Volume 1

Reinventing Invention: Discovery and Investment in Writing

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Michelle D. Trim & Megan Lynn Isaac Volume 1 Chapter Description Our chapter begins by describing the role of invention in the writing process using a mixture of accessible scholarship and specific comments from our students. We make connections between student investment in writing, adopting a successful writing process, and performing different invention strategies. In […]

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Taking Flight: Connecting Inner and Outer Realities during Invention

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Susan E. Antlitz Volume 1 Chapter Description One of the toughest challenges students face is figuring out what to write about. Connecting personal identity and purpose to more public contexts and subjects can play a significant role in helping students to write confidently. “Taking Flight” acknowledges the anxiety writers can feel when faced with the

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From Topic to Presentation: Making Choices to Develop Your Writing

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Beth L. Hewett Volume 1 Chapter Description Students need to learn how to revise their writing based on readers’ feedback, but they rarely know how to make such decisions. This chapter teaches students how to make decisions about essay development and revision by modeling and explaining a writing teacher’s decision-making process. Every semester, I ask

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Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps Toward Rhetorical Analysis

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Laura Bolin Carroll Volume 1 Chapter Description Students are digital natives who spend their days saturated in rhetorical messages that they have learned to decode quite well – for example, they can easily size up an instructor within moments of walking into the classroom. As students look at various messages from fashion advertising to political

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So You’ve Got a Writing Assignment. Now What?

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Corrine E. Hinton Volume 1 Chapter Description Interpreting writing assignments can be a challenge for anyone. For first-year college students, however, it can be an overwhelming struggle as students learn to adjust to new academic pressures and expectations. What is my instructor evaluating? Do I need an argument? How do I structure my response? Questions

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What is Academic Writing?

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Lennie L. Irvin Volume 1 Chapter Description This chapter explores the task of writing in college. It details common myths about academic writing and the importance of developing a “writer’s sense” within the writing situation. It identifies features of the complex “literacy task” college writing assignments require and decodes elements of the academic writing situation

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