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Welcome to Open English
1. On Rhetoric
Chris Blankenship and Justin Jory
2. Language Matters: A Rhetorical Look at Writing
3. The Rhetorical Situation
Justin Jory
4. Audience
5. Exigence
6. On Genre
Clint Johnson
7. Rhetoric & Genre: You’ve Got This! (Even If You Don’t Think You Do …)
Tiffany Rousculp
8. Unpacking the Process of Rhetoric
Tiffany Buckingham Barney
9. Counterargument
Jim Beatty
10. Story as Rhetorical: We Can’t Escape Story No Matter How Hard We Try
Ron Christiansen
11. Monstrous Rhetoric: The Beasts We Feed
Ann Fillmore
12. The Most Powerful (and Terrifying) Word in Academia
Ben Fillmore
13. Donald J. Trump, Pope Francis, and the Beef That Defied Space and Time
Benjamin Solomon
14. So You Wanna Be an Engineer, a Welder, a Teacher? Academic Disciplines and Professional Literacies
Marlena Stanford and Justin Jory
15. Memorability: 6 Keys for Success
Nikki Mantyla
16. Why Fiction?
17. “You Will Never Believe What Happened!”—Stories We Tell
18. On Building Self-Confidence in Writing
A. J. Ortega
19. How to Do College
Jerri A. Harwell
20. What I Wish I Could Tell My Past (Student) Self When First Attending SLCC
Cassandra Goff
21. Tell It True
Bernice Olivas
22. Personal Literacy and Academic Learning
Marlena Stanford
23. Writing for Community Change
Elisa Stone
24. The Elizabeth Smart Case: A Study in Narrativized News
25. Service Learning Abroad: Helping the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation in South Africa
26. The Ethics and Importance of Arguments Across Moral Tribes
Brandon Alva
27. Writers Make Strategic Choices
Charlotte Howe
28. Making Choices in Writing
Jessie Szalay
29. Organizing Texts in English Academic Writing
Anne Canavan
30. Punctuation, Memes, and Choice
31. Adding the Storyteller’s Tools to Your Writer’s Toolbox
32. Is That a True Story?
33. Definitions, Dilemmas, Decisions: Making Choices in Writing
Lynn Kilpatrick
34. Multi-Modal Communication: Writing in Five Modes
35. Consider My Rhetorical What?!! Please, Just Tell Me What You Want
36. Follow a Map and Grab a Sandwich: Help Your Reader Navigate Your Writing
Stacie Draper Weatbrook
37. Establishing Tone in Your Writing
Chris Blankenship
38. Liven It Up with Anecdotes
Lisa Packer
39. You’re Not Bad at Grammar: Social Rules for Using Language in College Writing
Joanne Baird Giordano
40. Critical Reading
41. Writing Is Recursive
42. Movies Explain the World (of Writing)
43. Peer Review
44. Citations: Why, When, How?
45. Collaborative Response: An Alternative to Peer Feedback
46. Writer’s Block? Try Creative Play and Freewriting
47. “Intertextuality”: A Reference Guide on Using Texts to Produce Texts
48. Reflection: We’re Always Doing It
Kati Lewis
49. That’s All I Have to Say! Writer’s Block, Invention, and Revision in the Writing Process
Brandon Schembri
50. Making a Peer Review More Than a Waste of Time
Jason Roberts
51. A Quick Introduction to College Learning Strategies
52. General Academic Literacy and Disciplinary Literacy
53. Reading for Understanding
54. Reading to Learn and Remember
55. Adapting to Disciplinary Literacy Conventions
56. Revision IS Writing. That is All.
Lisa Bickmore
57. ‘Tis Better to Give and Receive: How to Have More Effective Peer Response Groups
Clint Gardner
58. Why We Might Tell You “It Depends”: Insights on the Uncertainties of Writing
Justin Jory and Jessie Szalay
59. Effects Experienced Writers Use
60. The Narrative Effect: Story as the Forward Frame
61. The Information Effect: The Facts, the Figures, the So What?
62. The Persuasion Effect: What Does It Mean to Write Persuasively?
63. The Evaluation Effect: Making Judgments
64. Write for the Conditions: Help Your Audience “HOLD ON”
65. Using Stasis Theory to Narrow Your Topic: A Lesson in Writing a Viewpoint Synthesis/Issue Exploration Paper and in Organizing Your Room
66. How Stasis Theory Helps You Write a Better Paper: Clearance Racks, Static Cling, and Waterproof Towels
67. College Writing and Storytelling
68. What Is Story?
69. GENRE in the WILD: Understanding Genre Within Rhetorical (Eco)systems
70. Audience Analysis: Reasonable Expectation vs. Stereotypes
71. Whose Job Is It to Make “Good” Writing? Writer-Responsible vs. Reader-Responsible Languages
72. Dash That Oxford Comma! Prestige and Stigma in Academic Writing
Christie Bogle
73. From Adult Child to the True Self: How the ACA Red Book Creates a New Identity for Trauma Survivors
Sara Aird
74. I Wrote Something, Now What?
Winnie Jenkins and Liberty Patterson
75. Storytelling and Identity: Writing Yourself Into Existence
76. The Disgusting Rhetoric Behind Social Media Copywriting
Emme Chadwick
77. The Incompatibility Between Classroom Literacies
Ygor Noblott
78. Service-Learning in English Studies and Writing Studies
Andrea Malouf
79. Code-Switching in the Digital Age: “Text Speak” in Academic Writing
Danielle Susi-Dittmore
80. Rhetorical Storytelling in the Classroom
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