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With an engaging, highly-visual design, Bedford Book of Genres: A Guide and Reader teaches you to unpack how genres work in order to create your own content. From memes to resumes, and anything in between you'll build the analysis skills you need to read and compose content in any situation. Comprised of readings, examples, and a breakdown of essential concepts, this text contains heaps of sources, models, and inspiration for your own compositions.

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Contents

Table of Contents

GUIDE

Part 1 Rhetoric, Reading, & Composing

1  Rhetorical Situations & Choices
Rhetorical Situations & Choices
Purpose: Why Are You Composing?
Checklist: Composing with a Purpose
Audience: Who Are You Composing For?

BLOG  Gilad Hizkiyahu, Gilad Is Doing South America
Checklist: Composing for an Audience
Rhetorical Appeals: Ethos, Pathos, & Logos
Modes & Media
Reading Rhetorical Situations
Reading to Understand Purpose
Reading to Understand Audience
Reading to Understand Rhetorical Appeals
Reading to Understand Modes & Media
Reading Academic Texts
Previewing
Looking for Key Terms
Identifying Knowledge Claims & Evidence
Considering the Composer’s Perspective
Annotating the Text
Annotated Example: Reading an Academic Text
ASSIGNMENT  Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Create a Bibliography  
Checklist: Reading Academic Texts
PRACTICE  Reading Any Text Rhetorically  


2  Genres
Reading Genres

The Blog as a Social Response
The Memoir as a Social Response
Some Genre Conventions
Common Elements
Style
Design
Source
Checklist: Reading Genres
PRACTICE  Choosing a Social Response


3  Guided Readings: Rhetorical Situations & Genres Together
What Do Rhetorical Situations Have to Do With Genres?
Genres Respond to Rhetorical Situations
A Meme Responds to a Rhetorical Situation
Guided Reading
  MEME  Authors Unknown, Hipster Llama
GUIDED READINGS  Visualizing Rhetorical Situations & Genres
What is a Guided Reading?
Ways to Apply Guided Readings
A Sample Guided Reading Grid
Guided Reading
ADVERTISEMENT  Danone/Evian and Havas Worldwide, Detox with Evian
CASE STUDY  Responding to a Single Event: Two Rhetorical Situations, Two Genres
Guided Reading
PRESS RELEASE  Paul Henderson, Wall Arch Collapses
Guided Reading
BLOG  Shaan Hurley, The Wall Arch Collapses in Arches National Park

Questions: Analyzing the Guided Readings

Checklist: Understanding How Rhetorical Situations & Genres Work Together
PRACTICE  Analyzing Responses to Rhetorical Situations

4  Composing: Drawing on Experience & Evidence

Responding to an Assignment
Annotated Example: Reading an Academic Text
ASSIGNMENT Amy Braziller, Take a Position
Getting Started
BRAINSTORM LIST  Gwen Ganow (student), Ideas  for the "Take a Position" Assignment
Freewriting  
Advice for Freewriting   
Guided Reading
  FREEWRITE  Gwen Ganow (student), Topic for the "Take a Position" Assignment:
Superheroes and Social Attitudes

Checklist: Getting Started on Your Topic with a Freewrite
Choosing a Genre to Compose In
 
Steps for Choosing a Genre to Compose In   
Guided Process: Choosing a Genre
Guided Reading
BRAINSTORM  Gwen Ganow (student), Choosing a Genre for the "Take a Position
Assignment": Superheroes and Social Attitudes  
Guided Reading
ANNOTATED SAMPLE FILM REVIEW  A.O. Scott, "Heavy Suit, Light Touches," with

Notes by Gwen Ganow (student)
Checklist: Choosing a Genre
Composing Your Genre Piece
Steps for Composing
Guided Process: Composing
FILM REVIEW   Gwen Ganow (student), Draft 1 for "Take a Position" Assignment:

Superheroes and Social Attitudes: X-Men
Guided Reading
EVALUATION OF A FILM REVIEW, Draft 1: Gwen Ganow (student), Superheroes

and Social Attitudes: X-Men
FILM REVIEW, Draft 2: Gwen Ganow (student),  X-Men: Mutants R Us
FILM REVIEW, Final:  Gwen Ganow (student) X-Men: Mutants R Us

Checklist: Composing by Drawing on Evidence & Experience
PRACTICE  Taking a Position


Part 2   Composing in Genres

5  Composing in College & Beyond
What Do You Compose in College & Beyond?
Discovering Ideas Through Writing
Academic Genres & Assignments

Guided Reading
RESEARCHED ARGUMENT  Chase Dickinson (student), Excerpt from "Are Kids on a

One-Way Path to Violence?"
Guided Reading
ARTIST’S STATEMENT  Michael Kipp (student), Excerpt from "On Composing

