Call to Write

I. WRITING AND READING. Introduction: the Call to Write. 1. 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. Eudora Welty, from One Writer's Beginnings. Margaret J. Finders, from Just Girls. Writing Assignment: Analyzing a Literacy Event. Reflecting On Your Writing. 2. Reading Strategies for Academic Purposes: Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation. Reading as Research. Jonathan Kozol, from Distancing the Homeless. Strategies for Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation. Sample Analysis of a Rhetorical Situation. Kevin Powell, My Culture at the Crossroads. Writing Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis. Reflecting on Your Writing. 3. Persuasion and Responsibility: Analyzing Arguments. Understanding Argument. Darcy Peters and Marcus Boldt: Exchange of Letters. Entering a Controversy. Taking a Position: From Issues to Claims. Developing a Persuasive Position. Malcolm X, from The Ballot or the Bullet. Making an Argument. Vigilant Neighbors or Big Brother Informants. Negotiating Differences. Anna Quindlen, Abortion Is Too Complex to Feel All One Way About. Call for Moratorium on Executions. Sample Rhetorical Analysis for an Argument. Writing Assignment: Analyzing an Argument. Reflecting on Your Writing. II. WRITING PROJECTS. Introduction: Genres of Writing. 4. Letters: Establishing and Maintaining Relationships. Thinking About the Genre. Readings: Letters on Iraq. Project for New American Century to President William J. Clinton Mary A. Wright, Letter to Colin Powell. US Navy Corpsman, email giving account of the war. Readings: Letter to the Editor. Mark Patinkin, Committee on Crime, Suffer the Consequences. Kristen Tardiff, Letter to the Editor. John N. Taylor, Letter to the Editor. Readings: A Correspondence on Sweatshops. John Peretti, No Sweat, No Slang. Readings: Open Letters. James Baldwin, My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew. Visual Design. Letter of Appeal from Doctors Without Borders. Further Explorations: Letters. Writing Assignment. Writers' Workshop. Michael Brody, Letter to the Editor. Reflecting on Your Writing. A Closing Note. 5. Memoirs: Recalling Personal Experience. Thinking About the Genre. Readings. Gary Soto, Black Hair. Annie Dillard, from An American Childhood. Throwing Snowballs. Tariq Ali, An Atheist Childhood. Visual Design. American Splendor: Comics as Memoir. Further Explorations: Memoirs. Writing Assignment. Writers' Workshop. Jennifer Plante, Sunday Afternoons. Reflecting on Your Writing. A Closing Note. 6. Public Documents: Codifying Beliefs and Practices. Thinking About the Genre. Readings. Encounters with Public Documents. Abraham Verghese, from My Own Country. Ellen Cushman, from The Struggle and the Tools. Manifestos. The Mentor, Hackers Manifesto, or the Conscience of a Hacker. Call of the World Social Movements. Gallery of Petitions. Kerwood Wolf Education Centre, Stop the Aerial Slaughter of Alaskas Wolves. Amnesty International, Call for Human Rights in Russia. JasonTrimbur, John is the author of 'Call to Write', published 0014 under ISBN 9780321207784 and ISBN 0321207785.