Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION What Should I Know about This Book?
- WELCOME
- READING FOCUS ON WRITING
- What to expect
- Reading actively, reading rhetorically
- Reading academic articles
- Why Writing about Writing?
- THE WIDER CONVERSATION
- WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition (3.0)
- Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing—Executive Summary
- GUIDE FOR WRITING INSTRUCTORS
- Rationales informing textual features
- Aligning chapters of Focus on Writing with three pedagogical frameworks
- Models: Approaches to writing and research
CHAPTER ONE Why Write?
- EXPLORING THE QUESTION
- Relationship with writing: It’s complicated
- Why write in a college course?
- EXTENDING THE CONVERSATION
- “The Pursuit of Literacy” by Deborah Brandt (2001)
- “Domestic Sphere vs. Public Sphere” by Aleeza Laskowski (2016)
- from The Transition from Student to Professional: A Pedagogy of Professionalism for First-Year Composition by Marcea K. Seible (2008)
- “Literature, Literacy, and (New) Media” by Andrea Lunsford (2012)
- Recommended online sources
- JOINING THE CONVERSATION
CHAPTER TWO What Is the “Rhetorical Situation” and Why Should I Care about It?
- EXPLORING THE QUESTION
- The rhetorical triangle and beyond
- The occasion: An overly brief explanation
- Discourse communities
- Genres
- From “rules” to “guidelines”
- EXTENDING THE CONVERSATION
- “Activity Theory: Situated Learning and Student Motivation” by Marcea K. Seible (2008)
- “Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities” by Amy J. Devitt, Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff (2003)
- “Powerless Persuasion: Ineffective Argumentation Plagues the Clean Eating Community” by Jessie Cannizzo (2016)
- Recommended online sources
- JOINING THE CONVERSATION
CHAPTER THREE What Do Effective Writers Do?
- EXPLORING THE QUESTION
- Linear to recursive models
- Material situations
- Strategies for starting
- Strategies for improving writing
- Strategies for polishing writing
- To procrastinate or not?
- Writing as social: Collaboration and feedback
- Pro tips on process
- Pro tips on product
- EXTENDING THE CONVERSATION
- from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (1994)
- “Teaching the Other Self: The Writer’s First Reader” by Donald M. Murray (1982)
- “Understanding Composing” by Sondra Perl (1980)
- “Writing Research and the Writer” by John R. Hayes and Linda S. Flower (1986)
- Recommended online sources
- JOINING THE CONVERSATION
CHAPTER FOUR What Do Effective Researchers Do?
- EXPLORING THE QUESTION
- Useful principles from everyday research
- Academic research: Overview
- Secondary research: Finding and evaluating sources
- Secondary research: Reading, taking notes, organizing, oh my!
- Secondary research: Integrating sources into your writing ethically
- Primary research methods
- Organizing common research genres
- EXTENDING THE CONVERSATION
- Introduction to Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts by Joseph Harris (2006)
- “What Can a Novice Contribute? Undergraduate Researchers in First-Year Composition” by Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle (2010)
- “Research Is Elementary: How Blue’s Clues Can Help Teach Communication Research Methods” by David Gesler (2007)
- Recommended online sources
- JOINING THE CONVERSATION
CHAPTER FIVE How Do I Translate My Academic Writing into Public Genres?
- EXPLORING THE QUESTION
- College writing and “the real world”
- Digital possibilities
- Possibilities beyond the screen
- EXTENDING THE CONVERSATION
- Introduction to Situated Language and Learning: A Critique of Traditional Schooling by James Paul Gee (2004)
- “The Low Bridge to High Benefits: Entry-Level Multimedia, Literacies, and Motivation” by Daniel Anderson (2008)
- “Going Public: Exploring the Possibilities for Publishing Student Interest-Driven Writing beyond the Classroom” by Stephanie Anne Schmier, Elisabeth Johnson, and Sarah Lohnes Wataluk (2018)
- Recommended online sources
- JOINING THE CONVERSATION
- CONCLUSION
- Now What?
- SHARING YOUR EXPERTISE
- ONGOING CHALLENGE
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