The Harbrace Guide to Writing
The approach inculcates into students the idea that they're not always writing for an English professor, or for any professor at all. When I encounter 'Real Responses to Real Situations,' [of Part 2] my only response is 'More, please.'"This is REAL writing, not just training for possible future English majors."The 'Community Connections' activities are a great way to teach students to think about 'global' or large-scale societal issues but to compose work that is more local or scaled-down enough to have a feasible chance of making a difference to an audience."Finding and analyzing rhetoric in what's already familiar to students is a great way for them to understand its reach and relevance.