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Shirley Brice Heath, Protean Shapes in Literacy Events: Ever-Shifting Oral and Literate Traditions
Getting Ready to Read
The Literacy Event
The Community Context
At Home in Trackton
At Church
At Work
Conclusions
Works Cited
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas
Tony Mirabelli, Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers
Getting Ready to Read
Literacy and Contemporary Theory
Methodology
Lou’s Restaurant
The Menu
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas
James Paul Gee, Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction
Getting Ready to Read
Works Cited
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas
Andrew R. Cline, A Rhetoric Primer
Getting Ready to Read
A Brief History of Ancient Greek Rhetoric
Theories of Rhetoric(s)
Rhetorical Situation and Kairos
The Canons of Rhetoric
Invention
Stasis Theory
Arrangement
Style
Memory
Delivery
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas
Ann M. Penrose and Cheryl Geisler, Reading and Writing without Authority
Getting Ready to Read
Observing the Effects of Authority
Texts Are Authored
Authors Present Knowledge in the Form of Claims
Knowledge Claims Can Conflict
Knowledge Claims Can be Tested
Reading and Writing without Authority
Teaching Towards Authority
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas
Ken Hyland, Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing
Similarities in All Academic Research Articles
Differences across Disciplines
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas
John Dawkins, Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool
Getting Ready to Read
Sentences and Independent Clauses
Punctuating Single Independent Clauses
Raising and Lowering
Multiple Independent Clauses
Punctuation Alone
Coordination Alone
Punctuation with Coordinator
Pedagogy
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas
Junot Díaz, Becoming a Writer
Getting Ready to Read
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas
Barbara Tomlinson, Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts: Metaphors for Revision
Getting Ready to Read
Metaphorical Stories
Casting and Recasting
Sculpting
Painting
Sewing and Tailoring
Tying Things Off
Fixing Things
Cutting
Varied Perspectives and Internal Coherence
A Network of Revising Stories
Implications
References
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas
Lauren Perry, Writing with Four Senses: A Hearing Impaired Person’s Writing
Getting Ready to Read
Foundation of Writing Skills
Writing Differences and Errors Among Hearing Impaired Students
What can Still be Learned?
Methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
Works Cited
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas
Stephen A. Bernhardt, Seeing the Text
Getting Ready to Read
Notes
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas
James Sosnoski, Hyper-Readers and Their Reading Engines
Getting Ready to Read
1. Filtering
2. Skimming
3. Pecking
4. Imposing
5. Filming— “. . . but I saw the film”
6. Trespassing
7. De-authorizing
8. Fragmenting
Rain Clouds on the Horizon
Conclusion
Notes
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas
Ann Cochran, Blogging the Recovery from Anorexia: A New Platform for the Voice of ED
Getting Ready to Read
The Nature of Anorexia
Methods
Results and Discussion
Implications
Notes
Works Cited
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
Applying and Exploring Ideas