Writing about Writing

Introduction

Stuart Greene, Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing a Researched Argument

John Swales, CARS model excerpt

Richard Staub, Responding, Really Responding

Chapter 1: Literacies: Where Do Your Ideas About Reading and Writing Come From?

Deborah Brandt, Sponsors of Literacy

Malcolm X, Learning to Read

*Jabari Mahiri & Soraya Sablo, Writing for Their Lives: Non-School Literacy of

Urban, African American Youth

Sherman Alexie, The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me

*Kevin Roozen, Tracing Trajectories of Practice: Repurposing in One Student's developing Disciplinary Writing Processes

*Victor Villanueva, Excerpt from Bootstraps: From an Academic of Color

*Thomas Newkirk, Draw Me a Word, Write Me a Picture

Donald Murray, All Writing Is Autobiography

*Karina Garcia, The Other Half of the Bracelet [student essay]

*Erika Jackson, Past Experiences and Future Attitudes in Literacy [student essay]

*Emily Strasser, Writing What Matters: A Student’s Struggle to Bridge the Academic/Personal Divide [student essay]

[e-Page] Shirley Brice Heath, "Protean Shapes in Literacy Events: Ever-Shifting Oral and Literate Traditions"

Chapter 2: Individual in Community: How Do Texts Mediate Work ("Activities")?

John Swales, The Concept of Discourse Community

Lucille McCarthy, A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing across the

Curriculum

Sean Branick, Coaches Can Read, Too: An Ethnographic Study of a Football Coaching Discourse Community"

*Elizabeth Wardle and Donna Kain, Activity Theory for Students

Elizabeth Wardle, Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces

*Victoria Marro, The Genres of Chi Omega: An Activity Analysis

[e-Page] Tony Mirabelli, Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers

[e-Page] James Paul Gee, Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction

Chapter 3: Rhetoric: How Do Texts Make Meaning in Context?

*William Covino & David Jolliffe, What Is Rhetoric

Keith Grant-Davie, Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents

*Charles Bazerman, Speech Acts, Genres, and Activity Systems: How Texts Organize Activity and People

James Porter, Intertextuality and the Discourse Community

Christina Haas & Linda Flower, Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning

Margaret Kantz, Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively

Ann Penrose & Cheryl Geisler, Reading and Writing without Authority

*Brian Martin, Plagiarism: A Misplaced Emphasis

*Sarah Kate Magee, College Admissions Essays: A Genre of Masculinity [student essay]

*Maria Post, Obama’s Speech at Howard: Becoming King [student essay]

[e-Page] *Andrew Cline, A Rhetoric Primer

[e-Page] Ken Hyland, Excerpt from Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing

[e-Page] John Dawkins, Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool

[e-Page] *Laura Bolin Carroll, Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis

Chapter 4: Processes: How Are Texts Created?

*Paul Prior, Tracing Process: How Texts Come Into Being

Anne Lamott, Shitty First Drafts

*Peter Elbow, The Need for Care: Easy Speaking onto the Page Is Never Enough

*Dorothy Winsor, Joining the Engineering Community: How Do Novices Learn to Write Like Engineers?

Carol Berkenkotter, Decisions and Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a

Publishing Writer

*Nancy Sommers, Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers

*Nancy Sommers, I Stand Here Writing

*Donald Murray, The Maker’s Eye

Sondra Perl, The Composing Process of Unskilled Writers

Mike Rose, Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer’s Block

*Thomas Osborne, Late Nights, Last Rites, and the Rain-Slicked Road to Self-Destruction [student essay]

*Lauren Perry, Writing with Four Senses: A Hearing Impaired Person’s Writing [student essay]

*Marissa Penzato, Fan Fiction, Poetry, Blogs, and Journals: A Case Study of the Connection Between Extracurricular and Academic Writing [student essay]

[e-Page] *Benjamin Opipari, Songwriters on Process blog

[e-Page] Junot Diaz, Becoming a Writer

[e-Page] *Stephen King, excerpt from On Writing

[e-Page] *NYT Writers on Writing

[e-Page] *Paris Review on Writing

[e-Page] *Katherine Schulten, Why I Write: Q&A with Seven Times Journalists

[e-Page] Barbara Tomlinson, Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts: Metaphors for Revision

Chapter 5: Multi-Modal Composition: What Counts as ("Good") Writing?

*Scott McCloud, The Vocabulary of Comics

*Ann Wysocki, The Multiple Media of Texts: How Onscreen and Paper Texts Incorporate Words, Images, and Other Media

*Amanda Lenhart, et al., Pew Research Center Publications, Writing, Technology, and Teens: Summary of Findings

*Naomi Baron, Instant Messaging and the Future of Language

*Crispin Thurlow and Katherine Bell, Against Technologization: Young People’s New Media Discourse as Creative Cultural Practice

*Christian Kohl et al, History Now: Media Development and the Textual Genesis of Wikipedia

*Brandon Jones, Rhetorical Criticism of Online Discourse [student essay]

*Michaela Cullington, Texting and Writing [student essay]

*Ann Cochran, Blogging the Recovery from Anorexia: A New Platform for the Voice of ED [student essay]

[e-Page] Dennis Baron, From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies

[e-Page] *WIDE (Jeff Grabill and Stacey Pigg, lead authors), Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives of First-Year College Students

[e-Page] *Steve Bernhardt, Seeing the Text

[e-Page] *James Sosnoski, Hyper-Readers and their Reading Engines

 

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