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Joining the Conversation: A Guide and Handbook for Writers

Fifth Edition ©2023 Mike Palmquist; Barbara Wallraff

Grounded in the best practices of effective writing instruction, Joining the Conversation’s rhetorical approach teaches students the key critical thinking skills they will draw on as they begin to explore and respond thoughtfully to the complex conversations around them. From reflective and...
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Joining the Conversation: A Guide and Handbook for Writers by Mike Palmquist; Barbara Wallraff - Fifth Edition, 2023 from Macmillan Student Store

Helping students explore and respond to the complex conversations around them.

Grounded in the best practices of effective writing instruction, Joining the Conversation’s rhetorical approach teaches students the key critical thinking skills they will draw on as they begin to explore and respond thoughtfully to the complex conversations around them. From reflective and informative to analytical and persuasive writing, chapters follow real student writers as they find a conversation, develop, revise, and document their writing. Thoroughly revised, the fifth edition includes new student projects and a new chapter that explores the roles writers take on in their documents, empowering students to make informed decisions about every aspect of their writing process.

Features

A conversation metaphor that makes sense to students. By framing writing as a conversation, Joining the Conversation helps students connect their real-world writing across media to the academic writing they do in class. The book’s focus on the rhetorical situation shows students that the questions they face when they write online are the same questions they encounter in academic writing: Who is my audience? What am I trying to say, and why?


Engaging readings that mix public and academic audiences, traditional and multimodal styles. Current readings offer models in a variety of genres, from magazine profiles and advertisements to open letters and scholarly journal articles, and address timely topics, such as race in America and the natural disasters fueled by climate change.

Featured Student Writers in each assignment chapter put a face on academic writing. In Process boxes in Part 2 follow the work of six real college students across a variety of purposes and topics, culminating in their final essays.


Achieve with Joining the Conversation offers a dedicated composition space for writing instructors and students of all comfort levels with course technology. It provides trusted content with a robust e-book, diagnostics with personalized study plans, and writing tools that break down the writing process for students, make revision choices more visible to instructors, and guide students through drafting, peer review, plagiarism checks, reflection, and revision. For corequisite composition courses, Achieve lets students sign in to their composition and corequisite sections with one easy process–and no additional fees.

New to This Edition

A new chapter on “Choosing your writing role” provides a thorough exploration of the roles writers take on in their documents. These roles give students crucial lenses for understanding their rhetorical situations and empower them to make informed decisions about every aspect of their writing process.


Expanded treatment of source credibility and bias. Chapter 4, “Assessing and Evaluating Sources” features a new process for assessing and evaluating sources that incorporates lateral reading—a technique used by fact checkers—and rhetorical listening to help writers select the best sources for their writing projects.


Three new thought-provoking student essays. Three of the six featured student writers in the fifth edition are new, and they write on three of the key tasks writers take on: informing, solving problems, and convincing or persuading. These writers put a face on purpose-based writing, while “In Process” boxes trace their progress as they draft and revise.


New readings offer a variety of genres, purposes, and tones to challenge and engage students. The seven updated readings in this edition — and the “Start a Conversation” activities that accompany them —  offer engaging readings by a wide range of authors whose work appears in mainstream media and scholarly publications.

 

"No matter what your students are working on, there’s something from Joining the Conversation that will support that work." -Eric D. Brown, Arizona State University

“Joining the Conversation keeps things simple for students, while still addressing the complexities of rhetoric, the rhetorical situation, and composition.” -Michael Horton, Midlands Tech College-Beltline

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Table of Contents

Part One    Joining the Conversation
    Chapter 1, Understanding Yourself as a Writer
    Chapter 2, Finding and Listening in on Conversations
    Chapter 3, Reading to Write
    Chapter 4, Assessing and Evaluating Sources
    Chapter 5, Working Together


Part Two    Contributing to a Conversation
    Chapter 6, Choosing Your Writing Role
    Chapter 7, Writing to Reflect
    Chapter 8, Writing to Inform
    Chapter 9, Writing to Analyze
    Chapter 10, Writing to Evaluate
    Chapter 11, Writing to Solve Problems
    Chapter 12, Writing to Convince or Persuade


Part Three    Conducting Research
    Chapter 13, Focusing Your Search
    Chapter 14, Locating Sources
    Chapter 15, Conducting Field Research
    Chapter 16, Managing Your Sources
    Chapter 17, Avoiding Plagiarism


Part Four    Crafting and Polishing Your Contribution
    Chapter 18, Developing Your Thesis Statement
    Chapter 19, Organizing Your Ideas
    Chapter 20, Drafting Your Document
    Chapter 21, Using Sources Effectively
    Chapter 22, Designing Your Document
    Chapter 23, Working with Genres
    Chapter 24, Revising and Editing


Part Five    Documenting Sources
    Chapter 25, Using MLA Style
    Chapter 26, Using APA Style


Part Six    Handbook
    Chapter 27, Style: Writing Confidently
    Chapter 28, Grammar: Writing Skillfully
    Chapter 29, Punctuation and Mechanics: Giving Your Readers Direction

Mike Palmquist

Mike Palmquist is Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University. Prior to returning to his role as a faculty member in the 2020-’21 academic year, Mike served for fourteen years in various university leadership roles, including founding director of the Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT), director of CSU Online (CSU’s Division of Continuing Education), and Associate Provost for Instructional Innovation. His scholarly interests include writing across the curriculum, the effects of computer and network technologies on writing instruction, and new approaches to scholarly publishing. Mike's work has appeared in journals including College English, College Composition and Communication, ADE Bulletin, Computers and Composition, Kairos, Written Communication, Writing Program Administration, Marketing Education Review, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and Social Forces, as well as in edited collections. Since 1992, he has coordinated the development of WAC Clearinghouse, a publishing collaborative that provides open-access to more than 125 scholarly books, several academic journals, and a wide range of instructional and professional resources. Mike is the author of several books, including the textbooks In Conversation, Joining the Conversation and The Bedford Researcher, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's. Mike is a member-at-large of the executive board of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum, a trustee of the University Press of Colorado, and a member of the editorial boards of several journals. He served as chair of the National Council of Teachers of English College Section Steering Committee and as a member of the NCTE Executive Committee from 2009 to 2011. He served as chair of the NCTE College Section Steering Committee Working Group on the Status and Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty, whose policy statement and recommendations were endorsed by the NCTE Executive Committee and published on the NCTE website in 2010. In 2004, Mike was the recipient of the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field, awarded by Computers and Composition. In 2006, he was presented with the Outstanding Technology Innovator by the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication. He was named a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar in 2000.

Barbara Wallraff

Barbara Wallraff is a professional writer and editor. She spent 25 years at the Atlantic Monthly, where she was the language columnist and an editor. The author of three books on language and style—the national bestseller Word Court, Your Own Words, and Word Fugitives—Wallraff has lectured at the Columbia School of Journalism, the Council of Science Editors, Microsoft, the International Education of Students organization, and the Radcliffe Publishing Program. Her writing about English usage has appeared in national publications including the American Scholar, the Wilson Quarterly, the Harvard Business Review blog, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times Magazine.

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