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Call to Write, Third edition Chapter Six, Public Documents: Codifying Beliefs and Practices
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Overview Explores the genre, which includes the public documents that are a part of our daily lives They “articulate the principles and procedures that organize and guide” the lives of a group of people (186). Examples include marriage vows, contracts, wills, codes of conduct, the constitution, and mission statements.
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What is the call to write public documents? Our need to establish institutions (such as schools and churches) Our need to create social order (in our legal system) Our need for interaction These documents also serve to promote social change.
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Readings Abraham Verghese, from My Own Country Ellen Cushman, from The Struggle and the Tools
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Manifestos Call of the World Social Movements Hacker’s Manifesto
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Petitions Stop the Aerial Slaughter of Alaska’s Wolves! Call for the Human Rights in Russia Jason Pierce, Tiger Woods-Stand up for Equality-Augusta National Golf Club
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Visual design Paula Scher, Defective Equipment: The Palm Beach County Ballot
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Writing assignment See page 209 for four options: writing an analysis of encounters with public documents as literacy events, doing a rhetorical analysis, or writing a manifesto or petition. Your instructor will let you know whether your class will be doing this particular assignment, and provide you with additional guidelines.
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Readability and design See pages 211-212 for a list of eight things to keep in mind. Features that add readability include: title, logo, white space, headings, bullets, and font styles. There is also a reference to Chapter 19, which gives more information about design.
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Tone and rhetorical distance Tone establishes relationship to readers. Informal—first person, addresses readers as “you.” Standard—fairly formal, plain. Official—creates the greatest sense of distance with its legalistic style.
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Parallelism When you create headers, make sure that they are parallel, or similar in structure. The text points out that the Call of World Social Movements does not use parallel structures in its section headings, while it does use parallelism in the document itself. Talked about on pages 211-212.
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Student Companion Website Go to the student side of the Web site for exercises, chapter overviews, and links to writing resources for this chapter: http://www.ablongman.com/trimbur Click on the textbook cover, and then select Student Resources.
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