Happiness: How and Why I Created My Collage ‘Thank You’"
Workplace Genres
Guided Reading
COVER LETTER   Julia Nollen, Excerpt from "Application for Marketing Assistant Job"
Genres for Public Audiences
Guided Reading
PRESENTATION  Sunni Brown, Excerpt from "The Doodle Revolution"
Guided Reading
POSTER  Daniel Goehring, GMO: It’s Our Right to Know
Using Genres to Inform, Narrate, & Persuade

Giving Information
Telling Stories
Persuading
Checklist: Composing in College & Beyond   
PRACTICE  Connecting Genre with Social Settings  


6  The Author’s and Artist’s Statement: A Genre for Reflection
Analyzing Author’s & Artist’s Statements

Guided Reading

RECIPE & COOK’S STATEMENT  Andrew Janjigian, Thai Grilled Beef Salad

Purpose
Audience
Rhetorical Appeals
Modes & Media
Elements of the Genre
Style
Design
Sources
Guided Reading

ARTIST’S STATEMENT  Michael Kipp (student), On Composing Happiness: How and Why I Created My Collage "Thank You"

Questions: Analyzing Kipp’s Artist’s Statement

Checklist: Drafting an Author’s or Artist’s Statement

PRACTICE  Reflecting on a Composition

7  Academic Genres
Researched Arguments
Analyzing Researched Arguments
Guided Reading

RESEARCHED ARGUMENT  Chase Dickinson (student), Are Kids on a One-Way Path to
Violence?
Questions: Analyzing Dickinson’s Researched Argument
Checklist: Drafting a Researched Argument
PRACTICE  Researching & Making an Argument
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Analyzing Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Guided Reading

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE  Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Mixed Race Superstars
Questions: Analyzing Dagbovie-Mullins’s Article
Checklist: Drafting a Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
PRACTICE  Framing Your Research
Researched Science Report
Analyzing Researched Science Reports
Guided Reading
RESEARCHED SCIENCE REPORT  Ricky Martinez, Vinson Turco, and Ashleigh Nakata

(students), Reforested Pastures and Plantations as Valuable Habitat for Birds

in Costa Rica
Questions: Analyzing the Researched Science Report
Checklist: Drafting a Researched Report
PRACTICE  Remixing Your Research
Critical Analysis

Analyzing a Critical Analysis
Guided Reading
CRITICAL ANALYSIS  Ren Yoshida (student), Sometimes a Cup of Coffee is Just a Cup
of Coffee
Questions: Analyzing Yoshida’s Critical Analysis
Checklist: Drafting a Critical Analysis
PRACTICE  Analyzing the Work of Others
Literacy Narratives
Analyzing Literacy Narratives
Guided Reading
LITERACY NARRATIVE  Richard Rodriguez, From Hunger of Memory: The Education
Of Richard  Rodriguez

Questions: Analyzing Rodriguez’s Literacy Narrative
Checklist: Drafting a Literacy Narrative
PRACTICE  Drawing on Memory & Experience
Digital Stories
Analyzing Digital Stories
Guided Reading
DIGITAL STORY  Amy Braziller, Writing the Music Train

TRANSCRIPT  Amy Braziller, Writing the Music Train
Questions: Analyzing Braziller’s Digital Story
Checklist: Drafting a Digital Story
PRACTICE  Telling a Digital Story


8   Workplace Genres

Cover Letters & Resumes
Analyzing Cover Letters & Resumes

Guided Reading

VISUAL RESUME  Kevin Burton
Guided Reading

COVER LETTER & RESUME  Julia Nollen, Application for Marketing Assistant Job
Questions: Analyzing Nollen’s Cover Letter
Checklist: Drafting a Cover Letter & Resume
PRACTICE  Responding to a Specific Job Description

Business Memos
Analyzing Business Memos
Guided Reading

BUSINESS MEMO  Ellen Thibault, Video Project
Questions: Analyzing Thibault’s Business Memo
Checklist: Drafting a Business Memo
PRACTICE  Communicating in the Workplace

Infographics: Visual Instructions
Analyzing Infographics
Guided Reading

INFOGRAPHIC   UNUM, 8 Ways to Build Trust in the Workplace

Questions: Analyzing UNUM’s Infographic
Checklist: Drafting an Infographic
PRACTICE  Conveying Information Visually

Proposals
Analyzing Proposals
Guided Reading
PROPOSAL  Kelly Ratajczak, Proposal to Add a Wellness Program
Questions: Analyzing Ratajczak’s Proposal
Checklist: Drafting a Proposal
PRACTICE  Proposing Ideas & Solutions in the Workplace


9  Public Genres
Presentations

Analyzing Presentations
Guided Reading
PRESENTATION  Sunni Brown, The Doodle Revolution
Questions: Analyzing Brown’s Presentation
Checklist: Drafting a Presentation
PRACTICE  Presenting Ideas to Boost Creativity

News Articles

Analyzing News Articles
Guided Reading
NEWS ARTICLE  Nicholas Wade, For Cats, a Big Gulp with a Touch of the Tongue
Questions: Analyzing Wade’s News Article
Checklist: Drafting a News Article
PRACTICE  Writing to Inform General Readers

