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Encouraging you to be an inventive thinker and writer, THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE illustrates how the act of writing is connected to your daily life as it helps you rediscover concepts, uncover meaning, and rethink the world around you. The fifth edition offers 13 chapters to help you invent ideas, more than any other text on the market. With more than 35 reading selections by both professional and student writers-many responding to the chapter prompts-this book fully engages you in writing academic essays. This text delivers pedagogy for making meaning and generating writing at the intersection of academic and nonacademic life. It is an excellent preparation for the reading and writing activities you will encounter throughout your college experience and well beyond. Each student text is packaged with a free Cengage Essential Reference Card to the MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition.

Table of Contents:
Part I: INVENTION. 1. Inventing Ideas. The Invention Manifesto: Invention in the Writing Process. Asking Questions. Reading for Rhetoric. How To Use The Composition Of Everyday Life. Inventing Writing Project. 2. Remembering Who You Were. Readings. 'Selling Manure,' Bonnie Jo Campbell. 'How I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant,' Cindy Bosley. 'The Thrill of Victory . . . The Agony of Parents,' Jennifer Schwind-Pawlak [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay. 3. Explaining Relationships. Readings. 'Americans and the Land,' John Steinbeck. 'Mugged,' Jim Crockett. 'Delicate Friend,' Lauren Jackson [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay. 4. Observing. Readings. 'Heart of Sand,' Anne-Marie Oomen. 'The Front Porch,' Chester McCovey. 'Corpse Colloquy,' Justin Scott [Student essay]. 'Red Raiders Fans,' Taylor Perry. Invention. Point of Contact. Observing a Culture: Writing an Ethnography Essay. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay. 5. Analyzing Concepts. Readings. 'World Gone Mad,' Derrick Jensen. 'Black Like I Thought I Was,' Erin Aubrey Kaplan. ''Have It Your Way': Consumerism Invades Education,' Simon Benlow. 'The Real, The Bad, and The Ugly,' Cassie Heidecker [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay. 6. Analyzing Texts. Readings. 'The Default Setting: An Analysis of David Foster Wallace,' Adrienne Carr. 'Declarations of Transformation,' Sharon Angel [Student essay]. 'The Weight of Sanity: A Sample Analysis of Ann Marie Paulin.' Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Caution: Four Common Pitfalls. Reflection. Beyond the Essay. 7. Analyzing Images. Readings. 'Rise of the Image Culture: Re-Imagining the American Dream,' Elizabeth Thoman. 'The Mighty Image,' Cameron Johnson. 'An Imperfect Reality,' Rebecca Hollingsworth [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay. 8. Making Arguments. Readings. 'The Dog Delusion,' April Pedersen. 'Cruelty, Civility, and Other Weighty Matters,' Ann Marie Paulin. 'Floppy Disk Fallacies,' Elizabeth Bohnhorst [Student essay]. 'Whales R Us,' Jayme Stayer. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay: The Open Letter. 9. Responding to Arguments. Readings. 'What Orwell Didn't Know,' George Lakoff. 'Entitlement Education,' Daniel Bruno. 'Reality Check,' Allison Hester [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay: Tattoo Design. 10. Evaluating. Readings. 'Talibanned,' Benjamin Busch. 'The Andy Griffith Show: Return to Normal,' Ed Bell. 'Star Trek,' Jaren Provo. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay: Classroom Evaluations. 11. Searching for Causes. Readings. 'Is Google Making Us Stupid?' Nicholas Carr. 'Throwing Up Childhood,' Leonard Kress. 'American Consumerism,' Jamie Bentley [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay: Photo Essay. 12. Proposing Solutions. Readings. 'Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt,' Julie Zhuo. 'Attending to the Word,' Deirdre Mahoney. 'Reverence for Food,' Rachel Scofield [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay: Comic Strips and Other Media. 13. Thinking Radically: Re-Seeing the World. Readings. 'Celibate Passion,' Kathleen Norris. 'An Apology to Future Generations,' Simon Benlow. 'Unemployed, and Working Hard,'

About the Author :
John Mauk has a Ph.D. in rhetoric and writing from Bowling Green State University and a Masters in language and literature from the University of Toledo. Scholarship includes an article on critical geography and composition (COLLEGE ENGLISH, March 2003). Mauk now teaches composition and rhetoric courses at Northwestern Michigan College. In 2007, he served on the NCTE Nominating Committee. John Mauk has a Ph.D. in rhetoric and writing from Bowling Green State University and a Masters in language and literature from the University of Toledo. Scholarship includes an article on critical geography and composition (COLLEGE ENGLISH, March 2003). Mauk now teaches composition and rhetoric courses at Northwestern Michigan College. In 2007, he served on the NCTE Nominating Committee. John Metz has a B.A. in English from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (1983) and an M.A. in English from the University of Toledo (1985). He has taught first-year writing for over 20 years and currently teaches at Kent State University at Geauga in Twinsburg, Ohio.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781337287258
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 832
  • Weight: 975 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1337287253
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 167 mm


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