College Arguments: Understanding the Genres
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 352
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 352 - LSI page count is 354
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College Arguments: Understanding the Genres prepares college writing students genre knowledge or genre awareness so that they will be able to engage with a variety of writing assignments more effectively. The idea of genre awareness involves fostering students’ understanding of what motivates the production of different types of texts so that they will be able to develop appropriate response strategies.
College Arguments: Understanding the Genres:
- Encourages students to approach college writing tasks with greater insight and ultimately to continue to improve as writers;
- Includes a discussion of deliberative imitation as an invention strategy, both in terms of form, style, and process;
- Emphasizes the interrelationship between writing and reading;
- Incorporates material concerned with transnational rhetorics;
- Features an updated chapter on visual rhetoric and multimodal writing and a new chapter that focuses on narrative.
Preface
1. College Writing Genres and the Rhetorical Situation
Obama’s Inaugural Address: 20th January 2009
2. Engaging with Ideas: A Three-Pass Approach to Critical Reading
Emmanuel Sabaiz-Birdsill—Before You Read
Sean Curran—Summary and Paraphrase
Andrea Hernandez—Summarizing an Argument
Emmanuel Sabaiz-Birdsill—Evaluating Web Sources
3. Audience Awareness
4. Translating Your Assignment
5. The Identity of the Writer
Emmanuel Sabaiz-Birdsell—Tone—You Know It
Cesar Soto—Choosing a Proper Tone (Your Life May Depend on It)
6. Exploring a Topic/Finding a Thesis
Bruno Bettelheim—Introduction: The Struggle for Meaning
Lisa Belkin—Are Fairytales Too Scary for Children?
7. The Function of Form
The Declaration of Independence
8. The Nature of Proof
Cesar Soto—The Three Appeals
Michael Levin—The Case for Torture
9. Types of Support
Stephanie Owen and Isabel V. Sawhill—Should Everyone Go to College?
Dylan Matthews—Maybe College Isn’t For Everyone. But It’s Probably for You
Amanda Lenhart—Teens, Social Media & Technology
10. Organizing and Incorporating Information
Emmanuel Sabaiz-Birdsill—Evaluating Visual Arguments
11. Two Important Strategies in College Writing: Establishing Causality and Defining Terms
12. Revising a College Argument
13. Narrative and Argument
Lida Perez—My Literacy Journey
Enrique Solis—Delving into a New World: A Sellout or Success Story?
Cesar Soto—Wrath, or How I Learned to Read
14. Evaluating Visual Texts
Emmanuel Sabaiz-Birdsill—Evaluating Visual Arguments
Appendix: Using the Library and Documenting Sources
Index