Exploring Literacy: A Guide to Reading, Writing, and Research - Softcover

Kutz, Eleanor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321091612 ISBN 13: 9780321091611

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

This rhetoric with readings invites students to explore the conversations and literacy practices of the various communities they participate in and to apply the understandings they gain to writing, reading, and research in academic settings. Exploring Literacy presents a model of literacy situated in communities and the experiences of readers and writers within them. Students are invited to explore their own experiences in these communities while adopting the reading and writing practices of the academic communities they are entering. Combining the elements of a reader, a rhetoric, research guide, and handbook, it offers an introduction to the sustained inquiry that underlies most academic work. Each chapter focuses on one primary reading selection and demonstrates a process that builds critical response skills. Students are taught effective ways of engaging with different kinds of texts-memoirs, short fiction, ethnographic writings, academic essays-and offered extensive instruction on how to use writing to enrich their involvement with texts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321091612
• ISBN 13: 9780321091611
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592