Twenty Writing Assignments in Context
An Instructor’s Resource for the Composition Classroom$19.99
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About the Book
Twenty original, classroom-tested assignments: This innovative collection of college writing assignments explores the practical applications of each lesson. Drawing upon current best practices, each chapter includes a discussion of the rationale behind the assignment, along with supplemental elements such as guidelines for evaluation, prewriting exercises and tips for avoiding common pitfalls. The assignments are designed for a range of courses, from first-year composition to upper-division writing in various disciplines.
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About the Author(s)
Praise for the Book
“innovative and diverse collection…recommended”—Midwest Book Review.
Bibliographic Details
Edited by Melissa Bender and Karma Waltonen
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 288
Bibliographic Info: 21 photos, notes, bibliographies, index
Copyright Date: 2017
pISBN: 978-1-4766-6509-2
eISBN: 978-1-4766-2729-8
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
The Rhetoric of Everyday Objects: An Assignment Sequence (Melissa Bender) 7
Writing and Designing Informational Booklets for International Exchange Students (M. Ann Brady) 20
Framing the Personal Narrative: Composition and Documentary Film (Jodie Childers) 34
Blogging Advanced Composition (Elisa Cogbill-Seiders, Ed Nagelhout and Denise Tillery) 45
Proposal Writing in Technical Communications (Barbara J. D’Angelo) 60
Past Meets Present: Exploring the University Archives to Compose and Connect (Christine Denecker) 75
Writing the Brain: A Multimodal Assignment Sequence (Jason W. Ellis) 92
Making Financial Contracts User-Friendly: Conducting Research, Redesigning Documents and Proposing Changes in the Workplace (Sara K. Gunning) 106
Geobiographies: A Place-Based Assignment Sequence (Jim Henry) 118
The Discipline Resource Guide Website (Dalyn Luedtke) 131
Global Urban Centers: A Rhetorical Analysis of Street Art (Gerald Maki) 143
The Academic Discourse Project (Gracemarie Mike) 153
Political Cartoons and Multimodal Composition: The Visual Argument Assignment (Erin Dee Moore) 164
Researching and Writing a History of Composition-Rhetoric (Lori Ostergaard) 179
Critical Analysis of a Wikipedia Entry (Gwendolynne Reid) 190
“In the Year”: Using Website Design for ePortfolios (Katherine Robbins) 204
Workplace Document Analysis and Evaluation (Melissa Vosen Callens) 216
The Partner Project: Advanced Argument (Karma Waltonen) 226
Captain Discourse and Other Heroes: Learning about Writing Research through Comic Books (Courtney L. Werner and Nicole I. Caswell) 244
Critical Analysis of Student Ethnography (Abby Wilkerson) 257
About the Contributors 271
Index 275