Grounds for Writers

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List of 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 Purpose
Author: Persona, Stance, and Voice
Rhetorical Analysis: Looking at/for the Author
Audience: Creating Community
Rhetorical Analysis: Finding the Audience
Purpose: Arguing to Persuade
Reading for Author, Audience, and Purpose                             
Rhetorical Analysis: What Does Effective Persuasive Prose Look Like?
Writing Assignments
 
Chapter Two     Rhetorical Uses of Critical Frames
Frames, Lenses, Perspectives
Rhetorical Analysis: Using Frames to Shape Meaning
Rhetorical Uses of Critical Frames
Rhetorical Analysis: Reading for Persuasive Strategies
Reading for Critical Frames and Rhetorical Choices
Writing Assignments
 
Chapter Three     The Rhetorical Use(s) of Conventions
A Rhetorical Approach to Writing Conventions
Rhetorical Analysis: Writing as a Social Situation
Genre, Thesis, Voice
Rhetorical Analysis: Working with Thesis and Voice through Genre
Genre and Organization
Rhetorical Values over Time
Writing Assignments
 
PART II            The Psychoanalytic Frame
Introduction and Historical Origins
Adding to the Conversation
Rhetorical Issues in the Psychoanalytic Frame
 
Chapter Four     Exploring Psychoanalytic Frames
Jerome Kagan and Ernest Havemann, “Introduction to Psychoanalysis”
Sigmund Freud, from Civilization and Its Discontents
Terry Eagleton, “Psychoanalysis”
Writing from a Psychoanalytic Frame: A Sample Drafting Process
Writing Assignments
 
Chapter Five     Critically Reading Case Studies
Jack Schaefer, from Shane
The Brothers Grimm, “Little Red Riding Hood”
 “Pygmalion and Galatea”
Roy Richard Grinker, “Pygmalion”
Writing Assignments
 
Chapter Six     Connecting Texts and Audiences
Nancy Mairs, “On Touching by Accident”
Scott H. Decker and Barrik Van Winkle, from Life in the Gang
Jon Krakauer, from Into the Wild
Samantha Power, from A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Through a Psychoanalytic Frame
Writing Assignments
Writing Projects: Framing and Composing from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
 
PART III:         The Materialist Critique
Introduction: Linking Language, Ideology, and the Real World
Adding to the Conversation
 Rhetorical Issues in the Materialist Critique
 
Chapter Seven     Exploring the Materialist Critique
Karl Marx, from Critique of Political Economy
                                               
Friedrich Engels, fromConditions of the Working Class in England
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from The German Ideology
Ignacio Martin-Baro, from Writings for a Liberation Psychology
Richard and Dorothy Wertz, from Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America
Writing from a Materialist Frame: A Sample Drafting Process
Writing Assignments
 
Chapter Eight     Exploring  Social Values
Clarence J. Karier, from The Individual, Society and Education
E. D. Hirsch, Jr., from Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
Jean Anyon, “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work”
Writing Assignments
 
Chapter Nine     Exploring Legal Values
Bruce Catton, from Reflections on the Civil War
Sidney Lens, from The Labor Wars
Through 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 America
Neil Postman, from Amusing Ourselves to Death             
Thomas de Zengotita, “The Numbing of the American Mind”
Writing Assignments
Writing Projects: Framing and Composing from a Materialist Perspective
 
PART IV:         Working with Postcolonial Frames        
Introduction and Historical Origins
Adding to the Conversation
Identifying Rhetorical Issues in Postcolonial Critique          
                          
Chapter Eleven    Exploring Postcolonial Critique
Hans Bertens, “Postcolonial Studies”
Building the Frame    
Aime Cesaire, from Discourse on Colonialism
Building the Frame
David Henry Hwang, Afterword to M. Butterfly     
Building the Frame    
Writing from a Postcolonial Perspective: A Sample Drafting Process
Writing Assignments
 
Chapter 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 Masks
Through a Postcolonial Frame        
Writing Assignments
 
Chapter Thirteen    Exploring Domestic Colonization
Victor Villanueva, “An American of Color”
Through a Postcolonial Frame        
Ann Fadiman, from The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Through a Postcolonial Frame
Jonathan Kozol, from Savage Inequalities
Through a Postcolonial Frame
Writing Assignments
 
Chapter Fourteen   Exploring Resistant Voices and Rhetorical Forms
Gloria 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 Assignments
Writing Projects: Framing and Composing from a Postcolonial Perspective                    
PART V:          Working with a Semiotic Frame
Introduction and Historical Origins
Adding to the Conversation
Identifying Rhetorical Issues in Semiotics
 
Chapter Fifteen     Exploring Semiotics
Paul Cobley and Litza Jansz, from Introducing Semiotics
Building the Frame
Jack Solomon,“Semiotics: The Science of the Sign”
Building the Frame
Roland Barthes, from Mythologies
Building the Frame
Writing from a Semiotics Frame: A Sample Drafting Process
Writing Assignments
 
Chapter Sixteen    Exploring Cultural Myths
Dominick A. Miserandino, “Anthony Robbins, Anthony-Motivational Speaker and Author”
Through a Semiotics Frame Anonymous, from Comp Tales
Through a Semiotics Frame
Francisco Jimenez, “The Circuit”
Through a Semiotics Frame
Writing Assignments
 
Chapter Seventeen     Exploring Visual Signs
Cultural Texts:  A Syllabus; Contract; Brochures
Through a Semiotic Frame     Writing Assignments
Writing Projects: Framing and Composing Semiotically
 
Alternative Table of Contents
 
WPA Outcomes for First-Year Composition
 
Glossary of Rhetorical and Critical Terms

Summary

Through the lenses of four critical frames, Grounds for Writing shows students how texts can be read from different perspectives and how those perspectives can shape their own writing. 
 
    The three chapters that make up Part 1 are devoted to reading and writing critically. These chapters also give basic coverage of critical methods and explain how to analyze texts rhetorically using critical frames.
    Parts 2 to 5 each cover a critical frame-Psychoanalytic (Part 2), Materialist (Part 3), Postcolonial (Part 4), and Semiotic (Part 5).  
Each Part opens with an  introduction that covers the key concepts and rhetorical issues associated with the frame.  The first chapter in each Part   (Chapters 4, 7, 11, and 15 )  includes  primary source readings--for example in Chapter 4 students read an excerpt from Freud on psychoanalysis, in Chapter 7 they read  excerpts from Karl Marx. To help students see how to apply the critical frames to their own writing, these chapters conclude with a section called  “Applying the Frame: A Sample Drafting Process.”  These sections use the film JurassicPark  to  illustrate  how different critical frames pose different ways of seeing a single text and lead to different interpretations.  Students are also shown  how each frame uses different rhetorical approaches.
    The balance of the chapters ( 5-6,  8-10, 12-14, and 16-17) include readings that students analyze from  the point of view of the  critical frame being studied. Every reading is followed by discussion questions and writing assignments end each chapter.  Each Part concludes with writing projects  that ask student to write about  contemporary issues from the perspective  of the critical frame. Assignments are varied and allow students to submit their projects  as conventional essays or in a genre of their choice.
 

Product details

• Authors: Jeanne Gunner, Doug Sweet
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9780321055293
• ISBN: 978-0-321-05529-3
• No. of pages: 656
• Weight: 870 g
• Series: Longman; Longman
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