Writing for Rights

Patrice W. Glenn Jones
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9781837084913
19 May 2025
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19 May 2025
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  • Contents
  • About

Writing is a necessary skill that allows people to communicate their ideas. For this reason, writing evokes change, and our words persist long after we are gone. We celebrate heroes of the past by the words they leave behind. Writing for Rights is a basic writing workbook ideal for undergraduate instruction. Lessons about writing are presented in a context of social justice to engage even reluctant writers through a sensibility for equity and community action. The workbook is a timely and relevant instructional document perfect for students at minority serving institutions like the nation’s 100 historically Black colleges and universities. 

Chapter 1. Focus on Learning

  • Chapter 2. Fighting to be Heard
  • Chapter 3. Your Voice in Communication
  • Chapter 4. Writing for Your Audience
  • Chapter 5. Getting Organized
  • Chapter 6. Taking “Note” of Information Around You
  • Chapter 7. Study Methods for Growth
  • Chapter 8. Critical Thinking in Pursuit of Social Justice
  • Chapter 9. The Writing We Know Best
  • Chapter 10. Transitioning to College-Level Writing: Embracing Diversity and Social Justice
  • Chapter 11. Elements of Rhetoric: Crafting Language for Social Justice
  • Chapter 12. Types of Writing
  • Chapter 13. The Journey of Advocacy Through Writing
  • Chapter 14. The Crucible of Justice: Writing to Advocate Through Facts, Emotion, Ethics, and Logic
  • Chapter 15. The Power of Prewriting
  • Chapter 16. Harnessing the Power of Outlining
  • Chapter 17. Empowering Voices Through the Draft
  • Chapter 18. Benefits of a Break
  • Chapter 19. Ready to Revise
  • Chapter 20. Empowering Through Precise Proofreading
  • Chapter 21. Parts of Speech
  • Chapter 22. Nouns
  • Chapter 23. Common and Proper Nouns
  • Chapter 24. Verbs
  • Chapter 25. Sentence Basics
  • Chapter 26. Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
  • Chapter 27. Punctuating Sentences
  • Chapter 28. Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Chapter 29. Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement
  • Chapter 30. Commonly Confused Words
  • Chapter 31. Transitions
  • Chapter 32. Double Negatives
  • Chapter 33. Sentence Variety
  • Chapter 34. Quality Content
  • Chapter 35. Using Numbers
  • Chapter 36. The Profound Process of Publishing
  • Chapter 37. A Change in Our Writing

Patrice W. Glenn Jones is the Executive Director of Online Education and Programs at Alabama State University, USA, and a visiting scholar at Rutgers University Graduate School of Education, USA.