This comics-style collaboration between rhetoricians Elizabeth Losh and Jonathan Alexander and illustrator team Big Time Attic presents the content of the composition course in a form designed to draw students in. Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing covers what first-year college writers need to know — the writing process, critical analysis, argument, research, revision, and presentation — in a visual format that brings rhetorical concepts to life through examples ranging from Aristotle to YouTube.

Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing

Reference

Cannon, Kevin

Cannon, Zander

Losh, Elizabeth

Alexander, Jonathan

Words, Language & Grammar

Bedford/St.Martin's

This writing guide helps writers develop a familiarity with computers and a sense of how various platforms and programs can develop writing skills. With a combined twenty years of teaching in networked classrooms, the authors provide an introduction for students¿and teachers¿to new ways of analyzing and writing arguments with computers. Emphasizing rhetorical considerations and the writing process, not the technology itself, the text provides new methods for teaching writing with computers. The text maximizes the opportunities computers offer students to engage in the writing process with a sense of freedom and creativity. It encourages students to ¿play¿ with their own text, with their ideas and words, with written dialogue and polylogue. An approachable writing style makes the innovative content easy to understand.

Argument Now: A Brief Rhetoric

Barber, Margaret

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pearson

As our field of composition studies invites students to compose with new media and multimedia, we need to ask about other possibilities for communication, representation, and making knowledge--including possibilities that may exceed those of the letter, the text based, the composed. In this provocative look at how composition incorporates new forms of media into actual classrooms, Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes argue persuasively that composition's embrace of new media and multimedia often makes those media serve the rhetorical ends of writing and composition, as opposed to exploring the rhetorical capabilities of those media. Practical employment of new media often ignores their rich contexts, which contain examples of the distinct logics and different affordances of those media, wasting the very characteristics that make them most effective and potentially revolutionary for pedagogy. _On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies_ urges composition scholars and teachers to become aware of the rich histories and rhetorical capabilities of new media so that students' work with those media is enlivened and made substantive.

On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)

Rhodes, Jacqueline

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

Winner, 2023 CCCC Exemplar Award Writing and Desire is a sustained, multimovement exploration of how writers, particularly queer writers, think and feel through desire as central to their writing practice. In a time of political, social, global, and ecological unrest, how might we understand desire--the desire for things to be different, the desire for a better world--as a crucial dimension of contemporary human experience? What might such a recentering of desire offer us, personally and politically? And how is writing itself, as one of the primary ways through which we express and explore ourselves, central to the expression and exploration of desire? Drawing on recent theoretical work in queer theory and the new materialism, Jonathan Alexander studies a range of queer and trans writers and artists who center desire in their practice and argues that conceptualizing writing as desire allows us to reexperience both writing and our world as saturated with our dreams and wishes for change. In a book both elegant and unsettling, and by turns personal, analytic, and experimental, Alexander challenges us--and himself--to think about desire and writing as the deepest manifestation of our hopes for the future.&nbsp;

Writing and Desire: Queer Ways of Composing (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Pittsburgh Press

Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot

Review\nJonathan Alexander's Stroke Book is a fascinating auto-theoretical essay on illness and queer sexuality through the prism of his own health crisis that occurred after he had a minor stroke, causing visual impairment and anxiety about his own mortality. Alexander''s aphoristic style combines bits and pieces of phenomenological reflection with social and cultural analysis, creating a kaleidoscopic portal into the experience of stroke and its aftermath.---Lisa Diedrich, author of Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS and the Course of Health Activism\nJonathan Alexander has given us an unexpected gift: an intimate performance of phenomenological writing that refuses the drive to process and package a life-altering experience of illness, embracing instead the daily imbrication of undependable vision, uncertain prognosis, and robust, resilient desire. Like the survival of its author in the wake of a sudden stroke, this book is a minor miracle.---Patrick Anderson, author of Autobiography of a Disease, and So Much Wasted\nAn archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a body\nIn the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an “eye stroke.” A small bit of cholesterol came loose from a vein in his neck and instead of shooting into his brain and causing damage, it lodged itself in a branch artery of his retina, resulting in a permanent blindspot in his right eye. In Stroke Book, Alexander recounts both the immediate aftermath of his health crisis, which marked deeper health concerns, as well as his experiences as a queer person subject to medical intervention.\nA pressure that the queer ill contend with is feeling at fault for their condition, of having somehow chosen illness as punishment for their queerness, however subconsciously. Queer people often experience psychic and somatic pressures that not only decrease their overall quality of life but can also lead to shorter lifespans. Emerging out of a medical emergency and a need to think and feel that crisis through the author’s sexuality, changing sense of dis/ability, and experience of time, Stroke Book invites readers on a personal journey of facing a health crisis while trying to understand how one’s sexual identity affects and is affected by that crisis. Pieceing and stitching together his experience in a queered diary form, Alexander’s lyrical prose documents his ongoing, unfolding experience in the aftermath of the stroke. Through the fracturing of his text, which almost mirrors his fractured sight post-stroke, the author grapples with his shifted experience of time, weaving in and out, while he tracks the aftermath of what he comes to call his “incident” and meditates on how a history of homophobic encounters can manifest in embodied forms.\nThe book situates itself within a larger queer tradition of writing―first, about the body, then about the body unbecoming, and then, yet further, about the body ongoing, even in the shadow of death. Stroke Book also documents the complexities of critique and imagination while holding open a space for dreaming, pleasure, intimacy, and the unexpected.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Fordham University Press

