Writing in the Disciplines
A Reader for Writers
5th Edition
Published on 11. June 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
688 pages
978-0-13-182382-2 (ISBN)
Description
For undergraduate-level courses in Composition, English, and Writing that focus on academic writing and writing from sources.
This combination rhetoric/anthology shows students how to read academic texts effectively and how to use them as sources for college papers in a variety of disciplines. The rhetoric teaches students the fundamental strategies for all phases of academic writing-critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, organizing, drafting, revising, editing, synthesizing, analyzing, researching, and developing arguments. The anthology offers engaging reading selections that introduce students to the issues and the methods of study in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and that serve as idea banks for their writing assignments. Throughout, students learn how to work individually and collaboratively as they move through the entire process of writing from sources-from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising essays.
This combination rhetoric/anthology shows students how to read academic texts effectively and how to use them as sources for college papers in a variety of disciplines. The rhetoric teaches students the fundamental strategies for all phases of academic writing-critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, organizing, drafting, revising, editing, synthesizing, analyzing, researching, and developing arguments. The anthology offers engaging reading selections that introduce students to the issues and the methods of study in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and that serve as idea banks for their writing assignments. Throughout, students learn how to work individually and collaboratively as they move through the entire process of writing from sources-from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising essays.
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Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-13-182382-2 (9780131823822)
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Content
Preface.
I. READING AND WRITING IN THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES.
1. Preparing to Write: Active Reading.
Academic Writing: An Introduction. Active Reading Strategies. Prereading. Close Reading. Postreading.
2. Writing an Essay in Response to a Source: An Illustration of the Writing Process.
The Reading-Writing Process. Personal Response in Academic Writing. Active Reading Strategies for Response Essays. Planning. Drafting. Revising the Preliminary Draft. Editing.
3. Composing Essays Drawing from Two or More Sources: Comparison and Contrast and Synthesis.
Comparison and Contrast Essay. Synthesizing Sources.
4. Essays of Argument, Analysis, and Evaluation.
Argument: An Introduction. Analysis and Evaluation: An Introduction. Writing an Analytical Essay.
5. Writing Research Papers.
The Research Paper: An Introduction. Identifying a Research Topic. Developing a Research Strategy. Virtual Libraries. Using Electronic Retrieval Systems. The Library or the World Wide Web? Choosing a Research Site. Locating Information in an Academic Library. Conducting Research Using the World Wide Web. Collecting Information on Your Own: Surveys and Interviews. Modifying Your Search Strategy. Evaluating Information Sources. Excerpting Information from Sources. Writing a Preliminary Thesis. Planning the Research Paper. Writing from Your Outline. Revising. Editing.
II. AN ANTHOLOGY OF READINGS.
Natural Sciences and Technology.
6. Cloning.
Jennifer and Rachel, Lee Silver.
Me, My Clone, and I (Or in Defense of Human Cloning), Jonathan Colvin.
Narcissus Cloned, John J. Conley.
Crossing Lines: A Secular Argument Against Research Cloning, Charles Krauthammer.
Species on Ice, Karen Wright.
Bessie and the Gaur, Malcolm Tait.
7. Human/Machine Interaction.
We Are Not Special, Rodney A. Brooks.
Cyborg Seeks Community, Steve Mann.
Love By Any Other Name, Sherry Turkle.
Live Forever, Raymond Kurzweil.
Isolated By the Internet, Clifford Stoll.
The Gist Generation, Jeff Barbian.
Time To Do Everything But Think, David Brooks.
8. Crime-Fighting Technology: Balancing Public Safety and Privacy.
Computer Project Seeks to Avert Youth Violence, Francis X. Clines.
Rooting Out the Bad Seeds?, Kelly Patricia O'Meara.
Kyllo V. United States: Technology V. Individual Privacy, Thomas Colbridge.
DC's Virtual Panopticon, Christian Parenti.
Trading Liberty for Illusions, Wendy Kaminer.
Invasion of Privacy, Joshua Quittner.
Social Sciences.
9. The Changing American Family.
Brave New Family, Kimberly Mistysyn.
Children of Gay Fathers, Robert L. Barret and Bryan E. Robinson.
What Is a Family?, Pauline Irit Erera.
Seven Tenets for Establishing New Marital Norms, David Popenoe.
Cohabitation Instead of Marriage, James Q. Wilson.
Promoting Marriage as a Means for Promoting Fatherhood, Wade F. Horn.
Toward Revels or A Requiem for Family Diversity, Judith Stacey.
10. Social Class and Inequality.
What are "Class" and "Inequality"?, Jeremy Seabrook.
Grandma Went to Smith, All Right, But She Went from Nine to Five: A Memoir, Patricia Clark Smith.
The Revolt of the Black Bourgeoisie, Leonce Gaiter.
The War Against the Poor Instead of Programs to End Poverty, Herbert J. Gans.
When Shelter Feels Like a Prison, Charmion Browne.
White Standard for Poverty, Dirk Johnson.
Serving in Florida, Barbara Ehrenreich.
11. Rethinking School.
High School, An Institution Whose Time Has Passed, Leon Botstein.
A Day In the Life of Rafael Jackson, Patrick James McQuillan.
Educating Black Students, Shelby Steele.
Challenging Our Assumptions, Janine Bempechat.
Homework, Martin L. Gross.
Myth 5: Self-Esteem Must Come First-Then Learning, Larry E. Frase and William Streshly.
Manufacturing a Crisis in Education, David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle.
Humanities.
