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A Graphic Guide to WritingSecond Edition ©2019 Elizabeth Losh; Jonathan Alexander; Kevin Cannon; Zander Cannon; Andrea Lunsford; Kate Pantelides; Jennifer Clary-Lemon

After shaking up writing classrooms at more than 450 colleges and universities, Understanding Rhetoric, the comic-style guide to writing that instructors have told us gets "nothing but positive responses from students," has returned for a second edition! Combining the composition know-how of
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After shaking up writing classrooms at more than 450 colleges and universities, Understanding Rhetoric, the comic-style guide to writing that instructors have told us gets "nothing but positive responses from students," has returned for a second edition! Combining the composition know-how of Liz Losh and Jonathan Alexander with the comic-art credibility of Kevin Cannon (Far Arden, Crater XV) and Zander Cannon (Heck, Kaijumax), Understanding Rhetoric encourages deep engagement with core concepts of writing and rhetoric, as teachers and students alike have told us. With a new chapter on collaboration, unique coverage of writerly identity, and extensive discussions of rhetoric, reading, argument, research, revision, and presenting work to audiences, the one and only composition comic covers what students need to know—and does so with fun and flair. A new "Walk the Talk" feature in each chapter helps students see how to put concepts to use in their own reading and writing. And the detailed instructor’s manual will help both novice and experienced instructors plan a course around Understanding Rhetoric

Features

Advice students need to succeed in first-year writing courses—in an engaging comic format. Understanding Rhetoric takes a rhetorical approach to the composition course, asking students to analyze the choices they and other writers make. The illustrations make challenging concepts (such as synthesis, ethos/pathos/logos, and a writer’s identity) both clear and fun to read about, while visual reference features offer the quick help that student writers need.

Student-friendly ReFrame sections with a focus on applying each chapter’s advice. Student characters Luis, Cindy, and Carol "reframe" the key concepts of each chapter by tackling assignments such as analyzing written and visual texts and doing ethnographic research.

Assignments at the end of each chapter. Each set of assignments includes a visual strand calling for analysis of images (including the contents of the chapters themselves) and suggested writing prompts for individual or collaborative projects, such as an analysis of the rhetoric of an online profile or a proposal for writing based on firsthand experience.

Plentiful instructor support. An instructor’s manual offers advice from Liz Losh and Jonathan Alexander, as well as Jasmine Lee, and Keith McCleary, two instructors with experience teaching with Understanding Rhetoric. This heavily revised and expanded resource offers detailed advice for structuring a course using Understanding Rhetoric, support for instructors teaching with comics for the first time, and a robust set of assignment ideas and class activities, with additional resources available on the Macmillan Community

New to This Edition

A new “Walk the Talk” game-board spread in every chapter guides students through concrete strategies for putting the chapter’s concepts to work.

A completely new chapter on collaboration, “Composing Together,” identifies purposes and strategies for working with others—tackling problems, sharing research and writing tasks, and offering constructive criticism.

A new approach to the chapter on writerly identity addresses issues of self-presentation in various kinds of texts. The all-new ReFrame accompanying this chapter follows student characters as they approach a digital ethnography assignment.

Updated coverage of library research in the revised “Wrong Turns or Shortcuts” ReFrame expands attention to evaluating sources and helps students learn to make effective choices about credible sources.

[UR] practices what we preach about multimodal rhetoric.  --Sarah F. McGinley, Wright State University

I like the fact that it's accessible, but more than anything it is rhetorically aware. -- Chris Gerben, St. Edward’s University

This is such a focused text. … clear, accessible, creative, thoughtfully composed, smart, fun, and generative. --Kate Pantelides

I have had nothing but positive responses from students when they read this text. --Rachael Ryerson, Ohio University

I really like this book -- it filled a niche for our student population that was overdue to be filled. --Sonja L. Andrus, University of Cincinnati

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Spaces for Writing

  • Discovering Contexts for Writing

  • Going Boldly Through Writing Processes

  • Exploring Visual Literacy

*ReFrame: Why Rhetoric? Why a Comic Book?

Walk the Talk: Visual Rhetoric

Drawing Conclusions

1) Why Rhetoric?

  • Piecing Together a Definition of Rhetoric

  • Reanimating Ancient Views of Rhetoric

  • Setting Rhetorical Concepts Loose on the World

*ReFrame: What Does Aristotle Have to Do with Me?

