Readings

On this page you can find links to some of the readings we will be doing in class. Other readings will be in your book. Click on the links below to access them.

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Amy Tan Literacy Narrative

Donald Murray: "All Writing is Autobiography"

Stuart Greene: "Argument as Conversation"

Kieth Grant-Davie: "Rhetorical Situations and their Constituents"

Aristotle's Rhetoric: From the "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy" (Read Section 5 only) and "A General Summary of Aristotle's Appeals"

James Paul Gee: "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction"

Tony Mirabelli: "Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers"

Joseph Harris: "Forwarding"