Anne-Marie Thomas, Austin Community College, Riverside “A beautifully lucid way to approach argument-different from any rhetoric I’ve ever seen.” David Bartholomae, University of Pittsburgh The template format is a good way to teach and demystify the moves that matter. ![]() and that knowledge of them can be generative. “The argument of this book is important-that there are ‘moves’ to academic writing. Mike Rose, University of California, Los Angeles ![]() I would have found it immensely helpful myself in high school and college.” It’s reasonable, helpful, nicely written. “This book demystifies rhetorical moves, tricks of the trade that many students are unsure about. It’s like a membership card in the aca- demic club.” -Eileen Seifert, DePaul University “The best book that’s happened to teaching composition- ever!” -Karen Gaffney, Raritan Valley Community College Whether your students are reading works related to civil rights in the United States or more personal moments such as the one Tim O’Brien explores in his short story “On the Rainy River,” in Uncharted, this graphic memoir by and about John Lewis and his decisive moment at sixteen makes for a substantive addition to your curriculum.What they’re saying about “they say / i say” The story John Lewis begins to tell in this excerpt from his memoir marks the beginning of his apprenticeship into politics, signals the start of his real vocation, and initiates the process through which he would ultimately formulate the identity and reputation that made his life so worthy of study and his loss in 2020 so difficult to bear. As Mike Rose reminds us in his “Blue Collar Brilliance,” (in the Education section of Uncharted), learning in the workplace and the world outside of the classroom is no less important to students’ education. This is an engaging and powerful way to bring students into the discussion of education as we often experience it inside and outside of the classroom. In the excerpt included here, which comes from his three-volume graphic memoir titled March, Lewis recounts his first meeting with Dr. At the age of sixteen, he was faced such a moment not only when he asked this question of himself, but when he was also asked the same question by Dr. Congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis. One person who was confronted with that question (“Who am I and why am I here?”) at a young age was U.S. (The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is credited with coining the term “decisive moment.”) ![]() It is often the pivotal moment in a novel or a play we ask students to read. ![]() It is the sort of moment students are often asked to write about on a college application essay. It is the sort of question we ask students to think about in relation to their own life and people they study in our classes. Vice presidential candidate James Stockdale famously began his 1992 debate with Dan Quayle by saying that the question on most people’s mind that day was: “Who am I and why am I here?” It was a decisive moment in the campaign. The Decisive Moment: “Who Am I and Why Am I Here?”
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