Full Description
Through the lenses of four critical frames, Grounds for Writing shows the reader how texts can be read from different perspectives and how those perspectives can shape their own writing.
Contents
Preface to Instructors PART I Establishing the Grounds for Writing: Rhetorical Theory and Critical Frames Chapter One The Basics of Rhetoric: Author, Audience, and PurposeAuthor: Persona, Stance, and VoiceRhetorical Analysis: Looking at/for the AuthorAudience: Creating CommunityRhetorical Analysis: Finding the AudiencePurpose: Arguing to PersuadeReading for Author, Audience, and Purpose Rhetorical Analysis: What Does Effective Persuasive Prose Look Like?Writing Assignments Chapter Two Rhetorical Uses of Critical FramesFrames, Lenses, PerspectivesRhetorical Analysis: Using Frames to Shape MeaningRhetorical Uses of Critical FramesRhetorical Analysis: Reading for Persuasive StrategiesReading for Critical Frames and Rhetorical ChoicesWriting AssignmentsChapter Three The Rhetorical Use(s) of Conventions A Rhetorical Approach to Writing ConventionsRhetorical Analysis: Writing as a Social SituationGenre, Thesis, VoiceRhetorical Analysis: Working with Thesis and Voice through GenreGenre and OrganizationRhetorical Values over TimeWriting Assignments PART II The Psychoanalytic FrameIntroduction and Historical OriginsAdding to the ConversationRhetorical Issues in the Psychoanalytic FrameChapter Four Exploring Psychoanalytic FramesJerome Kagan and Ernest Havemann, "Introduction to Psychoanalysis"Sigmund Freud, from Civilization and Its DiscontentsTerry Eagleton, "Psychoanalysis"Writing from a Psychoanalytic Frame: A Sample Drafting Process Writing AssignmentsChapter Five Critically Reading Case StudiesJack Schaefer, from ShaneThe Brothers Grimm, "Little Red Riding Hood""Pygmalion and Galatea"Roy Richard Grinker, "Pygmalion"Writing Assignments Chapter Six Connecting Texts and AudiencesNancy Mairs, "On Touching by Accident"Scott H. Decker and Barrik Van Winkle, from Life in the GangJon Krakauer, from Into the WildSamantha Power, from A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of GenocideThrough a Psychoanalytic FrameWriting Assignments Writing Projects: Framing and Composing from a Psychoanalytic Perspective PART III: The Materialist CritiqueIntroduction: Linking Language, Ideology, and the Real WorldAdding to the ConversationRhetorical Issues in the Materialist CritiqueChapter Seven Exploring the Materialist CritiqueKarl Marx, from Critique of Political EconomyFriedrich Engels, fromConditions of the Working Class in EnglandKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from The German IdeologyIgnacio Martin-Baro, from Writings for a Liberation PsychologyRichard and Dorothy Wertz, from Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in AmericaWriting from a Materialist Frame: A Sample Drafting ProcessWriting Assignments Chapter Eight Exploring Social Values Clarence J. Karier, from The Individual, Society and EducationE. D. Hirsch, Jr., from Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to KnowJean Anyon, "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work"Writing AssignmentsChapter Nine Exploring Legal Values Bruce Catton, from Reflections on the Civil WarSidney Lens, from The Labor WarsThrough a Materialist Frame Web Pages: "Three Days of Hell in Los Angeles"Writing Assignments Chapter Ten Exploring Corporate Values Charles A. Reich, from The Greening of AmericaNeil Postman, from Amusing Ourselves to Death Thomas de Zengotita, "The Numbing of the American Mind"Writing AssignmentsWriting Projects: Framing and Composing from a Materialist Perspective PART IV: Working with Postcolonial Frames Introduction and Historical OriginsAdding to the ConversationIdentifying Rhetorical Issues in Postcolonial Critique Chapter Eleven Exploring Postcolonial CritiqueHans Bertens, "Postcolonial Studies"Building the Frame Aime Cesaire, from Discourse on ColonialismBuilding the FrameDavid Henry Hwang, Afterword to M. Butterfly Building the Frame Writing from a Postcolonial Perspective: A Sample Drafting ProcessWriting AssignmentsChapter Twelve Exploring Perceptions of "Others" Paul Theroux, "Walkabout in Woop Woop"Through a Postcolonial Frame Elizabeth Bumiller, "Beyond the Veil: The Women of the Village of Khajuron"Through a Postcolonial Frame Frantz Fanon, from Black Skin, White MasksThrough a Postcolonial Frame Writing AssignmentsChapter Thirteen Exploring Domestic Colonization Victor Villanueva, "An American of Color"Through a Postcolonial Frame Ann Fadiman, from The Spirit Catches You and You Fall DownThrough a Postcolonial FrameJonathan Kozol, from Savage InequalitiesThrough a Postcolonial FrameWriting AssignmentsChapter Fourteen Exploring Resistant Voices and Rhetorical FormsGloria Anzaldua, "Towards a New Consciousness"Through a Postcolonial Frame Jessica Enoch, "Inscribing Zitkala Sa"Through a Postcolonial Frame bell hooks, "Language: Teaching New Worlds/New Words"Through a Postcolonial Frame Writing AssignmentsWriting Projects: Framing and Composing from a Postcolonial Perspective PART V: Working with a Semiotic FrameIntroduction and Historical OriginsAdding to the ConversationIdentifying Rhetorical Issues in SemioticsChapter Fifteen Exploring SemioticsPaul Cobley and Litza Jansz, from Introducing SemioticsBuilding the FrameJack Solomon,"Semiotics: The Science of the Sign"Building the FrameRoland Barthes, from MythologiesBuilding the FrameWriting from a Semiotics Frame: A Sample Drafting ProcessWriting AssignmentsChapter Sixteen Exploring Cultural MythsDominick A. Miserandino, "Anthony Robbins, Anthony-Motivational Speaker and Author"Through a Semiotics Frame Anonymous, from Comp TalesThrough a Semiotics FrameFrancisco Jimenez, "The Circuit"Through a Semiotics FrameWriting Assignments Chapter Seventeen Exploring Visual SignsCultural Texts: A Syllabus; Contract; BrochuresThrough a Semiotic Frame Writing Assignments Writing Projects: Framing and Composing SemioticallyAlternative Table of ContentsWPA Outcomes for First-Year CompositionGlossary of Rhetorical and Critical Terms
