Everything's a Text
Readings for Composition
Published on 23. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-0-205-63954-0 (ISBN)
Description
A colorful and current reader, Everthhing's A Text captures our information age by utilizing mediums of print, visual, and digital text that students encounter daily. Students will view a range of texts from blogs to lyrics to advertisements to graffiti that are coupled with a variety of open-ended projects, allowing them to think critically and creatively about the readings. This hip reader has the most diverse genres in its class to more effectively prepare students for college-level reflection and analysis.
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Content
Part I: A Rhetoric for Multiple Literacies
Chapter 1: What Is Literacy?
Chapter 2: Reading and Composing Processes
Part II: Readings for Situating Multiple Literacies
Chapter 3: Situating Personal Literacies
Chapter 4: Situating Oral Literacies
Chapter 5: Situating Visual Literacies
Chapter 6: Situating Digital Literacies
Chapter 7: Situating Popular Culture Literacies
Chapter 8: Situating Academic Literacies
Chapter 9: Situating Civic Literacies
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Part I: A Rhetoric for Multiple Literacies
Chapter 1: What Is Literacy?
Definitions of Literacy
Situating Literacy
Literacy Purposes
Letters of apology from President Clinton regarding the internment of Americans of Japanese descent
Literacy Audiences
Three excerpts from Malcolm X speeches to different audiences (a Detroit civil rights
group, Harvard University students, and the Nation of Islam)
Literacy Personas
Excerpts from a case study of a student in a sociology class
Literacy Mediums
Excerpts of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King novel and film script
Literacy Genres
Song lyrics from Mos Def's "Dollar Day"
Literacy Contexts
Three advertisements for Coke in three different historical contexts
Chapter 2: Reading and Composing Processes
Reading Processes
Double-entry journal for an analysis of the film Trainspotting
Advice for Improving Your Reading Processes
Annotated Web screen shot from a review of Trainspotting
Reading for Multiple Purposes
Article from a student newspaper
Reading in Multiple Mediums
Excerpts from Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Newspaper editorial, poster, and link to video for an anti-drunk driving campaign
Reading in Multiple Genres
Excerpts from a scientific experimental report
Reading in Multiple Contexts
Brian Turner's poem "Eulogy"
Composing Processes in Multiple Literacies
Revisions of a lithograph by M.C. Escher
One Student's Composing Process
Drafts of a student's personal literacy narrative
Composing for Multiple Purposes
Assignments from First-Year Writing courses
Composing in Multiple Mediums
Excerpts from interviews with Beck about composing songs
Composing in Multiple Genres
Examples from student case studies of how genre affected students' composing processes
Composing in Multiple Contexts
Excerpts from personal essays by Sherman Alexie, Paule Marshall, and Gloria Anzaldua.
Part II: Readings for Situating Multiple Literacies
Chapter 3: Situating Personal Literacies
What Are Personal Literacies?
"What's I Got to Do with It? Personal Literacies in the Writing Classroom" by Amy Hodges Hamilton
Student Case Study: Composing a Personal Literacy Narrative
Personal Literacy Readings
CCCC Statement on Students' Right to Their Own Language [position statement]
"My Most Spectacular Failure" by Claras Leandre [student personal literacy narrative]
"Superman and Me" by Sherman Alexie [essay]
"Between the Sheets" by Ellen Wade Beals [poem]
"Marginalia" by Billy Collins [poem]
"Two Questions" by Lynda Barry [cartoon]
Excerpts from "The Poets in the Kitchen" by Paule Marshall [essay]
"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan [essay]
"Why I Don't Like My Accent" by Miku Rager [student documentary]
"How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anzaldua [essay]
Personal Literacy Projects
Chapter 4: Situating Oral Literacies
What Are Oral Literacies?
"Oral Literacies: Finding Your Voices" by Alexis Davidson
Student Case Study: Composing and Delivering a Speech
"Not for Sale" byj Alexandra Giang [speech]
Oral Literacy Readings
Inaugural Address by President Barack Obama [speech]
"The Boss in Common" by Andrew Burgess [student essay]
Slam poetry from HBO's Def Poetry Jam [poetry]
Excerpt from Talkin and Tesifyin: The Language of Black America by Geneva Smitherman [book excerpt]
Excerpts from Mules and Men by Zora Neale Huston [folk tales]
Excerpt from Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide by Donald Ritchie [book excerpt]
Interview with Jerry K. Walsh, Vietnam War veteran [oral history]
Oral Literacy Projects
Chapter 5: Situating Visual Literacies
What Are Visual Literacies?
