A Guide to Composition
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Sandra M. Leonard, Kutztown University
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Publisher: The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT)
Language: English
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Table of Contents
- Assignments and Activities
- Preface: Welcome to Composition
- Chapter 1: Using the Writing Center at KU
- Chapter 2: The Rhetorical Situation
- Chapter 3: The Shape of Rhetoric
- Chapter 4: Telling Stories with Narrative Writing Conventions
- Chapter 5: Generating Ideas and Writing Topic Proposals
- Chapter 6: Strategies of Organization
- Chapter 7: Grammar and Mechanics
- Chapter 8: Practicing Better Peer Feedback
- Chapter 9: Using the Rohrbach Library
- Chapter 10: Ethical and Effective Attribution
- Afterword: Writing For and Beyond KU
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Submit ancillary resourceAbout the Book
A Guide to Composition (2025) is an introduction to college writing and research. The text begins by defining basic principles of rhetoric and composition using popular texts such as advertisements, speeches, and news media. This textbook then moves to the specific genres of narrative and argument. Elements of the writing process are emphasized throughout the text in addressing writing center use, idea generation, library use, peer review, and ethical attribution including some discussion of A.I. Each chapter is written by current or former Kutztown University faculty and students, making it particularly well-suited to Kutztown University students; however, chapters two through eight are particularly inviting to wider audiences. Each chapter contains a number of writing process activities that may be useful as classroom activities or homework assignments.
About the Contributors
Author
Sandra M. Leonard, Ph.D. (she/her) teaches Composition, Linguistics, Games and Literature and other courses at KU as an Associate Professor of English and current Composition Coordinator. Her primary area of research is literary plagiarism, and she is working on a book on Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic plagiarism. She also has a scholarly and personal interest in table-top rpgs and video games. She has many other interests including playing French horn and roller derby. She is a bad runner, but a runner nonetheless.