Here is a list of the readings with links to the actual reading assignments. This page will be modified throughout the semester. Please keep checking it with the start of each project.

Some of these readings we will cover in class, others might be offered as extra credit, so don't freak out. :)

• We are all writers now by Anne Trubek 
•   Clive Thompson on the NewLiteracy 
• What is Rhetoric?  by Covino and Jolliffe
• Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents   by: Keith Grant-Davie 
• Shitty First Drafts   by Anne Lamott
• "Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources
• Learning To Read  by: Malcom X 
• Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing Researched Arguments by: S. Green 
• Speech Acts, Genres and Activity Systems: How Texts Organize Activity and People  by: C. Bazerman
•  Sondra Perl The Composing Process of Unskilled College Writers  
• Helping Students Use Texts Persuasively  by: Kantz
• The Burden of Laughter.   
• Forest of Rhetoric  <-- Awesome Website devoted to Rhetoric.
•  American Rhetoric  <--Website with the best American movie speeches and oral speeches 
•  Mother Tongue  by: Amy Tan
•  I just want to be average  by Mike Rose 
• Shitty First Drafts by: Anne Lamott
• Sondra Perl The Composing Process of Unskilled College Writers  
• The Way of Writing by: William Stafford 
• "The Female Body" by Margeret Atwood  
• All Writing is Auto Murray 
• John Swales  Concept of Discourse Communities 
• "Create a Research Space"  by John Swales 
• “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction  of Meaning” 
• Past experiences and future attitudes in literacy E. Jackson.pdf  
• The-Joy-of-Reading-and-Writing.pdf  Sherman Alexie

These readings are curated by Felicia Stovall; they are set up to be used in connection with the course theme,  any use of the framework for this course without her expressed written consent is plagiarism.