Writing and Research for College: The Structures of Imaginative Literacy

Designed to serve as a kind of primer for the college student entering college, Writing and Research for College: The Structures of Imaginative Literacy engages the student and demonstrates why first-year writing courses are such an important experience for students.

Writing and Research for College: The Structures of Imaginative Literacy describes how the reader should have a personal engagement with words before they apply words to any specific writing assignment that they are given. Furthermore, the student’s reading experience will be more profitable after he/she examines the phenomena of words and their own understanding of verbal phenomena.

Writing and Research for College: The Structures of Imaginative Literacy:

• Incorporates popular movies and current events to motivate students to be critical of their own assumptions and viewpoints.
• Includes several essays that help the reader develop the right assumptions about their engagement with words.
• Helps develop critical thinking skills related to the students’ reading skills as well as help them with the revision stages of their writing assignments.
• Attempts to identify verbal and critical thinking competencies that the student will then see as structures of consciousness and inherent to adult-level thinking and communication in whatever environment that person is in.