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Writing as Reflective Action
Duncan Carter, Portland State University
Sherrie Gradin, Ohio University

ISBN-10: 032102673X
ISBN-13: 9780321026736

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2001
Format: Paper; 576 pp
Published: 12/08/2000
Status: Instock

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At the heart of this text is the desire for students to become active and engaged citizens through writing, reflection, reflexivity and reading. Challenging, proactive readings push students to analyze and understand how their personal ideologies arise out of and relate to the larger culture. Assorted writing assignments present opportunities for writing with different rhetorical purposes. The readings are integrated with the writing assignments through sequenced reading, writing, and thinking assignments. WRA challenges students to read the word and the world in relationship to their understanding of who they are and what isimportant to them.

Longer, challenging readings, by noted writers such as Updike, Hooks, Anzalda, Torkel, Kincaid, and many others.

Community-based learning. WRA can be used as a text for community-based learning or service learning course. Chapter Four offers two model community-based learning projects. Pg.___

Sequenced Chapter Assignments. Each chapter has carefully crafted assignment sequences. Before each reading, there are prewriting exercises. At the end of every chapter, there are several assignment sequences—including small group discussions and writing assignments—that focus on the readings in that chapter. Pg.___

Whole Text Sequenced Assignments. At the end of the text there are several assignment sequences—including small group discussions, projects, and writing assignments—that focus on readings from various chapters. Pg.___

End of Reading Assignments. At the end of each reading, discussion questions challenge students to reflect on the reading, understand rhetorical strategies, and practice informal writing. Pg.___

Preface to Teachers.

= Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Key Concepts.

Reflection.

Reflexivity.

Action.

Becoming Reflective and Reflexive.

Prewriting.

Critical Reading.

The Dialectical Notebook.

Reading-Response Journal.

Dialogue Journal.

Triple-Entry Incident Journal.

Collaborative Group Work.

Some Rhetorical Concepts.

The Writing Assignments.

Working Through Drafts.

Informal and Formal Writing.

1. Exploring the Self: Reflection.

Reflective Prewriting.

Introduction.

John Updike, On Being a Self Forever.

Robert Coles, Entitlement.

Anne Neeposh Iserhoff, Excerpts from My Life.

bell hooks, Killing Rage.

Peter Middleton, Boys Will Be Men: Boys' Superhero Comics.

Chapter Assignment Sequences.

2. Constructing Identity: The Self as Social Artifact.

Reflective Prewriting.

Introduction.

Gloria Steinem, Ruth's Song (Because She Could Not Sing It).

Doug Robinson, The Hurt, Betrayed Son.

Victor Villanueva, An American Color.

Adrienne Rich, The Domestication of Motherhood.

Paula C. Rust, Sexual Identity and Bisexual Identities: The Struggle for Self-Description in a Changing Sexual Landscape.

Chapter Assignment Sequences.

3. Engaging Culture: The Reflexive Self.

Reflective Prewriting.

Introduction.

Jane Tompkins, Me and My Shadow.

Gloria Anzaldua, Tlilli, Tlapalli (The Path of the Red and Black Ink).

James William Gibson, Paintball as Combat Sport.

Patricia J. Williams, The Brass Ring and the Deep Blue Sea.

Clifford Geertz, 'From the Native's Point of View': On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding.

Chapter Assignment Sequences.

4. Writing in the Community: Reflection, Reflexivity, and Action.

Reflective Prewriting.

Introduction.

Robert Coles, Community Service Work.

Sample Project A: Oral History.

Studs Terkel, Working the Land.

Wallace Terry, Private First Class Reginald "Malik" Edwards, Phoenix, Louisiana.

John Tateishi, Violet De Cristoforo-Tule Lake.

Valerie Raleigh Yow, Varieties of Oral History Projects: Community Studies.

Project Assignment Sequences.

Sample Project B: AIDS Projects.

Steven Epstein, The Nature of a New Threat.

Michael O'Brien, Dying Has Turned Out to be Complicated..

Jamaica Kincaid, From My Brother.

Susan Sontag, From AIDS and Its Metaphors.

Project Assignment Sequences.

Sample Project C: Other Community-Based Projects.

Meta-Sequences.

Sequence One: The Identity Landscape.

Sequence Two: Entitlement.

Sequence Three: What Have Race, Class and Gender got to do with it?

Sequence Four: Private Experience as Public Argument.

Sequence Five: The Rhetorical Appeals: Ethos (Ethical) Logos (Logical), Pathos (Emotional).

Sequence Six: Constructing Bodies in Print and Film.

Sequence Seven: Methodology.

Sequence Eight: Reflexivity.

Credits.

Index.

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