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Writing Guide with Handbook

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  1. 1The Digital World: Building on What You Already Know to Respond CriticallyArticulate the importance of inquiry, learning, critical thinking, and communicating in varying rhetorical and cultural contexts
  2. 2Language, Identity, and Culture: Exploring, Employing, EmbracingArticulate how language use can promote social justice and equality
  3. 3Literacy Narrative: Building Bridges, Bridging GapsThe language you use also signals the ways in which you are rooted in specific culture , or groups of people who share common beliefs and lived experiences.
  4. 4Memoir or Personal Narrative: Learning Lessons from the PersonalRead in several genres to understand how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposes
  5. 5Profile: Telling a Rich and Compelling StoryBeginning with its first issue in 1925, The New Yorker magazine has run a regular feature called "Profiles." The earliest of this series of biographical sketches combined the elements still in use for profiles today…
  6. 6Proposal: Writing About Problems and SolutionsAsk critical-thinking questions about problems to explore an idea for a proposal
  7. 7Evaluation or Review: Would You Recommend It?Articulate what differentiates the review genre from other genres
  8. 8Analytical Report: Writing from FactsAsk critical thinking questions to explore an idea for a report
  9. 9Rhetorical Analysis: Interpreting the Art of RhetoricThe emphasis is on the word how , because the how is what starts you on the path of analyzing the forms, intent, and effectiveness of communication.
  10. 10Position Argument: Practicing the Art of RhetoricThe genre for this chapter is a position arguments .
  11. 11Reasoning Strategies: Improving Critical ThinkingFor the purposes of this course, logic means “reasoning based on thought and evidence.” In practical terms, logic is the ability to analyze and evaluate persuasive or argument writing for effectiveness.
  12. 12Argumentative Research: Enhancing the Art of Rhetoric with EvidenceThe writing tasks for this chapter and the next two chapters are based on argumentative research.
  13. 13Research Process: Accessing and Recording InformationAccess to information is generally not a problem; the problem is knowing where to find the information you need and how to distinguish among types and qualities of sources.
  14. 14Annotated Bibliography: Gathering, Evaluating, and Documenting SourcesEach set of source information, or each individual entry, listed in the bibliography or noted within the body of the composition is called a citation
  15. 15Case Study Profile: What One Person Says About AllTo gain more knowledge of or insights into human behavior, thoughts, or emotions, researchers conduct observations of participants.
  16. 16Print or Textual Analysis: What You ReadDemonstrate critical thinking and communicating in various rhetorical contexts
  17. 17Image Analysis: What You SeeBoth stories and pictures contain information presented by a creator who has a particular point of view and arranges the work in two-dimensional space.
  18. 18Multimodal and Online Writing: Creative Interaction between Text and ImageThe writing genre for this chapter incorporates a variety of modalities.
  19. 19Scripting for the Public Forum: Writing to SpeakArticulate how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposes
  20. 20Portfolio Reflection: Your Growth as a WriterBecause the subject of this reflection is you and your work, no further research is required.