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This book introduces readers and writers to the techniques of discourse analysis, genre theory, and primary (including ethnographic) and secondary research. It also engages learners in extensive practice and a sequence of increasingly complex and comprehensive "Writer's Profiles," ending with a researched literature review and argument. Two casebooks offer illustrative and thematically-linked readings from a wide variety of public and professional sources.The bonk contains a broad-based sampling of academic writing, and professional and public genresjournal essays, fact sheets, newsletters, Web sites, and proposals.For individuals taking stock of their acquired personal skills and those required of professionals in the writing careers to which they aspire.

Preface

ix

Being Aware of Your Writing Practices

1

(18)

Chapter Preview

1

(1)

Reviewing the Core Elements: Purpose, Audience, Thesis, and Persona

2

(1)

Refining Your Purpose

3

(2)

Knowing Your Audience

5

(2)

Focusing Your Thesis

7

(1)

Controlling Your Persona

8

(3)

Conclusion

11

(1)

Checklist for Analyzing the Core Elements of Writing

12

(1)

Writer's Workshop

12

(3)

Writers on Writing

15

(3)

President in Search of a Publisher

15

(1)

Jimmy Carter

Practicing History

16

(1)

Barbara Tuchman

Making the Truth Believable

17

(1)

Tracy Kidder

Writer's Notebook

18

(1)

Being Aware of Your Rituals, Practices, and Habits

19

(22)

Chapter Preview

19

(1)

Writing Rituals

20

(1)

Composing Practices

21

(6)

Prewriting: Generating Content

21

(3)

Prewriting: Organizing Your Material

24

(3)

Working Habits

27

(7)

Drafting

27

(2)

Drafting Collaboratively

29

(1)

Revising

30

(2)

Editing and Proofreading

32

(2)

Checklist for Analyzing Writing Rituals, Composing Practices, and Working Habits

34

(1)

Writer's Workshop

34

(1)

Writers on Writing

35

(2)

Strengthened by a Pale Green Light

35

(2)

Reynolds Price

Writer's Notebook

37

(1)

Writer's Profile One: How Did I Become the Writer I Am?

38

(3)

Becoming Aware of Professional Writing Practices

41

(28)

Chapter Preview

41

(1)

Investigating the Profession

42

(1)

Analyzing a Discourse Community

43

(1)

Reflecting on Your Experiences: Asking Questions

43

(1)

Observing a Discourse Community

43

(1)

Writer's Notebook

44

(1)

Studying Forms of Communication

44

(10)

Genre

45

(1)

Writing Situation and Medium

45

(2)

Expanding the Definition: Oral and Visual Genres

47

(3)

Style

50

(2)

Design

52

(2)

Studying Writers in Their Environments: Primary Research

54

(1)

Ethnographic Research

54

(1)

Writer's Notebook

55

(1)

Getting Started on Primary Research

56

(2)

Ethical Considerations

56

(1)

Making Contacts

57

(1)

Keeping Things Organized

58

(5)

The Project Notebook

58

(2)

Note Taking When Interviewing and Observing

60

(1)

Getting Ready to Take Notes

61

(1)

Preparing for an Interview

62

(1)

Writer's Workshop

63

(1)

Writers on Writing

64

(5)

Natural Selections

64

(5)

E. O. Wilson

Learning from Professional Writing

69

(86)

Chapter Preview

69

(1)

Tracing the Genealogy of a Profession

69

(1)

Writer's Notebook

70

(1)

Putting Your Discourse Analysis Skills to Work

71

(1)

Casebook of Readings: Privacy in the Information Age

72

(1)

Writer's Notebook

72

(44)

Is Privacy Still Possible in the Twenty-First Century?

72

(9)

Jerry Berman

Paula Bruening

Technology as Security

81

(10)

Declan McCullagh

Balancing Security & Privacy in the Internet Age, Institute of Management & Administration

91

(7)

American Nursing Association Action Report: Privacy and Confidentiality, Introduced

98

(6)

Beverly L. Malone

Stop That Face!

104

(4)

Linda Rothstein

Talk Show Telling versus Authentic Telling: The Effects of the Popular Media on Secrecy and Openness

108

(8)

Evan Imber-Black

Writer's Workshop

116

(1)

Casebook of Readings: Weight, Body Image, and Identity

117

(1)

Writer's Notebook

117

(35)

Eating Disorders Information Sheets from the BodyWise Handbook, The National Women's Health Information Center

117

(8)

Fat World/Thin World: ``Fat Busters,'' ``Equivocators,'' ``Fat Boosters,'' and the Social Construction of Obesity

125

(16)

Karen Honeycutt

Shallow Hal (Movie Review)

141

(4)

Roger Ebert

Let Us Refer You. Today. (Advertisement), American Society of Plastic Surgeons

145

(2)

Buff Enough? (Book Review)

147

(5)

Jonathan Rauch

Writer's Profile Two: Where Am I Going as a Professional Writer?