Editorials & Opinion Pieces

Analyzing Editorials & Opinion Pieces
Guided Reading
EDITORIAL  Grecia Sanchez (student), ¿Es que acaso soy hispana?
Questions: Analyzing Sanchez’s Editorial
Checklist: Drafting an Editorial or other Opinion Piece
PRACTICE  Writing to Persuade Fellow Citizens   

Advertisements

Analyzing Advertisements
Guided Reading
ADVERTISEMENT  Danone/Evian & Havas Worldwide, Detox with Evian
Questions: Analyzing Evian’s Advertisement
Checklist: Drafting an Advertisement
PRACTICE  Selling a Product
Wiki Entries

Analyzing Wiki Entries
Guided Reading
WIKI ENTRY  Wikipedia Contributors, Therapy Dog
Questions: Analyzing a Wiki Entry
Checklist: Drafting a Wiki Entry
PRACTICE  Contributing to a Public Reference  

Photo Essays

Analyzing Photo Essays
Guided Reading
PHOTO ESSAY  Eros Hoagland, Life in the Googleplex
Questions: Analyzing Hoagland’s Photo Essay
Checklist: Sketching Out a Photo Essay
PRACTICE  Making a Point with a Photo Essay   

Graphic Memoirs

Analyzing Graphic Memoirs
Guided Reading
GRAPHIC MEMOIR  Alison Bechdel, From Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Questions: Analyzing a Graphic Memoir
Checklist: Drafting a Graphic Memoir
PRACTICE  Sharing Experience through a Graphic Memoir

Fairy Tales

Analyzing Fairy Tales
Guided Reading
FAIRY TALE  Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood
Questions: Drafting a Fairy Tale
PRACTICE  Telling a Tale

10   Revising & Remixing
Revising Your Work
Revising Based on Your Own Observations
Revising Based on Peer Review

Checklist: Questions to Ask People Responding to Your Draft
Guided Process: Integrating Peer Feedback: Draft to Finished Composition

Gwen Ganow (student), Superhero Project
Remixing Your Work into Different Genres
Guided Process: Remixing a Genre Project
Gwen Ganow, Superhero Project Remix: PowerPoint presentation with "Top 10" List

Checklist: Remixing a Genre Piece

Part 3   Composing with Sources

11   Exploring Topics & Creating a Research Proposal  

Considering Your Rhetorical Situation

Choosing a Topic through Basic Research
Checklist: Refining Your Research Question
Moving from Research Question to Proposal
Guided Process: How to Research a Topic
Jasmine Huerta (student), Diabetes Project
Finding Facts about Diabetes
Gathering Opinions about Diabetes
Creating a Research Proposal
Organizing Your Sources
Use Simple Strategies
Keep an Annotated Working Bibliography
Guided Process: How to Create a Bibliography
Jasmine Huerta (student), Diabetes Project: Bibliography
Drafting a Research Question, Proposal, & Bibliography


12   Evaluating & Choosing Sources

Getting Started with Sources
What are Sources?
Where Do I Find Sources?
What Can Sources Do for Me?
What’s a General Source? What’s a Specialized Academic Source?
What are Primary & Secondary Sources? What are Tertiary Sources?
How do I Preview a Source Critically?
Previewing a Source
Emily Kahn (student), Women in Comic Books Project
What is Lightspeed Magazine?
Who Are the Editors & Staff Members at Lightspeed Magazine?
Who Is Jehanzeb, the Author of the Article?
What Type of Article Is This? Will It Work for My Project?
Guided Process: How to Preview a Source
Emily Kahn (student), Women in Comic Books Project: Previewing Jehanzeb
Dar 

Should I Add This Source to My Working Bibliography?
Evaluating a Source
Calvin Sweet (student), Hurricane Katrina Project
How do I evaluate a source? How is this different from previewing?
Guided Process: How to Evaluate Sources
Calvin Sweet (student), Hurricane Katrina Project: Evaluating 3 Sources
Calvin Sweet (student), Hurricane Katrina Project: Research Plan

13   Integrating & Documenting Sources
Integrating Sources into Your Writing
Using a Parenthetical Citation or Signal Phrase

Overview: Quoting, Paraphrasing, & Summarizing
Quoting
Guided Process: How to Quote from a Source

Paul Pierre (student), Nonviolent Protest Project: Quoting Gandhi
Paraphrasing

Guided Process: How to Paraphrase a Source

Paul Pierre (student), Nonviolent Protest Project: Paraphrasing Julia Bacha
Summarizing
Guided Process: How to Summarize a Source

Paul Pierre (student), Nonviolent Protest Project: Summarizing Julia Bacha
Avoiding Plagiarism

Documenting Sources: A Guide to MLA & APA Styles
How to choose a documentation style
MLA Style
MLA Models
APA Style
APA Models 

14  Composing: Drawing on In-Depth Research: A Student Case Study
Project Overview

My Research Plan and First Steps  

Potential Sources
Evaluating, Annotating, & Choosing Sources
Composing & Integrating Sources
Documenting Sources in MLA Style


15  Assembling a Multigenre Project
The Possibilities of the Multigenre Project
Your Rhetorical Situation
The Conventions of the Multigenre Project
The Steps to Assembling a Multigenre Project
Examples of Multigenre Projects
Guided Readings: Multigenre projects

Neil Carr (student), Video Games and Violence: Who Should We Blame When
Kids are Violent?

