The Composition of Everyday Life, 2009 MLA Update Edition
ISBN: 9780495802037 | 0495802034
Edition: 3rdFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 6/10/2009
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Showing students that the act of writing is connected to everyday living, THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Third Edition, emphasizes invention while helping student writers rediscover concepts, uncover meaning, and rethink the world around them.
| Inventing Ideas | |
| Asking Questions | |
| Re-Inventing Education | |
| Considering the Essay | |
| Reading and Relating to Essays | |
| Getting Beyond the Weasel: Reading for Rhetoric | |
| Applying Rhetoric to Your Own Writing | |
| How to Use the Composition of Everyday Life | |
| Remembering who you were | |
| Readings | |
| "B... MORE | |
| "How I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant." | |
| "The Thrill of Victory... The Agony of Parents." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Explaining Relationships | |
| Readings | |
| "Americans and the Land." | |
| "Mugged." | |
| "Political Adaptation." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Observing | |
| Readings | |
| "Living Like Weasels." | |
| "The Front Porch." | |
| "Corpse Colloquy." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Analyzing Concepts | |
| Readings | |
| "What It Means to Be Creative." | |
| "'Have It Your Way': Consumerism Invades Education." | |
| "What Is Education?" | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Analyzing Images | |
| Readings | |
| "Rise of the Image Culture: Re-Imagining the American Dream." | |
| "The Mighty Image." | |
| "An Imperfect Reality." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Making Arguments | |
| Readings | |
| "Why a Great Book's Education Is the Most Practical!" | |
| "Cruelty, Civility, and Other Weighty Matters." | |
| "Floppy Disk Fallacies." | |
| "Whales R Us." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Responding to Arguments | |
| Readings | |
| "What Orwell Didn't Know." | |
| "Entitlement Education." | |
| "Reality Check." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Evaluating | |
| Readings | |
| "Goodbye Cruel Word." | |
| "The Andy Griffith Show: Return to Normal." | |
| "Star Trek." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Searching for Causes | |
| Readings | |
| "Sex, Lies, and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?" | |
| "Throwing Up Childhood." | |
| "American Consumerism." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Proposing Solutions | |
| Readings | |
| "How to Say Nothing in 500 Words." | |
| "Attending to the Word." | |
| "Reverence for Food." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Thinking Radically (Re-Seeing the World) | |
| Readings | |
| "Why Doesn't GM Sell Crack?" | |
| "An Apology to Future Generations." | |
| "Unemployed, and Working Hard." | |
| Outside Reading | |
| Invention | |
| Point of Contact | |
| Analysis | |
| Public Resonance | |
| Thesis | |
| Rhetorical Tools | |
| Organizational Strategies | |
| Writer's Voice | |
| Vitality | |
| Peer Review | |
| Delivery | |
| Research and Writing (Gathering and using Information from Sources) | |
| Basic Concepts | |
| Primary Research | |
| Observation | |
| Interviews | |
| Surveys | |
| Secondary Research | |
| Finding Sources | |
| Evaluating Sources | |
| Processing Ideas from Sources | |
| Integrating Ideas from Sources | |
| Organizing Sources | |
| Documenting Sources | |
| MLA Style | |
| APA Style | |
| Anthology: Everyday Rhetoric | |
| Remembering | |
| "A Beat Education." | |
| "The Grapes of Mrs. Rath." | |
| "The Greatest Gift." | |
| Explaining Relationships | |
| "We Love Them. We Hate Them. We Take Them." | |
| "What the Honey Meant." | |
| "Dog-Tied." | |
| "Friend or Foe?" | |
| Observing | |
| "Planting a Tree." | |
| "Gombe." | |
| "Onward, Gamers, Onward!" | |
| "The Farm on the Hill." | |
| "The Holy Land." | |
| Analyzing Concepts | |
| "Why We No Longer Use the 'H' Word." | |
| "Cookies or Heroin." | |
| Public Art | |
| Analyzing Images | |
| "Addiction as a Relationship." | |
| "Cartoons 'n Comics: Communication to the Quick." | |
| "The Power of Images: Creating the Myths of Our Time." | |
| Making Arguments | |
| "Crimes Against Humanity." | |
| "Beware of Drug Sales." | |
| "Professional Letter." | |
| "The Worst Crime of the 20th Century | |
| How Would Jesus Drive?" Responding to Arguments | |
| "Is Hunting Ethical?" | |
| "Letter from Birmingham Jail." | |
| "Surrender Speech." | |
| "A More Perfect Union." | |
| Evaluating | |
| "No Country for Old Men." | |
| "Politics and the English Language." | |
| "Revealing the Ugly Cartoonish Truth: The Simpsons." | |
| "Hip-Hop: A Roadblock or Pathway to Black Empowerment?" | |
| "The Parting Breath of the Now-Perfect Woman." | |
| Searching for Causes | |
| "The New Politics of Consumption: Why Americans Want So Much More Than They Need." | |
| "A Boy's Life." | |
| "When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is a 'Waste of Time.'" | |
| Large Office Typing Pool | |
| Proposing Solutions | |
| "Drugs." | |
| "Technology, Movement, and Sound." | |
| "Television: Destroying Childhood." | |
| "Communication: Its Blocking and Its Facilitation." | |
| "A Modest Proposal." | |
| Thinking Radically | |
| "Farming and the Global Economy." | |
| "Group Minds." | |
| "Not Homeschooling? What's Your Excuse?" | |
| "Was I a Good American in the Time of George Bush?" | |
| Rhetorical Handbook | |
| Organization | |
| Paragraphs | |
| Writing Style | |
| Sentence Vitality | |
| Coherence and Conciseness | |
| Complete Sentences | |
| Agreement | |
| Parallelism | |
| Word Choice | |
| Punctuation | |
| How Sentences Work: A Look at Basic Grammar | |
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