Synopses & Reviews
Exploring Through the Senses Defining Description
Thinking Critically Through Description
Reading and Writing Descriptive Essays
Student Essay: Description at Work
Some Final Thoughts on Description
RAY BRADBURY Summer Rituals
The description of a simple, comforting ritual—the putting up of a front-porch swing in early summer—confirms the value of ceremony in the life of a small town.
KIMBERLY WOZENCRAFT Notes from the Country Club
Have you ever wondered what being in prison is like? Kimberly Wozencraft takes us for a no-nonsense tour of the “correctional institution” in Kentucky that was her home for more than a year.
*GARRISON KEILLOR Hoppers
Do you enjoy watching people? Prairie Home Companion creator Garrison Keillor draws some hilarious conclusions about pedestrians on a busy New York City street as they jump over a small stream of water.
MALCOLM COWLEY The View from 80
In this humorous, touching, and ultimately optimistic essay, the author introduces us to the unfamiliar “country” of old age.
JOHN MCPHEE The Pines
John McPhee’s skill with richly detailed prose is captured in this compelling description of two very different natives of “The Pines,” a wilderness area in the eastern United States.
Chapter Writing Assignments
5 Narration: Telling a Story
Defining Narration
Thinking Critically Through Narration
Reading and Writing Narrative Essays
Student Essay: Narration at Work
Some Final Thoughts on Narration
LEWIS SAWAQUAT For My Indian Daughter
A Native American author responds to prejudice with a search for ethnic and cultural pride.
MAYA ANGELOU New Directions
Deserted by her husband, a proud and determined Annie Johnson decides to “step off the road and cut … a new path” for herself.
*KENNETH MILLER Class Act
This fascinating essay describes how Brenda Combs, a homeless crack addict, rose out of the gutter to become an award-winning schoolteacher in Phoenix.
SANDRA CISNEROS Only daughter
The only daughter in a large family, Sandra Cisneros feels overwhelming pride when her father praises her skill as a writer.
RUSSELL BAKER The Saturday Evening Post
In this autobiographical essay, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Russell Baker offers a nostalgic look at his childhood days in the small town of Morrisonville, Virginia.
Chapter Writing Assignments
6 Example: Illustrating Ideas
Defining Examples
Thinking Critically Through Examples
Reading and Writing Example Essays
Student Essay: Examples at Work
Some Final Thoughts on Examples
BILL COSBY The Baffling Question
Why do people have children? Comedian Bill Cosby presents several hilarious and ironic reasons in this perceptive look at the effects kids have on our lives.
RICHARD RODRIGUEZ Public and Private Language
Do you speak the same language in public that you do in private with your family and friends? Richard Rodriguez argues for the importance of both forms of communication.
HAROLD KRENTS Darkness at Noon
How should we treat the handicapped? Blind author Harold Krents gives us a few lessons in judging people on their abilities rather than their disabilities.
JOEL STEIN You Are Not My Friend
Hey, dude … Wanna meet on Facebook? Humorist Joel Stein rails against the insincerity of social networking sites.
BRENT STAPLES A Brother’s Murder
Brent Staples’s horrifying description of his brother’s inner-city killing lays bare the decay of urban America and its effect on the young African-American men who are imprisoned there.
Chapter Writing Assignments
7 Process Analysis: Explaining Step by Step
Defining Process Analysis
Thinking Critically Through Process Analysis
Reading and Writing Process Analysis Essays
Student Essay: Process Analysis at Work
Some Final Thoughts on Process Analysis
JAY WALLJASPER Our Schedules, Our Selves
Are you bound to your Blackberry, enslaved to your daily routine? Jay Walljasper argues that we’ve booked ourselves so tightly that “there’s no time left for those magic, spontaneous moments that make us feel most alive.”
JESSICA MITFORD Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain
In this chilling and macabre essay, celebrated “muckraker” Jessica Mitford exposes the greed and hypocrisy of the American mortuary business.
ALICE LESCH KELLY Toughen Up!
How resilient would you be in a crisis? Author Alice Kelly asks five crucial questions that help predict the difference between confidence and chaos in our response to adversity.
MALCOLM X Learning to Read
Do you remember the day you learned to read? Malcolm X was in prison when he first became enchanted with language and literature.
*BARBARA EHRENREICH Nickel and Dimed
In this excerpt from her best-selling book, the author explains how training as a domestic worker taught her that dusting furniture had an “undeniable logic and a certain kind of austere beauty.”
Chapter Writing Assignments
8 Division/Classification: Finding Categories
Defining Division/Classification
Thinking Critically Through Division/Classification
Reading and Writing Division/Classification Essays
Student Essay: Division/Classification at Work
Some Final Thoughts on Division/Classification
TAMALA EDWARDS Multi-Colored Families
Mixed-race marriages and transracial adoptions have created special challenges for the parents and children involved, but also a new and important dialogue about America’s evolving family traditions.
*SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS The Men We Carry in Our Minds
Are you a “toiler” or a “warrior”? The men Scott Russell Sanders describes in this essay fall neatly into one of these two interesting categories.
*SARAH TOLER Understanding the Birth Order Relationship
Are you an only child? A middle child? Or the youngest in your family? According to the author, our birth order can have a powerful effect on the way we live our lives.
AMY TAN Mother Tongue
In this provocative and intriguing article, author Amy Tan examines the relationship between her mother’s “fractured” English and her own talent as a writer.
STEPHANIE ERICSSON The Ways We Lie
Ever stretched the truth? Stephanie Ericsson catalogs the ten worst kinds of falsehoods, from “white lies” to “delusion.” Which is your favorite?
Chapter Writing Assignments
9 Comparison/Contrast: Discovering Similarities and Differences
Defining Comparison/Contrast
Thinking Critically Through Comparison/Contrast
Reading and Writing Comparison/Contrast Essays
Student Essay: Comparison/Contrast at Work
Some Final Thoughts on Comparison/Contrast
*AMY CHUA How Chinese Mothers Are Superior
Why do so many Asian students excel in school? According to Amy Chua, it’s because
their mothers are much more demanding than their Western counterparts.
*NANCY GIBBS Dads Are Dudes
Modern fathers are more nurturing than those of thirty years ago, claims the author, which bodes well for future generations of children.
*MOTOKO RICH Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
Is surfing the Net ruining our minds? New York Times reporter Motoko Rich presents a balanced and intriguing analysis of the dangers and rewards of spending too much time online.
GLORIA STEINEM The Politics of Muscle
Feminist Gloria Steinem examines the extent to which strength means sexual power.
*GRAEME WOOD Re-Engineering the Earth
Zeppelins spewing sulphur dioxide. Frisbee-size ceramic disks launched into the sky. Sea water sprayed into the clouds. These are just some of the intriguing ideas scientists have come up with to slow down global warming before we all burn to a crisp.
Chapter Writing Assignments
10 Definition: Limiting the Frame of Reference
Defining Definition
Thinking Critically Through Definition
Reading and Writing Definition Essays
Student Essay: Definition at Work
Some Final Thoughts on Definition
MARC GELLMAN Worry. Don’t Be Happy.
Have you ever heard the expression “All I want is that my children should be happy”? Rabbi Marc Gellman tells us what’s wrong with this simple parental request.
ROBERT RAMIREZ The Barrio
Robert Ramirez lovingly describes the “feeling of family” in a typical inner-city barrio.
CLAUDIA WALLIS AND SONJA STEPTOE How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century
What’s wrong with America’s schools? Plenty, say two Time magazine correspondents, who offer advice about how to drag our antiquated educational system into the new millennium.
MARY PIPHER Beliefs about Families
What is a “family”? Psychologist Mary Pipher attempts to answer this intriguing question by examining the effect that different categories of family members have on our ability to function in the world around us.
LYN MIKEL BROWN AND MEDA CHESNEY-LIND Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?
Why is today’s world so filled with “nasty girls”? The problem, argue the authors, is caused by a culture that “denigrates, commodifies, and demoralizes women.”
Chapter Writing Assignments
11 Cause/Effect: Tracing Reasons and Results
Defining Cause/Effect
Thinking Critically Through Cause/Effect
Reading and Writing Cause/Effect Essays
Student Essay: Cause/Effect at Work
Some Final Thoughts on Cause/Effect
STEPHEN KING Why We Crave Horror Movies
Seen any good horror movies lately? Best-selling author Stephen King explains why we are so fascinated by films that appeal to our darker instincts.
MICHAEL DORRIS The Broken Cord
An angry and frustrated Michael Dorris describes the long-term damage done to his adopted son, Adam, by the ravages of fetal alcohol syndrome.
*DANA GIOIA On the Importance of Reading
Why should we read literature? “Let me count the ways,” says former National Endowment for the Arts chair Dana Gioia, as he details the intellectual and spiritual nourishment conferred upon us by imaginative works of art.
*JOE KEOHANE How Facts Backfire
Are you sure you’re right about that? According to Joe Keohane, the more certain we are about our opinions, the more likely it is that we are relying on “beliefs” rather than “facts.”
ALICE WALKER Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
Looking back on an accident suffered many years ago, Alice Walker analyzes the connection between physical beauty and her own self-image.
Chapter Writing Assignments
12 Argument and Persuasion: Inciting People to Thought or Action
Defining Argument and Persuasion
Thinking Critically Through Argument and Persuasion
Reading and Writing Argument/Persuasion Essays
Student Essay: Argument and Persuasion at Work
Some Final Thoughts on Argument and Persuasion
FRANK FUREDI Our Unhealthy Obsession with Sickness
Are you so worried about your health that it’s making you sick? Sociologist Frank Furedi explains why the concept of “illness” is increasingly important in our modern world.