Gwen Ganow (student), When Worlds Collide: Why Superheroes Matter
Dawson Swan (student), The Threat of Nature Deficit Disorder


READER

16  Identities: We are Multiple
POSTER/AD CAMPAIGN  The Fighting-Bigotry-With-Delightful-Posters Campaign!, Facts about Muslims
AD  Acura, The Acura TSX
EDITORIAL  Ted Merwin, What Makes the Jewish Deli Quintessentially American?

RESEARCHED ESSAY  W. Ralph Eubanks, Color Lines

ARTICLE  Marisa Kabas, She Hid Her Muslim Identity for 15 Years  
BLOG  B.J. Priester, The Heroine’s Journey

HUMOROUS ESSAY  David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

Long-Term Projects: Identity

17   Mind & Body: Connections
POEM  Walt Whitman, From "I Sing the Body Electric"
BOOK EXCERPT  Nicholas Carr, The Juggler’s Brain

INFOGRAPHIC  The Whole Brain Group, Celebrating Americans with Disabilities Act  

BLOG  Kerry Magro, When One of My Peers Called Me "Rain Man"

COMIC  Dwayne Godwin and Jorge Cham, Understanding Addiction

RESEARCHED ESSAY  Emily Sohn, More and More Research Shows Friends are Good for Your Health

Long-Term Projects: The Body

18  Activism: Making Your Voice Heard

PHOTO  Getty Images, Martin Luther King, Jr.
PHOTO  Bilawal Arbab, Malala Yousafzai on Time Magazine
PHOTO  Rick Friedman, Jason Collins at Boston Pride

WEB SITE  The White House, Petition the White House on the Issues that Matter to You

LIST  United Nations, The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World

CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY  Barbara Burnette, Statement on 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act

POSTER  Mine Safety and Health Administration, End Black Lung

FACT SHEET  Mine Safety and Health Administration, MSHA’s Final Rule to Lower Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust

SPEECH  Jesse Williams, Acceptance Speech for BET’s Humanitarian Award

PROTEST SIGN  Darren McCollester, Tea Party Tax Day Rally at New Hampshire State House, April 15, 2011

PROTEST SIGN  Karla Ann Cote, Black Lives Matter Rally, New York City, July 7, 2016

PROTEST SIGN  Angela Datre, The Women’s March on Washington, January 21, 2017

SPEECH  Ellen Page, Speech at Human Rights Campaign Foundation Conference

ARTICLE  Amy Davidson, Happy Birthday, Malala

Long-Term Projects: Activism

19   Creativity: It’s Complicated

STYLE BOOK EXCERPT  Anne Lamott, Shitty First Drafts

MEME  Unknown Author, Writer’s Block

ARTICLE  Emily Temple, 13 Famous Writers on Overcoming Writer’s Block

POSTER  New York Book Editors, Got Writer’s Block?

REVIEW  Andre Grant, Beyonce’s Lemonade

TRANSCRIPT OF PODCAST  Alan Watts, Music is Life

CURRICULUM VITAE  Johannes Haushofer, CV of Failures

BLOG  Aalto Entrepreneurship Society, International Day for Failure

Long-Term Projects: Creativity

Authors

Amy Braziller

Amy Braziller is an English faculty member and former department chair at Red Rocks Community College. She received her B.A. from Empire State College and her M.A. from New York University. Amy has presented on teaching writing and new media at numerous national and regional conferences. Her research focuses on the intersections between classroom and personal writing. Amy, who is at work on a series of personal essays related to her punk rock days in NYC, blogs about food, film, music, GLBT issues, and social media distractions at amybraziller.com.  She is co-author (with Elizabeth Kleinfeld) of The Bedford Book of Genres.


Elizabeth Kleinfeld

Elizabeth Kleinfeld is the Writing Center Director and an Associate Professor of English at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She received her B.S. from Bradley University, and her M.S. in English and Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from Illinois State University. Liz is a contributing researcher on The Citation Project and has published essays on new media, writing centers, and student source use in various journals and collections, including Computers & Composition Online. She is co-PI on a grant to develop a program on academic literacy for at-risk students, particularly migrants. Her current research focuses on how writing centers can intervene in students’ research processes. Liz is co-author (with Amy Braziller) of The Bedford Book of Genres.


