Author Description
Nancy Enright's Community: A Reader for Writers explores the theme of writing as community through a variety of readings organized around the communities out of which they arose. The selections-spanning from familial and cultural to economic and artistic-all attest to the text's underlying message that writing, when seen as an act of community, becomes essentially a dialogue, linking the writer with others who have written in the past and will write in the future.Developed for courses in first-year writing, Community: A Reader for Writers includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and cultural reading selections. It provides students with the rhetorical knowledge and analytical strategies required to participate effectively in discussions about community.Community: A Reader for Writers is part of a series of brief, single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for today's college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This text investigates the concept of writing as a communal act, positioning the writing process as a dialogue between the author, their predecessors, and their future audience. Nancy Enright, an experienced educator, compiles a diverse array of readings to demonstrate how writing emerges from specific social, cultural, and economic contexts. The book provides a framework for students to analyze these connections, arguing that effective communication requires an understanding of the communities that shape both the writer and the reader.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- A curated collection of interdisciplinary readings covering familial, cultural, economic, and artistic communities.
- Rhetorical strategies for analyzing and participating in academic and public discourse.
- Pedagogical tools designed for first-year college writing curricula.
Scope Limits
- The text focuses primarily on the rhetorical and social aspects of writing rather than technical grammar or mechanics.
- It does not provide an exhaustive history of writing theory, focusing instead on the specific theme of community.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Educators frequently utilize this text as a foundational resource for first-year composition courses due to its accessible thematic organization. Experts highlight the book's effectiveness in encouraging students to view their own writing as a contribution to a broader, ongoing conversation.
Page Count:
448
Publication Date:
2015-12-31
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190277076
ISBN-13:
9780190277079
Non-Fiction
Report writing
Academic
Rhetoric
Education
Writing