Description: I. UNDERSTANDING THE SUBJECT OF WRITING. 1. Rhetoric and Writing: Background and Concepts. 2. Composing Processes. 3. Collaborative Writing. II. DEVELOPING A WRITER'S REPERTOIRE: STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES. 4. Invention. 5. Arrangement. 6. Style. 7. Memory and Delivery. III. EXPANDING YOUR REPERTOIRE: EXPRESSIVE AIM WRITING. 8. Expressive Aim Writing: An Overview. 9. Repertoire Focus: Recounting Events. 10. Repertoire Focus: Portraying Characters and Depicting Places. IV. EXPANDING YOUR REPERTOIRE: REFERENTIAL AIM WRITING. 11. Referential Aim Writing: An Overview. 12. Repertoire Focus: Explaining a Subject. 13. Repertoire Focus: Analyzing a Subject. V. EXPANDING YOUR REPERTOIRE: PERSUASIVE AIM WRITING. 14. Persuasive Aim Writing. 15. Repertoire Focus: Evaluating a Subject. 16. Repertoire Focus: Declaring a Position on an Issue. 17. Repertoire Focus: Proposing a Solution. EPILOGUE. VI. READINGS. So Tsi-fai, Sophronia Liu. Herman Hollerith: Inventor, Manager, Entrepreneur-A Centennial Remembrance, George E. Biles, Alfred A. Bolton, Bernadette M. DiRe. Coretta King: Revisited, Alice Walker. Wyoming: The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich. Toward Something American, Peter Marin. Orientation Among Teenagers in Puerto Rico, Wanda Del Toro and Bradley S. Grenberg. Producing a Video on a Technical Subject: A Guide, Danny Dowhal, Gary Bist, Peter Kohlmann, Stan Musker, and Heather Rogers. Teaching Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings": A Thematic Approach, Carolyn Kallsen Pate. The Phenomenon of Phantom Students: Diagnosis and Treatment, Patricia Nelson Limerick. Six Pawnee Crania: Historical and Contemporary Issues Associated with the Massacre and Decapitation of Pawnee Indians in 1869, James Riding In. An Image of Africa, Chinua Achebe. Life on the Global Assembly Line, Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes. VII. A GUIDE TO LOGIC AND REASONING. VIII. A GUIDE FOR WRITING ESSAY EXAMINATIONS. IX. A GUIDE FOR DOCUMENTING KNOWLEDGE BY OBSERVATION. X. A GUIDE TO CLASSROOM ENGLISH.

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