"Literacy Is Not Just Words Anymore" by Pavel Zemliansky
Student Case Study: Composing a Digital Slideshow
Visual Literacy Readings
Excerpt from Picture This: How Pictures Work by Molly Bang [book excerpt]
Excerpts from Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture by Maria Sturken and Lisa Cartwight [book
excerpt]
"Pictures in America: It Isn't Just About How Many Words They're Worth" by Cameron Granger [student essay]
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods by Ralph Lengler and Martin J. Eppler
Images of Graffiti [graffiti]
Nighthawks and Approaching a City and Automat by Edward Hopper [paintings]
Visual Literacy Projects
"Hopper: The Loneliness Factor" by Mark Strand [essay]
Chapter 6: Situating Digital Literacies
What Are Digital Literacies?
"Surfing, Searching, and Social Networking: Redefining Digital Literacy with Facebook and Wikipedia" by Dustin Anderson
Student Case Study: Composing a Web site
Digital Literacy Readings
Excerpt from "Growing Up Digital" by John Seely Brown [essay]
"Effective Web Writing" by Crawford Kilian [essay]
"What We're Doing When We Blog" by Meg Hourihan [essay]
"A Grand Unified Theory of YouTube and MySpace: Point-and-Click Sites That Don't Tell You What to Do" by Paul Boutin [newspaper article]
"Living the Virtual Life: A Second Life" by Peter Hall [student essay]
Excerpt from What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee [book excerpt]
"The Telephone" by Anwar Accawi [essay]
Two screen shots from The Webby Awards winners [web sites]
Two screen shots from blogs [blogs]
Three screen shots from Second Life [virtual reality]
"Flying Cars and Endless Playlists" by Amanda Henderson [student digital literacy narrative]
Digital Literacy Projects
Chapter 7: Situating Popular Culture Literacies
What Are Popular Culture Literacies?
"A Pop Life" by Stacey A. Suver
Student Case Study: Composing an Essay about Pop Culture
Popular Culture Literacy Readings
"I'll Take My Stand: A Defense of Popular Culture" by Anthony DeCurtis [essay]
"Don't Super Size Me...Dumbify Me" by Samantha Calarusse [student essay]
"Outpouring over Michael Jackson Unlike Anything Since Princess Di" by Daniel B. Wood [magazine article]
"Barbie at 35" by Anna Quindlen [essay]
Magazine covers with pop culture icons [magazine covers]
Images of Barbie past and present [photos]
"Sex and the Single Doll" by Yona Zeldis McDonough [essay]
"Larger Than Life" by Jenny Lyn Bader [essay]
Graphic Novel Review of Locke & Key (by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez) by Mel Odom [review]
Interview with Joe Hill from Graphic Novel Reporter [interview]
Excerpt from Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez [graphic novel]
Popular Culture Literacy Projects
Chapter 8: Situating Academic Literacies
What Are Academic Literacies?
"Writing Across the University: Academic Discourse as a Conversation" by Fiona Glade
Student Case Study: Composing an Academic Research Project
Academic Literacy Readings
The Council of Writing Program Administrators' Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition [outcome statement]
Writing Outcomes Statements from across the Curriculum [outcomes statements]
"Letter to an Incoming Freshman-Writing in the Academy" by Aaro Lautamo [student letter]
Excerpt from "A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum" by Lucille Parkinson McCarthy
Student Writing from across the Curriculum:
"Emotional Disturbances: The Effects of Parental Neglect Types on Children" by Nancy Alkema [social science research report in APA style]
"Constitutionality v. Morality: San Antonio School District v. Rodriguez" by Harshjit Sethi [essay in MLA style]
"Mechanistic and Genetic Causes of Depression and the Effect of SSRIs on the Serotonergic Pathway" by Ashley Nicole Phares [scientific report in CSE style]
Academic Literacy Projects
Chapter 9: Situating Civic Literacies
What Are Civic Literacies?
"Writing as Public Power: Civic Literacies" by Catherine Gabor
Student Case Study: Composing a Service Learning Project
Civic Literacy Readings
Excerpt from "Millennials Talk Politics: A Study of College Students' Civic Engagement" by The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement [research report]
Excerpt from Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by E.D. Hirsch [book excerpt]
Excerpt from Critical Literacy: What Every American Ought to Know by Eugene Provenzo [book excerpt]
Guerrilla Girls Posters [posters]
Images of Women from Magazines Ads Past and Present [ads]
Linguistic Society of America's "Statement on Language Rights" [position statement]
Excerpt from the U.S. English Web site [Web text]
"Executive Order 13166: Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency" by Bill Clinton [executive order]
Civil Literacy Projects
Chapter 1: What Is Literacy?
