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Prof. Graves
Lang 120
3/26/2018
Rhetorical Summaries
Nora Bunn, a writer and professor, wrote the book The Well Crafted Sentence: A Writer
Guide, and in chapter one, titled Approaches to Style, he writes about the importance of
style, and how it relates to identity, embellishment, plainness, academics and rhetoric.
She writes this to help college students, or aspiring writers, understand their style and
help apply their styles to writing in various attributes. Shes uses a mixture of opinion,
personal experience, and quotation to get this point across. What I got from this article, is
that style is key to writing well, as it’s something that defines you as a writer.
Bunn, Mike "How to Read Like a Writer," Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, vol. 2, edited
Mike Bunn, an author and professor, wrote the essay “How to Read Like a Writer”, in the
take a new perspective on reading, to not just read for information but rather “read to
think like a writer”, to help with the process of writing. Bunn uses quotations from
authors/professors; Wendy Bishop, Allen Tate, Charles Moran, and former students to
support his claim. What I got from this article is a completely revolution of my thinking
as a writer, and after reading this began to change the way I thought about reading, and
began to think of it in terms of its structure, grammar, how its formatted all to cater to me
and why it’s catered to me. Understanding how other people write is critical for
understanding how you write, and how you can write better.
Howard, Rebecas; Tricia Serviss, and Tanya Rodrigue, "Writing from Sources, Writing
from Sentences," Writing and Pedagogy, vol. 2, no. 2, 2010, pp. 177-192
Rebecca Howard, a professor and writer, wrote the article ‘Writing From Sources,
Writing From Sentences’, she talks about the importance of students understanding where
sources come from, and how to properly cite and use information from sources “without
appropriating their language”. She uses reliable research, quotation, and own theory to
best get her point across. What I got from this article is a better understanding of how to
do citations in writing, which is something that I think every student struggles with.
Savini, Catherine"Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment," in
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, vol. 2, Parlor Press, 2011, pp. 52-70.
Catherine Savini, the director of the Reading and Writing Center and the Writing Across
the Curriculum (WAC) coordinator, has an article “Finding Your Way into a Writing
Assignment”, from the textbook “Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing”, she writes
about how a student or a writer can guide their way through a writing assignment. One
point she made in the article was ‘looking for trouble in four steps to help identify
problems/writing question and develop a way of turning this into a meaningful project.
The four steps include, noticing; articulating a problem and its details; posing fruitful
questions; identifying what is at stake. Savini uses quotation and opinion to get her
message across. What I got from this article is a more meaningful and structure way of
Thonney, Teresa "Teaching the Conventions of Academic Discourse," published in, Teaching
English in the Two-Year College, vol. 38, no. 4, May 2011, pp. 347-362
In Teresa Thoneys article, Teaching the Conventions of Academic Discourse, from the
journal Teaching English in the Two Year College, she studies and analyses “scholarly
research articles from six disciplines provides insights about academic writing that
composition instructors can use to prepare students to write across the curriculum.”
Thoney does so to aid college students in their writings, and uses quotation, and
analytical research pulled from multiple sources to build the reliability of her article.
What I got from this article is a more broad view of writing, and how to apply writing