BARRETT SEAMAN How Bingeing Became the New College Sport
Wanna grab a beer before class? Barrett Seaman paints a sobering picture of the vast numbers of soused students in America’s colleges and universities.
DAVE GROSSMAN We Are Training Our Kids to Kill
Retired Col. Dave Grossman questions the role models we are creating for our kids through violence on TV. In this essay, he challenges us to regain control of child abuse, racism, and poverty in American society.
PHOTO ESSAY Tag, You’re It!
Art or graffitti? What is your opinion about these drawings on public property?
*BELINDA LUSCOMBE The Real Skinny
Malnourished models and the trendy fashion industry are tempting targets in this hilarious essay by Time Magazine reporter Belinda Luscombe.
Opposing Viewpoints: Immigration
MICHAEL SCOTT America Must Take Stronger Measures to Halt Illegal Immigration
RICHARD RAYNOR Illegal Immigration Does Not Threaten America
Is the United States “under year-round siege by hordes of illegal aliens,” as Michael
Scott claims, or is Richard Raynor correct when he argues that “America is an immigrant nation” that desperately needs the drive, generosity, and energy of people from other countries?
Opposing Viewpoints: Postconviction DNA Testing
TIM O’BRIEN Postconviction DNA Testing Should Be Encouraged
JAMES DAO In Same Case, DNA Clears Convict and Finds Suspect
PETER ROFF Postconviction DNA Testing Should Not Be Encouraged
How reliable is DNA evidence in the courtroom? Tim O’Brien, James Dao, and Peter Roff debate the issue from three different sides.
Chapter Writing Assignments
13 Thinking, Reading, and Writing in Different
Literary Forms: Combining Rhetorical Modes
Essays
ROGER ROSENBLATT “I Am Writing Blindly”
What is the basic, primal urge that drives us to communicate with each other? In this brief yet brilliant essay, Roger Rosenblatt examines the reasons why we write “blindly” to the world around us.
RITA MAE BROWN Writing as a Moral Act
Novelist Rita Mae Brown argues persuasively that good writers should always tell the truth. “If you aren’t reading books that challenge you, you’re reading the wrong books,” she claims.
Fiction
RICHARD WRIGHT The Library Card
Set in the segregationist South, Wright’s short story illustrates the triumph of one brave man’s lust for learning over a society that seeks to keep him “in his place.”
JESSICA ANYA BLAU Red-Headed
During a hot summer in Oakland, surrounded by drug dealers and social misfits, author Jessica Anya Blau investigates the mysterious relationship between art and life.
Poetry
*BILLY COLLINS Marginalia
United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins praises the art of scribbled comments in the margins of books, which often reveal volumes about the people who write them.
*WILLIAM STAFFORD When I Met My Muse
William Stafford describes through brilliant and evocative metaphors the very moment he realized he had to be a poet.
Chapter Writing Assignments
Part III Reference: Reading and Writing from Sources
R-1 Introducing the Documented Essay
R-1.1 Defining Documented Essays
R-1.2 Sample Documented Paragraph
R-1.3 Documented Essay Reference Chart
R-2 Reading a Documented Essay
R-2.1 Preparing to Read a Documented Essay
R-2.2 Reading a Documented Essay
R-2.3 Rereading a Documented Essay
R-2.4 A Checklist for Reading Documented Essays
R-2.5 Reading an Annotated Essay
*ALLAN GOLDSTEIN “Our Brains Are Evolving to Multitask,” Not! The Illusion of Multitasking
R-3 Preparing to Write Your Own Documented Essay
R-3.1 Choosing a Topic
R-3.2 Writing a Good, Clear Thesis Statement
R-4 Finding Sources
R-4.1 Sources That Are Relevant, Reliable, and Recent
R-4.2 Consulting Academic Databases
R-4.3 Searching for Websites
R-4.4 Using the Library
R-5 Avoiding Plagiarism
R-5.1 Types of Material
R-5.2 Acknowledging Your Sources
R-5.3 Direct Quotation, Paraphrase, and Summary
R-6 Staying Organized
R-6.1 Taking Notes on Sources
R-6.2 Making a Working Outline
R-7 Writing a Documented Essay
R-7.1 Writing the Introduction
R-7.2 Writing the Supporting Paragraphs
R-7.3 Using Your Sources
R-7.4 Writing Your Conclusion
R-7.5 Creating Your Title
R-7.6 A Checklist for Writing Documented Essays
R-8 Documenting
R-8.1 Introducing Your Sources
R-8.2 Documentation Format
R-8.3 MLA versus APA
R-8.4 Sample Student References
R-9 Revising and Editing a Documented Essay
R-9.1 Revising
Glossary of Useful Terms
Credits
Index of Authors and Titles
Review
THE BENEFITS OF HAVING A REAL
AUDIENCE 20
From Assignment to Essay: A Case History 21
CHECKLIST for Peer Review 24
First Draft 24
Summary of Peer Group Discussion 26
Final Version 28
Suki Hudson
Two Sides of a Story (Student Essay) 28
CHECKLIST for Drafting And Revising 30
CHAPTER 3 Shaping Paragraphs 31
PARAGRAPH FORM AND SUBSTANCE 31
The Shape of a Paragraph 33
PARAGRAPH UNITY: TOPIC SENTENCES, TOPIC IDEAS 34
Examples of Topic Sentences at Beginning and at End,
and of Topic Ideas 34
UNITY IN PARAGRAPHS 36
ORGANIZATION IN PARAGRAPHS 37
COHERENCE IN PARAGRAPHS 38
Transitions 39
Repetition 40
LINKING PARAGRAPHS TOGETHER 41
Cheryl Lee
The Story Behind the Gestures 41
PARAGRAPH LENGTH 45
The Use and Abuse of Short Paragraphs 45
INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPHS 48
CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHS 55
CHECKLIST for Revising Paragraphs 56
CHAPTER 4 Revising for Conciseness 57
INSTANT PROSE 58
How to Avoid Instant Prose 59
EXTRA WORDS AND EMPTY WORDS 60
Weak Intensifiers 61
Circumlocutions 61
Wordy Beginnings 62
Empty Conclusions 63
Wordy Uses of the Verbs To Be, To Have , and To Make 63
Redundancy 64
Negative Constructions 65
EXTRA SENTENCES, EXTRA CLAUSES:
SUBORDINATION 66
Who, Which, That 67
It Is, This Is, There Are 67
SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS ABOUT CONCISENESS 68
CHECKLIST for Revising For Conciseness 68
CHAPTER 5 Revising for Clarity 70
CLARITY 70
CLARITY AND EXACTNESS: USING
THE RIGHT WORD 72
Denotation 72
Connotation 73
Avoiding Sexist Language 74
Quotation Marks as Apologies 75
Being Specific 76
Using Examples 77
Jargon and Technical Language 79
Clichés 80
Metaphors and Mixed Metaphors 81
Euphemisms 83
Passive or Active Voice? 84
The Writer’s “I” 86
CLARITY AND COHERENCE 87
Cats Are Dogs 88
Items in a Series 88
Modifiers 89
Misplaced Modifiers 89
Squinting Modifiers 90
Dangling Modifiers 91
Reference of Pronouns 91
Vague Reference of Pronouns 92
Shift in Pronouns 92
Ambiguous Reference of Pronouns 93
Agreement 93
Noun and Pronoun 93
Subject and Verb 94
Three Additional Points 94
Repetition and Variation 95
CLARITY AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE: PARALLELISM 97
CHECKLIST for Revising for Clarity 98
CHAPTER 6 Writing with Style 99
ACADEMIC STYLES, ACADEMIC AUDIENCES 99
DEFINING STYLE 102
STYLE AND TONE 103
ACQUIRING STYLE 105
Clarity and Texture 106
Originality and Imitation 106
PART TWO College Writing 107
CHAPTER 7 Using Sources 108
WHAT IS A SOURCE? 108
SUMMARIZING SOURCES 109
Writing a Summary 109
Steven Pinker
Mind Over Mass Media 110
PARAPHRASING SOURCES 115
QUOTING SOURCES 118
ACKNOWLEDGING SOURCES 122
Using Sources without Plagiarizing 122
Acknowledging a Direct Quotation 124
Acknowledging a Paraphrase or Summary 124
Acknowledging an Idea 127
Fair Use of Common Knowledge 128
“But How Else Can I Put It?” 128
CHECKLIST for Avoiding Plagiarism 129
A PLAGIARISM SELF-TEST 130
QUIZ YOURSELF: HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT
CITING SOURCES? 130
Section 1: Plagiarism and Academic
Dishonesty 130
Section 2: Common Knowledge 131
Section 3: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and
Summarizing Texts 132
ANSWER KEY TO PLAGIARISM QUIZ 134
Section 1: Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty 134
Section 2: Common Knowledge 134
Section 3: Quoting, Paraphrasing,
and Summarizing Texts 135
Illegal Trade Passage 135
Romance Nove Passage 135
CHAPTER 8 Analyzing Texts 136
ANALYZING AN IMAGE 136
ANALYZING ADVERTISEMENTS (VISUAL RHETORIC) 137
Who’s That Girl? An Analysis of a 2010 Dolce & Gabbana
Advertisement 139
CHECKLIST for Analyzing Advertisements 141
ANALYZING TEXTS 141
CLASSIFYING AND THINKING 142
Examples of Classifying 142
CAUSE AND EFFECT 143
Dolores Hayden
Advertisements, Pornography, and Public Space 159
ANALYSIS AND DESCRIPTION 148
Description at Work in the Analytic Essay 149
COMPARING 150
Organizing Short Comparisons 151
Longer Comparisons 154
Ways of Organizing an Essay Devoted to a Comparison 155
CHECKLIST for Revising Comparisons 158
PROCESS ANALYSIS 158
Anne Hebald Mandelbaum
