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9781138785564 English 1138785563 Developed for emerging academic writers, Primary Research and Writing offers a fresh take on the nature of doing research in the writing classroom. Encouraging students to write about topics for which they have a passion or personal connection, this text emphasizes the importance of primary research in developing writing skills and abilities. Authors Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Michelle F. Eble have built a pedagogical approach that makes archival and primary research interesting, urgent, and relevant to beginner writers. Students are able to explore ways of analyzing their findings and presenting their results to their intended readers. With in-text features to aid students in understanding primary research and its role in their writing, chapters include special elements such as: Communities in Context - Profiles of traditional and digital communities that help students understand the characteristics of communities and group members Profiles of Primary Researchers - Spotlights on professionals, giving an illuminating look into the role primary research plays into real-world research and writing Student Writing - Examples of exemplary student writing that demonstrate how research can be relevant, engaging, and interesting, with annotations. Invention Exercises - Exercises designed to help students locate primary investigation within communities they already understand or find appealing Writing Exercises - Writing exercises that offer students practice in exploring communities and investigating primary materials . Readings - Annotated readings with questions to guide analysis, pulled from a variety of rich sources, that give students inspiration for employing their own research This text has a robust companion website that provides resources for instructors and students, with sample syllabi, chapter overviews, lecture outlines, sample assignments, and a list of class resources. Primary Research and Writing is an engaging textbook developed for students in the beginning stages of their academic writing careers, and prepares its readers for a lifetime of research and writing., Developed for young academic writers, Primary Research and Writing offers a fresh take on the nature of doing research in the writing classroom. Encouraging students to write about topics for which they have a passion or personal connection, this text emphasizes the importance of primary research in developing writing skills and abilities. Authors Lynee Lewis Gaillet and Michelle F. Eble have built a pedagogical approach that makes archival and primary research interesting, urgent, and relevant to emerging writers. Students are able to explore ways of analyzing their findings and presenting their results to their intended readers. With in-text features to aid students in understanding primary research and its role in their writing, chapters include special elements such as: Communities in Context Profiles of traditional and digital communities that help students understand the characteristics of communities and group members Profiles of Primary Researchers Spotlights on professionals, giving an illuminating look into the role primary research plays in real-world research and writing Student Writing Examples of exemplary student writing that demonstrate how research can be relevant, engaging, and interesting, with annotations. Invention Exercises - Exercises designed to help students locate primary investigation within communities that they already understand or find appealing Writing Exercises - Writing exercises that offer students practice in exploring communities and investigating primary materials. Readings Annotated readings with questions to guide analysis, pulled from a variety of rich sources, that give students inspiration for undertaking their own research projects. This text has a robust companion website that provides resources for instructors and students, with sample syllabi, chapter overviews, lecture outlines, sample assignments, and a list of class resources. Primary Research and Writing is an engaging textbook developed for students in the beginning stages of their academic writing careers, and prepares its readers for a lifetime of research and writing.", Primary Research and Writing: People, Places, and Spaces is a text for writing students, designed to help readers research and understand the components of an academic, political, or home group, and then to find a way to become active within that community through writing. This text responds to the increasing emphasis on community in composition coursework, emphasizing the rhetorical situation (and its components) in the context of community and public issues, in addition to a strong focus on primary research. This text's approach addresses the need for transferability of skills acquired in a learning environment based on civic rhetoric, and reflects the current political climate, with the bipartisan call for community engagement. Developed for young academic writers, Primary Research and Writing will also help advanced rhetoric/composition students, and those studying in other disciplines - e.g., history, communication - who are conducting archival research and/or community engagement, as it emphasizes archival research methods throughout., Rhetorical Engagement answers instructors increasing demands for "raison d'etre" in composition by emphasizing the rhetorical situation (and its components) in the context of community and public issues, along with a focus on primary research. This approach is warranted and logical given post-911 concerns, the current political climate, the bipartisan call for community engagement, and the "transferability" of skills acquired in a learning environment based on civic rhetoric. This text is designed to help students become community intellectuals, to understand the various components of a given academic, political, or home group and to then find a way to become rhetorically active within that community. It is intended for beginning writers not basic writers along with and advanced rhetoric/composition students, communication, and history students interested in archival research and community engagement.
