Reflect, Inform, Persuade: College Writing Today Book

Part I • The Writing Process

Chapter 1 • The Writing Process

Introduction

The Writing Process—A Holistic View

The Writing Process—A Deconstructed View

What I Learned

Applying What I Learned

Working with What I Learned

Chapter 2 • Invention/Prewriting Strategies

Introduction

Strategies

Free Writing/Power Writing

Clustering

Brainstorming

Journalistic Questions

Research

Interviewing

Do We Write Now?

Free Writing/Power Writing

Clustering

Brainstorming

Journalistic

Research

What I Learned

Applying What I Learned

Working with What I Learned

Chapter 3 • Pre-Drafting: Elements to Consider

Introduction

Purpose, Modes, and Genre

To Entertain

To Reflect/Express—Genres

Journals

Personal Narrative

From “Mama Sarah” Fortuna Benudiz Ippoliti

To Inform—Modes

Descriptive Writing

Comparison and Contrast

Cause and Effect

From “Find Yourself Packing It On? Blame Friends” Gina Kolata

Exemplification

Definition

Division and Classification

Process Analysis

Ghirardelli™ Individual Chocolate Lava Cakes (advertisement)

Research, Exposition, Summary, Analysis

To Inform—Genres

Research

Process Analysis

Movie Review

From “Hogwarts Under Siege” A. O. Scott

Purpose—Persuade

Op-Ed Piece

From “Find Yourself Packing It On? Blame Friends” Gina Kolata

Personal Narrative

From “The Heart of the City” Terrell F. Dixon

Advertisements

Mr. Goodwrench

The Starfish Story

Teddy Grahams

Audience

Geo. H. Lewis & Sons (advertisement)

Tone

What I Learned

Applying What I Learned

Working with What I Learned

Chapter 4 • Drafting the Academic Informative Essay

Introduction

Building the Essay

Step One—Invention

Step Two—The Thesis

Step Three—The Introduction

Step Four—The Body Paragraphs

Step Five—Transitions

Step Six—The Conclusion

Step Seven—The Sources

Step Eight—The Complete First Draft

Allison’s Fury

What I Learned

Applying What I Learned

Working with What I Learned

Chapter 5 • Peer Review and Revision

Introduction

The Reading-Writing Connection

Expectations

The Editing Process

Editing for Purpose

Editing for Audience

Commentary

The Rubric for Structure, Organization, and Development

Commentary

Revision

How to Use Your Review

Editing for Audience

Commentary

Completing Your Revisions

What I Learned

Applying What I Learned

Working with What I Learned

Chapter 6 • Editing and Formatting

Introduction

Grammar Phobia

The Mechanics Profile

Formatting MLA Style

What I Learned

Applying What I Learned

Working with What I Learned

Part II • Genre Construction

Chapter 7 • To Reflect and Express

Introduction

Journals

Personal Reflection Journals

A Marine at War—Journal Entry—Persian Gulf

War Narrative Jason Douglas

Pre-Reading and Reader Response Journals

Student Reader Responses

Genre Construction

Letters

The Personal Letter

Making Peace with My Dad; Making Peace With Myself Mari Carmen Marin

The Formal Business Letter

The Letter of Application

Genre Construction

Autobiographical Narratives

The Closed Form Narrative

Waste, A County Fair Tale Leilani Hall

The Open Form Narrative

The Cat Under the Bed: Growing Up SurvivorPatricia Lee Yongue

Chronological Organization

Spatial Organization

The Lost Bills

Genre Construction

Invention

Pre-Drafting

Drafting

Peer Editing

Editing for Purpose

Editing for Audience

Commentary

Revision

Editing and Formatting

Rubric for Structure, Organization, and Development

Memoir

From Memory of Walking Antonio Jocson

Genre Construction

Chapter 8 • To Inform

Introduction

The Multi-Mode Essay

From “The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as Key to Learning English Composition “ Fan Shen

“Cultural Tyranny” Gloria Anzaldúa

Genre Construction

Editing for Purpose

Editing for Audience

The Rubric for Structure, Organization, and Development

Advertisements

“Is This Where Your Teen Goes to Get High?”