It’s the Portly Penguin That Gets the Girl, French Biologist Claims 159
EXPLAINING AN ANALYSIS 161
CHAPTER 9 Persuading Readers 162
EMOTIONAL APPEALS 162
MAKING REASONABLE ARGUMENTS 163
CLAIMS AND EVIDENCE 165
THREE KINDS OF CLAIMS: CLAIMS OF FACT, VALUE, AND
POLICY 165
Claims of Fact 165
Claims of Value 166
Claims of Policy 167
THREE KINDS OF EVIDENCE: EXAMPLES, TESTIMONY,
STATISTICS 167
Examples 168
Testimony 169
Statistics 170
A NOTE ON DEFINITION IN THE PERSUASIVE ESSAY 171
HOW MUCH EVIDENCE IS ENOUGH? 172
TWO KINDS OF REASONING: INDUCTION
AND DEDUCTION 172
AVOIDING FALLACIES 173
WIT 177
Avoiding Sarcasm 177
TONE AND ETHICAL APPEAL 178
CRITICAL THINKING: ASSUMPTIONS
AND IMPLICATIONS 179
ORGANIZING AN ARGUMENT 180
CHECKLIST for Revising Drafts
of Persuasive Essays 181
PERSUASION AT WORK: TWO PROFESSORS CONSIDER
LAPTOPS IN THE CLASSROOM 182
Carlo Rotella
Tuition Lost on the Tecno-Dependent 182
An Analysis of Rotella’s Argument 184
Elena Choy
Laptops in the Classroom? No Problem 185
An Analysis of Choy’s Argument 189
CHAPTER 10 Writing the Research Essay 190
WRITING RESEARCH ESSAYS 190
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MATERIALS 192
WHAT TO DO WITH SOURCES 193
DEVELOPING A RESEARCH TOPIC 194
Finding Sources 194
THE LIBRARY’S CENTRAL INFORMATION
SYSTEM 195
EVALUATING WEB SOURCES AND A NOTE
ON WIKIPEDIA 196
CHECKLIST for Evaluating Web Sites 198
READING AND TAKING NOTES ON SECONDARY
SOURCES 198
A Guide to Note-Taking 199
WRITING THE ESSAY 202
CHECKLIST for Revising Drafts of
Research Essays 205
A SAMPLE RESEARCH ESSAY (MLA FORMAT) 206
Beatrice Cody
Politics and Psychology in The Awakening
(Student Essay) 207
An Analysis of Cody’s Use of Sources 221
A SAMPLE RESEARCH ESSAY (APA FORMAT) 222
Jacob Alexander
Nitrite: Preservative or Carcinogen? (Student Essay) 223
An Analysis of Alexander’s Use of Sources 238
PART THREE A Writer’s Handbook 241
CHAPTER 11 Punctuating Sentences 242
A Word on Computer Grammar and Punctuation Checks 244
THREE COMMON ERRORS: FRAGMENTS, COMMA SPLICES,
AND RUN-ON SENTENCES 244
Fragments and How to Correct Them 244
How to Correct Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences 246
THE PERIOD 248
THE QUESTION MARK 248
THE COLON 249
THE SEMICOLON 250
THE COMMA 251
THE DASH 257
PARENTHESES 258
ITALICS 259
CAPITAL LETTERS 260
THE HYPHEN 262
THE APOSTROPHE 263
ABBREVIATIONS 265
NUMBERS 266
CHAPTER 12 Using the Right Word 268
A NOTE ON IDIOMS 269
A WRITER’S GLOSSARY 270
CHAPTER 13 Documenting Sources 294
DOCUMENTATION 294
MLA FORMAT 295
Citations Within the Text 295
Author and Page Number in Parenthetic Citation 298
Title and Page Number in Parentheses 298
Author, Title, and Page Number in Parentheses 299
A Government Document or a Work of Corporate Authorship 299
A Work by Two or Three Authors 299
Parenthetic Citation of an Indirect Source (Citation of Material That
Itself Was Quoted or Summarized in Source) 300
Parenthetic Citation of Two or More Works 300
A Work in More Than One Volume 300
An Anonymous Work 301
A Literary Work 301
A Personal Interview 304
Lectures 304
Electronic Sources 304
A Note on Footnotes in an Essay Using Parenthetic Citations 305
The List of Works Cited 306
Alphabetic Order 306
Form on the Page 306
The Elements of the Citation 306
Print Sources 307
Author’s Name 307
Title of Book 308
Place of Publication, Publisher, Date, and Medium of
Publication 308
A Book by More Than One Author 309
Government Documents 310
Works of Corporate Authorship 310
Republished Work 310
A Book in Several Volumes 310
One Book with a Separate Title in a Set of Volumes 311
A Book with an Author and an Editor 311
A Revised Edition of a Book 311
A Translated Book 312
An Introduction, Foreword, or Afterword 312
A Book with an Editor but No Author 312
A Work in a Volume of Works by One Author 312
A Work in a Collection of Works by Several Authors 313
A Book Review 313
An Article or Essay—Not a Reprint—in a Collection 314
An Article or Essay Reprinted in a Collection 314
An Encyclopedia or Other Alphabetically Arranged
Reference Work 315
An Article in a Scholarly Journal 315
An Article in a Weekly, Biweekly, or Monthly Publication 316
An Article in a Newspaper 316
Web Sources 317
Sources Found Through Web Sites 318
Entire Online Site 318
Part of a Site 318
Online Magazine Article 318
Online Newspaper Article 318
Online Reference Article 318
Online Scholarly Journal Article 318
Wiki 319
Blog 319
Podcast 319
Online Audio or Video 319
Sources Found Through a Database or Scholarly Project 319
Book Accessed from a Scholarly Project 319
Scholarly Journal Accessed from a Database 319
Magazine Article Accessed from a Database 320
Government Document Accessed from a Database 320
Electronic Sources Also Available in Another Medium 320
Work of Art Accessed Online 320
Film Accessed Online 320
Other Common Sources 321
An Electronic Book 321
A Video Recording or Film 321
A CD or Other Sound Recording 321
A Television or Radio Program 321
An Interview 321
An E-mail Message 322
An Oral Presentation (A Lecture, Address, or Speech) 322
Visual Art 322
Digital File 323
APA FORMAT 323
Citations Within the Text 324
A Summary of an Entire Work 324
A Reference to a Page or Pages 324
A Reference to an Author Represented by More Than One Work
Published in a Given Year in the References 325
The List of References 325
Form on the Page 325
Alphabetic Order 325
Form of Title 326
Sample References 327
A Book by One Author 327
A Book by More Than One Author 327
A Collection of Essays 327
A Work in a Collection of Essays 327
Government Documents 327
A Journal Article 327
An Article from a Monthly or Weekly Magazine 328
An Article in a Newspaper 328
A Book Review 328
Electronic Sources 328
A NOTE ON OTHER SYSTEMS OF DOCUMENTATION 330
Biology and Other Sciences 330
Chemistry 330
Journalism 330
Law 330
Medicine 330
Physics 330
CHAPTER 14 Preparing the Manuscript 331
BASIC MANUSCRIPT FORM 331
Last Words 336
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Synopsis
Writing to Help Others See
Chapter 11 Narration: Writing to Help Others Share an Experience
Chapter 12 Illustration: Writing to Provide Examples
Chapter 13 Division and Classification: Writing to Explain Parts and Categories
Chapter 14 Process Analysis: Writing to Explain Steps and Stages
Chapter 15 Causal Analysis: Writing to Explain Why Something Happened or What Will
Happen
Chapter 16 Comparison and Contrast: Writing to Explain Similarities or Differences
Chapter 17 Definition: Writing to Explain to Exact Meaning
Chapter 18 Argument: Writing to Persuade Your Readers
Chapter 19 Special Issues in Persuasion
Section Four The Research Process
Chapter 20 Thinking Critically about the Research Process
Chapter 21 Asking Questions and Finding Answers
Chapter 22 Evaluating and Interpreting Your Findings
Chapter 23 Avoiding Plagiarism, Documenting Your Sources, and Respecting Copyright
Chapter 24 Composing the Research Report with a Sample Report in APA Style
Chapter 25 Case Study: A Sample Research Project in MLA Style
Section Five Special Issues In Writing
Chapter 26 Writing at Work
Chapter 27 Taking Short-Answer, Paragraph, and Essay Exams
Section Six A Brief Handbook
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This writing guide/reader/handbook demystifies writing by presenting the writing process as a series of critical thinking decisions about audience and purpose. Widely admired for its clear, readable style, The Writing Process focuses on writing as decision-making, with a wealth of student samples in various draft stages and a strong selection of professional readings to illustrate writing strategies.
Helps readers understand the writing process. Writing process, research process. Anyone who wants to learn to write well.
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Accessible and engaging, this unique text offers concrete, practice strategies for critical and creative thinking and includes many opportunities for practicing these fundamental skills.
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Used in a variety of courses in various disciplines, Asking the Right Questions helps students bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. Specifically, this concise text teaches students to think critically by exploring the components of arguments--issues, conclusions, reasons, evidence, assumptions, language--and on how to spot fallacies and manipulations and obstacles to critical thinking in both written and visual communication. It teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.
