Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader and Rhetoric Academic for Writers
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This rhetoric/anthology instructs college students in how to read academic texts with understanding and how to use them as sources for papers in a variety of disciplines.
In Writing in the Disciplines, Mary Kennedy and William Kennedy emphasize academic writing as ongoing conversations in multiple genres, and do so in the context of WPA Outcomes. The rhetoric chapters teach critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing process, synthesizing, analyzing, researching, and developing arguments. The anthology balances journal articles with works by public intellectuals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
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Contents
Preface
Part I: Reading and Writing in the Academic Disciplines
Chapter 1: Active Critical Reading
Academic Reading-Writing Process
Conversation with the Texts
Active Critical Reading
Keeping a Writer's Notebook
Prereading
Preview the Text and Ask Questions that Will Help You Set Goals for Close Reading
Use Freewriting and Brainstorming to Recall Your Prior Knowledge and Express Your Feelings about the Reading
Topic
Close Reading
Mark, Annotate, and Elaborate on the Text
Take Effective Notes
Pose and Answer Questions about the Text
Reading for Genre, Organization, and Stylistic Features
Genre
Organization
Stylistic Features
Rhetorical Context of Text
Rhetorical Context of Your Reading
Analyze Writing Assignments
Chapter 2: Responses, Paraphrases, Summaries, and Quotations
Write