A road map for reading and composing—in any genre

With an engaging, highly-visual design, Bedford Book of Genres: A Guide and Reader teaches you to unpack how genres work in order to create your own content. From memes to resumes, and anything in between you'll build the analysis skills you need to read and compose content in any situation. Comprised of readings, examples, and a breakdown of essential concepts, this text contains heaps of sources, models, and inspiration for your own compositions.

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Table of Contents

GUIDE

Part 1 Rhetoric, Reading, & Composing

1  Rhetorical Situations & Choices
Rhetorical Situations & Choices
Purpose: Why Are You Composing?
Checklist: Composing with a Purpose
Audience: Who Are You Composing For?

BLOG  Gilad Hizkiyahu, Gilad Is Doing South America
Checklist: Composing for an Audience
Rhetorical Appeals: Ethos, Pathos, & Logos
Modes & Media
Reading Rhetorical Situations
Reading to Understand Purpose
Reading to Understand Audience
Reading to Understand Rhetorical Appeals
Reading to Understand Modes & Media
Reading Academic Texts
Previewing
Looking for Key Terms
Identifying Knowledge Claims & Evidence
Considering the Composer’s Perspective
Annotating the Text
Annotated Example: Reading an Academic Text
ASSIGNMENT  Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Create a Bibliography  
Checklist: Reading Academic Texts
PRACTICE  Reading Any Text Rhetorically  


2  Genres
Reading Genres

The Blog as a Social Response
The Memoir as a Social Response
Some Genre Conventions
Common Elements
Style
Design
Source
Checklist: Reading Genres
PRACTICE  Choosing a Social Response


3  Guided Readings: Rhetorical Situations & Genres Together
What Do Rhetorical Situations Have to Do With Genres?
Genres Respond to Rhetorical Situations
A Meme Responds to a Rhetorical Situation
Guided Reading
  MEME  Authors Unknown, Hipster Llama
GUIDED READINGS  Visualizing Rhetorical Situations & Genres
What is a Guided Reading?
Ways to Apply Guided Readings
A Sample Guided Reading Grid
Guided Reading
ADVERTISEMENT  Danone/Evian and Havas Worldwide, Detox with Evian
CASE STUDY  Responding to a Single Event: Two Rhetorical Situations, Two Genres
Guided Reading
PRESS RELEASE  Paul Henderson, Wall Arch Collapses
Guided Reading
BLOG  Shaan Hurley, The Wall Arch Collapses in Arches National Park

Questions: Analyzing the Guided Readings

Checklist: Understanding How Rhetorical Situations & Genres Work Together
PRACTICE  Analyzing Responses to Rhetorical Situations

4  Composing: Drawing on Experience & Evidence

Responding to an Assignment
Annotated Example: Reading an Academic Text
ASSIGNMENT Amy Braziller, Take a Position
Getting Started
BRAINSTORM LIST  Gwen Ganow (student), Ideas  for the "Take a Position" Assignment
Freewriting  
Advice for Freewriting   
Guided Reading
  FREEWRITE  Gwen Ganow (student), Topic for the "Take a Position" Assignment:
Superheroes and Social Attitudes

Checklist: Getting Started on Your Topic with a Freewrite
Choosing a Genre to Compose In
 
Steps for Choosing a Genre to Compose In   
Guided Process: Choosing a Genre
Guided Reading
BRAINSTORM  Gwen Ganow (student), Choosing a Genre for the "Take a Position
Assignment": Superheroes and Social Attitudes  
Guided Reading
ANNOTATED SAMPLE FILM REVIEW  A.O. Scott, "Heavy Suit, Light Touches," with

Notes by Gwen Ganow (student)
Checklist: Choosing a Genre
Composing Your Genre Piece
Steps for Composing
Guided Process: Composing
FILM REVIEW   Gwen Ganow (student), Draft 1 for "Take a Position" Assignment:

Superheroes and Social Attitudes: X-Men
Guided Reading
EVALUATION OF A FILM REVIEW, Draft 1: Gwen Ganow (student), Superheroes

and Social Attitudes: X-Men
FILM REVIEW, Draft 2: Gwen Ganow (student),  X-Men: Mutants R Us
FILM REVIEW, Final:  Gwen Ganow (student) X-Men: Mutants R Us

Checklist: Composing by Drawing on Evidence & Experience
PRACTICE  Taking a Position


Part 2   Composing in Genres

5  Composing in College & Beyond
What Do You Compose in College & Beyond?
Discovering Ideas Through Writing
Academic Genres & Assignments

Guided Reading
RESEARCHED ARGUMENT  Chase Dickinson (student), Excerpt from "Are Kids on a

One-Way Path to Violence?"
Guided Reading
ARTIST’S STATEMENT  Michael Kipp (student), Excerpt from "On Composing