Chapter 2: Reading and Composing Processes
Part II: Readings for Situating Multiple Literacies
Chapter 3: Situating Personal Literacies
Chapter 4: Situating Oral Literacies
Chapter 5: Situating Visual Literacies
Chapter 6: Situating Digital Literacies
Chapter 7: Situating Popular Culture Literacies
Chapter 8: Situating Academic Literacies
Chapter 9: Situating Civic Literacies
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Part I: A Rhetoric for Multiple Literacies
Chapter 1: What Is Literacy?
Definitions of Literacy
Situating Literacy
Literacy Purposes
Letters of apology from President Clinton regarding the internment of Americans of Japanese descent
Literacy Audiences
Three excerpts from Malcolm X speeches to different audiences (a Detroit civil rights
group, Harvard University students, and the Nation of Islam)
Literacy Personas
Excerpts from a case study of a student in a sociology class
Literacy Mediums
Excerpts of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King novel and film script
Literacy Genres
Song lyrics from Mos Def's "Dollar Day"
Literacy Contexts
Three advertisements for Coke in three different historical contexts
Chapter 2: Reading and Composing Processes
Reading Processes
Double-entry journal for an analysis of the film Trainspotting
Advice for Improving Your Reading Processes
Annotated Web screen shot from a review of Trainspotting
Reading for Multiple Purposes
Article from a student newspaper
Reading in Multiple Mediums
Excerpts from Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Newspaper editorial, poster, and link to video for an anti-drunk driving campaign
Reading in Multiple Genres
Excerpts from a scientific experimental report
Reading in Multiple Contexts
Brian Turner's poem "Eulogy"
Composing Processes in Multiple Literacies
Revisions of a lithograph by M.C. Escher
One Student's Composing Process
Drafts of a student's personal literacy narrative
Composing for Multiple Purposes
Assignments from First-Year Writing courses
Composing in Multiple Mediums
Excerpts from interviews with Beck about composing songs
Composing in Multiple Genres
Examples from student case studies of how genre affected students' composing processes
Composing in Multiple Contexts
Excerpts from personal essays by Sherman Alexie, Paule Marshall, and Gloria Anzaldua.
Part II: Readings for Situating Multiple Literacies
Chapter 3: Situating Personal Literacies
What Are Personal Literacies?
"What's I Got to Do with It? Personal Literacies in the Writing Classroom" by Amy Hodges Hamilton
Student Case Study: Composing a Personal Literacy Narrative
Personal Literacy Readings
CCCC Statement on Students' Right to Their Own Language [position statement]
"My Most Spectacular Failure" by Claras Leandre [student personal literacy narrative]
"Superman and Me" by Sherman Alexie [essay]
"Between the Sheets" by Ellen Wade Beals [poem]
"Marginalia" by Billy Collins [poem]
"Two Questions" by Lynda Barry [cartoon]
Excerpts from "The Poets in the Kitchen" by Paule Marshall [essay]
"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan [essay]
"Why I Don't Like My Accent" by Miku Rager [student documentary]
"How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anzaldua [essay]
Personal Literacy Projects
Chapter 4: Situating Oral Literacies
What Are Oral Literacies?
"Oral Literacies: Finding Your Voices" by Alexis Davidson
Student Case Study: Composing and Delivering a Speech
"Not for Sale" byj Alexandra Giang [speech]
Oral Literacy Readings
Inaugural Address by President Barack Obama [speech]
"The Boss in Common" by Andrew Burgess [student essay]
Slam poetry from HBO's Def Poetry Jam [poetry]
Excerpt from Talkin and Tesifyin: The Language of Black America by Geneva Smitherman [book excerpt]
Excerpts from Mules and Men by Zora Neale Huston [folk tales]
Excerpt from Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide by Donald Ritchie [book excerpt]
Interview with Jerry K. Walsh, Vietnam War veteran [oral history]
Oral Literacy Projects
Chapter 5: Situating Visual Literacies
What Are Visual Literacies?
