Involved: Writing for College, Writing for Your Self
- Rhetoric, Pedagogy, Writing
By Charles Bazerman
Involved: Writing for College, Writing for Your Self helps students to understand their college experience as a way of advancing their own personal concerns and to draw substance from their reading and writing assignments. By enabling students to understand what it is they are being asked to write—from basic to complex communications—and how they can go about fulfilling those tasks meaningfully and successfully, this book helps students to develop themselves in all the ways the university offers. This edition of the book has been adapted from the print edition, published in 1997 by Houghton Mifflin. Copyrighted materials—primarily images and examples within the text—have been removed from this edition.
Table of Contents
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Part One. Writing Your Self into College
Chapter 2: The Classroom Situation
Part Two. Thriving in the Classroom
Chapter 4: Journals and Reflective Writing
Chapter 5: Notes and Summaries: Writing to Remember
Chapter 6: Exam Writing: Displaying Knowledge
Part Three. Using Concepts to View the World
Chapter 7: Illustrative Writing: Connecting Concepts and Real Examples
Chapter 8: Autobiographical Writing: Connecting Concepts and Experience
Chapter 9: Analytical Writing: Looking Closely
Part Four. Investigating
Chapter 10: The Investigative Process
Chapter 11: Investigating the Archive: Library Research Writing
Chapter 12: New Investigations: Fieldwork and Laboratories
Part Five. Dealing with Complexity
Chapter 13: Writing About Complex Worlds
Chapter 14: Writing About Problem Cases
About Charles Bazerman
Charles Bazerman is Professor and past Chair of the Department of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His many publications include Writing Selves / Writing Societies (co-edited with David R. Russel), Shaping Written Knowledge, A Rhetoric of Literate Action, and A Theory of Literate Action. His book, The Languages of Edison's Light, won the Association of American Publisher's award for the best scholarly book of 1999 in the History of Science and Technology.
Publication Information: Bazerman, Charles. (2015). Involved: Writing for College, Writing for Your Self. The WAC Clearinghouse. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/involved/ (Originally published 1997 by Houghton Mifflin)
Publication History: This edition of the book is adapted from the print edition of Involved: Writing for College, Writing for Your Self, published in 1997 by Houghton Mifflin.
Publication Date: August 1, 2015 (WAC Clearinghouse).
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Series Editor: Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University
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