Full Description
Reading and Writing in the Academic Community is a comprehensive rhetoric with engaging, timely readings. The authors wrote their book to include more coverage of the writing process. This text provides explicit, step-by-step instruction in paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing essays in response to readings, composing synthesis essays, and using sources to compose comparison-and-contrast essays, argument essays, analysis essays, evaluation essays, and research papers.
Contents
PART I The Composing Process
CHAPTER 1 Writing as Process
PART II Reading Sources and Incorporating
Them into Your Writing
CHAPTER 2 Reading Sources
CHAPTER 3 Paraphasing, Quoting, and Acknowledging Sources
CHAPTER 4 Summarizing Sources
PART III Responding to, Analyzing, and Evaluating Sources
CHAPTER 5 Responding to Sources
CHAPTER 6 Analyzing and Evaluating Sources
PART IV Synthesizing Sources
CHAPTER 7 Writing Multiple-Source Essays
CHAPTER 8 Arguing from Sources
CHAPTER 9 Researching Sources and Writing Research Papers
PART V Reading Selections
CHAPTER 10 Grades and Learning
LIZ MANDRELL, "Zen and the Art of Grade Motivation"
JERRY FARBER, "A Young Person's Guide to the Grading System"
STEVEN VOGEL, "Grades and Money"
STEPHEN RAY FLORA AND STACY SUZANNE POPONAK, "Childhood Pay for Grades
Is Related to College Grade Point Averages"
CHAPTER 11 Cyberhood
CELESTE BIEVER, "Modern Romance"
SHERRY TURKLE, "Cyberspace and Identity"
JOHN PERRY BARLOW, "Is There a There in Cyberspace?"
CHAPTER 12 Adolescent Pregnancy
KAY S. HYMOWITZ, "Gloucester Girls Gone Wild"
CATHY GULLI, "Suddenly Teen Pregnancy Is Cool?"
NANCY GIBBS, "Give the Girls a Break"
CAROL COWLEY AND TILLMAN FARLEY, "Adolescent Girls'Attitudes Toward Pregnancy:
The Importance of Asking What the Boyfriend Wants"
CHAPTER 13 Creativity and Ownership
LAWRENCE LESSIG, "Why Crush Them?"
DAVID BOLLIER AND LAURIE RACINE, "Control of Creativity?"
MARK HELPRIN, "A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't Its Copyright?"
DAVID HAJDU, "I,Me,Mine"
CHAPTER 14 Race and American Society
YOLANDA T.MOSES, "Race, Higher Education, and American Society"
BARACK OBAMA, "A More Perfect Union"
APPENDICES
Appendix A Documenting Sources
Appendix B Editing for Correctness
Appendix C Revising for Style