"Literacy Is Not Just Words Anymore" by Pavel Zemliansky
Student Case Study: Composing a Digital Slideshow
Visual Literacy Readings
Excerpt from Picture This: How Pictures Work by Molly Bang [book excerpt]
Excerpts from Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture by Maria Sturken and Lisa Cartwight [book
excerpt]
"Pictures in America: It Isn't Just About How Many Words They're Worth" by Cameron Granger [student essay]
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods by Ralph Lengler and Martin J. Eppler
Images of Graffiti [graffiti]
Nighthawks and Approaching a City and Automat by Edward Hopper [paintings]
Visual Literacy Projects
"Hopper: The Loneliness Factor" by Mark Strand [essay]
Chapter 6: Situating Digital Literacies
What Are Digital Literacies?
"Surfing, Searching, and Social Networking: Redefining Digital Literacy with Facebook and Wikipedia" by Dustin Anderson
Student Case Study: Composing a Web site
Digital Literacy Readings
Excerpt from "Growing Up Digital" by John Seely Brown [essay]
"Effective Web Writing" by Crawford Kilian [essay]
"What We're Doing When We Blog" by Meg Hourihan [essay]
"A Grand Unified Theory of YouTube and MySpace: Point-and-Click Sites That Don't Tell You What to Do" by Paul Boutin [newspaper article]
"Living the Virtual Life: A Second Life" by Peter Hall [student essay]
Excerpt from What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee [book excerpt]
"The Telephone" by Anwar Accawi [essay]
Two screen shots from The Webby Awards winners [web sites]
Two screen shots from blogs [blogs]
Three screen shots from Second Life [virtual reality]
"Flying Cars and Endless Playlists" by Amanda Henderson [student digital literacy narrative]
Digital Literacy Projects
Chapter 7: Situating Popular Culture Literacies
What Are Popular Culture Literacies?
"A Pop Life" by Stacey A. Suver
Student Case Study: Composing an Essay about Pop Culture
Popular Culture Literacy Readings
"I'll Take My Stand: A Defense of Popular Culture" by Anthony DeCurtis [essay]
"Don't Super Size Me...Dumbify Me" by Samantha Calarusse [student essay]
"Outpouring over Michael Jackson Unlike Anything Since Princess Di" by Daniel B. Wood [magazine article]
"Barbie at 35" by Anna Quindlen [essay]
Magazine covers with pop culture icons [magazine covers]
Images of Barbie past and present [photos]
"Sex and the Single Doll" by Yona Zeldis McDonough [essay]
"Larger Than Life" by Jenny Lyn Bader [essay]
Graphic Novel Review of Locke & Key (by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez) by Mel Odom [review]
Interview with Joe Hill from Graphic Novel Reporter [interview]
Excerpt from Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez [graphic novel]
Popular Culture Literacy Projects
Chapter 8: Situating Academic Literacies
What Are Academic Literacies?
"Writing Across the University: Academic Discourse as a Conversation" by Fiona Glade
Student Case Study: Composing an Academic Research Project
Academic Literacy Readings
The Council of Writing Program Administrators' Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition [outcome statement]
Writing Outcomes Statements from across the Curriculum [outcomes statements]
"Letter to an Incoming Freshman-Writing in the Academy" by Aaro Lautamo [student letter]
Excerpt from "A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum" by Lucille Parkinson McCarthy
Student Writing from across the Curriculum:
"Emotional Disturbances: The Effects of Parental Neglect Types on Children" by Nancy Alkema [social science research report in APA style]
"Constitutionality v. Morality: San Antonio School District v. Rodriguez" by Harshjit Sethi [essay in MLA style]
"Mechanistic and Genetic Causes of Depression and the Effect of SSRIs on the Serotonergic Pathway" by Ashley Nicole Phares [scientific report in CSE style]
Academic Literacy Projects
Chapter 9: Situating Civic Literacies
What Are Civic Literacies?
"Writing as Public Power: Civic Literacies" by Catherine Gabor
Student Case Study: Composing a Service Learning Project
Civic Literacy Readings
Excerpt from "Millennials Talk Politics: A Study of College Students' Civic Engagement" by The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement [research report]
Excerpt from Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by E.D. Hirsch [book excerpt]
Excerpt from Critical Literacy: What Every American Ought to Know by Eugene Provenzo [book excerpt]
Guerrilla Girls Posters [posters]
Images of Women from Magazines Ads Past and Present [ads]
Linguistic Society of America's "Statement on Language Rights" [position statement]
Excerpt from the U.S. English Web site [Web text]
"Executive Order 13166: Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency" by Bill Clinton [executive order]
Civil Literacy Projects