The Evolving Essay

Sean Morey

978-1-64485-406-8

First Edition

The Evolving Essay will help students write better scholarly essays, reports, and other academic genres and develop rhetorically sound, research-based approaches to writing for particular audiences. The text also discusses how these forms of writing are evolving in academic, professional, and everyday writing situations and how to adapt writing strategies to meet particular genre-driven rhetorical goals.

This textbook, then, moves students from traditional writing assignments into multimodal compositions, developing skills that fit ever-changing writing situations. Using application-based auto-graded questions, short videos that elucidate and extend pedagogy, and meaningful, longer form writing and multimodal assignments, The Evolving Essay offers interactive instruction to guide digital natives through their first-year composition courses.

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The Evolving Essay in Top Hat

The Evolving Essay is enhanced for interactive learning and online delivery via the Top Hat platform—a highly customizable solution for programs and individual faculty.

The text includes various low-stakes reading interactions, application-based auto-graded assessment questions, videos that explain and extend pedagogy, and hover definitions and annotations.

  1. Writing Evolves
  2. Selecting Rhetorical Options
  3. Analyzing Texts and Environments
  4. Examining Audiences
  5. Evaluating Research
  6. Developing an Essay
  7. Adapting for Images
  8. Adapting for Sound
  9. Adapting for Video
  10. Adapting for the Web

Evolving Literacies

Emerging Genres

Rhetorical Continuities

Focus on analysis

Annotated readings

Multimodal examples