The Call to Write

by John Trimbur

With a real-world genre orientation, attention to diverse media, focus on visual literacy, and emphasis on the ethics of writing, the third edition of The Call to Write continues to break new ground in composition. Organized by genres—letters, memoirs, public documents, profiles, reports, commentaries, proposals, and reviews, this innovative rhetoric gives students the practice they need to write both in college and in the public sphere. Connecting writing to the real worlds of everyday life, college, and work, it gives students reasons to write and the skills to help them succeed. A strong emphasis on public writing promotes civic involvement through writing—to inform the public, to shape opinion, to advocate change, etc.—while relevant, provocative readings underscore when and why citizens are called to write. The Third Edition retains the best features of the second edition while greatly expanding the coverage of research. This hardcover version includes a grammar handbook.

Genres: Textbooks, Reference, Writing, Nonfiction

703 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1998

About the author

John Trimbur is a specialist in composition and writing studies, with interests in cultural studies of literacy and the politics of language in the United States and South Africa. He has published widely on writing theory and has won a number of awards, including the Richard Braddock Award for Outstanding Article (2003) for "English Only and U.S. College Composition," the James L. Kinneavy Award (2001) for "Agency and the Death of the Author: A Partial Defense of Modernism," and the College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award (1993) for The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary.

He has also published a collection of essays Service or Solidarity: Composition and the Problem of Expertise (2011) and three textbooks The Call to Write (6th ed. 2013), Reading Culture (8th ed. 2012), and A Short Guide to Writing About Chemistry (2nd ed. 2000) and edited the collection Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics (2001). In July and Auguest 2012, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Reviews

[Stephanie]

Great College Composition textbook! Especially when writing about personal experience, research, or facts. Loved learning about the dynamics of the writer's true emotions and how to use them to establish and emotional connection with the audience and the best way to foster a response. A breakdown of the real life examples helped me to understand the foundation of different styles that I still carry with me to this day.

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[Melissa]

This was a textbook for my English class, we didn't cover the last few chapters in class so I didn't read them. The book used a lot of visual examples which made it more interesting to read. I had the digital version and there was one item that I came across that was not in the digital version due to copyright issues? Luckily, I didn't need that specific writing sample for my assignments.

[Patrick]

Textbook, No Comment.

[Patrick]

Textbook, No Comment.