Happiness: How and Why I Created My Collage ‘Thank You’"
Workplace Genres
Guided Reading
COVER LETTER   Julia Nollen, Excerpt from "Application for Marketing Assistant Job"
Genres for Public Audiences
Guided Reading
PRESENTATION  Sunni Brown, Excerpt from "The Doodle Revolution"
Guided Reading
POSTER  Daniel Goehring, GMO: It’s Our Right to Know
Using Genres to Inform, Narrate, & Persuade

Giving Information
Telling Stories
Persuading
Checklist: Composing in College & Beyond   
PRACTICE  Connecting Genre with Social Settings  


6  The Author’s and Artist’s Statement: A Genre for Reflection
Analyzing Author’s & Artist’s Statements

Guided Reading

RECIPE & COOK’S STATEMENT  Andrew Janjigian, Thai Grilled Beef Salad

Purpose
Audience
Rhetorical Appeals
Modes & Media
Elements of the Genre
Style
Design
Sources
Guided Reading

ARTIST’S STATEMENT  Michael Kipp (student), On Composing Happiness: How and Why I Created My Collage "Thank You"

Questions: Analyzing Kipp’s Artist’s Statement

Checklist: Drafting an Author’s or Artist’s Statement

PRACTICE  Reflecting on a Composition

7  Academic Genres
Researched Arguments
Analyzing Researched Arguments
Guided Reading

RESEARCHED ARGUMENT  Chase Dickinson (student), Are Kids on a One-Way Path to
Violence?
Questions: Analyzing Dickinson’s Researched Argument
Checklist: Drafting a Researched Argument
PRACTICE  Researching & Making an Argument
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Analyzing Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Guided Reading

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE  Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Mixed Race Superstars
Questions: Analyzing Dagbovie-Mullins’s Article
Checklist: Drafting a Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
PRACTICE  Framing Your Research
Researched Science Report
Analyzing Researched Science Reports
Guided Reading
RESEARCHED SCIENCE REPORT  Ricky Martinez, Vinson Turco, and Ashleigh Nakata

(students), Reforested Pastures and Plantations as Valuable Habitat for Birds

in Costa Rica
Questions: Analyzing the Researched Science Report
Checklist: Drafting a Researched Report
PRACTICE  Remixing Your Research
Critical Analysis

Analyzing a Critical Analysis
Guided Reading
CRITICAL ANALYSIS  Ren Yoshida (student), Sometimes a Cup of Coffee is Just a Cup
of Coffee
Questions: Analyzing Yoshida’s Critical Analysis
Checklist: Drafting a Critical Analysis
PRACTICE  Analyzing the Work of Others
Literacy Narratives
Analyzing Literacy Narratives
Guided Reading
LITERACY NARRATIVE  Richard Rodriguez, From Hunger of Memory: The Education
Of Richard  Rodriguez

Questions: Analyzing Rodriguez’s Literacy Narrative
Checklist: Drafting a Literacy Narrative
PRACTICE  Drawing on Memory & Experience
Digital Stories
Analyzing Digital Stories
Guided Reading
DIGITAL STORY  Amy Braziller, Writing the Music Train

TRANSCRIPT  Amy Braziller, Writing the Music Train
Questions: Analyzing Braziller’s Digital Story
Checklist: Drafting a Digital Story
PRACTICE  Telling a Digital Story


8   Workplace Genres

Cover Letters & Resumes
Analyzing Cover Letters & Resumes

Guided Reading

VISUAL RESUME  Kevin Burton
Guided Reading

COVER LETTER & RESUME  Julia Nollen, Application for Marketing Assistant Job
Questions: Analyzing Nollen’s Cover Letter
Checklist: Drafting a Cover Letter & Resume
PRACTICE  Responding to a Specific Job Description

Business Memos
Analyzing Business Memos
Guided Reading

BUSINESS MEMO  Ellen Thibault, Video Project
Questions: Analyzing Thibault’s Business Memo
Checklist: Drafting a Business Memo
PRACTICE  Communicating in the Workplace

Infographics: Visual Instructions
Analyzing Infographics
Guided Reading

INFOGRAPHIC   UNUM, 8 Ways to Build Trust in the Workplace

Questions: Analyzing UNUM’s Infographic
Checklist: Drafting an Infographic
PRACTICE  Conveying Information Visually

Proposals
Analyzing Proposals
Guided Reading
PROPOSAL  Kelly Ratajczak, Proposal to Add a Wellness Program
Questions: Analyzing Ratajczak’s Proposal
Checklist: Drafting a Proposal
PRACTICE  Proposing Ideas & Solutions in the Workplace


9  Public Genres
Presentations

Analyzing Presentations
Guided Reading
PRESENTATION  Sunni Brown, The Doodle Revolution
Questions: Analyzing Brown’s Presentation
Checklist: Drafting a Presentation
PRACTICE  Presenting Ideas to Boost Creativity