152

(3)

Learning from Public Writing

155

(64)

Chapter Preview

155

(1)

Finding a Public Voice: Problem-Solving Strategies

155

(2)

Solving Problems with Others: Analyzing the Writing Situation

156

(1)

Solving Problems Alone: Analyzing the Writing Situation

156

(1)

Writer's Notebook

157

(1)

Putting Your Discourse Analysis Skills into Service

157

(1)

Casebook of Readings: Targeting Discrimination

158

(1)

Writer's Notebook

158

(27)

Take Action: Children's Rights Are Human Rights

158

(6)

Marc Kielburger

Craig Kielburger

Make Age Irrelevant by Beating Negative Attitudes

164

(4)

Sally James

Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space

168

(5)

Brent Staples

Reality Bites

173

(3)

Lisa Bennett

I Spy Sexism: A Public Education Campaign, Third Wave Foundation

176

(4)

Stigma Watch: Being Alert to Mental Health Stereotyping

180

(5)

Otto Wahl

Writer's Workshop

185

(1)

Casebook of Readings: Responding to Homelessness

186

(1)

Writer's Notebook

186

(28)

National Alliance to End Homelessness Web Site Home Page and FAQ

186

(4)

Transitions: Newsletter of the Center for Women in Transition

190

(6)

Let's Solve S. F.'s No. 1 Problem, Mike Sullivan and Plan C

196

(3)

Vehicularly Housed Residential Community: Project Description, Vehicularly Housed Residential Association & the Coalition on Homelessness

199

(9)

San Francisco

``Can You Spare 20p for a Cup of Tea?'' (Campaign Poster), Thames Reach Bondway (TRB)/Imagination (GIC) Ltd.

208

(2)

These Are Our Neighbors (Student Essay)

210

(4)

Nicole Stewart

Writer's Workshop

214

(1)

Writer's Profile Three: What Might I Do as a Public Writer?

215

(4)

Becoming a Practicing Writer

219

(18)

Chapter Preview

219

(1)

The Secondary Research Process: Resources, Techniques, and Styles

219

(1)

Selecting and Using Secondary Sources

220

(5)

Specialized Reference Works

220

(3)

Indexes and Abstracts

223

(1)

Specialized Professional Journals

224

(1)

The World Wide Web

225

(1)

Researching for Public Writing

225

(1)

Evaluating Sources

225

(4)

Recognizing Bias

225

(3)

Assessing Electronic Resources

228

(1)

Writer's Workshop

229

(1)

Documenting Your Sources

229

(3)

What to Document

230

(1)

Styles of Documentation

230

(1)

Informal Documentation

231

(1)

The Project Notebook

232

(2)

Keeping Track of Your Research

232

(1)

Reading and Analyzing Sources

233

(1)

Writing Project: Critique of a Published Professional Essay

234

(3)

Argument

237

(36)

Chapter Preview

237

(1)

Persuasion and Argument

237

(1)

Making Assumptions

238

(2)

Reviewing the Elements of Argument

240

(4)

Claims

240

(1)

Evidence

240

(3)

Refutation

243

(1)

Strategies for Arranging Arguments

244

(3)

The Counterargument

245

(1)

The Pro and Con Argument

245

(1)

The Problem-Solution Argument

246

(1)

Finding a Middle Ground

247

(1)

Writer's Workshop

248

(3)

Writing Project: Researched Position Paper

251

(1)

Sample Student Research Papers

252

(17)

Full or Partial Inclusion: A Look at the Debate about Where and How to Educate Special-Needs Students

253

(7)

Toni Spainhour

The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union

260

(9)

Marty Ruhaak

Guidelines for Making an Oral Presentation

269

(4)

Writing and Speaking

269

(1)

Presentation and Delivery

270

(1)

Practice, Practice, Practice

271

(2)

Appendix A Using and Designing Web Sites

273

(14)

Before You Start: Protecting Your Privacy

273

(1)

Successful Surfing

274

(3)

Getting There: Search Engines

274

(1)

Conducting Your Search

275

(1)

Evaluating Sites

276

(1)

Constructing and Maintaining Your Own Web Site

277

(3)

Tools for Construction: HTML and Servers

277

(1)

Designing a Web Site

278

(1)

Ways of Reading: Print versus Hypertext

279

(1)

Visual Complexity: Adding Images

279

(1)

Navigating: Overall Site Organization

280

(7)

Page Layout

281

(2)

Homepage: Core Information

283

(1)

Looking at a Sample Design

283

(2)

Editing and Maintaining Your Site

285

(2)

Appendix B Styles for Documenting Sources

287

(28)

Documenting Sources Using MLA Style

288

(7)

