Book Title: EmpoWord 111
Subtitle: A Student-Centered Anthology & Handbook for College Writers
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Book Description: EmpoWord is a reader and rhetoric that champions the possibilities of student writing. The textbook uses actual student writing to exemplify effective writing strategies, celebrating dedicated college writing students to encourage and instruct their successors: the students in your class. Through both creative and traditional activities, readers are encouraged to explore a variety of rhetorical situations to become more critical agents of reading, writing, speaking, and listening in all facets of their lives. Straightforward and readable instruction sections introduce key vocabulary, concepts, and strategies. Three culminating assignments (Descriptive Personal Narrative; Text-Wrestling Analysis; Persuasive Research Essay) give students a chance to show their learning while also practicing rhetorical awareness techniques for future writing situations.Shane Abrams is the original author. Doug Bourne and University of Alaska Anchorage Writing Department adapted his work to develop this text.
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Shane Abrams is the original author. Doug Bourne and University of Alaska Anchorage Writing Department adapted his work to develop this text.
EmpoWord is a reader and rhetoric that champions the possibilities of student writing. The textbook uses actual student writing to exemplify effective writing strategies, celebrating dedicated college writing students to encourage and instruct their successors: the students in your class. Through both creative and traditional activities, readers are encouraged to explore a variety of rhetorical situations to become more critical agents of reading, writing, speaking, and listening in all facets of their lives. Straightforward and readable instruction sections introduce key vocabulary, concepts, and strategies. Three culminating assignments (Descriptive Personal Narrative; Text-Wrestling Analysis; Persuasive Research Essay) give students a chance to show their learning while also practicing rhetorical awareness techniques for future writing situations.
This is a University of Alaska Anchorage version of the text.
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This book is a cloned version of EmpoWord by Shane Abrams, published using Pressbooks under a CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) license. It may differ from the original.
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EmpoWord 111 Copyright © by Doug Bourne and Shane Abrams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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EmpoWord 111 Copyright © by Doug Bourne and Shane Abrams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This is a modified version of EmpoWord by Shane Abrams.