This groundbreaking rhetoric/reader is known for its practical, workshop approach. Addressing students as writers,
A COMMUNITY OF WRITERS features numerous writing activities and assignments that challenge students to develop
their skills by writing often, by exploring their writing processes, and by sharing their writing with others.
The third edition features a new design and incorporates expanded treatment of argumentation and research, in-depth
coverage of the Internet (including a mini-workshop on composing a web page), coverage of visual literacy, more
material on drafting, and a variety of new student and professional essays.
Attention to visual literacy throughout the book.
Step-by-step coverage of drafting�an essential step in the writing process.
Expanded treatment of argumentation with additional professional essays.
Full coverage of computer-based writing and the use of the Internet for research and collaboration.
Expanded coverage of research, including coverage of new technologies, and a section in each workshop with
suggestions for research activities.
New mini-workshop on writing under pressure (exams and other in-class essays).
New mini-workshop on composing a web page and other forms of electronic writing.
Written by the author whose name is synonymous with the workshop approach.
Each chapter is organized as a workshop and contains: warm-up activities to help students gain confidence,
a main writing assignment, step-by-step guidelines and questions to help students develop and complete the assignment,
student and professional examples, as well as full-text readings, and process boxes (brief reflections on myriad
aspects of the process of writing.
The in-text Sharing and Responding Guide prepares students to respond constructively to another's work. It
explains and illustrates a dozen methods for sharing writing.
Table of Contents
Summary guidelines for MLA Documentation (inside cover)
Preface
Cover Letter (To the Student)
Introduction
WORKSHOPS
Part I: Getting Started
1. An Introduction to the Variety of Writing Processes
2. Collaborative Writing: Dialogues, Loop Writing and the Collage
Part II: From Drafting to Revision
3. Getting Experience Into Words
4. Drafting and Revising
5. Purpose and Audience
6. Voice
Part III: Texts and Contexts
7. From Private Writing to Public Writing
8. The Essay
9. Persuasion and Argument
10. Research
11. Listening, Reading, and Writing in the Disciplines
12. Interpretation as Response: Reading as the Creation of Meaning
13. Text Analysis through Examining Figurative Language
14. Writing in the World: An Interview about Writing
15. Autobiography and Portfolio
MINI-WORKSHOPS
More on Writing and Research
A. Writing Skills Questionnaire
B. Double-Entry or Dialectical Notebooks
C. The Difference between Grammatical Correctness and a Formal, Impersonal Voice
D. Midterm and End-term Responses to a Writing Course
E. Writing under Pressure: Midterms, Finals, and Other In-class Writing
F. Writing on the Web
G. Researching on the Web Editing
H. The Sentence and End-Stop Punctuation
I. Commas
J. Apostrophes
K. Quotation and the Punctuation of Reported Speech
L. Spelling
M. Copyediting and Proofreading
SHARING AND RESPONDING
Table of Contents
Cover Letter (To the Student)
Summary of Kinds of Responses
Procedures for Giving and Receiving Responses
Full Explanations of Kinds of Responses (with Samples)
1. Sharing: No Response
2. Pointing and Center of Gravity
3. Summary and Sayback
4. What Is Almost Said? What Do You Want to Hear More About?