Newspaper and Magazine Articles

Newspaper Articles

“War on Words Heats Up in Immigration Debate” Lini Kadaba

Magazine Articles

From “In the Hot Seat” Chryso D’Angelo

The Movie Review

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007):Hogwarts Under Siege A.O. Scott

Genre Construction

Chapter 9 • To Persuade and Convince

Introduction

What Is Argument?

Purpose

A Debatable Topic and Its Thesis

Evidence

Appeals

Strategies—Conceding Points

Strategies—Refuting Points

Changing Positions

Reading Argument

Suggestions for Reading Argument

Personal Argument

I Am a Housewife Elisa Garza

The Traditional Formal Argument

Time to Lower the Drinking Age Joseph McDade

A Second Reading

Preparing to Write about an Argument

Some Things Can Wait

Reading Other Argumentative Genres

The Op-Ed Piece

The Potterparazzi Lisa M. Virgoe

The Editorial and Political Cartoons

Justice Pat Oliphant

Obesity Doug N. Marlette

Clemens and Steroids Mike Luckovich

The Advertisement

Evaluating Genres

Chapter 10 • Writing Argument

Introduction

The Argument

The Topic—Invention

Pre-Drafting

Appeals and Structure

Logos

Rogerian Argument

Pathos

Ethos

Logical Fallacies

The Either/Or Fallacy, or the False Dilemma

The False Analogy

The Red Herring

The Bandwagon Fallacy

Generalizations

Hasty

Sweeping

Stereotypes

Drafting

Peer Editing

Editing for Purpose

Editing for Audience

The Rubric for Structure, Organization, and Development

Commentary

Revision

Formatting and Editing

Revision Revisited

The Traditionally Constructed Argumentative Essay

Structure

The Writing Process Deferred

The Prompt for a 90-Minute Argumentative Essay Assignment

Stronger Standards for Admission

The Final Draft

Evaluating Genres

Genre Construction

Part III · Reading about Personal Issues

Chapter 11 • Identity: How Do I Construct My Identity?

Introduction

Visual Literacy

Community College Street Festival (Photograph) Linda Daigle

Paris Wedding (Photograph) Linda Daigle

Traditions? Elizabeth R. Kessler

Pausing to Consider

Reading about College and Young Adult Identity

“Who Shall I Be?” The Allure of a Fresh Start Jennifer Crichton

My Deep Dark Secret? I Miss My Family Hadley Moore

The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition Fan Shen

Reading about Social/Ethnic Identity

“Blaxicans” and Other Reinvented Americans Richard Rodriguez

A Conversion Unveiled Yvonne Ridley

The Price of Being “Americanized” Michael Novak

Reading about Gender and Sexual Identity

Never Quite Male or Female, It’s Her Decision Now Sarah Viren

The Boy’s Desire Richard Rodriguez

Reflections on Identity

Reflecting to Write

Chapter 12 • Body Image and Health: How Do I Construct My Physical Being?

Introduction

Visual Literacy

Lost Identity, I (Photograph) Franka Bruns

Guerneville 1980 (Photograph) Anja Leigh Russell

Asian Beauty (Photograph) Linda Daigle

Surviving Beautifully (Photograph) Elizabeth Kessler

Pausing to Consider

Reading about the Male Body

Son of a Pretty Boy Andrew Brininstool

Reading about Weight

The Radius of Beauty Leilani Hall

Fat and Happy: In Defense Acceptance Mary Ray Worley

Why Don’t They Just Eat?

Reading about Beauty

Miss America: More than a Beauty Queen? Kate Shindle

Finding My Eye-dentity Olivia Chung

Reflections on Body Image and Health

Reflecting to Write

Chapter 13 • Education and Work: How Do I Construct My Mind and My Career?

