Unit 1 Readings

Introduction

  1. Joseph Harris, ” Coming to Terms”
  2. Critical Encounters with Texts 

Unit 1 Readings

  1. Everything Is a Text
  2. Unit Assignment
  3. Focused Free Write
  4. Meltzer( chapter 1)
  5. Melzer pp27-44
  6. How we’re priming some kids for college — and others for prison(Ted Talk)
  7. Class Matters
  8. College Admission Passion Play from Wall St Journal.pdf
  9. College Application Essay by Paul Rudnick (satire) (The New Yorker
  10. Getting in by Malcolm Gladwel(The  New Yorker)
  11. How do I bring diversity to college? 
  12. Naked Confession of the College Bound (New York Times)
  13. Nobody Means more by Jordan(pdf)
  14. The rhetoric of college essay by Warren(pdf)
  15. The Bedford Book of Genres
  16. Patter Patter and Patois
  17. It’s Complicated by Danah Boyd
  18. Review of It’s Complicated Introduction
  19. Your Recent Email to Your Professor
  20. Superman and Me
  21. Thank you Esther
  22. A Genre Approach to Writing Assignments
  23. Bawarshi, Anis. Genre & the Invention of the Writer: Reconsidering the Place of Invention in Composition. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2003. 207pp.
  24. Foot Stools and Furniture
  25. My Five-Paragraph Theme Theme