This manual provides comprehensive guidance for the "Community Writing: Researching Social Issues Through Composition" resource, authored by Paul S. Collins and published by Routledge. This work, released on February 1, 2001, falls within the Language Arts & Disciplines category, specifically focusing on Composition & Creative Writing. It is designed to assist users in understanding and applying collaborative, process-oriented, and service learning approaches to research and writing about community issues. The content emphasizes media critique and field research, guiding users through a recursive assignment structure that builds toward longer papers, and includes support for web integration and media literacy.
The purpose of this manual is to serve as an authoritative reference for instructors and students engaging with the material. It covers essential areas such as the basics of the writing process, critical thinking through peer reading groups, and the nuances of collaboration. The manual addresses common student questions regarding research sources, evidence analysis, and source evaluation, offering practical guides for thinking and writing assigned papers. It also includes supplementary readings and is structured to be adaptable to various course needs, ultimately aiming to equip users with the skills to research, write about, analyze solutions for, and initiate action on community issues.
Community Writing: Researching Social Issues Through Composition employs a series of assignments that guide students to research and write about issues confronting their individual communities. Students start by identifying a community to which they belong and focusing on problems in it, and then analyze possible solutions, construct arguments for them, decide which are likely to succeed, and consider how to initiate action.
This is a primary text for first-year composition courses, covering the basics of the writing process. The assignments are recursive. Short writing assignments in each chapter build up to longer papers. Each of the assignment questions is accompanied by a guide to thinking about and writing the assigned paper, followed by a short Focus On reading that provides a brief account of community activism, a media case study, or a notable success story. The longer papers are accompanied by in-class peer reading groups. Each successive peer reading attempts a higher level of conceptual critique. By working together throughout the semester, students create increasingly adept peer groups familiar with all stages of each other's research. The book is carefully structured, but there is plenty of "give" in it, allowing instructors to be flexible in adapting it to the needs of their students and courses.
Community Writing:
* is distinguished by pedagogy based on a collaborative, process-oriented, service learning approach that emphasizes media critique and field research on community issues chosen by individual students;
* answers real student questions, such as: Where do I find articles on my topic? What if evidence contradicts my hypothesis? How do I know if a source is biased?;
* is web-savvy--guides students into building their own Web sites, including a unique guide for critiquing the design and veracity of other people's websites; and
* is media-savvy--topics include media monopolies, spin control, dumbing down, misleading statistics, the Freedom of Information Act, "crackpot" authors, political rhetoric, and fallacious argumentation.
Author: Collins, Paul S.
Publisher: Routledge
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Community Writing: Researching Social Issues Through Composition
Pages: 00216 (Unencrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2001-02-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780805838343
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines : Composition & Creative Writing
Community Writing: Researching Social Issues Through Composition employs a series of assignments that guide students to research and write about issues confronting their individual communities. Students start by identifying a community to which they belong and focusing on problems in it, and then analyze possible solutions, construct arguments for them, decide which are likely to succeed, and consider how to initiate action.
This is a primary text for first-year composition courses, covering the basics of the writing process. The assignments are recursive. Short writing assignments in each chapter build up to longer papers. Each of the assignment questions is accompanied by a guide to thinking about and writing the assigned paper, followed by a short Focus On reading that provides a brief account of community activism, a media case study, or a notable success story. The longer papers are accompanied by in-class peer reading groups. Each successive peer reading attempts a higher level of conceptual critique. By working together throughout the semester, students create increasingly adept peer groups familiar with all stages of each other's research. The book is carefully structured, but there is plenty of "give" in it, allowing instructors to be flexible in adapting it to the needs of their students and courses.
Community Writing:
* is distinguished by pedagogy based on a collaborative, process-oriented, service learning approach that emphasizes media critique and field research on community issues chosen by individual students;
* answers real student questions, such as: Where do I find articles on my topic? What if evidence contradicts my hypothesis? How do I know if a source is biased?;
* is web-savvy--guides students into building their own Web sites, including a unique guide for critiquing the design and veracity of other people's websites; and
* is media-savvy--topics include media monopolies, spin control, dumbing down, misleading statistics, the Freedom of Information Act, "crackpot" authors, political rhetoric, and fallacious argumentation.
Author: Collins, Paul S.
Publisher: Routledge
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Community Writing: Researching Social Issues Through Composition
Pages: 00216 (Unencrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2001-02-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780805838343
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines : Composition & Creative Writing