Introduction

Visual Literacy

Professional Business Cards

Real Estate Card Patti Diller

Veterinarian Card

Lipitor (Advertisement)

Pausing to Consider

Reading about Traditional Ways of Education

Forget the Fads—The Old Ways Work Best Evan Keliher

I Didn’t Want to Work that Hard: A Liberal Arts Education Sherree Kessler

Reading about Different Perspectives in Work and Education

“Truth Is, I’m the Same Guy I Always Was” Paul McCartney

Help! I’m a Mac Person in a PC World Anne Perrin

Some Lessons from the Assembly Line Andrew Braaksma

Letter to Friends Sandra Cisneros

Reflections on Education and Work

Reflecting to Write

Chapter 14 • Trauma: How Do I Construct Trust?

Introduction

Visual Literacy

Little Hearts, Big Hurts (Poster)

Maybe It’s Not Your Child Who Needs a Time-Out

You Won’t Know If You Don’t Ask

Sexual Assault

Strong & Silent or Ashamed & Alone?

Pausing to Consider

Reading about Authority Figures

Goodbye Rita Hayworth, Hello Margarita Cansino Linda Rader Overman

Scouts Molested, Again Patrick Boyle and Elizabeth Marchak

Reading about the Aftermath

I Want Constantine’s Murder to Die Olga Polites

How Would My Rape Shape My Kids’ Lives? Ellen Sussman

Reflections on Trauma

Reflecting to Write

Chapter 15 · Relationships: How Do I Construct a Life with Others?

Introduction

Visual Literacy

Abuelita (Photograph) Anja Leigh Russell

The Oscar Party (Photograph) Linda Daigle

The Red Hat Ladies (Photograph) Patti Diller

Pausing to Consider

Reading Selection about Marriage and Other Relationships

Making Room for Dad’s New Girlfriend Melissa Maynard

Reading about Alternative Parenting

Stop Setting Alarms on My Biological Clock Carrie Friedman

If Our Son Is Happy, What Else Matters? Scott Sherman

Reading about Getting Along with Others

Becoming “Real” Men at Last Topher Sanders

That’s MS. to you, Bub Abigail McCarthy

Reflections on Relationships

Reflecting to Write

Chapter 16 · Closure: How Will Others Construct Me?

Introduction

Visual Literacy

Movies

Pausing to Consider

Reading about the Media

When Harry Met Tony Malcolm Jones

No More Bikinis & Cowboys Scott Deveau

Reading about Our Family and Friends

You’re Going to End Up Like Your Mother Anyway, So Get Over It Sandy Jordan

A Father on a Poster Board Just Won’t Do Alison Buckholtz

Reading about Health and Medicine

Find Yourself Packing It On? Blame Friends Gina Kolata

Fat Comes in on Little Cat Feet Gail Collins

Reading about Education and Growing Up—At Any Age

Grades not Full Gauge of Talent Cary Clack

The Teacher Who Changed My Life Nicholas Gage

Student Evaluations David Holmberg

Bringing Up Adultolescents Peg Tyre

Reading about Society’s Issues

My Name Is Margaret Maya Angelou

Dropping the “One Drop” Rule George Will

Reading about After I’ve Departed

The Champion Oak, Glennwood Cemetery (Photograph) Linda Walsh

Daisies and Diaries: Death and Defining Self Stella Thompson

My Daddy Was My Hero Bindi Irwin

A Lady by Any Standard Michael Beschloss

The Paris Cemetery (Photograph) Linda Daigle

Reflections on Closure

Reflecting to Write

Part IV ·Research

Chapter 17 · Writing the Research Paper

Introduction

What Is a Research Paper?

The Thesis

Evidence

Sources

Taking Notes

Academic Honesty

Writing the Paper

Using Quotations

Paraphrasing

Chapter 18 · MLA Documentation and Sample Paper

Introduction

Use of MLA Format for Documentation

The Works Cited Page

Joseph McDade’s work Cited Page Revised

General Rules

Internal Documentation

General Rules

Sample Student Research Paper

Stay At Home Moms: The New Choice Creating Controversy Lori Tiedt

Appendix 1 · Glossary of Composition Terms

Appendix 2 · Permissions

Appendix 3 · Index