News Articles

Analyzing News Articles
Guided Reading
NEWS ARTICLE  Nicholas Wade, For Cats, a Big Gulp with a Touch of the Tongue
Questions: Analyzing Wade’s News Article
Checklist: Drafting a News Article
PRACTICE  Writing to Inform General Readers

Editorials & Opinion Pieces

Analyzing Editorials & Opinion Pieces
Guided Reading
EDITORIAL  Grecia Sanchez (student), ¿Es que acaso soy hispana?
Questions: Analyzing Sanchez’s Editorial
Checklist: Drafting an Editorial or other Opinion Piece
PRACTICE  Writing to Persuade Fellow Citizens   

Advertisements

Analyzing Advertisements
Guided Reading
ADVERTISEMENT  Danone/Evian & Havas Worldwide, Detox with Evian
Questions: Analyzing Evian’s Advertisement
Checklist: Drafting an Advertisement
PRACTICE  Selling a Product
Wiki Entries

Analyzing Wiki Entries
Guided Reading
WIKI ENTRY  Wikipedia Contributors, Therapy Dog
Questions: Analyzing a Wiki Entry
Checklist: Drafting a Wiki Entry
PRACTICE  Contributing to a Public Reference  

Photo Essays

Analyzing Photo Essays
Guided Reading
PHOTO ESSAY  Eros Hoagland, Life in the Googleplex
Questions: Analyzing Hoagland’s Photo Essay
Checklist: Sketching Out a Photo Essay
PRACTICE  Making a Point with a Photo Essay   

Graphic Memoirs

Analyzing Graphic Memoirs
Guided Reading
GRAPHIC MEMOIR  Alison Bechdel, From Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Questions: Analyzing a Graphic Memoir
Checklist: Drafting a Graphic Memoir
PRACTICE  Sharing Experience through a Graphic Memoir

Fairy Tales

Analyzing Fairy Tales
Guided Reading
FAIRY TALE  Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood
Questions: Drafting a Fairy Tale
PRACTICE  Telling a Tale

10   Revising & Remixing
Revising Your Work
Revising Based on Your Own Observations
Revising Based on Peer Review

Checklist: Questions to Ask People Responding to Your Draft
Guided Process: Integrating Peer Feedback: Draft to Finished Composition

Gwen Ganow (student), Superhero Project
Remixing Your Work into Different Genres
Guided Process: Remixing a Genre Project
Gwen Ganow, Superhero Project Remix: PowerPoint presentation with "Top 10" List

Checklist: Remixing a Genre Piece

Part 3   Composing with Sources

11   Exploring Topics & Creating a Research Proposal  

Considering Your Rhetorical Situation

Choosing a Topic through Basic Research
Checklist: Refining Your Research Question
Moving from Research Question to Proposal
Guided Process: How to Research a Topic
Jasmine Huerta (student), Diabetes Project
Finding Facts about Diabetes
Gathering Opinions about Diabetes
Creating a Research Proposal
Organizing Your Sources
Use Simple Strategies
Keep an Annotated Working Bibliography
Guided Process: How to Create a Bibliography
Jasmine Huerta (student), Diabetes Project: Bibliography
Drafting a Research Question, Proposal, & Bibliography


12   Evaluating & Choosing Sources

Getting Started with Sources
What are Sources?
Where Do I Find Sources?
What Can Sources Do for Me?
What’s a General Source? What’s a Specialized Academic Source?
What are Primary & Secondary Sources? What are Tertiary Sources?
How do I Preview a Source Critically?
Previewing a Source
Emily Kahn (student), Women in Comic Books Project
What is Lightspeed Magazine?
Who Are the Editors & Staff Members at Lightspeed Magazine?
Who Is Jehanzeb, the Author of the Article?
What Type of Article Is This? Will It Work for My Project?
Guided Process: How to Preview a Source
Emily Kahn (student), Women in Comic Books Project: Previewing Jehanzeb
Dar 

Should I Add This Source to My Working Bibliography?
Evaluating a Source
Calvin Sweet (student), Hurricane Katrina Project
How do I evaluate a source? How is this different from previewing?
Guided Process: How to Evaluate Sources
Calvin Sweet (student), Hurricane Katrina Project: Evaluating 3 Sources
Calvin Sweet (student), Hurricane Katrina Project: Research Plan

13   Integrating & Documenting Sources
Integrating Sources into Your Writing
Using a Parenthetical Citation or Signal Phrase

Overview: Quoting, Paraphrasing, & Summarizing
Quoting
Guided Process: How to Quote from a Source

Paul Pierre (student), Nonviolent Protest Project: Quoting Gandhi
Paraphrasing

Guided Process: How to Paraphrase a Source

Paul Pierre (student), Nonviolent Protest Project: Paraphrasing Julia Bacha
Summarizing
Guided Process: How to Summarize a Source

Paul Pierre (student), Nonviolent Protest Project: Summarizing Julia Bacha
Avoiding Plagiarism

Documenting Sources: A Guide to MLA & APA Styles
How to choose a documentation style
MLA Style
MLA Models
APA Style
APA Models 

14  Composing: Drawing on In-Depth Research: A Student Case Study
Project Overview

My Research Plan and First Steps  

Potential Sources
Evaluating, Annotating, & Choosing Sources
Composing & Integrating Sources
Documenting Sources in MLA Style


15  Assembling a Multigenre Project
The Possibilities of the Multigenre Project
Your Rhetorical Situation
The Conventions of the Multigenre Project
The Steps to Assembling a Multigenre Project
Examples of Multigenre Projects
Guided Readings: Multigenre projects

Neil Carr (student), Video Games and Violence: Who Should We Blame When
Kids are Violent?

