Composition of Everyday Life A Guide to Writing

Name: Composition of Everyday Life A Guide to Writing
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ISBN: 9781428262980

ISBN-10: 1428262989

ISBN-13: 9781428262980

Edition: 3rd 2010

Authors: John Mauk, John Metz

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Showing students that the act of writing is connected to everyday living, THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, 3e emphasizes invention while helping student writers re-discover concepts, uncover meaning, and re-think the world around them.

Book details

List price: $149.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 12/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.442

John Mauk has a Ph.D. in rhetoric and writing from Bowling Green State University and a Masters in language and literature from the University of Toledo. Scholarship includes an article on critical geography and composition (COLLEGE ENGLISH, March 2003). Mauk now teaches composition and rhetoric courses at Northwestern Michigan College. In 2007, he served on the NCTE Nominating Committee.

John Metz has a B.A. in English from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (1983) and an M.A. in English from the University of Toledo (1985). He has taught first-year writing for over 20 years and currently teaches at Kent State University at Geauga in Twinsburg, Ohio.




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


Brent Staples, Black Men, Public Spaces


Cindy Bosley, How I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant


Jennifer Schwind-Pawlak, 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


David Crabtree, Ph.D., Why a Great Book''s Education Is the Most Practical! Ann Marie Paulin, Cruelty, Civility, and Other Weighty Matters


Elizabeth Bohnhorst, Floppy Disk Fallacies


Jayme Stayer, 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


George Lakoff, What Orwell Didn''t Know


Daniel Bruno, Entitlement Education


Allison Hester, 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


Steven Poole, Goodbye Cruel Word


Ed Bell, The Andy Griffith Show: Return to Normal


Jaren Provo, 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


Deborah Tannen, Sex, Lies, and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other? Leonard Kress, Throwing Up Childhood


Jamie Bentley, 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


Paul Roberts, How to Say Nothing in 500 Words


Deirdre Mahoney, Attending to the Word


Rachel Scofield, 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


Michael Moore, Why Doesn''t GM Sell Crack? Simon Benlow, An Apology to Future Generations


Simon Wykoff, Unemployed, and Working Hard


Outside Reading


Invention


Point of Contact


Analysis


Public Reso