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Mindful Writing
Fourth Edition| ©2019 Dr. Brian Jackson
Written in a lively and conversational manner, this text focuses on important key themes and teaches students to write with power. Mindful Writing aims to grow a student’s rhetorical repertoire and motivate them to develop mindful approaches to writing tasks in any setting.
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Written in a lively and conversational manner, this text focuses on important key themes and teaches students to write with power. Mindful Writing aims to grow a student’s rhetorical repertoire and motivate them to develop mindful approaches to writing tasks in any setting.
Mindful Writing is an innovative text based on current research in writing studies and learning science that will provide students with a foundation in rhetoric and the writing process. From the first chapter, each student will come to understand that if they’ve written anything (a text message, an e-mail, a post-it note etc.), they are a writer. Dr. Jackson focuses on helping students grow as writers and synthesizes best practices while building upon what students have already learned in past writing courses.
Written in a lively and conversational manner, this text focuses on important key themes and teaches students to write with power. Mindful Writing aims to grow a student’s rhetorical repertoire and motivate them to develop mindful approaches to writing tasks in any setting.
Mindful Writing is an innovative text based on current research in writing studies and learning science that will provide students with a foundation in rhetoric and the writing process. From the first chapter, each student will come to understand that if they’ve written anything (a text message, an e-mail, a post-it note etc.), they are a writer. Dr. Jackson focuses on helping students grow as writers and synthesizes best practices while building upon what students have already learned in past writing courses.
Features
Teaches students five principles of effective writers:
- Effective writers are mindful writers who develop metacognitive strategies.
- Effective writers use a self-directed process involving planning, practicing, revising, and reflecting the first and last steps are often missing from curricula.
- Effective writers know something about writing and rhetoric as content disciplines (the "writing about writing" approach made popular by Doug Downs and Elizabeth Wardle), and this knowledge aids writing.
- Effective writers develop skills in genre, argument, rhetorical appeals, and style.
- Effective writers are mindful readers, too.
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Mindful Writing
Fourth Edition| ©2019
Dr. Brian Jackson
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Mindful Writing
Fourth Edition| 2019
Dr. Brian Jackson
Table of Contents
Part I. The Writer Writes
Chapter 1: You are a Writer
Chapter 2: Writing Plans and Processes
Chapter 3: Practice
Chapter 4: Revision
Chapter 5: Reflection
Part II. Acting Rhetorically
Chapter 6. Thinking Rhetorically
Chapter 7. Writing Rhetorically – Argument
Chapter 8. Writing Rhetorically – Character
Chapter 9. Writing Rhetorically – Emotion
Chapter 10. Writing Rhetorically – Principles of Style
Chapter 11. Writing Rhetorically – Anatomy of Style
Chapter 12. Reading Rhetorically
Part III. The Genres of Writing
Chapter 13. Opinion Editorial
Chapter 14. Personal Narrative
Chapter 15. Rhetorical Analysis
Chapter 16. Source-based Argument
Authors
Brian Jackson
Mindful Writing
Fourth Edition| 2019
Dr. Brian Jackson
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