Writing for Social Justice

By Maggie Sokolik

Writing can make a difference in your world. Whether it's personal writing that helps you clarify issues in your own life, letters and petitions to draw attention to local and national issues, or essays about the big issues, learning to write clearly, logically, and effectively can help you change the world.

This workbook/journal offers over 160 thought-provoking writing topics, as well as information on using logic, emotion, and authority to write powerfully.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wayzgoose Press
• Release date: Aug 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393769729

Maggie Sokolik

Maggie Sokolik, Ph.D. was born in Olympia, Washington. She is a writer/editor living in the Bay Area. She graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and received a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA. She directs the writing program at UC Berkeley. She is also the instructor for a popular online writing course, College Writing 2x, as well as the BerkeleyX Book Club, both offered through edx.org. These courses are offered free of charge to readers and writers around the world, and have attracted over a quarter million students to date.

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Writing for Social Justice

Writing for Social Justice

Journal and Workbook

Maggie Sokolik

Wayzgoose Press

Copyright © 2019 by Wayzgoose Press

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author and publisher, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Cover design by DJ Rogers for Bookbranders.

Editing by Dorothy Zemach.

Contents

Introduction

Writing for Social Justice

What is Social Justice?

Four Spheres of Social Justice Writing

The Issues

Areas of Interest

Logos, Ethos, Pathos

Rhetoric and Its Uses

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Find Examples

Logical Fallacies

Journal

Introduction

Questions About You

Questions About Your Reading, Writing, and Viewing

Questions About Your Local Environment

Questions About the Bigger Issues

Other Ideas

Your Writing Projects

Afterword

About the Author

Introduction

This is a book that requires you to write!

However, since you can’t write in this e-book, you will need to keep a journal in a different format. (You can write directly in the print version of this book, of course.)

You should choose whatever form of journal you want; it might be a paper journal, a loose-leaf