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One Hundred Great Essays collects one-hundred of the most teachable and rewarding essays used in today's college composition class. The anthology combines classic, commonly taught essays with frequently anthologized contemporary essays by today's most highly regarded writers. The selections are broadly diverse in both subject matter and authorship. Essays have been selected as both models for good writing and useful springboards for student writing. An introductory section discusses the qualities of the essay form and offers instruction on how to read essays critically, and shows students how to use the writing process to develop their own essays
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Writing Papers in College provides clear, concise guidance on a comprehensive range of composition topics—writing, research, and grammar—in a portable size and at a low price.
Writing Papers in College guides students through all stages of the writing process—while also offering essential organizational strategies—using brief instruction that delivers just enough detail to help students be effective writers. Rather than weigh students down with an overly complicated presentation or belabored concepts, Writing Papers keeps advice short and sweet so that students spend less time reading about writing and more time focusing on their own work.
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Beyond Words is a highly visual, thematically-organized reader intended for use in introductory composition courses. Including over 200 color images in a wide variety of media and genres and over 70 readings, Beyond Words offers strategies for reading and responding to texts - verbal and visual texts - and practice in informative, analytical, and persuasive writing.
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High-quality and low-priced, A Short Guide to College Writing is a clear and authoritative brief rhetoric that emphasizes analysis, argument, and research in academic writing.
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The argument rhetoric/reader that emphasizes style throughout.
Presenting a holistic view of content and style, this argument rhetoric, reader, and research guide helps students analyze and evaluate what they read, argue persuasively, and communicate more clearly than they ever have before. Students discover, internalize and apply at increasing levels of sophistication the impact of persuasive appeals (logos, pathos and ethos), the principles of critical thinking and the hallmarks of effective style through more than 200 embedded, guided activities directed at their own papers.
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This best-selling collection of readings explores the theme of dreams, the imagination, and the reasoning mind. Supporting a creative approach to the teaching of writing, Dreams and Inward Journeys presents a rich mixture of personal and academic essays, stories, and poems. The readings touch on such topics as memory, myths and fairy tales, obsessions, sexuality, gender roles, technology, popular culture, nature, and spirituality. Readings encourage the investigation of new ways of seeing and understanding self and the relationship to important social issues and universal human concerns. Featuring a dual thematic and rhetorical organization, each chapter also provides practical writing advice on a specific rhetorical pattern, a range of writing assignments, and sample papers. Beautiful, stimulating art opens each chapter to support the theme and provide prompts for prewriting.
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The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of creative nonfiction. While acknowledging the literary impulse of nonfiction to be a fourth genre equivalent to poetry, fiction, and drama, this text focuses on subgenres of the nonfiction form, including memoir, nature writing, personal essays, literary journalism, cultural criticism, and travel writing.
This anthology was the first to draw on the common ground of the practicing writer and the practical scholar and to make the pedagogical connections between creative writing practice and composition theory, bridging some of the gaps between the teaching of composition, creative writing, and literature in English departments.
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The market leader in argumentative rhetorics, Writing Arguments has proven highly successful in teaching students to read arguments critically and to produce effective arguments of their own.
With its student-friendly tone, clear explanations, high-interest readings and examples, and well-sequenced critical thinking and writing assignments, Writing Arguments offers a time-tested approach to argument that is interesting and accessible to students and eminently teachable for instructors.
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The best of all possible worlds! This truly global multicultural reader features contemporary selections by sixty-one internationally acclaimed authors from twenty-six countries.
These compelling readings explore cultural differences in relation to race, class, gender and nationality, challenging students to compare their experiences with those of others in radically different cultural circumstances. Thematic chapters explore cultural perspectives on human experiences around the globe; family life, adolescent relationships, gender roles, work, race and class conflicts, customs, rituals and values. A new chapter focuses on the role of food in different cultures.
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This classic thematic anthology is widely admired for its exceptionally rich collection of essays, personal writing, fiction and poetry, and for its ground-breaking inclusion of classic and contemporary images.
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A Short Guide to Writing about History is an ideal complement for any history course intended to teach students to think and write like historians. This engaging and practical text will teach students how to go beyond reporting the basic dates and facts of their history books and show them how to infuse their writing with their own ideas and unique perspective.
Covering brief essays and the documented resource paper, the text explores the writing and researching processes, different modes of historical writing (including argument), and offers guidelines for improving style as well as documenting sources.
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Rhetorical Grammar encourages writers to recognize and use the grammatical and stylistic choices available to them and to understand the rhetorical effects those choices can have on their readers.
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Compact in both page count and trim size, What Matters in America's themes examine popular culture topics and provide a sufficient number of selections to make sure topics are given with adequate depth. Gary Goshgarian addresses topics of: Television Violence, Racial Profiling, Capital Punishment and Gay Marriage.
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Global Issues, Local Arguments: Readings for Writing features high-interest arguments on significant global issues and emphasizes their connection to our lives—all the while developing critical thinking, rhetorical, analysis, synthesis, argumentation, and research skills.
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This brief guide teaches how to write the most common papers assigned in college courses: source-based essays that summarize, analyze, critique, and synthesize.
Comprehensive enough to serve as a primary text yet compact enough to serve as a supplement, this clear and concise writing guide teaches you how to critically read, clearly summarize, carefully respond to, precisely critique, creatively synthesize, and accurately quote or paraphrase texts. A Brief Guide is a valuable teaching and reference tool that many disciplines find useful for class work and for independent study.
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Grounded in current theory and research, yet practical and teachable.
Widely praised for its groundbreaking integration of composition research and a rhetorical perspective, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing with MyWritingLab has set the standard for first-year composition courses in writing, reading, critical thinking, and inquiry.
Teachers and students value its clear and coherent explanations, engaging classroom activities, and flexible sequence of aims-based writing assignments that help writers produce effective, idea-rich essays in academic and civic genres. Numerous examples of student and professional writing accompany this thorough guide to the concepts and skills needed for writing, researching, and editing in college and beyond.
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Engaging and direct, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is the guidebook for anyone who wants to write well.Engaging and direct, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is the guidebook for anyone who wants to write well.
Williams’ own clear, accessible style models the kind of writing that audiences–both in college and after–will admire. The principles offered here help writers understand what readers expect and encourage writers to revise to meet those expectations more effectively. This book is all you need to understand the principles of effective writing.
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Effective writing through critical thinking.
Above all others, this rhetorical patterns reader provides a comprehensive grounding in critical thinking as the foundation for close reading and effective writing. Just as important, by exposing the reader to interesting and insightful prose by a diversity of top writers, the reader is motivated to respond in writing and discussions. By thinking, reading, and writing on three increasingly difficult levels - literally, interpretively, and critically - readers can better learn the processes and skills necessary to be successful in all their writing experiences.
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This concise, accessible text teaches students how to write logical, cohesive arguments and how to evaluate the arguments of others.
Integrating writing skills with critical thinking skills, this practical book teaches students to draw logical inferences, identify premises and conclusions and use language precisely. Students also learn how to identify fallacies and to distinguish between inductive and deductive reasoning. Ideal for any composition class that emphasizes argument, this text includes coverage of writing style and rhetoric, logic, literature, research and documentation.
- Comprehensive coverage of persuasive writing in a brief format
- Exercises appear throughout each chapter, often paired with readings for students to write about, giving them necessary practice with key ideas from each chapter.
- Extensive visuals throughout the text help students understand important concepts.
- A “Plagiarism” section discusses the current problem of students taking materials from the Internet without attribution and discovers the risks and ethical considerations of plagiarism.
- “Making Inferences—Analyzing Visual Images” applies the principles of logical inference to “reading” images such as advertisements, helping students navigate our consumer culture.
- “Strategies for Writing a Summary” includes a model summary and step-by-step instruction.
- A convenient list of readings in the front of the book makes it easy for students and instructors to locate selections and highlights the variety of genres covered—poetry, fiction, student essays, editorials, newspaper and magazine columns.
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Technical Communication Fundamentals presents proven writing strategies in a format that is concise and easy to use. Designed for flexibility, the book is supported by MyTechCommLab, which provides 90 model documents, 50 interactive documents, tutorials, activities, and case studies all on The Web! Using numbered guidelines, an ABC format and annotated samples, the book immerses students in the process of technical writing, while teaching practical formats for getting the job done.
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What It Takes: Academic Writing in College prepares the reader for the most common college writing assignments: the summary, the critique, the synthesis, and the analysis.
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This popular rhetoric/reader combines a brief, accessible introduction to argument with an anthology of provocative readings on contemporary issues and a detailed handbook on grammar and mechanics.
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Revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers.
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Part of Longman's successful Short Guide Series, A Short Guide to Writing about Literature emphasizes writing as a process and incorporates new critical approaches to writing about literature. The twelfth edition continues to offer students sound advice on how to become critical thinkers and enrich their reading response through accessible, step-by-step instruction.
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The Writer's FAQs was written to provide writers with a helpful reference in which they see examples of sentences they need to look up or find information based on their questions. The contents are presented both conventionally, and by lists of frequently asked questions about writing concerns as students are inclined to phrase them.
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A Revision/Peer Review Checklist.
Figure 3.1: Development Diagram: Writing a Description Essay.
Revision Strategies.
Student Essay.
Commentary.
Activities: Description.
Maya Angelou, Sister Flowers.
Figure 3.2: Essay Structure Diagram: "Sister Flowers" by Maya Angelou.
Gordon Parks, Flavio's Home.
* Riverbend, Bloggers without Borders.
Additional Writing Topics.