Gwen Ganow (student), When Worlds Collide: Why Superheroes Matter
Dawson Swan (student), The Threat of Nature Deficit Disorder


READER

16  Identities: We are Multiple
POSTER/AD CAMPAIGN  The Fighting-Bigotry-With-Delightful-Posters Campaign!, Facts about Muslims
AD  Acura, The Acura TSX
EDITORIAL  Ted Merwin, What Makes the Jewish Deli Quintessentially American?

RESEARCHED ESSAY  W. Ralph Eubanks, Color Lines

ARTICLE  Marisa Kabas, She Hid Her Muslim Identity for 15 Years  
BLOG  B.J. Priester, The Heroine’s Journey

HUMOROUS ESSAY  David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

Long-Term Projects: Identity

17   Mind & Body: Connections
POEM  Walt Whitman, From "I Sing the Body Electric"
BOOK EXCERPT  Nicholas Carr, The Juggler’s Brain

INFOGRAPHIC  The Whole Brain Group, Celebrating Americans with Disabilities Act  

BLOG  Kerry Magro, When One of My Peers Called Me "Rain Man"

COMIC  Dwayne Godwin and Jorge Cham, Understanding Addiction

RESEARCHED ESSAY  Emily Sohn, More and More Research Shows Friends are Good for Your Health

Long-Term Projects: The Body

18  Activism: Making Your Voice Heard

PHOTO  Getty Images, Martin Luther King, Jr.
PHOTO  Bilawal Arbab, Malala Yousafzai on Time Magazine
PHOTO  Rick Friedman, Jason Collins at Boston Pride

WEB SITE  The White House, Petition the White House on the Issues that Matter to You

LIST  United Nations, The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World

CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY  Barbara Burnette, Statement on 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act

POSTER  Mine Safety and Health Administration, End Black Lung

FACT SHEET  Mine Safety and Health Administration, MSHA’s Final Rule to Lower Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust

SPEECH  Jesse Williams, Acceptance Speech for BET’s Humanitarian Award

PROTEST SIGN  Darren McCollester, Tea Party Tax Day Rally at New Hampshire State House, April 15, 2011

PROTEST SIGN  Karla Ann Cote, Black Lives Matter Rally, New York City, July 7, 2016

PROTEST SIGN  Angela Datre, The Women’s March on Washington, January 21, 2017

SPEECH  Ellen Page, Speech at Human Rights Campaign Foundation Conference

ARTICLE  Amy Davidson, Happy Birthday, Malala

Long-Term Projects: Activism

19   Creativity: It’s Complicated

STYLE BOOK EXCERPT  Anne Lamott, Shitty First Drafts

MEME  Unknown Author, Writer’s Block

ARTICLE  Emily Temple, 13 Famous Writers on Overcoming Writer’s Block

POSTER  New York Book Editors, Got Writer’s Block?

REVIEW  Andre Grant, Beyonce’s Lemonade

TRANSCRIPT OF PODCAST  Alan Watts, Music is Life

CURRICULUM VITAE  Johannes Haushofer, CV of Failures

BLOG  Aalto Entrepreneurship Society, International Day for Failure

Long-Term Projects: Creativity

Amy Braziller

Amy Braziller is an English faculty member and former department chair at Red Rocks Community College. She received her B.A. from Empire State College and her M.A. from New York University. Amy has presented on teaching writing and new media at numerous national and regional conferences. Her research focuses on the intersections between classroom and personal writing. Amy, who is at work on a series of personal essays related to her punk rock days in NYC, blogs about food, film, music, GLBT issues, and social media distractions at amybraziller.com.  She is co-author (with Elizabeth Kleinfeld) of The Bedford Book of Genres.


Elizabeth Kleinfeld

Elizabeth Kleinfeld is the Writing Center Director and an Associate Professor of English at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She received her B.S. from Bradley University, and her M.S. in English and Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from Illinois State University. Liz is a contributing researcher on The Citation Project and has published essays on new media, writing centers, and student source use in various journals and collections, including Computers & Composition Online. She is co-PI on a grant to develop a program on academic literacy for at-risk students, particularly migrants. Her current research focuses on how writing centers can intervene in students’ research processes. Liz is co-author (with Amy Braziller) of The Bedford Book of Genres.


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