by Kathryn Evans
Reading and Writing Genres
First Edition ©2013
ISBN-10: 0-312-60121-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-60121-8 Paper Text, 512 pages See available formats »
Five thematic chapters ask questions that impact students' lives. From defining happiness to considering the factors that create our cultural ideas about healthy diets, Real Questions shows students how different genres provide keys for addressing issues that matter to them. Linked readings (including an academic article about Facebook that generates a TV news report and a blogged critique on scientific reporting) demonstrate the dynamic nature of genres and show genres in conversation.54 readings on a wide range of topics and genres engage students in thinking not only about what a piece of writing says, but also how it says it.Jonathan Safran Foer amasses facts on animal agriculture to create an emotional argument for vegetarianism.Gretchen Rubin blogs her way to true happiness. In e-Pages: An additional section on genres of presentation includes two student speeches on campaigns to help survivors of Japan's tsunami and Haiti's earthquake.A robust introduction to writing in genres familiarizes students with critical reading and writing skills and challenges them to create their own genre compositions, including academic genres like creative nonfiction, blogs, opeds and letters to the editor, brochures and flyers, rhetorical analyses, and researched arguments.Chapter introductions built around real-life examples and illustrative apparatus offer students advice when they need it. Each chapter introduction demonstrates the skills for thinking about cultural artifacts in context and how genre is driven by considerations of purpose and theme. Extended headnotes point out how each reading models specific genre conventions and end-of selection apparatus asks students to think critically about how writers use genre to communicate effectively.Writing prompts that inspire students to write for real purposes. Real Questions emphasizes that genres illustrate purposes for writing, with assignments in popular genres that motivate students to think beyond writing for class. An appendix of student publications encourages students to seek real audiences for the writing they do in class.Visualizing Genre portfolios teach students to think critically about the rhetorical purposes behind common visual genres, including PSAs, greeting cards, and food packaging.
A robust introduction to writing in genres familiarizes students with critical reading and writing skills and challenges them to create their own genre compositions, including academic genres like creative nonfiction, blogs, opeds and letters to the editor, brochures and flyers, rhetorical analyses, and researched arguments.
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