Everyday Use

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Brief and accessible, this rhetoric teaches students to read closely, critically, and rhetorically, and to write effectively to achieve their rhetorical goals.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-07-03
Mått10 x 10 x 10 mm
Vikt522 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Upplaga2
FörlagPearson Education (US)
ISBN9780205590971

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Foreword xiiPreface xiv1 Everyday Use: Rhetoric in Our Lives 1Rescuing Rhetoric from Its Bad Reputation: Definitionsand Examples 3What Does “Being Skilled at Rhetoric”Mean? 5Developing Skill with Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Triangle 6Key #1: Understanding Persona 8Key #2: Understanding Appeals to the Audience 11Key #3: Understanding Subject Matter and Its Treatment 13Modifying the Basic Rhetorical Triangle:Rhetoric Occurs in a Context 15Key #4: Understanding Context 16Key #5: Understanding Intention 18Key #6: Understanding Genre 19Rhetoric in Everyday Life: Your Life, Your Community 21Rhetoric and Citizenship 22Rhetoric and Community 24Rhetoric and Conscientious Consumption 26Interchapter 1 292 Understanding the Traditional Canons of Rhetoric:Invention and Memory 33Rhetoric at Work: Context and the Three Appeals 35Invention 36Systematic Invention Strategy I: The Journalist’s Questions 36Systematic Invention Strategy II: Kenneth Burke’sPentad 39Systematic Invention Strategy III: The Enthymeme 42Systematic Invention Strategy IV: The Topics 46The Basic Topics 46The Common Topics 48Intuitive Invention Strategies: A Preview 51Memory 52Interchapter 2 553 Using the Traditional Canons of Rhetoric:Arrangement, Style, and Delivery 57Arrangement 58Genres 58Functional Parts 60Questions About the Parts 61Style 63Style and Situation 64Style and Jargon 65Are You and I Okay? 65Style and Contractions 66Style and the Passive Voice 66Dimensions of the Study of Style: Sentences,Words, and Figures 67Sentences 67Parallel Structure 70Words 73General Versus Specific Words 74Formal Versus Informal Words 74Latinate Versus Anglo-Saxon Words 76Common Terms Versus Slang or Jargon 78Denotation Versus Connotation 79Figures of Rhetoric: Schemes and Tropes 79Schemes Involving Balance 80Schemes Involving Interruption 81Schemes Involving Omission 82Schemes Involving Repetition 82Tropes Involving Comparisons 83Tropes Involving Word Play 84Tropes Involving Overstatement or Understatement 85Tropes Involving the Management of Meaning 85Delivery 86Interchapter 3 914 Rhetoric and the Writer 93Writing as Process: Making the Right Moves forContext 94Writing as a Rhetorical Process 95Inventing 95Investigating 96Planning 96Drafting 97Consulting 98Revising 99Editing 99Real Writers at Work: Cases for Studying Writingand Rhetoric 100Erica: Slow Starter 100Erica’s Intention and Invention 103Apply Erica’s Solution 104Chan: Confused About Context 106Chan, Context, and Notes 109Apply Chan’s Solution 111Tasha, Lewis, and Susan: A Group at Work onWriting 112Nell: The Rhetorical Reviser 114You Pull It All Together 116Using What You Read 118Revising Your First Effort 118Revising for Persona 119Revising for Audience 120Revising Subject 120Revising Evidence 121Interchapter 4 1235 Rhetoric and the Reader 124Predicting What’s Next 126Understanding How Readers Predict 129Rosenblatt and Interaction: Two Kinds of Reading 130Rosenblatt, Reading, and Rhetoric 133Rhetorical Analysis of Chaos 134Matching Experience and Intention 135Rhetorical Analysis: You Try It 139Building the Reader’s Repertoire 143Reading Your Own Writing 146Interchapter 5 1516 Readers as Writers, Writers as Readers:Making Connections 153Reading and Writing: Different? Similar? 154The Literacy Memory 156The Process of Making Meaning: Readers asWriters 157More About Prediction and Revision in Reading 157Prediction and Revision in Writing: Writers as Readers 163More About Prediction and Revision in Writing 164Voice and Rhetoric 165What We Hear When We Read and Write 166The Logical Appeal: Logos 166The Ethical Appeal: Ethos 169The Emotional Appeal: Pathos 171The Appeals Combined 173Reading,Writing, and Synthesis: The ResearchedArgument 176Tackling the Rhetorical Argument 177Assessing a Researched Argument 178Interchapter 6 1897 Rhetoric in Narrative 191Character 194Rhetorical Choices for Character 195Flat and Round, Static and Dynamic 196Character and the Pentad 198Setting 200Summary and Scenic Narration 202Conflict and Plot 204Tragedy Versus Comedy 205Conflict in Decision Making 206Conflict in Relationships 206Conflict with the Elements 206Conflict and the Pentad 207Protagonist, Antagonist 209Narrator: Point of View 209First-Person Narration 210Third-Person Narration 211Second-Person Narration 212Reliable and Unreliable Narrators 213Narrators in Poems 214Theme 215Theme and the Pentad 215Symbols 216Images 216Diction 217Syntax 217A Final Word About Narrative–and AboutRhetoric 218Interchapter 7 219READINGS 221Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of CivilDisobedience” 222Eavan Boland, “It’s a Woman’s World” 238Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” 240ADDITIONAL READINGS 247Civil Rights and Responsibilities 247Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are a-Changin’” 248Rock the Vote Web Pages 249Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” 251John Donne, “Meditation 17” 257Toni Morrison, Nobel Lecture 259Dominic Behan, “Patriot Game” 265Jane Addams, “The Settlement as a Factor in the LaborMovement” 266Mohandas K. Gandhi, “Seven Social Sins” 274Sitting for Justice: Woolworth’s Lunch Counter 275Feminism and Women’s Issues 277Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” 277Emily Dickinson, “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” 280Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” 280Susan Glaspell, “Trifles” 283Mike Baldwin, “Our Standards . . .” 295John Everett Millais, Ophelia 296Virginia Woolf, “Shakespeare’s Sister” 297Katha Pollitt, “Girls Against Boys”? 299Catherine Haun, “A Woman’s Trip Across the Plainsin 1849” 301Ethnicity and Culture 316William Shakespeare, “Shylock’s Defense” 317James Baldwin, “Stranger in the Village” 318Gabriel García Márquez, “A Very Old Man withEnormous Wings” 327Louise Erdrich, “Indian Boarding School:The Runaways” 332Amy Wu for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,“Border Apprehensions: 2005” 333Jacob Riis, Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement: FiveCents a Spot 336Art Spiegelman, from Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale (And HereMy Troubles Began) 337Leonard Pitts Jr., “The Game of Justice Is Rigged” 339Glossary of Rhetorical Terms 341Credits 353Index 367Additional Notes for Teachers 369