Full Description
This brief, cross-disciplinary rhetoric teaches students the importance of writing in college and beyond, using a unique conceptual framework that the author calls the "six ways of knowing." This writing guide enables students to write meaningfully not only in academic forms such as essays or lab reports, but in forms used outside the classroom such as brochures and oral histories. The text's underlying premise is that students' writing acquires consequence not by mastering a set of skills but by exploring diverse ways of knowing and thinking about their subject.Each chapter examines a different academic discipline and its way of considering and writing about the world via interviews with academics and case studies of student research writing projects in that field. These writing and research strategies are then applied to writing outside the classroom in more public arenas using real world genres.
Contents
1. Writing as Knowing-in-Action. Writing with Consequence.Knowing-in-Action.Writing as a Way of Knowing.The Nature of the Curriculum: Knowledge as Distributed into Disciplines.Identifying Six Ways of Knowing.Knowing-in-Action Across the Disciplines.Exploring Genre in the Extra-Curriculum.2. Inquiry: Framing a Question. Asking Interesting Questions.Getting Started to Write: An Inquiry-Based Process.Disciplinary Perspective: History as Inquiry.Framing Inquiry in the Extra-Curriculum: Memoirs.3. Scholarship: What Has Been Done Before? Relying on the Works and Voices of Others.Writing with Sources.Integrating Your Ideas and Source Material.Citing Your Sources.Bibliographic Indexes in the Disciplines.Disciplinary Perspective: Scholarship and Authority in Biology.Scholarship in the Extra-Curriculum: The Advocacy Pamphlet.4. Research: Gathering New Data. What Is Research?Research Instruments.Disciplinary Perspective: Doing Research in Psychology.Conducting Research in the Extra-Curriculum: Oral History.5. Reflection: What Does It All Mean? Seeing the Big Picture.The Difference Between Deductive and Inductive Reasoning.Knowing When the Evidence Is Good Enough.Drawing Inferences.Disciplinary Perspective: Reflective Practice in Education.Reflective Writing in the Extra-Curriculum: The Electronic Bulletin Board.6. Presentation: What to Write? For Whom? Why? Understanding Genre, Audience, and Purpose.Thinking About Genre.Thinking About Academic Genres.Working with an Audience.Writing with Purpose.Disciplinary Perspective: Thinking About Genre in Nursing.Presentation in the Extra-Curriculum: Writing a Press Release.7. Action: Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Distributing Writing. Writing as Production.Drafting.Focusing Your Draft.Revising.Editing.Distribution.Disciplinary Perspective: Composing and Distributing a Paper in English Studies.Revision in the Extra-Curriculum: Peer Review.