4. Narration.
What Is Narration?
How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience.
Suggestions for Using Narration in an Essay.
Figure 4.1: Development Diagram: Writing a Narration Essay.
Revision Strategies.
Narration: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist.
Student Essay.
Commentary.
Activities: Narration.
Audre Lerde, The Fourth of July.
Figure 4.2: Essay Structure Diagram: “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde.
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant.
* Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving in Florida.
Additional Writing Topics.
5. Exemplification.
What Is Exemplification?
How Exemplification Fits Your Purpose and Audience.
Suggestions for Using Exemplification in an Essay.
Figure 5.1 Development Diagram: Writing an Exemplification Essay.
Revision Strategies.
Exemplification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist.
Student Essay.
Commentary.
Activities: Exemplification.
Kay S. Hymowitz, Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen.
Figure 5.2: Essay Structure Diagram: “Tweens: Ten Going On Sixteen” by Kay S. Kymowitz .
* Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space.
Beth Johnson, Bombs Bursting in Air.
Additional Writing Topics.
6. Division-Classification.
What Is Division-Classification?
How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience.
Suggestions for Using Division-Classification in an Essay.
Figure 6.1: Development Diagram: Writing a Division-Classification Essay.
Revision Strategies.
Division-Classification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist
Student Essay.
Commentary.
Activities: Division-Classification.
Ann McClintock, Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising.
Figure 6.2 Essay Structure Diagram: “Propaganda Techniques in Today’s Advertising” by Ann McClintock.
David Brooks, Psst! Human Capital.
* Amy Tan, Mother Tongue.
Additional Writing Topics.
7. Process Analysis.
What Is Process Analysis?
How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience.
Suggestions for Using Process Analysis in an Essay.
Figure 7.1: Development Diagram: Writing a Process Analysis Essay.
Revision Strategies.
Process Analysis: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist
Student Essay.
Commentary.
Activities: Process Analysis.
* Tim Folger, Waves of Destruction
* Figure 7.2: Essay Structure Diagram: “Waves of Destruction” by Tm Folger.
David Shipley, Talk About Editing.
Amy Sutherland, What Shamu Taught Me about a Happy Marriage.
Additional Writing Topics.
8. Comparison-Contrast.
What Is Comparison-Contrast?
How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience.
Suggestions for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay.
Figure 8.1: Development Diagram: Writing a Comparison-Contrast Essay.
Revision Strategies.
Comparison-Contrast: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist.
Student Essay.
Commentary.
Activities: Comparison-Contrast.
Eric Weiner, Euromail and Amerimail.
Figure 8.2: Essay Structure Diagram:“Euromail And Amerimail” by Eric Weiner.
* Alex Wright, Friending, Ancient or Otherwise.
Dave Barry, Beauty and the Beast.
Additional Writing Topics.
9. Cause-Effect.
What Is Cause-Effect?
How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience.
Suggestions for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay.
Figure 9.1 Development Diagram: Writing a Cause-Effect Essay .
Revision Strategies.
Cause-Effect: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist.
Student Essay.
Commentary.
Activities: Cause-Effect.
Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies.
Figure 9.2: Essay Structure Diagram:“Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King.
* Juan Williams, The Ruling that Changed America.
* Jane S. Shaw, Nature in the Suburbs.
Additional Writing Topics.
10. Definition.
What Is Definition?
How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience.
Suggestions for Using Definition in an Essay.
Figure 10.1: Development Diagram: Writing a Definition Essay.
Revision Strategies.
Definition: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist.
Student Essay.
Commentary.
Activities: Definition.
Ann Hulbert, Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
* Figure 10.2: Essay Structure Diagram: “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” by Ann Hulbert.
* Keith Johnson, Who’s a Pirate?
James Gleick, Life as Type A.
Additional Writing Topics.
11. Argumentation-Persuasion.
What Is Argumentation-Persuasion?
How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience.
Suggestions for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay.
Using Rogerian Strategy: A Checklist.
Questions for Using Toulmin Strategy: A Checklist.
Figure 11.1: Development Diagram: Writing an Argumentation-Persuasion Essay.
Revision Strategies.
Argumentation-Persuasion: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist.
Student Essay.
Commentary.
Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion.
Stanley Fish, Free Speech Follies.
Figure 11.2: Essay Structure Diagram:“Free-Speech Follies” by Stanley Fish.
* Wendell Berry, Farming and the Global Economy.
Examining an Issue: Gender-Based Education.
Examining an Issue: Organ Donation
* Alexander Tabarrok, A Moral Solution to the Organ Shortage
* Virginia Postrel, Need Transplant Donors? Pay Them
Examining an Issue: Affirmative Action.
Roberto Rodriguez, The Border on Our Backs.
Star Parker, Se Habla Entitlement.
Additional Writing Topics.
12. Combining the Patterns.
The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process.
The Patterns in Action: In an Essay.
Student Essay
* Barbara Kingsolver, The Good Farmer.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos?
Joan Didion, Marrying Absurd.
Appendix A: A Guide to Using Sources.
Evaluating Source Materials
Evaluating Articles and Books: A Checklist
Evaluating Internet Materials: A Checklist
Analyzing and Synthesizing Source Material
Analyzing and Synthesizing Source Material: A Checklist
Using Quotation, Summary, and Paraphrase Without Plagiarizing
Using Quotation, Summary, and Paraphrase: A Checklist
Integrating Sources Into Your Writing
Integrating Sources Into Your Writing: A Checklist
Documenting Sources: MLA Style
How to Document: MLA In-Text References
Citing Sources: A Checklist
How to Document: MLA List of Works Cited
Citing Print Sources–Books
Citing Print Sources–Periodicals
Citing Sources Found on a Website
Citing Sources Found Through an Online Database or Scholarly Project
Citing Other Common Sources
Appendix B: Avoiding Ten Common Writing Errors.
1. Fragments.
2. Comma Splices and Run-ons.
3. Faulty Subject-Verb Agreement.
4. Faulty Pronoun Agreement.
5. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers.
6. Faulty Parallelism.
7. Comma Misuse.
8. Apostrophe Misuse.
9. Confusing Homonyms.
10. Misuse of Italics and Underlining.
Glossary.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
* New to this edition
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The Longman Reader, Brief Edition features highly praised writing pedagogy in a rhetorically-organized reader. The opening chapter offers specific strategies for active reading, and for each pattern-of-development chapter, The Longman Reader, Brief Edition includes a detailed introduction that asks students to consider audience and purpose, concrete revision strategies, a peer review checklist, an annotated student essay with extensive analysis, prewriting and revising activities, and a comprehensive list of possible writing topics. Both beloved and fresh professional essays range widely in subject matter and approach, from the humorous to the informative, from personal meditation to argument, and capture students' interest while clearly illustrating a specific pattern of development.
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Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace reflectsthe wisdom and clear authorial voice of Williams’ best-selling book, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, while streamlining every chapter to create a very brief, yet powerfully direct guide to writing with style.
The concise clarity of this book makes it a handy reference for anyone interested in good writing--as well as a quick and ideal guide for freshman composition courses, writing courses across the disciplines, and as a supporting text in courses that require clear and direct writing. Style: The Basics covers the elemental principles of writing that will help students diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of their prose quickly and revise effectively. The text features principles of effective prose written in Williams’ hallmark conversational style, offering reason-based principles, rather than hard and fast rules, for successful, effective writing.
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Incorporating readings representing new voices and styles in nonfiction that will appeal to contemporary readers, this classic composition reader continues to provide engaging, instructive models of the rhetorical modes.
A wealth of new selections appear in this respected modes-based reader, continuing its tradition of offering high-quality, accessible readings, both classic and with a contemporary “edge” and style. The readings encourage students to take a stand on questions of culture, identity, and value in college communities, in the workplace, and in society. Thorough introductions to each rhetorical pattern, numerous exercises, and sample student essays throughout the book emphasize practical concrete writing strategies. A thematic table of contents and table of “Essay Pairs”—which groups essays particularly well-suited for study and discussion—make this book versatile and convenient for instructors to adapt for their classes.
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Wake Up to the world around you.
Wide Awake: Thinking, Reading, and Writing Critically with MyWritingLab asks students to develop awareness of the world around them and to determine how they will participate in that world. Readings invite students to challenge accepted notions about key topics, pose complex questions about the world around them, reflect on their own experiences, and apply ideas they are learning to their everyday lives. Deliberateness and choice are emphasized in the writing processes.
Teaching and Learning Experience
This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience for you and your students.
- Robust resources improve student writing and help instructors track results. MyWritingLab helps students measure how well they understand key concepts and faculty incorporate rubrics into assignments and analyze class performance.
- Instructional support helps students develop their own writing process. Eight short chapters on the writing process provide students with just enough advice without burdening them with long narratives of detail.
- Readings provide models for writing, material for response, and topics for research.
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Part of the Longman Topics reader series, Listening to Earth explores nature and environmental conflict in the United States from personal and thematic perspectives. Focusing on today¿s environmental issues, this engaging collection contains a wide range of readings that cover a variety of topics, attitudes, and rhetorical styles. It presents essays, reportage, and fiction that probe the contradictions surrounding environmental issues in the United States today and presents arguments for using, conserving, preserving, and finding pleasure, beauty, and spirituality in land.
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The middle-level book in a three-book series, Connections helps developing writers make the connections between reading, writing, and critical thinking. The text moves beyond traditional sentence and paragraph exercises, offering a wide variety of activities and opportunities for journaling, supplemental readings, quick reference guides, and unique step-by-step writing assignments. Connections guides developmental writers gently through every stage of the writing process.
