The Call to Write (with MyCompLab)

by Trimbur, John

• ISBN13: 9780321328700
• ISBN10: 0321328701
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

With a real-world genre orientation, attention to diverse media, focus on visual literacy, and emphasis on the ethics of writing, the third edition ofThe Call to Writecontinues to break new ground in composition. Organized by genresletters, memoirs, public documents, profiles, reports, commentaries, proposals, and reviews, this innovative rhetoric gives students the practice they need to write both in college and in the public sphere. Connecting writing to the real worlds of everyday life, college, and work, it gives students reasons to write and the skills to help them succeed. A strong emphasis on public writing promotes civic involvement through writingto inform the public, to shape opinion, to advocate change, etc.while relevant, provocative readings underscore when and why citizens are called to write. The Third Edition retains the best features of the second edition while greatly expanding the coverage of research. This hardcover version includes a grammar handbook. Individuals who want to write for master various forms of writing. is hardcover version includes a grammar handbook.

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

David F. Gallagher,Just Say No to H2O

Writing in the Public Sphere

Writing in School

Analyzing a Literacy Event

Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

One Writer's Beginnings

Just Girls

Writing Assignment: Analyzing a Literacy Event

Reflecting On Your Writing

Reading Strategies for Academic Purposes: Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation

Reading as Research

Distancing the Homeless

Strategies for Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation

Sample Analysis of a Rhetorical Situation

My Culture at the Crossroads

Writing Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis

Reflecting on Your Writing

Persuasion and Responsibility: Analyzing Arguments

Understanding Argument

Exchange of Letters

Entering a Controversy

Taking a Position: From Issues to Claims

Developing a Persuasive Position

The Ballot or the Bullet

Making an Argument

Vigilant Neighbors or Big Brother Informants

Negotiating Differences

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