Active Voices: The Language of College and Composition

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Active Voices is written for today’s students, briefly presenting important concepts about functioning in the academy and particularly in the composition classroom. By articulating the specialized terminologies, processes, goals, and structures that guide a college education, students are invited into a world that can often be mysterious and frustrating. As David Bartholomae showed us years ago, students with little prior experience may end up inventing a university that does not match up with reality. Active Voices seeks to provide students the agency associated with that knowledge, preparing them to actively participate in their writing courses and beyond. And Active Voices is written for today’s instructors, who are knowledgeable and innovative in the ways they deliver their writing instruction. Engaging the Language of the Academy 1 What the Academy Is 2 What Knowledge in the Academy Is 3 What Thinking like an Academic Means Active Voices: Utilizing Campus Resources 4 What Being a Student Means Active Voices: Understanding Different Methods of Learning 5 What Reading in College Means 6 What Writing with Authority Means 7 What an Academic Discourse Community Is Active Voices: Sprout Up 8 What Becoming an Academic Means 9 What Knowledge Transfer Is Active Voices: Transfer Across Student Experiences 10 What Language to Write in Active Voices: Heritage, Identity, and Scholarship Engaging the Language of Writing 11 What Google Translate Is in the Academy 12 What Academic Freedom Is 13 What the Rhetorical Situation Is (Part 1) 14 What the Rhetorical Situation Is (Part 2) Active Voices: Students Provoke National Action 15 What Counts as Text Active Voices: Historical Monuments as Texts 16 What Argument Means 17 What Counts as Evidence Active Voices: Alta Gracia Apparel Company 18 What a Claim Is 19 What Counterargument, Rebuttal, and Concession Are Active Voices: Freedom of Speech on Campus 20 What Ethos, Logos, Pathos, and Kairos Are Active Voices: #HUStands 21 What a Logical Fallacy Is 22 What Toulmin’s Model Is 23 What Rogerian Argument Is Engaging Writing as a Process 24 What Writing as a Process Means 25 What Prewriting, Drafting, and Revising Are 26 What Peer Review Is Active Voices: Activism Across Generations 27 What a Two-Part Title Is 28 What a Thesis Is 29 What Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation Are 30 What Analyze, Report, and Respond Mean 31 What Synthesizing Means Active Voices: Cougar Pantry 32 What Metatext Is Active Voices: Students Never Stop Learning 33 What Presentation and Design Are Active Voices: I’m Lovin’ Diversity Engaging Research in the Academy 34 What Information Literacy Is Active Voices: Student-led Governance 35 What Conducting Research Means Active Voices: Research Pays It Forward 36 What Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Research Is Active Voices: Conducting and Repurposing Research 37 What Academic Databases Are 38 What Note-Taking for Writing Means 39 What Citing Sources Means 40 What Plagiarism Is 41 What Bullshit Is 42 What Wikipedia and YouTube Are in the Academy Engaging Writing in the Disciplines 43 What Writing in the Humanities Is 44 What Writing in the Sciences Is Active Voices: Fossil Free Stanford 45 What Writing in the Social Sciences Is Active Voices: Campus Pride 46 What Writing in Business, Health Sciences, and Other Applied Fields Is Active Voices: Campus Sustainability Bibliography Index