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Writing as Reflective Action

By Duncan Carter, Sherrie Gradin

ISBN-10: 0-321-02673-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-321-02673-6What's this?

Published by Longman

© 2001

Pub. Date: Dec 8, 2000

Format: Paper

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Table of Contents



Preface to Teachers.

= Acknowledgments.



Introduction.

Key Concepts.

Reflection.

Reflexivity.

Action.

Becoming Reflective and Reflexive.

Prewriting.

Critical Reading.

The Dialectical Notebook.

Reading-Response Journal.

Dialogue Journal.

Triple-Entry Incident Journal.

Collaborative Group Work.

Some Rhetorical Concepts.

The Writing Assignments.

Working Through Drafts.

Informal and Formal Writing.



1. Exploring the Self: Reflection.

Reflective Prewriting.

Introduction.

John Updike, On Being a Self Forever.

Robert Coles, Entitlement.

Anne Neeposh Iserhoff, Excerpts from My Life.

bell hooks, Killing Rage.

Peter Middleton, Boys Will Be Men: Boys' Superhero Comics.

Chapter Assignment Sequences.



2. Constructing Identity: The Self as Social Artifact.

Reflective Prewriting.

Introduction.

Gloria Steinem, Ruth's Song (Because She Could Not Sing It).

Doug Robinson, The Hurt, Betrayed Son.

Victor Villanueva, An American Color.

Adrienne Rich, The Domestication of Motherhood.

Paula C. Rust, Sexual Identity and Bisexual Identities: The Struggle for Self-Description in a Changing Sexual Landscape.

Chapter Assignment Sequences.



3. Engaging Culture: The Reflexive Self.

Reflective Prewriting.

Introduction.

Jane Tompkins, Me and My Shadow.

Gloria Anzaldua, Tlilli, Tlapalli (The Path of the Red and Black Ink).

James William Gibson, Paintball as Combat Sport.

Patricia J. Williams, The Brass Ring and the Deep Blue Sea.

Clifford Geertz, 'From the Native's Point of View': On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding.

Chapter Assignment Sequences.



4. Writing in the Community: Reflection, Reflexivity, and Action.

Reflective Prewriting.

Introduction.

Robert Coles, Community Service Work.

Sample Project A: Oral History.

Studs Terkel, Working the Land.

Wallace Terry, Private First Class Reginald "Malik" Edwards, Phoenix, Louisiana.

John Tateishi, Violet De Cristoforo-Tule Lake.

Valerie Raleigh Yow, Varieties of Oral History Projects: Community Studies.

Project Assignment Sequences.

Sample Project B: AIDS Projects.

Steven Epstein, The Nature of a New Threat.

Michael O'Brien, Dying Has Turned Out to be Complicated..

Jamaica Kincaid, From My Brother.

Susan Sontag, From AIDS and Its Metaphors.

Project Assignment Sequences.

Sample Project C: Other Community-Based Projects.



Meta-Sequences.

Sequence One: The Identity Landscape.

Sequence Two: Entitlement.

Sequence Three: What Have Race, Class and Gender got to do with it?

Sequence Four: Private Experience as Public Argument.

Sequence Five: The Rhetorical Appeals: Ethos (Ethical) Logos (Logical), Pathos (Emotional).

Sequence Six: Constructing Bodies in Print and Film.

Sequence Seven: Methodology.

Sequence Eight: Reflexivity.



Credits.


Index.

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