Tori Royal

Prof. Graves

Lang 120

3/26/2018

Rhetorical Summaries

Bacon, Nora. Approaches to Style. Vol. 2, Bedford/St.Martins, 2013.

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

by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky Parlor Press, 2011

Mike Bunn, an author and professor, wrote the essay “How to Read Like a Writer”, in the

textbook, Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, where he advocates college students to

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

writing in research, through the four problem solving steps.

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

skills across all disciplines.