Reading Context (with InfoTrac (R))
2nd Edition
Published on 28. July 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
736 pages
978-0-15-505817-0 (ISBN)
Description
READING CONTEXT features challenging essays from a broad spectrum of disciplines and will show you how to read closely, synthesize multiple perspectives, and produce effective academic prose.
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PART I. 1. Introduction. 2. Reading for Writing. 3. Argument in College Writing. PART II. Gloria Anzaldua, "Entering into the Serpent" and "How to Tame a Wild Tongue". Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author". John Berger, "One". Angela Carter, "The Fall River Ax Murders". Hannah Crafts, "In Childhood" and "The Bride and the Bridal Company". Kimberle Crenshaw, "Whose Story Is It, Anyway? Feminist and Antiracist Appropriations of Anita Hill". Joan Didion, "Sentimental Journeys". Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet. "Constructing Meaning, Constructing Selves: Snapshots of Language, Gender, and Class from Belten High". Stanley Fish, "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One". Michel Foucault, "Panopticism". Stephen J. Greenblatt, "Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century". Alan G. Gross, "Rhetorical Analysis". Carl G. Herndl, Barbara A. Fennell, and Carolyn R. Miller. "Understanding Failures in Organizational Discourse: The Accident at Three Mile Island and the Shuttle Challenger Disaster". Rosina Lippi-Green, "Teaching Children How to Discriminate: What We Learn from the Big Bad Wolf". Martin Lister and Liz Wells, "Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing The Visual". James W. Loewen, "Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-Making". Lisa Lowe, "Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism". Martha Minow, "The Dilemma of Difference." Chapter 1 of Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1990. 19-48. David D. Perlmutter, "Living Room Wars". Mary Louise Pratt, "Arts of the Contact Zone". Anandi Ramamurthy, "Constructions of Illusion: Photography and Commodity Culture." Sandra Silberstein, "From News to Entertainment: Eyewitness Accounts". Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, "Viewers Make Meaning". Ronald Takaki, "From a Different Shore: Their History Bursts with Telling". Edward R. Tufte, "Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions". Patricia J. Williams, "And We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings upon Legal Language and the Ideology of Style". Hisaye. Yamamoto, "Seventeen Syllables". Appendices. Appendix 1: Combinations of essays with brief descriptions of assignments. Appendix 2: Two complete student works, from early assignments to completed submissions.More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Florence
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
931 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-15-505817-0 (9780155058170)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Gail Stygall is a well-respected figure in the field of composition. She is the immediate past Director of Expository Writing at the University of Washington, serving for six years. During her two terms as Director, she significantly revised the writing curriculum and the training of instructors. She has served on the WPA executive Committee and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. She has written on writing program administration, basic writing, collaboration, discourse analysis and Toulmin argument.
Content
PART I.
1. Introduction.
2. Reading for Writing.
3. Argument in College Writing.
PART II.
Gloria Anzaldua, Entering into the Serpent" and "How to Tame a Wild Tongue".
Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author".
John Berger, "One".
Angela Carter, "The Fall River Ax Murders".
Hannah Crafts, "In Childhood" and "The Bride and the Bridal Company".
Kimberle Crenshaw, "Whose Story Is It, Anyway? Feminist and Antiracist Appropriations of Anita Hill".
Joan Didion, "Sentimental Journeys".
Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet. "Constructing Meaning, Constructing Selves: Snapshots of Language, Gender, and Class from Belten High".
Stanley Fish, "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One".
Michel Foucault, "Panopticism".
Stephen J. Greenblatt, "Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century".
Alan G. Gross, "Rhetorical Analysis".
Carl G. Herndl, Barbara A. Fennell, and Carolyn R. Miller. "Understanding Failures in Organizational Discourse: The Accident at Three Mile Island and the Shuttle Challenger Disaster".
Rosina Lippi-Green, "Teaching Children How to Discriminate: What We Learn from the Big Bad Wolf".
Martin Lister and Liz Wells, "Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing The Visual".
James W. Loewen, "Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-Making".
Lisa Lowe, "Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism".
Martha Minow, "The Dilemma of Difference." Chapter 1 of Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1990. 19-48.
David D. Perlmutter, "Living Room Wars".
Mary Louise Pratt, "Arts of the Contact Zone".
Anandi Ramamurthy, "Constructions of Illusion: Photography and Commodity Culture."
Sandra Silberstein, "From News to Entertainment: Eyewitness Accounts".
Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, "Viewers Make Meaning".
Ronald Takaki, "From a Different Shore: Their History Bursts with Telling".
Edward R. Tufte, "Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions".
Patricia J. Williams, "And We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings upon Legal Language and the Ideology of Style".
Hisaye. Yamamoto, "Seventeen Syllables".
Appendices.
Appendix 1: Combinations of essays with brief descriptions of assignments.
Appendix 2: Two complete student works, from early assignments to completed submissions."
1. Introduction.
2. Reading for Writing.
3. Argument in College Writing.
PART II.
Gloria Anzaldua, Entering into the Serpent" and "How to Tame a Wild Tongue".
Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author".
John Berger, "One".
Angela Carter, "The Fall River Ax Murders".
Hannah Crafts, "In Childhood" and "The Bride and the Bridal Company".
Kimberle Crenshaw, "Whose Story Is It, Anyway? Feminist and Antiracist Appropriations of Anita Hill".
Joan Didion, "Sentimental Journeys".
Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet. "Constructing Meaning, Constructing Selves: Snapshots of Language, Gender, and Class from Belten High".
Stanley Fish, "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One".
Michel Foucault, "Panopticism".
Stephen J. Greenblatt, "Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century".
Alan G. Gross, "Rhetorical Analysis".
Carl G. Herndl, Barbara A. Fennell, and Carolyn R. Miller. "Understanding Failures in Organizational Discourse: The Accident at Three Mile Island and the Shuttle Challenger Disaster".
Rosina Lippi-Green, "Teaching Children How to Discriminate: What We Learn from the Big Bad Wolf".
Martin Lister and Liz Wells, "Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing The Visual".
James W. Loewen, "Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-Making".
Lisa Lowe, "Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism".
Martha Minow, "The Dilemma of Difference." Chapter 1 of Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1990. 19-48.
David D. Perlmutter, "Living Room Wars".
Mary Louise Pratt, "Arts of the Contact Zone".
Anandi Ramamurthy, "Constructions of Illusion: Photography and Commodity Culture."
Sandra Silberstein, "From News to Entertainment: Eyewitness Accounts".
Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, "Viewers Make Meaning".
Ronald Takaki, "From a Different Shore: Their History Bursts with Telling".
Edward R. Tufte, "Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions".
Patricia J. Williams, "And We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings upon Legal Language and the Ideology of Style".
Hisaye. Yamamoto, "Seventeen Syllables".
Appendices.
Appendix 1: Combinations of essays with brief descriptions of assignments.
Appendix 2: Two complete student works, from early assignments to completed submissions."