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Rhetorical Modes

Reinking Readings by Mode



Narration

Thom, James Alexander "The Perfect Picture"

Greenburg, Dan "Sound and Fury,"

Angelou, Maya "Momma's Encounter"

Sawaquat, Lewis "For My Indian Daughter"



Description

Young, John V. "When the Full Moon Shines Its Magic over Monument Valley"

Ramirez, Robert "The Barrio"

Hazleton, Lesley "Assembly Line Adventure"

White, E.B. "Once More to the Lake"



Process Analysis

Dunbar, Ian "Fast Track to Perfection"

Petrunkevitch, Alexander "The Spider and the Wasp"

Wald, Beth "Let’s get Vertical"

Caudron, Shari "Can Generation xers be Trained"



Illustration

Erdely, Sabrina Rubin "Binge Drinking, A Campus Killer"

Gottfried, Martin "Rambos of the Road"

Gold, Matea and David Ferrell. "Going for Broke"

Goodman, Ellen "The Company Man"



Classification

Winik, Marion "What Are Friends For?"

Sanders, Scott Russell "The Men We Carry in Our Minds"

McCarthy, Bernice "A Tale of Four Learners"

Geraci, Ron "Which Stooge Are You?"



Comparison

Catton, Bruce "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts"

Sakamoto, Nancy Masterson "Conversational Ballgames"

Stephens, Mariflo "Barbie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore"

Rodriguez, Richard "Private Language, Public Language"

Waters, Marjorie "Coming Home"



Cause and Effect

Tomkins, Richard "Old Father Time Becomes a Terror"

Bletter, Diana "I Refuse to Live in Fear"

Roiphe, Anne "Why Marriages Fail"

Staples, Brent "Black Men and Public Space"



Definition

Shames, Laurence "The Sweet Smell of Success Isn't All That Sweet"

Zwelling, Marc "The Blended Economy"

Carter, Stephen L "The Insufficiency of Honesty"

Gibbs, Nancy "When Is It Rape?"



Argument

Postrel, Virginia "Yes, Don’t Impede Medical Progress"

Kauthammer, Charles "Crossing Lines"

Ehrenhalt, Alan "The Misguided Zeal of the Privacy Lobby"

Dority, Barbara "Halt and Show your Papers"

King, Martin Luther Jr. "I Have a Dream"

Raspberry, William "A Journalist's View of Black Economics"

James, Daniel "Close the Borders to All Newcomers"

Moore, Stephen "Give Us Your Best, Your Brightest"



Mixing the Writing Strategies

Zimmerman, Susan "Blur: Cheetahs. Ranchers. Hope"

Sullivan, Deborah "Social Bodies: Tightening the Bonds of Beauty

Tannen, Deborah "Gender Gap in Cyberspace"








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