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Transcript of Chapter 6 Public Documents: Codifying Beliefs and Practices.
Chapter 6
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 (171).
• Examples include marriage vows, contracts, wills, codes of conduct, the constitution, and mission statements.
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What is the Call toWrite 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
• Declaration of Independence
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Petitions
• Call for the Human Rights in Russia
• Jason Pierce, Tiger Woods-Stand up for Equality-Augusta National Golf Club
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Policy Statements
• WPA Outcomes Statement for theFirst-Year Composition
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Writing in a Digital World
• A memorandum for Alberto R. Gonzales Counsel to the President on torture was posted by the Washington Post.
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Visual Design
• Paula Scher, Defective Equipment: The Palm Beach County Ballot
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Writing assignment
• See page 196 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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Clarifying Purpose and Genre
• See pages 197-198 for two questions that will help you determine what genre to use.
• Background research may need to do some research to clarify the rhetorical situation.
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Readability and Design
• See pages 198-200 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 readersas “you.”
• Standard—fairly formal, plain.
• Official—creates the greatest sense ofdistance with its legalistic style.
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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:
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