Language acts
Subtitle: rhetoric and writing I : academic reading and analytical writing
By: Ceil Malek, editor ; Kacey Ross, managing editor ; Keri Hemenway and Andrea Wenker, copy editors ; UCCS First-Year Rhetoric and Writing Program, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Contributors: University of Colorado Colorado Springs. First-Year Rhetoric and Writing Program
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Fountainhead Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Southlake, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781598718546
Subjects: English language; Rhetoric; Study and teaching; Composition and exercises; College readers; Anglais (Langue); Lectures et morceaux choisis (Enseignement supérieur)
Other titles: Rhetoric and writing I; Academic reading and analytical writing
Description: Reader for the UCCS first-year course in academic reading and analytical writing, English 1310.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-321).
Table of contents: title: The joy of reading and writing: Superman and me / Sherman Alexie; title: Graduation / Maya Angelou; title: On women's right to vote / Susan B. Anthony; title: How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa; title: The arete of amusement: an Aristotelian perspective on the ethos of The daily show / Jonathan E. Barbur and Trischa Goodnow; title: Inventing the university / David Bartholomae; title: Address to a joint session of Congress and the American people / George W. Bush; title: Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr; title: Speech before Congress / Carrie Chapman Catt; title: Women's rights are human rights / Hillary Rodham Clinton; title: Civilize them with a stick / Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes; title: Does coming to college mean becoming someone new? / Kevin Davis; title: The numbing of the American mind / Thomas de Zengotita; title: How I learned to read and write / Frederick Douglass; title: Letter to my master, Thomas Auld / Frederick Douglass; title: What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass; title: Public statement / Eight Alabama Clergymen; title: What is a cartoon? / Mort Gerberg; title: The rhetoric of advertising / Stuart Hirschberg; title: What is academic writing? / L. Lennie Irvin; title: The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson; title: Cuban Missile Crisis / John F. Kennedy; title: "Two ways a woman can get hurt": advertising and violence / Jean Kilbourne; title: Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.; title: What writing is / Stephen King; title: Shitty first drafts / Anne Lamott; title: The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln; title: With these words, I can sell you anything / William Lutz; title: Discovering the power of language / Malcolm X; title: The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X; title: Why bother? / Michael Pollan; title: Address at Brandenburg Gate / Ronald Reagan; title: Aria: a memoir of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez; title: The great arsenal of democracy / Franklin Delano Roosevelt; title: Reading games: strategies for reading scholarly sources / Karen Rosenberg; title: Generation why? / Zadie Smith; title: What the Indian means to America / Luther Standing Bear; title: Seneca Falls Declaration / Elizabeth Cady Stanton; title: Responding; title: really responding; title: to other students' writing / Richard Straub; title: Mother tongue / Amy Tan; title: Sex, lies and conversation: why is it so hard for men and women to talk to each other? / Deborah Tannen; title: Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth; title: The perils of indifference / Elie Wiesel; title: About the contributors; title: Credits.