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Focus on Writing : What College Students Want to Know by Laurie McMillan (2018, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherBroadview Press

ISBN-101554813883

ISBN-139781554813889

eBay Product ID (ePID)4069276215

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Number of Pages382 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFocus on Writing : What College Students Want to Know

Publication Year2018

SubjectRhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing, Readers

TypeTextbook

AuthorLaurie Mcmillan

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews"With Focus on Writing, Laurie McMillan personalizes the anthology-textbook genre: each text includes a motivating note on 'why I included it,' and each chapter opens with an essay grounding rhetorical principles in both disciplinary conversations and McMillan's own lived experience as a writer, across genres and contexts. Prominent sidebars throughout the book remind us to CONNECT, with prompts to help link across chapters and courses and non-academic experiences, with a goal of improved transfer. Though the named audience is college students, teachers will benefit from McMillan's example: reading the book is like sharing an office with an especially thoughtful and knowledgeable colleague, learning from them how to work with students." -- Benjamin Miller, University of Pittsburgh "Laurie McMillan's Focus on Writingprovides a fresh approach to 'writing about writing.' Unlike many texts, it speaks directly to students in a voice that includes them in conversations about why and how we write. The personal, witty style makes key concepts like inquiry, transfer, kairos, and genre both accessible and useful. McMillan's conversation-based model of research and her attention to habits of mind will help students understand the kinds of things that good writers think about and do. And the structure of the book enacts the subtitle's concept of 'What College Students Want to Know,' providing both a brief introduction to key activities that good writers perform and a selection of accessible readings from the field to which students can respond. The writing prompts, likewise, are designed to spur metacognitive thinking about writing processes and so will help students to transfer the strategies they reflect upon to future writing." -- Dominic DelliCarpini, Naylor Endowed Professor of Writing Studies, York College of Pennsylvania

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal808/.0427

Table Of ContentACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION What Should I Know about This Book? WELCOME READING FOCUS ON WRITING What to expect Reading actively, reading rhetorically Reading academic articles Why Writing about Writing? THE WIDER CONVERSATION WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition (3.0) Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing--Executive Summary GUIDE FOR WRITING INSTRUCTORS Rationales informing textual features Aligning chapters of Focus on Writingwith three pedagogical frameworks Models: Approaches to writing and research CHAPTER ONE Why Write? EXPLORING THE QUESTION Relationship with writing: It''s complicated Why write in a college course? EXTENDING THE CONVERSATION The Pursuit of Literacy by Deborah Brandt (2001) Domestic Sphere vs. Public Sphere by Aleeza Laskowski (2016) from The Transition from Student to Professional: A Pedagogy of Professionalism for First-Year Compositionby Marcea K. Seible (2008) Literature, Literacy, and (New) Media by Andrea Lunsford (2012) Recommended online sources JOINING THE CONVERSATION CHAPTER TWO What Is the Rhetorical Situation and Why Should I Care about It? EXPLORING THE QUESTION The rhetorical triangle and beyond The occasion: An overly brief explanation Discourse communities Genres From rules to guidelines EXTENDING THE CONVERSATION Activity Theory: Situated Learning and Student Motivation by Marcea K. Seible (2008) Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities by Amy J. Devitt, Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff (2003) Powerless Persuasion: Ineffective Argumentation Plagues the Clean Eating Community by Jessie Cannizzo (2016) Recommended online sources JOINING THE CONVERSATION CHAPTER THREE What Do Effective Writers Do? EXPLORING THE QUESTION Linear to recursive models Material situations Strategies for starting Strategies for improving writing Strategies for polishing writing To procrastinate or not? Writing as social: Collaboration and feedback Pro tips on process Pro tips on product EXTENDING THE CONVERSATION from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Lifeby Anne Lamott (1994) Teaching the Other Self: The Writer''s First Reader by Donald M. Murray (1982) Understanding Composing by Sondra Perl (1980) Writing Research and the Writer by John R. Hayes and Linda S. Flower (1986) Recommended online sources JOINING THE CONVERSATION CHAPTER FOUR What Do Effective Researchers Do? EXPLORING THE QUESTION Useful principles from everyday research Academic research: Overview Secondary research: Finding and evaluating sources Secondary research: Reading, taking notes, organizing, oh my! Secondary research: Integrating sources into your writing ethically Primary research methods Organizing common research genres EXTENDING THE CONVERSATION Introduction to Rewriting: How to Do Things with Textsby Joseph Harris (2006) What Can a Novice Contribute? Undergraduate Researchers in First-Year Composition by Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle (2010) Research Is Elementary: How Blue''s CluesCan Help Teach Communication Research Methods by David Gesler (2007) Recommended online sources JOINING THE CONVERSATION CHAPTER FIVE How Do I Translate My Academic Writing into Public Genres? EXPLORING THE QUESTION College writing and the real world Digital possibilities Possibilities beyond the screen EXTENDING THE CONVERSATION Introduction to Situated Language and Learning: A Critique of Traditional Schooling by James Paul Gee (2004) The Low Bridge to High Benefits: Entry-Level Multimedia, Literacies, and Motivation by Daniel Anderson (2008) Going Public: Exploring the Possibilities for Publishing Student Interest-Driven Writing beyond the Classroom by Stephanie Anne Schmier, Elisabeth Johnson, and Sarah Lohnes Wataluk (2018) Recommended online sources JOINING THE CONVERSATION CONCLUSION Now What? SHARING YOUR EXPERTISE ONGOING CHALLENGE Permissions Acknowledgments Index

SynopsisThis first-year composition rhetoric-reader uses a Writing about Writing (WAW) approach and a conversational style to help students engage in threshold concepts and transfer what they know about writing to new situations. Each chapter asks a key question such as "Why Write?" or "What Is the Rhetorical Situation and Why Should I Care about It?" Preliminary answers to the chapter question are provided in accessible prose, and these initial ideas are supplemented with a selection of three or four readings and a list of recommended online texts. Prompts for informal and formal writing projects keep the focus on writing and help students apply writing studies scholarship to their own lives in meaningful ways. A companion website includes recommended WAW resources, assignment supports, and links to additional readings: sites.broadviewpress.com/focusonwriting