Rhetoric for Academic Literacy

Hey everyone!

This website is a space for my book idea, a rhetoric textbook that introduces students to academic literacy. With a major focus on navigating college in a no nonsense way, seeing it as an outsider, this text hopes to teach students to both write and developing critical thinking skills while engaging with the very university itself to underscore the points.

Navigating the academy, no matter the level of the institution, can feel labyrinthian for all of us.

Here is a sample table of contents. Looks pretty basic right now, right? That’s because this is the format that I am starting with. By utilizing a writing communities approach, coupled with rhetoric and writing scholars and their guidance on navigating college, this working table of contents will transform into a useful handbook for students, particularly those who have little knowledge of how to navigate college, such as first generation college students. This site also has several short blog posts.

1(a). College Success and Academic Writing

1(b). Course Welcome and Overview

1(c). Plagiarism and Ethics in Academic Writing

1(d). Literacy Narrative and Intersectionality

1(e). Journaling and Note-taking

2(a). Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Authority, and Work

2(b). Research Basics: Finding and Evaluating Sources

2(c). Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Synthesizing

2(d). Source Integration and Citing Sources Properly

2(e). Comparative Analysis Source Synthesis

2(f). Patterns and Strategies for Organization

3(a). Audience and Purpose

3(b). Context and Background: Writing Good Introductions

3(c). Exigence and Kairos

3(d). Argument I: What Are They, Logic and Reasoning

3(e). Argument Il: Organizational Strategies and Counter Arguments

3(f). Logical Fallacies and Cause and Effect

4. Genre Theory

4(a). Academic Essay Topic Development

4(b). Narrative Process Analysis Essay Guidelines

4(d). Community Development Proposals.pptx

5(a) Actor Network Theory

5(b). Reading and Writing About Visual Arguments

6. Peer Draft Workshops for Academic Writing

6(a). Revision and Editing Strategies

6(b). Creating Multimodal Projects

6(c). Oral Research Presentations

6(d). Six Pillars of Reflective Analysis