Walk the Talk: Ethos, Logos, Pathos, and Kairos

Drawing Conclusions

2) Reading Strategically

  • Finding Secret Meanings with Critical Analysis

  • Putting the Pieces Together with Synthesis

  • Using Reading Strategies

  • Imagining the Plans of Ideal Readers

*ReFrame: How Do I Read This?

Walk the Talk: Critical Reading

Drawing Conclusions

3) Writing Identities

  • Leaping into Identities in Writing

  • Trying Out Choices for Different Audiences

  • Revealing the Performer Within the Text

*ReFrame: Am I Having an Identity Crisis?

Walk the Talk: Identities

Drawing Conclusions

4) Argument Beyond Pro and Con

  • Spotlighting Strategies for Argument

  • Setting the Scene for Arguable Assertions

  • Zooming in on Claims and Evidence

  • Focusing on Effective Organization

*ReFrame: The Office Hour!

Walk the Talk: Argument

Drawing Conclusions

5) Composing Together

  • Getting Together

  • Multiplying Your Research Options

  • Collaborating with Audiences

  • Managing Collaborative Writing Projects

*ReFrame: [title TK]

Walk the Talk: Collaboration

Drawing Conclusions

6) Research: More Than Detective Work

  • Keeping the Story Straight

  • Tracking Down Sources

  • Deciding Which Sources to Trust

  • Making Sources Talk: Summary, Paraphrase, Quotation

  • Coming Clean with Citation

*ReFrame: Wrong Turns or Shortcuts?

Walk the Talk: Research

Drawing Conclusions

.7) Rethinking Revision

  • Looking Beyond the Red Ink

  • Reviewing Rhetorically

  • Seeing Through Others’ Eyes

  • Revising Radically

*ReFrame: Am I Missing Something?

Walk the Talk: Revision

Drawing Conclusions

8) Going Public

  • Launching into the Future of Genres

  • Navigating among Media

  • Entering the Final Frontier with Publication

*ReFrame: How Does This Look to You?

Walk the Talk: Presentation

Drawing Conclusions

Elizabeth Losh

Elizabeth Losh is the Gale and Steve Kohlhagen Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at William and Mary. Previously she directed the Culture, Art, and Technology program at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (MIT Press), The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University (MIT Press), and Hashtag (Bloomsbury).

Jonathan Alexander

Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where he served as the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Writing and Communication and is currently associate dean in the Division of Undergraduate Education. The author, coauthor, or coeditor of sixteen books, he writes frequently about how people learn to write with a variety of digital tools. He’s also a proud nerd who enjoys reading and writing about science fiction, comics, movies, and young adult fiction.

Kevin Cannon

Kevin Cannonis an award-winning cartoonist, children’s book illustrator, and cartographer. His most recent graphic novel, The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy, was published by Hill and Wang. A Minneapolis native, Cannon spends his free time camping, reading dusty books about arctic explorers, and drawing cartoon maps.

Zander Cannon

Since 1993, Zander Cannon has written and drawn comics about astronauts, robots, paleontologists, feng shui masters, demons, and police officers. His latest comic book series, the Eisner-nominated KAIJUMAX, about a prison for giant monsters, is published by Oni Press. He lives in Minnesota with his strong wife, Julie, and his above-average son, Jin.

Andrea A. Lunsford

Andrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English emerita and former Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, joined the Stanford faculty in 2000. Prior to this appointment, Lunsford was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000). She has also been Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86). Currently a member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Professor Lunsford earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida and completed her Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University (1977).

Professor Lunsford's scholarly interests include contemporary rhetorical theory, women and the history of rhetoric, collaboration and collaborative writing, current cultures of writing, intellectual property and composing, style, and technologies of writing. She has written or coauthored many books, including Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; and Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, as well as numerous chapters and articles. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is the author of The St. Martin's Handbook, The Everyday Writer, EasyWriter, and Writing in Action; the co-author (with John Ruszkiewicz) of Everything’s an Argument and (with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters) of Everything’s an Argument with Readings; and the co-author (with Lisa Ede) of Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice.

Professor Lunsford has conducted workshops on writing and program reviews at dozens of North American universities, served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council.

Kate Pantelides

Jennifer Clary-Lemon

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Elizabeth Losh; Jonathan Alexander; Kevin Cannon; Zander Cannon | Second Edition | ©2017 | ISBN:9781319062668
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