Reading Links

Unit 1 – Portrait of a Writer

• Deborah Brandt. Interview from Literacy and Learning.
• Mike Rose, “Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language”p 532 in Writing About Writing 2ed
• Sandra Cisneros, “Only Daughter”
• Malcolm X, “Learning to Read”
• Section 1 (Bad Ideas about What Good Writing Is), Section 2 (Bad Ideas about Who Good Writers Are), and Section 3 (Bad Ideas about Style, Usage, and Grammar) in Bad Ideas About Writing
• Sandra Giles, “Reflection Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?” in Writing Spaces

Unit 2 – Genre, Rhetoric & Discourse Communities

• Kerry Dirk, “Navigating Genres” in Writing Spaces
• Perri Klass Peri-Klass
  
• Scott McCloud, “Setting the Record Straight” Setting the Record Straight_ (Understanding Comics, Ch. 1)
  
• John Leo, “Journalese as a Second Tongue” journalese
  

Unit 3 – Discovery

• Randall McClure, “Googlepedia: Turning Information Behaviors in Research Skills”
• Cynthia R. Haller, “Walk, Talk, Cook, Eat: A Guide to Using Sources” in Writing Spaces
• Dana Lynn Driscoll, “Introduction to Primary Research: Observations, Surveys, and Interviews” in Writing Spaces
• Kyle D. Stedman, “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” in Writing Spaces
• Richard Straub, “Responding, Really Responding, to Other Students” in Writing Spaces

Unit 5

• Nancy Sommers, “Between the Drafts”
• Donald Murray, “Internal Revision”