Call to Write, The, Brief Edition

by Trimbur, John

• ISBN13: 9780321487247
• ISBN10: 0321487249
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: PRENTICE HALL

Summary

With a real-world genre orientation, attention to diverse media, focus on visual literacy, and emphasis on the ethics of writing, the Fourth Edition of The Call to Write continues to break new ground in composition. Exposes the reader to a real-world genre orientation for writing. General Interest, improve writing

Table of Contents

Writing and Reading?

Introduction: The Call to Write

What Is Writing? Analyzing Literacy Events

Writing in Everyday Life

Writing in the Workplace?

Letters by and to Michael Brown?

Memo, "TO: The Thief that has been stealing pens from the IBM"

Writing in the Public Sphere?

"ACORN Katrina Survivors Association"

Writing in School?

Sample high school research paper

Analyzing a Literacy Event?

Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

Eudora Welty, from One Writer's Beginnings?

Margaret J. Finders, from Just Girls

Writing Assignment: Analyzing a Literacy Event

Reading Strategies for Academic Purposes: Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation

Reading as Research?

Jonathan Kozol, from Distancing the Homeless

Strategies for Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation

Sample Analysis of a Rhetorical Situation?

Kevin Powell,My Culture at the Crossroads

Writing Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis

Persuasion and Responsibility: Analyzing Arguments

Understanding Argument?

Darcy Peters and Marcus Boldt:Exchange of Letters

Entering a Controversy

Taking a Position: From Issues to Claims

Developing a Persuasive Position?

Malcolm X, from The Ballot or the Bullet

Making an Argument?

Vigilant Neighbors or Big Brother Informants

Negotiating Differences?

Call for Moratorium on Executions

Sample Rhetorical Analysis for an Argument

Writing Assignment: Analyzing an Argument

Writing Projects?

Introduction: Genres of Writing

Letters: Establishing and Maintaining Relationships

Thinking About the Genre

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