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This market-leading language reader features thought-provoking readings that explore the various interconnections between language and American society.
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Presenting Impressions
Purpose
Sensory Impressions
Dominant Impression
Vantage Point
Selection of Details
Arrangement of Details
Ethical Issues
Writing a Description
Sample Student Essay of
Synopsis
“My Serenity”
by Rachel Harvey Stepping Up to Synthesis
Chapter 10 Process Analysis: Explaining How
Kinds of Process Analysis Papers
Ethical Issues
Writing a Process Analysis
Sample Student Essay of Process Analysis: “Basic Song Writing Techniques” by Hannah Hill
Stepping Up to Synthesis
Chapter 11 Illustration: Making Yourself Clear
Selecting Appropriate Examples
Number of Examples
Organizing the Examples
Ethical Issues
Writing an Illustration
Sample Student Essay of Illustration: “If It Is Worth Doing” by Janice Carlton
Stepping Up to Synthesis
Chapter 12 Classification: Grouping into Categories
Selecting Categories
Number of Categories
Developing Categories
Ethical Issues
Writing a Classification
Sample Student Essay of Classification: “Types of Video Games for Children” by Kyra Glass
Stepping Up to Synthesis
Chapter 13 Comparison: Showing Relationships
Selecting Items for Comparison
Developing a Comparison
Organizing a Comparison
Using Analogy
Ethical Issues
Writing a Comparison
Sample Student Essay of Comparison: “Differences Between Korean and English” by Sunho Lee
Stepping Up to Synthesis
Chapter 14 Cause and Effect: Explaining Why
Patterns in Causal Analysis
Reasoning Errors in Causal Analysis
Ethical Issues
Writing a Causal Analysis
Sample Student Essay of Cause and Effect: “Why Students Drop Out of College” by Diann Fisher
Stepping Up to Synthesis
Chapter 15 Definition: Establishing Boundaries
Types of Definitions
Ethical Issues
Writing an Extended Definition
Sample Student Essay of Definition: “Rediscovering Patriotism” by Peter Wing
Stepping Up to Synthesis
Chapter 16 Argument: Convincing Others
The Rational Appeal
Reasoning Strategies
The Emotional Appeal
The Ethical Appeal
Ferreting Out Fallacies
Ethical Issues
Writing an Argument
Sample Student Essay of Argument: “Bottled Troubled Water” by Scott Lemanski
Stepping Up to Synthesis
Chapter 17 Mixing the Writing Strategies
Why and How to Mix Strategies
Ethical Issues
Problem/Solution Report
Evaluation Report
Sample Essay Using Several Writing Strategies “Eating Alone in Restaurants” by Bruce Jay Friedman
Stepping Up to Synthesis
Chapter 18 The Essay Examination
Studying for the Examination
Types of Test Questions
Preparing to Write
Writing the Examination Answer
Chapter 19 Writing About Literature
The Elements of Literature
Ethical Issues
Writing a Paper on Literature
The Writing Procedure
Sample Student Essay on Literature: “Scratchy Wilson: No Cardboard Character” by Wendell Stone
Stepping Up to Synthesis
Electronic Chapter: Business Letters and Résumés
This chapter, enhanced with fourteen case-based business writing scenarios, appears after the index in the e-Book version of MyWritingLab for this text. If your book did not come packaged with access to MyWritingLab and you wish to gain access, please visit www.mywritinglab.com and be sure to specify “e-Book Version.”
Reader
Rhetorical Table of Contents
Narration
“The Perfect Picture” by James Alexander Thom
“Sound and Fury” by Dan Greenburg
“Momma’s Encounter” by Maya Angelou
“The Scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas
Description
“When the Full Moon Shines Its Magic over Monument Valley” by John V. Young
*“Seaside Safari” by Kessler Burnett
*”Las Menias” by Michel Foucault
Process Analysis
*”Ground-Source_Heat_Pumps: Mother Earth Will Wrap You in Warmth” by perfect home hvac design
“Let’s Get Vertical!” by Beth Wald
“Can Generation Xers Be Trained? by Shari Caudron
Illustration
“Binge Drinking: A Campus Killer” by Sabrina Rubin Erdely
*“Pulling Off the Ultimate Career Makeover” by Douglas Alden Warshaw
*“If You’re Happy and You Know It, Must I Know, Too?” by Judith Newman
Classification
“What Are Friends For?” by Marion Winik
“The Men We Carry in Our Minds” by Scott Russell Sanders
“A Tale of Four Learners” by Bernice McCarthy
Comparison
“Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts” by Bruce Catton
* “Invasion of the Bodybuilders” by Chris Lee
“Private Language, Public Language” by Richard Rodriguez
“Art Form for the Digital Age” by Henry Jenkins
Cause and Effect
*“For Cops, Citizen Videos Bring Increased Scrutiny” by Kevin Johnson
“Why We Keep Stuff” by Caroline Knapp
* “The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science” by Chris Mooney
“Why We Flirt” by Belinda Luscombe and Kate Stinchfield
Definition
*“Going Graphic” by James Bucky Carter
“The Blended Economy” by Marc Zwelling
“Krumping” by Marti Bercaw
*“What Thoreau Knew” by John Shepler
Argument
*“Going Nuclear” by Patrick Moore
*“Ten Reasons Why New Nuclear was a Mistake - Even before Fukushima” By Alexis Rowell
*“Teacher Natalie Munroe has a Right to Call Kids Lazy and Rude” by Maressa Brown
*“When Teachers Talk Out of School” by Jonathan Zimmerman
*“A Carefully Crafted Immigration Law in Arizona” by Byron York
*“Immigration Policy Gone Loco” by Conor Friedersdor
“I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mixing the Writing Strategies
“Supermarket Pastoral” by Michael Pollan
*“Back to the Future” by John Phillips Santos
*“Rushdie Runs Afoul of Web’s Real-Name Police” by Somini Sengupta
Credits
Index
*new to this edition
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Strategies for Successful Writing keeps instruction brief and to-the-point so that students spend less time reading about writing and more time writing. Instruction delivered through extensive examples helps students see what different strategies look like when applied in real texts.
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Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century (TCTC) prepares readers to be successful writers and readers of technical communication, regardless of their career path. Featuring a wealth of examples and cases, it emphasizes problem-solving, collaboration, visual rhetoric and usability. Its approach analyzes why something worked or did not work, as well as how to produce the appropriate communication. Now available with the MyTechCommLab online learning tool, this edition features more focus on transnational communication, forty-five new case studies, and new information on the relationship between technology and communication.
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This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film.
Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to major film theories as well as film terminology, enabling them to write more thoughtfully and critically. With numerous student and professional examples, this engaging and practical guide progresses from taking notes and writing first drafts to creating polished essays and comprehensive research projects. Moving from movie reviews to theoretical and critical essays, the text demonstrates how an analysis of a film can become more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process.
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Part of the “Longman Topics” reader series, Listening to Earth explores nature and environmental conflict in the United States from personal and thematic perspectives. Focusing on today¿s environmental issues, this engaging collection contains a wide range of readings that cover a variety of topics, attitudes, and rhetorical styles. It presents essays, reportage, and fiction that probe the contradictions surrounding environmental issues in the United States today and presents arguments for using, conserving, preserving, and finding pleasure, beauty, and spirituality in land.
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Underscoring the essential skills of reading and writing in multiple fields of knowledge, Crosscurrents is a thematic reader that connects ideas and texts from across the disciplines.
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This market-leading text, which reflects recent changes in technology, workplace practices and the global marketplace, progresses from concepts and basic copyediting to comprehensive editing, management and production issues. The addition of Angela Eaton of Texas Tech University brings a fresh tone to her updates of content and pedagogy while retaining the authoritative voice of Carolyn Rude. Some of the text's changes include an update ot Chapter 6, "Electronic Editing," and examples about editing Web sites are found throughout the text to support the increased role of online resources in every aspect of communication.
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Brief, best-selling cross-curricular classic provides instruction of source-based writing skills combined with five popular readings chapters.
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Offering concise yet thorough treatment of academic reading and writing in college, Reading Rhetorically, 4th.ed., shows students how to analyze texts by recognizing rhetorical strategies and genre conventions, and how to incorporate other writers’ texts into their own research-based papers.
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A World of Short Stories introduces a selection of short stories from around the globe into the college reading course. With an outstanding selection of authors and carefully designed apparatus, the book is the ideal vehicle for introducing world literature to developing readers.
