Introduction to the Conversation
Why Study Writing?
Making Sense of the Readings
John Swales's CARS Model of Research Introductions (handout)
A Different Kind of Research and Argument
Stuart Greene, Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing a Researched Argument
An Example, and a Challenge
Michael Kleine, What Is It We Do When We Write Articles Like This One-and How Can We Get Students to Join Us?
CHAPTER 1
Texts/Constructs: How Do Readers Read and Writers Write?
Joseph M. Williams, The Phenomenology of Error
Donald M. Murray, All Writing Is Autobiography
Margaret Kantz, Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively
James E. Porter, Intertextuality and the Discourse Community
Keith Grant-Davie, Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents
Christina Haas and Linda Flower, Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning
John Dawkins, Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool
Student Writing in Progress:
Zachary Talbot, A Rhetorical Analysis of Authors on the CIA Torture Inquiry
Chapter-Culminating Writing Assignments
-- Navigating Sources That Disagree
-- Considering Constructs about Writing
-- Rhetorical Reflection
Suggested Additional Readings and Resources
CHAPTER 2
Writing Processes: How Do You Write?
Robert J. Tierney and P. David Pearson, Toward a Composing Model of Reading
Sondra Perl, The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers
Carol Berkenkotter, Decisions and Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer, and Donald M. Murray, Response of a Laboratory Rat-or, Being Protocoled
Mike Rose, Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer's Block
Barbara Tomlinson, Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts: Metaphors for Revision
Student Writing in Progress:
Maria P. Rey, Letter to West Port High School's English Department
Clayton Stark, The Average Writer: A Self Analysis
Dominieq Ransom, How Do I Write?
Interlude: What Writers Say
Anne Lamott, Shitty First Drafts
Stephen King, What Writing Is
Allegra Goodman, Calming the Inner Critic and Getting to Work
Kent Haruf, To See Your Story Clearly, Start by Pulling the Wool over Your Own Eyes
Susan Sontag, Directions: Write, Read, Rewrite. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 as Needed.
Junot Díaz, Becoming a Writer
Chapter-Culminating Writing Assignments
-- Autoethnography
-- Alternative Autoethnography Assignment: Portrait of a Writer
-- Combination Assignment
Suggested Additional Readings and Resources
CHAPTER 3
Literacies: How Have You Become the Reader and Writer You Are Today?
Deborah Brandt, Sponsors of Literacy
Malcolm X, Learning to Read
Sherman Alexie, The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me
Shirley Brice Heath, Protean Shapes in Literacy Events: Ever-Shifting Oral and Literate Traditions
Dànielle DeVoss et al., The Future of Literacy
Dennis Baron, From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies
Student Writing in Progress:
Tyler Cecchini and Hugo Perez, Motivation in Literacy Development
Chapter-Culminating Writing Assignments
-- Literacy Narrative
-- Group Analysis of Literacy History
Suggested Additional Readings and Resources
CHAPTER 4
Discourses: How Do Communities Shape Writing?
John Swales, The Concept of Discourse Community
James Paul Gee, Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction
Ann M. Johns, Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership, Conflict, and Diversity
Elizabeth Wardle, Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplace
Tony Mirabelli, Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers
Student Writing in Progress:
Sean Branick, Coaches Can Read, Too: An Ethnographic Study of a Football Coaching Discourse Community
Chapter-Culminating Writing Assignments
-- Discourse Community Ethnography
-- Mushfaking the Dominant Discourse: An Analysis of Gee's Claims
Suggested Additional Readings and Resources
CHAPTER 5
Authority: How Do You Make Yourself Heard as a College Writer?
Joseph Harris, The Idea of Community in the Study of Writing
Josh Keller, Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers
Ann M. Penrose and Cheryl Geisler, Reading and Writing without Authority
Christine Pearson Casanave, The Beginnings of Change: Learning and Teaching Undergraduate Academic Literacy Games
Lucille P. McCarthy, A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing across the Curriculum
Ken Hyland, Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing (handout)
Student Writing in Progress:
Kelsey Diaz, Seven Ways High School Prepares You for Failure
Chapter-Culminating Writing Assignments
-- Do Students Have a Right to Their Own Languages?
-- What Does It Mean to Write with Authority in College?
-- Analysis of Science Accommodation
Suggested Additional Readings and Resources