9781138785564 English 1138785563 Developed for emerging academic writers, Primary Research and Writing offers a fresh take on the nature of doing research in the writing classroom. Encouraging students to write about topics for which they have a passion or personal connection, this text emphasizes the importance of primary research in developing writing skills and abilities. Authors Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Michelle F. Eble have built a pedagogical approach that makes archival and primary research interesting, urgent, and relevant to beginner writers. Students are able to explore ways of analyzing their findings and presenting their results to their intended readers. With in-text features to aid students in understanding primary research and its role in their writing, chapters include special elements such as: Communities in Context - Profiles of traditional and digital communities that help students understand the characteristics of communities and group members Profiles of Primary Researchers - Spotlights on professionals, giving an illuminating look into the role primary research plays into real-world research and writing Student Writing - Examples of exemplary student writing that demonstrate how research can be relevant, engaging, and interesting, with annotations. Invention Exercises - Exercises designed to help students locate primary investigation within communities they already understand or find appealing Writing Exercises - Writing exercises that offer students practice in exploring communities and investigating primary materials . Readings - Annotated readings with questions to guide analysis, pulled from a variety of rich sources, that give students inspiration for employing their own research This text has a robust companion website that provides resources for instructors and students, with sample syllabi, chapter overviews, lecture outlines, sample assignments, and a list of class resources. Primary Research and Writing is an engaging textbook developed for students in the beginning stages of their academic writing careers, and prepares its readers for a lifetime of research and writing., Developed for young academic writers, Primary Research and Writing offers a fresh take on the nature of doing research in the writing classroom. Encouraging students to write about topics for which they have a passion or personal connection, this text emphasizes the importance of primary research in developing writing skills and abilities. Authors Lynee Lewis Gaillet and Michelle F. Eble have built a pedagogical approach that makes archival and primary research interesting, urgent, and relevant to emerging writers. Students are able to explore ways of analyzing their findings and presenting their results to their intended readers. With in-text features to aid students in understanding primary research and its role in their writing, chapters include special elements such as: Communities in Context Profiles of traditional and digital communities that help students understand the characteristics of communities and group members Profiles of Primary Researchers Spotlights on professionals, giving an illuminating look into the role primary research plays in real-world research and writing Student Writing Examples of exemplary student writing that demonstrate how research can be relevant, engaging, and interesting, with annotations. Invention Exercises - Exercises designed to help students locate primary investigation within communities that they already understand or find appealing Writing Exercises - Writing exercises that offer students practice in exploring communities and investigating primary materials. Readings Annotated readings with questions to guide analysis, pulled from a variety of rich sources, that give students inspiration for undertaking their own research projects. This text has a robust companion website that provides resources for instructors and students, with sample syllabi, chapter overviews, lecture outlines, sample assignments, and a list of class resources. Primary Research and Writing is an engaging textbook developed for students in the beginning stages of their academic writing careers, and prepares its readers for a lifetime of research and writing.", Primary Research and Writing: People, Places, and Spaces is a text for writing students, designed to help readers research and understand the components of an academic, political, or home group, and then to find a way to become active within that community through writing. This text responds to the increasing emphasis on community in composition coursework, emphasizing the rhetorical situation (and its components) in the context of community and public issues, in addition to a strong focus on primary research. This text's approach addresses the need for transferability of skills acquired in a learning environment based on civic rhetoric, and reflects the current political climate, with the bipartisan call for community engagement. Developed for young academic writers, Primary Research and Writing will also help advanced rhetoric/composition students, and those studying in other disciplines - e.g., history, communication - who are conducting archival research and/or community engagement, as it emphasizes archival research methods throughout., Rhetorical Engagement answers instructors increasing demands for "raison d'etre" in composition by emphasizing the rhetorical situation (and its components) in the context of community and public issues, along with a focus on primary research. This approach is warranted and logical given post-911 concerns, the current political climate, the bipartisan call for community engagement, and the "transferability" of skills acquired in a learning environment based on civic rhetoric. This text is designed to help students become community intellectuals, to understand the various components of a given academic, political, or home group and to then find a way to become rhetorically active within that community. It is intended for beginning writers not basic writers along with and advanced rhetoric/composition students, communication, and history students interested in archival research and community engagement.