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Points to Consider
Purpose
Types of Descriptive Writing
Organization
Transitional Devices Used in Descriptive Writing
Concrete Language Versus Vague and Abstract Wording
Misplaced Modifiers and Dangling Participles
Reading Before Writing
“El Olto Lado” from Caramelo by SandraCisneros
“Packing for America” by Frank McCourt (Life)
“Slightly Damp, Parade Goers Still Dressed for the Occasion” by Charles Cochran
“Day of the Refugios” by Alberto Rios
Reflective Assignments
Internet Field Trips — Reading and Writing Assignments
Films to View
Summary of Unit 3 — Traditions and Celebrations - Description
Unit Four: American Folklore (Comparison and Contrast)
Idioms for American Folklore
Comparison and Contrast: Points to Consider
Purpose
Tone
Transitional Devices
Organization
Topic Sentences and thesis Statements
Punctuation of Conjunctive Adverbs and Subordinate Conjunctions
Reading Before Writing
“What is Folklife?” Excerpts from “A Commonwealth of Cultures” by Mary Hufford
“Tam and Cam (A Cinderella Tale from Vietnam)” by Anonymous
“The Invisible One” (A Cinderella-style Micmac Native legend.) from Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland
“Cinderella” by Anne Sexton
“Present at Creation: The Origins of the Legend of John Henry” by Stephen Wade
“John Henry” by Zora Neal Hurston
”John Henry Blues” by Fiddlin’ Joe Carson
“Babe the Blue Ox” retold by S. E. Schlosser
“Six to Eight Black Men” by David Sedaris
Reflective Assignments
Internet Field Trips — Reading and Writing Assignments
Films to View
Summary of Unit 4 — American Folklore — Comparison and Contrast
Unit Five: Landmarks (Process Analysis)
Idioms for Landmarks
Process Analysis: Points to Consider
Purpose
Types of Process Writing
Organization
Transitional Devices
Point of View and Tense
Point of View
Reading Before Writing
“Jaunts: Atlanta to Montgomery to Memphis: A Family Trip Through History” by Carlton Winfrey
“A and P” by John Updike
“A Chinese Kitchen” by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
“Telling the Story” by Naomi Shihab Nye
“In the inner city” by Lucille Clifton
Reflective Assignments
Internet Field Trips — Reading and Writing Assignments
Films to View
Summary of Unit 5 — Landmarks — Process Analysis
Unit Six: American Music (Classification)
Idioms for Classical Music
Classification: Points to Consider
Purpose
Organization and Development
Transitional Devices
Parallelism
Reading Before Writing
“Types of Folk Music” by Sarah Wilfong
“I Hear America Singing” from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
“La Música Mexicana” by Ellen Jane Rainey
“Nineteen Fifty-Five” by Alice Walker
Reflective Assignments
Internet Field Trips — Reading and Writing Assignments
Films to View
Summary of Unit 6 — American Music — Classification
Unit Seven: American Lifestyle (Cause and Effect)
Idioms for American Lifestyles
Cause and Effect: Points to Consider
Purpose
Organization and Plan
Order of Causes and Effects
Clear Reasoning
Transitional Words
Tone
Fragments with Subordinate Clauses
Reading Before Writing
“How Things Work” by Gary Soto
“Vietnam to America: An 18-hour Flight, or an Impossible Journey?” by Andrew Lam
“Hoofbeats on Fletcher Street” by Johnny Dwyer
“Ringtail” by Rudolph Fisher
Reflective Assignments
Internet Field Trips — Reading and Writing Assignments
Films to View
Summary of Unit 7 — American Lifestyle — Cause and Effect Analysis
Unit Eight: New Frontiers (Argumentation)
Idioms for New Frontiers
Argumentation: Points to Consider
Purpose
Organization and Plan
Argumentative Paragraphs
Argumentative Essays
Transitional Expressions
Language and Tone
Emotion and Reason
Plagiarism
Strong Verbs
Reading Before Writing
“Act II” by Diane Brady
“There’ll Be No Place to Hide in Our Brave New Biometric World” by Paul Saffo
“Technology and Medicine” by Rafael Campo from The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World by Raphael Campo
“The End of the Beginning” by Ray Bradbury
“Astronauts, Teachers Converse at Ames” by Julie O’Shea
“From Space Station, NASA Astronaut Ed Lu '84 Speaks with CU Students” by Blaine P. Friedlander Jr.
Reflective Assignments
Internet Field Trips — Reading and Writing Assignments
Films to View
Summary of Unit 8 — New Frontiers - Argumentation
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Crossing America is an interactive reading, writing, and grammar text that focuses on competencies that skilled readers and writers must master. The text follows a thematic approach designed to provide cultural knowledge and awareness both to native speakers of English and to the limited-English language population.
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A thematically organized reader/rhetoric that seeks to empower students to interact proactively and constructively with all types of essays, Words on Paper reflects the mosaic of American culture by including essayists from varied and diverse backgrounds writing about high-interest and highly engaging topics.
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Essential College English is a grammar workbook with lucid instruction for the traditional principles of basic grammar, punctuation and mechanics, and usage. Ample writing opportunity is provided throughout the text to help transfer grammar skill into writing.
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For Developmental writing courses
There are many different ways in which developing writers learn. Winkler and McCuen-Matherall have created a writing series that takes into account many of the known difficulties that developing writing students have with English language skills and strategies. Writing Talk: Paragraphs and Short Essays with Readings, 5/e reaches more students by providing the most varied practice exercises of any writing text. Every unit contains Practice Exercises, Unit Tests, Unit Talk-Write Exercises, Unit Collaborative Assignments, Unit Writing Assignments, and Photo Writing Assignments. These diverse exercises will help students of all types—visual, auditory, and collaborative learners—learn and retain the material.
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This student-friendly worktext provides positive reinforcement by giving examples of standard usage. Starting with simple subject-verb forms, each chapter adds new elements–modifiers, phrases, and clauses. The final chapter on the paragraph explains keeping a journal, generating ideas through clustering diagrams, outlining, and using topic sentences.
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The instruction and exercises in
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Strategies for Successful Writing keeps instruction brief and to-the-point so that students spend less time reading about writing and more time writing. Instruction delivered through extensive examples helps students see what different strategies look like when applied in real texts.
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This Concise abbreviation of The Curious Writer offers an inquiry-driven approach, a focus on the connections between personal and academic writing, and a personal voice that engages and motivates students.
The Curious Writer emphasizes inquiry as both a method of discovery and learning and a driving force behind the writing process. The book operates on the principle that writers who begin with questions, rather than answers, achieve better results in their work. It treats research, revision, and critical reading skills (of both texts and visuals) as organic components of every writing process. Each of the eight writing assignment chapters offers integrated coverage of these three key activities and also provides special attention digital tools for invention and research. Offering a unique, entertaining, and personal author voice, The Curious Writer is sure to grab students’ interest and motivate them to write.
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The Pocket Guide to Technical Communication is a handy reference for on-the-job business, technical and scientific writing. Its brief format provides quick, easy-to-read answers to common writing problems. Filled with examples, it features samples of every major document type and emphasizes quality and planning throughout. This edition offers new editing exercises, expanded coverage of email, and an entirely new section on PowerPoint. Its condensed approach is ideal for instructors who want their students to spend more time writing and less time reading about writing.
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The reader encourages the reader to read deeply and uncover connections writers make as they build texts, read critically to recognize connections across texts, and think analytically about connections between texts and larger issues in the culture. Instructional chapters and apparatus are designed to help develop these critical reading, critical thinking, and writing skills fundamental to success in their careers.
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Conversations: Readings for Writing provides the reader an entry point to an extraordinary variety of authors, genres, voices, and viewpoints on important contemporary civic issues.
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Real Texts is a new kind of reader for freshman composition–a collection of texts by academic, professional, and student writers that model the very best practices of writing within and across disciplines, from communication to chemistry, from nursing to education.
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Law and Order reflects the complexity of the law, the broad range of subject matter that it covers, the many individuals affected by the questions raised within its purview, the individual and societal ramifications of such interactions, and the way in which language is used to sort out all those complications. There are no easy answers, but to recognize the complexity and paradoxical nature of the institution we call the law is crucial to operating successfully within it. Understanding the competing rhetoric used by those engaged in the legal process can help guide our decision-making, whether it is in deciding who to elect to create laws in our best interest or in determining our own courses of action in promoting causes we believe in, causes which most likely will involve legal issues and actions somewhere along the process.
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About the Author
CAROLYN RUDE teaches professional writing and chairs the Department of English at Virginia Tech. Before becoming a professor, she worked as a technical writer and editor. She is past president and fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. She is also a fellow of the Society for Technical Communication and winner of its Jay R. Gould Award for excellence in teaching. She believes that understanding editing has enhanced her administrative work, not just because of required writing and document design but also because of the focus of comprehensive editing on readers and purposes, reading styles, and project management.
ANGELA EATON ([email protected]>) is an Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University. Her research interests include technical editing, grant writing, and technical communication practices and pedagogies. She is the owner of the technical editing and grant writing firm Angela Eaton & Associates, LLC, is a member of the Association of the Teachers of Technical Writing, and is a senior member of the Society for Technical Communication . She was the 2005-2006 winner of the Society for Technical Communication's $10,000 Research Award. Her research has been published in Technical Communication, Business Communication Quarterly, and three edited collections.
Table of Contents
Contents
Alternate Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: Engaging with Argument for Reading, Writing, and Viewing Images
Chapter 1: A Perspective on Argument
What Is Your Current Perspective on Argument?
A Definition of Argument
Recognizing Traditional and Consensual Argument
Recognizing Visual Argument
Under What Conditions Does Argument Work Best?
Under What Conditions Does Argument Fail?
Distinguish Between Ethical and Unethical Argument
Recognizing Argument in the 21st Century
How Should You Engage with Issues?