12. Religion and Identity.
Excellent Things in Women, Sara Suleri.
Politics and the Muslim Woman, Benazir Bhutto.
I Still Hear The Cry, Alina Bacall-Zwirn and Jared Stark.
Threads, Elly Bulkin.
White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus, Jacquelyn Grant.
Sin Big, Mary Daly.
The Pope's Loyal Opposition, Garry Wills.
America, A Christian Nation, Pat Robertson.
Is America a Christian Nation?, Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore.
13. Literatures of Diaspora: Fiction and Nonfiction.
The Proper Respect, Isabel Allende.
The Journey, Primo Levi.
A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki.
Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee.
Everyday Use, Alice Walker.
Index.
I. READING AND WRITING IN THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES.
1. Preparing to Write: Active Reading.
Academic Writing: An Introduction. Active Reading Strategies. Prereading. Close Reading. Postreading.
2. Writing an Essay in Response to a Source: An Illustration of the Writing Process.
The Reading-Writing Process. Personal Response in Academic Writing. Active Reading Strategies for Response Essays. Planning. Drafting. Revising the Preliminary Draft. Editing.
3. Composing Essays Drawing from Two or More Sources: Comparison and Contrast and Synthesis.
Comparison and Contrast Essay. Synthesizing Sources.
4. Essays of Argument, Analysis, and Evaluation.
Argument: An Introduction. Analysis and Evaluation: An Introduction. Writing an Analytical Essay.
5. Writing Research Papers.
The Research Paper: An Introduction. Identifying a Research Topic. Developing a Research Strategy. Virtual Libraries. Using Electronic Retrieval Systems. The Library or the World Wide Web? Choosing a Research Site. Locating Information in an Academic Library. Conducting Research Using the World Wide Web. Collecting Information on Your Own: Surveys and Interviews. Modifying Your Search Strategy. Evaluating Information Sources. Excerpting Information from Sources. Writing a Preliminary Thesis. Planning the Research Paper. Writing from Your Outline. Revising. Editing.
II. AN ANTHOLOGY OF READINGS.
Natural Sciences and Technology.
6. Cloning.
Jennifer and Rachel, Lee Silver.
Me, My Clone, and I (Or in Defense of Human Cloning), Jonathan Colvin.
Narcissus Cloned, John J. Conley.
Crossing Lines: A Secular Argument Against Research Cloning, Charles Krauthammer.
Species on Ice, Karen Wright.
Bessie and the Gaur, Malcolm Tait.
7. Human/Machine Interaction.
We Are Not Special, Rodney A. Brooks.
Cyborg Seeks Community, Steve Mann.
Love By Any Other Name, Sherry Turkle.
Live Forever, Raymond Kurzweil.
Isolated By the Internet, Clifford Stoll.
The Gist Generation, Jeff Barbian.
Time To Do Everything But Think, David Brooks.
8. Crime-Fighting Technology: Balancing Public Safety and Privacy.
Computer Project Seeks to Avert Youth Violence, Francis X. Clines.
Rooting Out the Bad Seeds?, Kelly Patricia O'Meara.
Kyllo V. United States: Technology V. Individual Privacy, Thomas Colbridge.
DC's Virtual Panopticon, Christian Parenti.
Trading Liberty for Illusions, Wendy Kaminer.
Invasion of Privacy, Joshua Quittner.
Social Sciences.
9. The Changing American Family.
Brave New Family, Kimberly Mistysyn.
Children of Gay Fathers, Robert L. Barret and Bryan E. Robinson.
What Is a Family?, Pauline Irit Erera.
Seven Tenets for Establishing New Marital Norms, David Popenoe.
Cohabitation Instead of Marriage, James Q. Wilson.
Promoting Marriage as a Means for Promoting Fatherhood, Wade F. Horn.
Toward Revels or A Requiem for Family Diversity, Judith Stacey.
10. Social Class and Inequality.
What are "Class" and "Inequality"?, Jeremy Seabrook.
Grandma Went to Smith, All Right, But She Went from Nine to Five: A Memoir, Patricia Clark Smith.
The Revolt of the Black Bourgeoisie, Leonce Gaiter.
The War Against the Poor Instead of Programs to End Poverty, Herbert J. Gans.
When Shelter Feels Like a Prison, Charmion Browne.
White Standard for Poverty, Dirk Johnson.
Serving in Florida, Barbara Ehrenreich.
11. Rethinking School.
High School, An Institution Whose Time Has Passed, Leon Botstein.
A Day In the Life of Rafael Jackson, Patrick James McQuillan.
Educating Black Students, Shelby Steele.
Challenging Our Assumptions, Janine Bempechat.
Homework, Martin L. Gross.
Myth 5: Self-Esteem Must Come First-Then Learning, Larry E. Frase and William Streshly.
Manufacturing a Crisis in Education, David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle.
Humanities.
12. Religion and Identity.
Excellent Things in Women, Sara Suleri.
Politics and the Muslim Woman, Benazir Bhutto.
I Still Hear The Cry, Alina Bacall-Zwirn and Jared Stark.
Threads, Elly Bulkin.
White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus, Jacquelyn Grant.
Sin Big, Mary Daly.
The Pope's Loyal Opposition, Garry Wills.
America, A Christian Nation, Pat Robertson.
Is America a Christian Nation?, Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore.
13. Literatures of Diaspora: Fiction and Nonfiction.
The Proper Respect, Isabel Allende.
The Journey, Primo Levi.
A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki.
Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee.
Everyday Use, Alice Walker.
Index.