In-Text Citations

288

(1)

Preparing the List of Works Cited

289

(1)

Sample Entries for a List of Works Cited

290

(5)

Documenting Sources Using APA Style

295

(6)

In-Text Citations

295

(2)

Preparing the References List

297

(1)

Sample Entries for a List of References

298

(3)

Documenting Sources Using Chicago Manual Style

301

(7)

Using the Chicago Notes and Bibliography Style

302

(1)

Sample Entries for Notes and Bibliography Entries

303

(5)

Documenting Sources Using CSE Style

308

(4)

Using the CSE Citation-Sequence Style

308

(1)

Using a CSE References List

309

(1)

Sample Entries for a References List

310

(2)

List of Style Manuals and Supplementary Internet Sources

312

(3)

Index

315

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College students are projected to make several career changes within their working lifetimes. These transitions and the challenges of their complex personal and public lives will require informed flexibility. Professional and Public Writing: A Rhetoric and Reader for Advanced Compositionis designed to guide students through the writing required of them as students, professionals, and citizens. Its two central goals are: To help advanced students become confident, refined, and effective writers through an active critique of their undergraduate writing practices and of the writing requirements of their academic majors. To prepare students for the work required of professional and public writers in their varied discourse communities, each of which operates from distinct cognitive assumptions and within specific rhetorical contexts. Two core strategies are used to achieve these goals: Review of and in-depth engagement with the rhetorical principles introduced in the students'' earlier composition courses Introduction to and application of the principles and techniques of discourse analysis necessary for success in academic, professional, and public writing Instructor Expertise Because few English teachers are fully familiar with the many styles and genres required of student writers in their various majors, let alone the full range of demands made on all professional and public writers, Professional and Public Writing depends primarily on instructor expertise in teaching the fundamental rhetorical and research skills that enable any writer to enter a discourse community and identify its cognitive assumptions (values, interests, etc.) and rhetorical features (genres, style, design, etc.). The book provides guidelines and extensive materials for meeting these instructional goals. Student Readiness Although students are introduced to key concepts in freshman writing courses, they come to Advanced Composition actively pursuing a major and consciously moving into their professional and civic lives. This timing provides them with significant motivation and interest in refining their current academic skills and understanding the value of applying these skills to real-life situations. Professional and Public Writingis grounded in the assumption that these students can be taught the advanced rhetorical knowledge and research practices needed to write successfully for any discourse community within which they might find themselves. This same proficiency is of immediate use in completing the writing required by their advanced college courses. Writing Assignments The text is structured around extensive "Writing Activities" and sequenced assignments that meet the needs of students from a range of disciplines and with diverse learning styles and interests. As part of the process, students are asked to keep a "Writer''s Notebook" and to engage in collaboration, peer review, and both primary and secondary research. Formal assignments include three increasingly complex and comprehensive "Writer''s Profiles," a critical discourse analysis of a student-selected professional essay, and an argument based on a researched literature review. Each chapter also contains genre- and theme-based "Writer''s Workshops" that provide additional writing opportunities. Genre Modeling Samples of academic writing from a range of disciplines are used throughout the text for purposes of illustration and practice. In addition, two casebook chapters provide students the opportunity to read and analyze thematically linked readings: Professional Writing:"Privacy in the Information Age" and "Weight, Body Image, and Identity" Public Writing:"Targeting Discrimination" and "Responding to Homelessness" The readings represent genres employed by public and professional writers from diverse discourse communities--for example, a proposal by a grassroots community organization, a case study by a sociologist, fact sheets prepared by the government for educators, a Web site for homeless advocates, a position paper by a professional nursing organization, a literary essay published in an interdisciplinary humanities journal, and a researched journal article written for a law journal. Extensive reading apparatus prompts students to apply the concepts of discourse and genre analysis introduced in the opening chapters. Additional Features Frequent activities that encourage students to explore the correlation between their personal skills and those required of professionals in the careers to which they aspire Illustrations and readings from Across the Curriculum, including illustrative "Writers on Writing" selections in Chapters 1-3 An opportunity for students without a major to explore possible careers through research and writing An appendix on basic Web use and site construction that offers students and instructors options for research and publishing The nuts and bolts of both print and electronic research from project start to finish, including the skills necessary to evaluate and select appropriate sources Two complete sample student research projects illustrating MLA and APA styles and varied structures for argument Suggestions for formal oral presentations An appendix that describes the basic procedures and forms for citing and documenting sources according to MLA, APA, CMS, and CSE styles Although Professional and Public Writingis indebted to research in the areas of advanced composition, writing across the curriculum, ethnography, genre theory, discourse community analysis, and multiple literacies, chapters are written in a clear and engaging tone, introducing appropriate jargon only when it supports more conscious understanding of a practice or concept.

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