Every chapter contains “Reading Selections. <br> <br> 1. Writing as Social Action. <br> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Assignment: Reflections on Your Writing Process. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Writing Process. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Reading Selections. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Maxine Hairston, “What Happens When People Write?”. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Anne Lamott, “Shitty First Drafts”. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Donald Murray, “The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts”. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Writing in School. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> What is an Essay? </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Writing about, for, and with the Community. </div> <p></p> <br> <br> 2. Writing Your Life. <br> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Personal Essay Assignment: Autobiographical Reflections Literacy, Ethics, or Service. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Exploratory Writing: Mining Your Own History. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Reading Selections. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> bell hooks, “writing autobiography”. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Richard O'Konski, “The Monster Under the Bed” (Student Essay). </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Eileen Montalvo, “Replanting my Roots” (Student Essay). </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Mike Rose, “I Just Wanna be Average”. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Pat McMurtray, “Problem Child 3: My Version” (Student Essay). </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Alison Garber, “Faith Like Small Children”. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Emily Martens, “Traveling Away from Everything Known” (Student Essay). </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Reading into Writing. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Rhetorical Features of the Personal Essay. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Narrative Base. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Tension, Turn and Resolution. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Literary Devices: Description, Setting, Character, Figurative Language. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Peer Workshop: Sharing Drafts with Others. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Peer Review Questions. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Revision Plan. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> The Process Note. </div> <p></p> <br> <br> Special Section: What is Literacy? <br> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Introduction. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Paulo Freire, “The Banking Concept of Education”. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Sylvia Scribner, “Literacy in Three Metaphors”. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Andrea Fishman, “Becoming Literate: A Lesson From the Amish”. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Audre Lorde, “Learning to Write”. </div> <p></p> <br> <br> 3. Exploring Community. <br> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Assignment Options: Analyzing a Particular Community and Defining Community. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Reading Selections. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> David L Kirp, “Almost Home: America's Love—Hate Relationship with Community”. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Tracy Kidder, “A Moral Place”. </div> <p></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin-left: 0.2in;"> Alexis deTocqueville, excerpt from Democracy in America </div>