Writing for Rights is a basic writing workbook ideal for undergraduate instruction, featuring lessons about writing that are presented in a context of social justice to engage even reluctant writers through a sensibility for equity and community action.
Writing is a necessary skill that allows people to communicate their ideas. For this reason, writing evokes change, and our words persist long after we are gone. We celebrate heroes of the past by the words they leave behind. Writing for Rights is a basic writing workbook ideal for undergraduate instruction. Lessons about writing are presented in a context of social justice to engage even reluctant writers through a sensibility for equity and community action. The workbook is a timely and relevant instructional document perfect for students at minority serving institutions like the nation’s 100 historically Black colleges and universities.
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1. Focus on Learning
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2. Fighting to be Heard
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3. Your Voice in Communication
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4. Writing for Your Audience
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5. Getting Organized
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6. Taking Note of Information Around You
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7. Study Methods for Growth
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8. Critical Thinking in Pursuit of Social Justice
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9. The Writing We Know Best
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10. Transitioning to College-Level Writing: Embracing Diversity and
Social Justice
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11. Elements of Rhetoric: Crafting Language for Social Justice
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12. Types of Writing
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13. The Journey of Advocacy Through Writing
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14. The Crucible of Justice: Writing to Advocate Through Facts,
Emotion, Ethics, and Logic
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15. The Power of Prewriting
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16. Harnessing the Power of Outlining
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17. Empowering Voices Through the Draft
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18. Benefits of a Break
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19. Ready to Revise
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20. Empowering Through Precise Proofreading
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21. Parts of Speech
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22. Nouns
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23. Common and Proper Nouns
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24. Verbs
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25. Sentence Basics
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26. Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
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27. Punctuating Sentences
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28. Adjectives and Adverbs
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29. Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement
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30. Commonly Confused Words
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31. Transitions
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32. Double Negatives
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33. Sentence Variety
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34. Quality Content
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35. Using Numbers
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36. The Profound Process of Publishing
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37. A Change in Our Writing
Patrice W. Glenn Jones is the Executive Director of Online Education and Programs at Alabama State University, USA, and a visiting scholar at Rutgers University Graduate School of Education, USA.
