This innovative rhetoric/reader provides an introduction to--and "extensive practice with--"the purposes, forms, and processes of academic reading and writing across the curriculum. It illustrates in detail all the steps in "the entire reading-writing process"--from reading the original source to revising the final draft--for a variety of essay types. Chapter topics include reading academic sources; learning the basic conventions: summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting; responding to sources; comparing and contrasting sources; composing other types of multiple-source essays; drawing on sources for the argument essay; analysis and evaluation; and writing research papers. The anthology of readings contains a selection of high-interest, easily read thematic sources which treat both sides of timely issues and provocative topics. For students who want to master the basic conventions of academic writing, and effortlessly execute the processes involved.

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 to better meet the needs of students than other books in this market.  The text presents the major types of academic writing students encounter as undergraduates while giving full consideration to the writing process and the basics of rhetoric.  This text makes few assumptions about students' prior academic experience and 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.

'Preface,

To the Student,

To the Instructor

Supplementary Material for Instructors and Students

 

Acknowledgments,

 

Introduction: The Academic Community and Its Conventions

Learning the Conventions

Goals of This Textbook

 

Part I: Reading and Writing Conventions

 Chapter 1: Reading Academic texts

A Comprehensive Strategy for the Reading Process

Reading for Content

Reading for Genre, Organization, and Stylistic Features

Reading for Rhetorical Context

Reading and Interpretation

Tackling Difficult Course Readings

 Chapter 2--Learning the Basic Conventions: Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting

Setting Rhetorical Goals,

Considering Your Audience

Identifying Your Sources

Avoiding Plagiarism

The Summarizing Process

Creating a Graphic Overview

Compressing Information

Creating a Sentence Outline

Documenting Summaries

The Paraphrasing Process

Strategies for Paraphrasing

Documenting paraphrases

Direct Quoting

Reasons for Direct Quoting

Altering Quotations

Documenting Quotations

Weaving Quotations into Your Essay

Incorporating Quotations, Paraphrases,and Summaries into Essays

The Summary Essay

 

Part II: Writing As Process

 Chapter 3--The Response Essay: An Example of the Composing Process

Response Essays: An Introduction

Writing Response Essays

Prewriting

Drafting

Revising

Expanding Your Rhetorical Goal

 Chapter 4: Revising Essays for Style

What Is Style?

Stylistic Choices in Academic Writing

Students as Academic Stylists

Realizing Your Stylistic Intentions

Move from writer-based to reader-based prose

Vary the structure and length of your sentences

Strengthen your verbs

Make your writing concise by cutting ineffective words and expressions and eliminating needless repetition

Liven up your writing with detail

Avoid sexist language

 Chapter 5–Editing for Correctness

Basic Sentence Structure

Sentence Fragments

Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices

Elliptical Constructions

Dangling Constructions

Parallel Construction

Subject-Verb Agreement

Pronouns

            Clear Antecedents

            Other Mismatches between Pronouns and Their Antecedents

            Pronoun Consistency

Tense Switching

Misused Words

Punctuation

            Commas

            Apostrophes

            Semicolons and Colons

 

Part III: Writing for College Courses

 

Chapter 6--Composing Multiple-Source Essays

Comparing and Contrasting Sources

Uses of Comparison and Contrast

Rhetorical Purpose for Comparison-and-Contrast Essays

Writing an Essay that Compares and Contrasts Sources

Summary of Multiple Sources

Objective Synthesis

Essay Written in Response to Multiple Sources

Writing a Synthesis for a Specific Purpose

 

Chapter 7--Drawing on Sources for an Argument Essay

 

The Argument Essay

Finding an Issue and Staking out Your Position

Formulating a Thesis

Supporting Your Thesis

                Marshaling Solid Evidence and Making a Strong Case

Considering Your Audience and Identifying Your Reader’s Needs

Organizing and Arranging the Argument Essay

Writing an Argument Essay

Prewriting

Drafting

Revising

Editing

 

Chapter 8--Analysis and Evaluation

Rhetorical Analysis and Evaluation as Opposed to Response

Rhetorical Analysis

Writing a Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Prewriting

Drafting

Revising

Editing

Evaluation

Writing an Evaluation Essay

Prewriting

Drafting

Revising

Editing

Exploratory Analysis

Writing an Exploratory Analysis Essay

Prewriting

Drafting

Revising

Editing

Analysis and Evaluation of Images

           Chapter 9--Writing Research Papers

Research as Process

Prewriting

Setting a Schedule

Selecting a Topic

Developing a Research Strategy

Exploring Virtual Libraries

Using Electronic Retrieval Systems

Choosing Where to Do Research

Finding Information in an Academic Library

Finding Information on the World Wide Web

Collecting Information through Surveys and Interviews

Evaluating Information Sources

Excerpting Relevant Information from Sources

Drafting

Synthesizing Sources

Arguing, Analyzing, and Evaluating

Drafting a Thesis

Deriving a Plan

Creating an Outline

Writing from Your Outline

Revising

Using Correct Manuscript Form

Revising on the Basis of Reader Comments

Editing

 Chapter 10–Personal Essay: Literacy Narrative

Features of the Genre

Reflecting on Your Experiences As a Writer

Prewriting

Drafting

Revising

Editing

Part IV: Reading Selections

 Chapter 11--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 Average\"

Writing Assignments for Chapter 11

 Chapter 12--Technology and Identity

Steve Mann “Cyborg Seeks Community\"

David Brooks    “Time to Do Everything But Think\"

Sherry Turkle    “ Cyberspace and Identity\"

Writing Assignments for Chapter 12

 Chapter 13–Tastes in Pop Music

Dave Barry    “Bad Songs\"

William J. Bennett    “What Hath the Beatles Wrought? Rock-and-Roll and the Collapse of

Authority:

Michael J. Budds    “From Fine Romance to Good Rockin’–and Beyond: Look What They’ve

 Done to My Song:

Writing Assignments for Chapter 13

 

Chapter 14–Visual Culture: Family Photography

Freewriting

Generations of an American Family:  A Collection of Images

Writing Assignments for Chapter 14

 Chapter 15--Racial Profiling

Paige Byrne Shortal     “Profiling the Children of God\"

John DerbyShire    “At First Glance–Racial Profiling, Burning Hotter\"

Yolanda T. Moses    “Race, Higher Education, and American Society\"

Writing Assignments for Chapter 15

 Appendix --Documenting Sources

MLA Documentation Style

APA Documentation Style

 

Works Cited

Photograph Credits

Index

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