Writing Conventionsteaches the fundamentals of writing by inviting the writer to reflect on their own experiences as writers and to explore new strategies for a variety of academic writing projects.

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Alternate Contents Preface   PART ONE: KEY CONCEPTS IN WRITING AND READING   Chapter 1 Composing Our Composing Processes   Pose↔Composing Processes of Writing   Writing Project Part One   Responding to the Writing Situation   Using Language in Context   Material Resources of Writing   Writing Project Part Two Expanding Your Toolkit of Composing Strategies   Some cautions about how to talk about composing processes   The writing↔reading↔thinking↔talking connection Pre-writing, Drafting, Revision   Experimenting with Commonly Recommended Composing Strategies   Brainstorming Proofreading Outlining                                     Dictionary Use, Note-taking                                     Scrap Files, Note Taking                                      Re-reading, Satisficing, Questioning                                     Collaborating   Writing Project Part Three               Conclusion               Assignments       Chapter 2 Reading and Rereading             Writing Project Part One   Identifying Habits of Reading   Writing Project Part Two   Reading in Academic Contexts   Writing Project Part Three   Reading to Revise and Make New Connections   Writing Project Part Four   Experimenting with Underlining and Reverse Underlining   Conclusion   Assignments   Chapter 3 Composing Genres   Questions for Composing Genres   Writing Project Part One (1)   Writing Project Part One (2)   Strategies for Composing Genres in College   Learning an Assigned Genre’s Expected Characteristics   Writing Project Part Two (1)   Learning to Tinker with a Genre’s Expected Characteristics   Writing Project Part Two (2)   Writing Project Part Three   Conclusion   Assignments   Chapter 4 Vocabulary: Composing the Meaning of Words Learning a Specialized Vocabulary   The meaning of a word in its environment   Writing Project Part One:   Word Choice↔Thinking↔Living   Changes in Possibilities of Word Choice    Writing Project Part Two Using Words Critically and Creatively   Introducing new neighbors to an established word environment   Writing Project Part Three (1)   Researching the Historical Shifts in the Meanings of Individual Words   Writing Project Part Three (2) Meshing the Specialized Vocabularies of Diverse Groups Writing Project Part Three (3)    Writing Project Part Four   Conclusion   Assignments   Chapter 5 Audience: Composing Ways of Reading   Anticipating and Proposing an Audience     Anticipating and Proposing Ways of Reading   Getting Started   What type of writing am I expected to produce for this assignment?    Where and when is my work going to be evaluated?   What has the reaction been to similar types of writing on similar occasions?      Posing and Revising Audience when Reading and Writing Proposing Audience in Writing Writing Project Part One   Strategies for Composing Audience   Looking at the form of assigned readings Writing Project Part Two (1)   Imagining an actual reader’s response to my writing Writing Project Part Two (2)   Reading a text in a different context   Writing Project Part Two (3) Conclusion             Writing Project Part Three Assignments Chapter 6 Purpose: Composing Goals When Reading and Writing   Setting General Purposes When Getting Started   Exploring Connections among genre, purpose, and occasion   Assessing the relations among Genre, Purpose, and Occasion   Writing Project Part One   Adding and Revising Purposes When Writing   Allow alternative purposes to emerge during writing   Writing Project Part Two (1)   Creating breaks to explore alternative purposes   Writing Project Part Two (2)   Writing Project Part Two (3)   Writing Project Part Three   Conclusion   Assignments     Chapter 7 Error: Working Rules   Common Beliefs about Error   Seeing What (May Be) There on the Page   Proofreading Techniques   Summary of Proofreading Techniques   What to Do with What You’ve Seen: Working Rules   Working, Not Just Following, Rules   Matters of Agreement and Disagreement   Conclusion   Assignments   PART TWO: SELECTED READINGS   Jean Anyon.  “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work.”    Gloria Anzaldúa.  “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.”    James Baldwin.  “If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?”   Sarah Boxer.  “A New Poland, No Joke.”    Sandra Cisneros.  "Little Miracles, Kept Promises."    Stephen Jay Gould.  “A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse.”    Langston Hughes.  “Theme for English B.”   Eve Fox Keller.  “Language and Science: Genetics, Embryology, and the Discourse of Gene Action.”    Thomas Kuhn.  “The Historical Structure of Scientific Discovery.”    Royal Philips Corporation.  “Sense and simplicity.” [advertisement]    Leslie Marmon Silko.  “Fences Against Freedom.”    Karen Springen and Stanford Kay.  “Green Malls: The Color of Money.”    Henry David Thoreau.  “Economy.”   Henry David Thoreau.  “The Bean Field.”    Haunani Trask.  "From a Native Daughter."    Alice Walker.  “In the Closet of the Soul.”    PART THREE: ASSIGNMENT SEQUENCES   Assignment Sequences   Writing History 1.      Trask’s View of History Writing 2.      Trask’s Writing of History 3.      Testing Trask’s Perspective on History Writing with Silko 4.      Considering a Different View of History Writing: Thomas Kuhn 5.      Kuhn’s Writing of History 6.      Testing Kuhn’s Perspective on History Writing 7.      Writing History: Tentative Conclusions 8.      The History of What You’ve Written   Writing Science 1.      Thomas Kuhn’s Critique of Scientific Discovery 2.      Applying Kuhn’s Critique to Kuhn’s Discovery 3.      Keller on Science and Writing 4.      Gould as a Test Case for Scientific Writing 5.      Expanding Research on Science Writing 6.      Drawing Conclusions   Writing Society 1.      Anyon and Your Schooling 2.      Applying Anyon’s Approach to Anyon’s Text 3.      Your Writing as Work 4.      Alice Walker and the Effects of Writing on Society 5.      Anyon’s and Walker’s Writing as Work on Society 6.      Another Voice on Writing and Society: Henry David Thoreau 7.      Your Writing as Work on Society   Language and the Self 1.      James Baldwin on Language and the Self 2.      Baldwin’s Argument and “Little Miracles” 3.      Trask and Baldwin on Language and the Self 4.      Adding Hughes to the Dialogue on Language and the Self 5.      Your Language, Your Self Index