Despite its centrality to much of contemporary personal and public discourse, sexuality remains infrequently discussed in most composition courses, and in our discipline at large. Moreover, its complicated relationship to discourse, to the very languages we use to describe and define our worlds, is woefully understudied in our discipline. Discourse about sexuality, and the discourse of sexuality, surround us—circulating in the news media, on the Web, in conversations, and in the very languages we use to articulate our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. It forms a core set of complex discourses through which we approach, make sense of, and construct a variety of meanings, politics, and identities. In Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy, Jonathan Alexander argues for the development of students' "sexual literacy." Such a literacy is not just concerned with developing fluency with sexuality as a "hot" topic, but with understanding the intimate interconnectedness of sexuality and literacy in Western culture. Using the work of scholars in queer theory, sexuality studies, and the New Literacy Studies, Alexander unpacks what he sees as a crucial--if often overlooked--dimension of literacy: the fundamental ways in which sexuality has become a key component of contemporary literate practice, of the stories we tell about ourselves, our communities, and our political investments. Alexander then demonstrates through a series of composition exercises and writing assignments how we might develop students' understanding of sexual literacy. Examining discourses of gender, heterosexuality, and marriage allows students (and instructors) a critical opportunity to see how the languages we use to describe ourselves and our communities are saturated with ideologies of sexuality. Understanding how sexuality is constructed and deployed as a way to "make meaning" in our culture gives us a critical tool both to understand some of the fundamental ways in which we know ourselves and to challenge some of the norms that govern our lives. In the process, we become more fluent with the stories that we tell about ourselves and discover how normative notions of sexuality enable (and constrain) narrations of identity, culture, and politics. Such develops not only our understanding of sexuality, but of literacy, as we explore how sexuality is a vital, if vexing, part of the story of who we are.

Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies

Utah State University Press

Taking a unique approach to building your writing skills, Understanding Rhetoric is the one-and-only composition comic book.

Preface: Getting Graphic &nbsp; Introduction: SPACES FOR WRITING Discovering Contexts for Writing Going Boldly through Writing Processes *Exploring Visual Literacy ReFrame: Why Rhetoric? Why a Comic Book? &nbsp; Issue 1: WHY RHETORIC? Piecing Together a Definition of Rhetoric Reanimating Ancient Views of Rhetoric Setting Rhetorical Concepts Loose on the World *ReFrame: What Does Aristotle Have to Do with Me? &nbsp; Issue 2: STRATEGIC READING Investigating Texts and Analyzing Meaning Putting the Pieces Together with Synthesis Using Reading Strategies Imagining Ideal Readers ReFrame: How Do I Read This? &nbsp; Issue 3: WRITING IDENTITIES Leaping into Identities in Writing Trying Out Choices for Different Audiences Revealing the Performer within the Text ReFrame: Am I Having an Identity Crisis? &nbsp; Issue 4: ARGUMENT BEYOND PRO AND CON Spotlighting Strategies for Argument *Setting the Scene for Arguable Assertions Zooming in on Claims and Evidence Focusing on Effective Organization ReFrame: The Office Hour! &nbsp; Issue 5: COMPOSING TOGETHER Getting Together Multiplying Your Research Options Collaborating with the Audience Managing Collaborative Writing Projects *ReFrame: Get It Together! &nbsp; Issue 6: RESEARCH: MORE THAN DETECTIVE WORK Keeping the Story Straight Tracking Down Sources *Sourcing the Source Making Sources Talk: Summary, Paraphrase, Quotation Coming Clean with Citation ReFrame: Wrong Turns or Shortcuts? &nbsp; Issue 7: RETHINKING REVISION Looking beyond the Red Ink Reviewing Rhetorically Seeing through Others' Eyes Revising Radically ReFrame: Am I Missing Something? &nbsp; *Issue 8: FAKE NEWS AND REAL PUBLICATION Launching into the Future of Genres *Navigating among Media *Fake News! Entering the Final Frontier with Publication *ReFrame: How Does This Look? &nbsp; Glossary Index *Directory of Writing Assignments

Finding Out introduces readers to lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT) studies. Unlike most books on LGBT, this textbook combines original material with esteemed journal articles. Chapter introductions, written by the authors, place current research findings in a clear context. Finding Out reviews the history of same-sex relationships and gender variance from ancient Greece to the present yet goes beyond a historical account to provide an in-depth examination of LGBT culture and society. Key Features · 
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<li>Includes chapter introductions that gives students a useful context for each research article </li>
<li>Connects chapter topics to one another with Lambda Links, which help facilitate analysis and discussion</li>
<li>Directs readers to relevant studies and information with “Find Out More” boxes in each chapter</li>
</ul>“I am most impressed by this book’s blend of comprehensive scope with approachable, intelligent presentation. It provides material valuable for both students new to the field and those taking more advanced courses without excluding either group on the basis of approach or diction. … I just love this book!” –Sarah-Hope Parmeter University of California, Santa Cruz “ This text will give me a way to teach LGBT issues as central – that is, NOT as tangents, as add-ons, as side issues, but as a central area of inquiry. … This text is by far the best thing I have seen, and it is heads and shoulders above any other possibilities...” – Mary Armstrong, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Intended Audience This core text is designed for Introduction to Sexuality Studies as well as other undergraduate courses that include LGBT topics. Anyone interested in the history, culture, and society of LGBT will find this book an informative resource.

Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Meem, Deborah T.

Gibson, Michelle A.

Psychology & Counseling

Sage Publications, Inc.

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Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing

Argument Now: A Brief Rhetoric

On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)

Writing and Desire: Queer Ways of Composing (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot

Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies

Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing

Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing

Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies