37)
Public Documents: Codifying Beliefs and Practices	182	(40)
Profiles: Creating a Dominant Impression	222	(34)
Fact Sheets and Faqs, Brochures, and Web Sites: Informing and Explaining	256	(51)
Commentary: Identifying Patterns of Meaning	307	(37)
Proposals: Formulating and Solving Problems	344	(42)
Reviews: Evaluating Works and Performances	386	(35)
PART 3 WRITERS AT WORK	421	(98)
Introduction: Managing Your Writing Projects	422	(6)
Case Study of a Writing Assignment	428	(19)
Working Together: Collaborative Writing Projects	447	(14)
The Form of Nonfiction Prose	461	(31)
Communicating Online: Writing in the Age of Digital Literacy	492	(27)
PART 4 GUIDE TO RESEARCH	519	(62)
Introduction: Doing Research	520	(7)
Research Projects: Using Print and Electronic Sources	527	(34)
Field Research	561	(20)
PART 5 PRESENTING YOUR WORK	581	(128)
Introduction: Communicating with Your Readers	582	(2)
Research Projects: Using MLA and APA Styles	584	(52)
Visual Design	636	(47)
Essay Exams	683	(14)
Writing Portfolios	697	(12)
PART 6 GUIDE TO EDITING	709	(42)
Introduction: Why Writers Edit	710	(1)
Working With Sentences	711	(40)
Credits	751	(8)
Index	759