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Published: 
February 2014
Page Count: 
312
ISBN (Digital): 
978-1-4533-5951-8

The FlatWorld Rhetorical Reader for Writers

Version 1.0
By Miles McCrimmon

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The FlatWorld Rhetorical Reader for Writers curates readings as a teaching tool for introductory composition courses. McCrimmon recognizes that there are an exhaustive number of options, so he focused on arranging his text into six chapters, based on the six types of discourse laid out in the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCC).

  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dedication
  • Preface

    • Chapter 1: Academic Discourse

  • 1.1 Conducting Inquiry with Integrity
  • 1.2 From Notes on the State of Virginia (1784)
  • 1.3 From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
  • 1.4 From The Communist Manifesto (1848)
  • 1.5 The New England Primer Improved (1828)
  • 1.6 The First Year Book: Teacher’s Edition (1914)
  • 1.7 My Pedagogic Creed (1897)
  • 1.8 Decennial Census Data on Educational Attainment (1940–2000)
  • 1.9 Commencement Address at American University (1963)
  • 1.10 Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever (1996)
  • 1.11 “Character Education: An Historical Overview” (2009)
  • 1.12 Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (2010)
  • 1.13 Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing (2011)
  • 1.14 Writing (about) Academic Discourse
  • 1.15 References

    • Chapter 2: Aesthetic Discourse

  • 2.1 Engaging the Imagination
  • 2.2 “The Mouse’s Petition, found in the trap where he had been confin’d all Night” (1773)
  • 2.3 From Frankenstein (1818)
  • 2.4 “The Birthmark” (1844)
  • 2.5 “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853)
  • 2.6 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
  • 2.7 From Ragged Dick (1867)
  • 2.8 From Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 (1887)
  • 2.9 From “In the Year 2889” (1889)
  • 2.10 From The Time Machine (1898)
  • 2.11 “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
  • 2.12 “The Story of an Hour” (1894)
  • 2.13 “Youth” (1952)
  • 2.14 Selections from “Popular Graphic Arts”
  • 2.15 “Technology Marches On” (2011)
  • 2.16 “Envisioning Technology” (2011)
  • 2.17 Writing (about) Aesthetic Discourse

    • Chapter 3: Civic Discourse

  • 3.1 Joining the Citizenry
  • 3.2 “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” (1775)
  • 3.3 The Declaration of Independence (1776)
  • 3.4 “Petition” (1777)
  • 3.5 “On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790)
  • 3.6 From The Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
  • 3.7 “The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” (1848)
  • 3.8 “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852)
  • 3.9 Gettysburg Address (1863)
  • 3.10 “The Four Freedoms” (1941)
  • 3.11 Excerpts from the First Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate (1960)
  • 3.12 Selected Political Advertisements from the 1960 Presidential Campaign
  • 3.13 “The Great Society” (1964)
  • 3.14 “The Crisis of Confidence” (1979)
  • 3.15 Excerpts from the First Reagan-Mondale Presidential Debate (1984)
  • 3.16 Selected Political Advertisements from the 1984 Presidential Campaign
  • 3.17 “Address on the Space Shuttle Challenger” (1986)
  • 3.18 “Remarks by the President during ‘A Time of Healing’ Prayer Service” (1995)
  • 3.19 “Address to Joint Session of Congress: September 20, 2001”
  • 3.20 Excerpts from the First Obama-McCain Presidential Debate (2008)
  • 3.21 Selected Political Advertisements from the 2008 Presidential Campaign
  • 3.22 Writing (about) Civic Discourse

    • Chapter 4: Cross-Cultural Discourse

  • 4.1 Bridging the Divides
  • 4.2 Selections from “Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850–1920”
  • 4.3 “Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints” (1861–1865)
  • 4.4 “Liljenquist Collection of Civil War Photographs” (1861–1865)
  • 4.5 “America at School” (1894–1915)
  • 4.6 “America at Work” (1894–1915)
  • 4.7 “Barnum and Bailey and Adolph Friedlander Circus Posters” (1900)
  • 4.8 “Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy” (1921–1929)
  • 4.9 “Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives” (1935–1944)
  • 4.10 “Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese Internment at Manzanar” (1943)
  • 4.11 “Selected Classic TV Commercials from the Prelinger Archives” (1950s–1960s)
  • 4.12 “Featured Drawings” (2001)
  • 4.13 “What’s Your Consumption Factor?” (2008)
  • 4.14 “A More Perfect Union” (2008)
  • 4.15 Writing (about) Cross-Cultural Discourse

    • Chapter 5: Personal Discourse

  • 5.1 Creating and Maintaining Relationships
  • 5.2 “The Way to Wealth” (1758)
  • 5.3 Part Two from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1784)
  • 5.4 “After the Day of Infamy: ‘Man-on-the-Street’ Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor” (1941)
  • 5.5 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963)
  • 5.6 “Student Commencement Speech” (1969)
  • 5.7 “The Wilderness of Your Intuition” (1980)
  • 5.8 Interviews from the “September 11, 2001, Documentary Project” (2001)
  • 5.9 “Find What You Love” (2005)
  • 5.10 “Real Freedom?” (2005)
  • 5.11 “National Address to America’s Schoolchildren” (2009)
  • 5.12 Writing (about) Personal Discourse

    • Chapter 6: Workplace Discourse

  • 6.1 Conveying Ideas through Conventions
  • 6.2 “Wealth” (1889)
  • 6.3 “The Belief That Flight Is Possible to Man” (1900)
  • 6.4 “Wright Brothers Negatives” (1903)
  • 6.5 Selected Patents (1838–1905)
  • 6.6 “Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies” (1891–1918)
  • 6.7 WPA Posters (1936–1943)
  • 6.8 “Radio Address Unveiling the Second Half of the New Deal” (1936)
  • 6.9 “World War II Poster Collection” (1941–1945)
  • 6.10 “Executive Order 9066” (1942)
  • 6.11 “Farewell Address” (1961)
  • 6.12 “Inaugural Address” (1961)
  • 6.13 Selections from “September 11 Television Archive”
  • 6.14 “Three Special Events in the History of Technology for Creating, Organizing, and Sharing Information” (2006)
  • 6.15 “Your Money or Your Life” (2008)
  • 6.16 Writing (about) Workplace Discourse
  • 6.17 References

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    Miles McCrimmon J Sargeant Reynolds Community College

    Miles has been teaching English Composition and American Literature for nearly twenty years, since earning his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1992, at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, VA. Having helped more than 3,000 students at Reynolds make the transition into college-level thinking and writing, like most any teaching veteran, he developed a few ideas that aren’t adequately represented or played out in the array of traditional textbooks that are currently available. Miles has been a department chair, administered dual enrollment programs in area high schools, helped to develop learning communities linking courses across disciplines, and made articulations with four-year colleges and universities, so he brings some knowledge and experience of how individual disciplines and curricular levels fit together – and more important, how they don’t. Even though he has had a heavy teaching load (three to five writing courses a semester), he has managed to publish a fair amount on composition in edited book collections and journals like College English and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.
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