Speaking of Writing: A Brief Rhetoric - with MLA 2021 Update

Allegra Goodman, Michael Prince, Emmeline Pidgen

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781460408179

Co-authored by a novelist and a scholar, Speaking of Writing follows four college students from diverse backgrounds as they face the challenges of reading, writing, and critical thinking in first-year composition classes and across the disciplines. Each chapter engages students in relatable, often humorous scenarios that focus on key challenges.

Through its story-based approach, this brief rhetoric enacts process-based pedagogy, showing student writers grappling with fundamental questions: How can I apply my own strategies for success to new assignments? How can I maintain my own voice when asked to compose in an academic style? What do college professors mean by a thesis? Why is my argument weak, and how can I make it stronger? The book vividly dramatizes a draft-and-revision process that includes instructor feedback, peer review, and careful research.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Note to Students
• 1: What You Bring/What You Can Expect
• 2: Rhetoric and the Rhetorical Situation
• Writing a Paraphrase and Summary.
• 4: From Reading to Writing about Images
• 5: Building an Argument: Claims and Support
• 6: Academic Argument: Thesis and Organization
• 7: Draft and Revision
• 8: Responding to Other Voices/Other Sources
• 9: Writing and Research
• 10: Voice and Style
• Works Cited
• About the Authors
• Permissions Acknowledgments