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Essays for Analysis
*Felix Carroll, “No escape from 'helicopter parents”
Abby Ellin, “The Laptop Ate My Attention Span”
Prisna Virasin, “The Barbie Controversy”
Images for Analysis
Image 1. Blessed Art Thou
Image 2. The Tide Is High
Chapter 2: The Rhetorical Situation: Understanding Audience and Context
Analyze the Rhetorical Situation When You Read an Argument
Analyze the Rhetorical Situation When You View a Visual Argument
Analyze the Rhetorical Situation When You Encounter an Argument Online
Use the Rhetorical Situation When You Write an Argument
Conducting an Audience Analysis
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Essays for Analysis
Chris Piper, “‘A’ Is for “Absent”
*Will Harrel, “A Defense of Grade Deflation”
*Library of Congress, “The Civil Rights Era”
Images for Analysis
Image 1. Rosa Parks Rides in the Front of the Bus
Image 2. Auschwitz Victims of Medical Experiments
Image 3. Camp Officials at Leisure
Worksheet 1: Rhetorical Situation
Chapter 3: Reading, Thinking, and Writing about Issues
Getting Started on a Writing Assignment
Read to Develop Arguments for Your Paper
Take Notes and Avoid Plagiarism
Write Your Paper, Read It, Think About It, and Revise It
Practice Your Process by Writing These Papers
Submit Your Paper for Peer Review
Expressing Multiple Perspectives Through Visual Argument
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Essays for Analysis
Jerry Adler, “The Race for Survival”
Gina Kolata, “Psst! Ask for Donor 1913”
*Randy Cohen, “When Texting Is Wrong”
Prisna Virasin, “The Controversy Behind Barbie”
*Congressional Research Service, “Flag Protection: A History of Recent Supreme Court Decisions”
Images for Analysis
Image 1. Sperm Donors
Image 2. Three Perspectives on the American Flag as a Symbol
Worksheet 2: Explanatory Paper
Part II: Understanding the Nature of Argument for Reading, Writing, and Viewing Images
Chapter 4: The Essential Parts of an Argument: The Toulmin Model
The Outcomes of Argument: Probability versus Certainty
The Parts of an Argument According to the Toulmin Model
Value of the Toulmin Model for Reading, Writing, and Viewing Argument
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Images for Analysis
Image 1. Sense of Community, Advertisement
Image 2. “The Price of Oranges” Cartoon
Essays for Analysis
Virginia Heffernan, “Calling Blue: And on That Farm He Had a Cellphone”
Mohamed T. Diaby, Jr., “Toulmin Analysis of ‘The Price of Oranges’”
Richard D. Rieke and Malcolm O. Sillars, “American Value Systems”
Chapter 5: Types of Claims
Five Types of Claims
Value of the Claim Types and the Claim Questions for Reading, Viewing, and Writing Argument
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Essays for Analysis
Haya El Nasser, “Fewer Call Themselves Multiracial”
Editorial, “Brother, Can You Spare A Word?”
*Jeffrey Young, “High Tech Cheating Abounds, and Professors Are Partly to Blame”
Mortimer B. Zuckerman, “What Sets Us Apart”
*Rebecca Cho, “Is Bottled Water a Moral Issue?”
Michael Crichton, “Let’s Stop Scaring Ourselves”
Jim Holt, “Unintelligent Design”
Barry Schwartz, “When It’s All Too Much”
Images for Analysis
Image 1: War Casualties
Image 2: Lunch at the United States — Mexico Border Fence
Image 3: The Rhône Glacier
Image 4: Liberate Your Cool
Image 5: Corn Power
Chapter 6: Types of Proof
The Traditional Categories of Proof
Types of Logical Proof: Logos
Proof That Builds Credibility: Ethos
Types of Emotional Proof: Pathos
Logos, Ethos, and Pathos Communicated Through Language and Style
Value of the Proofs for Reading, Viewing, and Writing Argument
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Images for Analysis
Image 1: Meet the Philip Morris Generation, Advertisement
Image 2: Helping Out
Image 3: Who Has the Money? Chart
*Image 4: Inner City Housing
*Image 5: Little Girl on Bed in Rundown Bedroom
Essays for Analysis
Anna Quindlen, “Undocumented, Indispensable”
*Government Accountability Office, “Poverty in America: Consequences for Individuals and the Economy”
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
Chapter 7: The Fallacies and Ethical Argument
Fallacies in Logic
Fallacies that Affect Character or Ethos
Emotional Fallacies
Ethics and Morality in Argument
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Images for Analysis
Image 1: A Vitamin Ad
Image 2: A Body Spray Ad
Image 3: An Ad for a Blog
Image 4: President Lincoln Among the Crowd at Gettysburg
Image 5: The Soldier’s National Monument that Stands in the Center of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Essays for Analysis
Kelly Dickerson, “Minor Problems?”
Rush Limbaugh, “The Latest from the Feminist ‘Front’”
The Gettysburg Address
Chapter 8: Visual Argument
Recognizing Visual Argument
Why Visual Argument Is Convincing: Eight Special Features
Recognizing the Visual in Online Argument
Using Argument Theory to Critique Visual Argument
Bias in Visual Argument
Sample Analysis of a Visual Argument
Add Visual Argument to Support Written Argument
Create Visual Arguments That Stand Alone
Arguing Like a Citizen
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Images for Analysis
Image 1. West Bank Barrier
Image 2. Crossing Over
Image 3. Coming Home to a Destroyed Neighborhood
Image 4. LeBron James
Image 5 At Home Outdoors
Multiple Visual Perspectives on an Issue for Analysis
Image 1. Adam and God
Image 2. Play Ball
Image 3. Robot with a Grappler
Image 4. Missionary and Child
Cartoon: ”Get Out!” for Analysis
Visual Arguments Created by Students
Student Visual Argument 1. Untitled Collage
Student Visual Argument 2. Never Again
Analytical Essay on Never Again
Student Visual Argument 3. Farm Town News
Analytical Essay on Farm Town News
Worksheet 3: Visual Argument Development
Chapter 9: Rogerian Argument and Common Ground
Achieving Common Ground in Rogerian Argument
Rogerian Argument as Strategy
Rogerian Argument Online
Writing Rogerian Argument
Rogerian Argument in Academic Writing
Using Rogerian Principles to Argue Like a Citizen
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Essays for Analysis
Edward O. Wilson, “The Future of Life”
Angela A. Boatwright, “Human Cloning: Is It a Viable Option?”
Eric Hartman, “Let Those Who Ride Decide!”
Elizabeth Nabhan, “Dear Boss”
Images for Analysis
Image 1. Hands Across the World
Image 2. Bridging the Gap
Image 3. Bipartisanship and What It Can Achieve
Chapter 10: Review and Synthesis of the Strategies for Reading, Writing, and Viewing Argument
Reading for the Argument Analysis Paper
Writing the Argument Analysis Paper
Rhetorical Situation for “A Call to Unity: A Letter from Eight White Clergymen” and “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Focus Topics to Help You Analyze the Letters
Letters for Analysis
“A Call for Unity: A Letter from Eight White Clergymen”
Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Part III: Writing a Research Paper That Presents an Argument
Chapter 11: The Research Paper: Planning, Research, and Invention
Understanding the Assignment and Getting Started
Writing a Claim and Clarifying Your Purpose
Some Preliminary Questions to Help You Narrow and Develop Your Claim
Developing a Research Plan
Understanding the Audience
Analyzing Your Class as Your Audience
Constructing an Unfamiliar Audience
Using Information About Your Audience
Get Organized for Research
Locating Sources for Research
Evaluating Sources
Create a Bibliography
Taking and Organizing Your Notes
Two Invention Strategies to Help You Think Creatively about Your Research and Expand Your Own Ideas
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Worksheet 4: Claim Development
Worksheet 5: Research Plan
Worksheet 6: Audience Analysis
Annotated Bibliography
Student Paper: Angela Boatwright, “Human Cloning: An Annotated Bibliography”
Add Visual Material to the Annotated Bibliography
Example Image: Welcome Clones of 2012
Worksheet 7: Research
Worksheet 8: Research Evaluation
Worksheet 9: Invention
Worksheet 10: Proofs and Language Development
Chapter 12: The Research Paper: Using Sources, Writing, and Revising
How to Match Patterns and Support to Claims
Outline Your Paper and Cross-Reference Your Notes
Incorporating Research into Your First Draft
Make Revisions and Prepare the Final Copy
Present Your Paper Orally to the Class
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Appendix to Chapter 12: How to Document Sources Using MLA and APA Styles
How to Document Sources Using MLA Style
MLA: How to Cite Sources in the Body of the Text
MLA: How to Cite Sources in the Works Cited Page
Questions on the Researched Position Paper, MLA Style
MLA Student Paper
Prisna Virasin, “The Big Barbie Controversy”
How to Document Sources Using APA Style
APA: How to Cite Sources in the References Page
APA Student Paper
Darrell D. Greer, Alaskan Wolf Management
Questions on the Researched Position Paper, APA Style
Part IV: Further Applications: Argument and Literature
Chapter 13: Argument and Literature
Finding and Analyzing Arguments in Literature
Writing Arguments About Literature
Review Questions
Exercises and Activities
Literature for Analysis
Poem: Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B”
Poem: Taylor Mali, “Totally Like Whatever, You Know?”
Poem: Robert Frost, “Mending Wall”
Short Story: Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
*Graphic Novel: Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
Part V: The Reader
Introduction
Purpose of “The Reader”
How to Use “The Reader”
Section 1: Issues Concerning Families and Personal Relationships
The Issues
Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research
Film and Literature Related to Families and Personal Relationships
The Rhetorical Situation
A. What Is the Status of the Traditional American Family? How is the Family Being Redefined?
Megan Kelso, “Watergate Sue: Epilogue”
*Sarah Yoest Pederson, “A Family of a Different Feather”
*Lorraine Ali, “The Curious Lives of Surrogates”
*Stacy Morrison, “The Ex-Husband Who Never Left”
B. What Causes Personal Relationships to Succeed or Fail?
Steven Pinker, “Crazy Love”
*Christine Hassler, “Digital Dating: Desperation or Necessity?”
Reading Images: Movie Madness
Anita Jain, “Is Arranged Marriage Really Any Worse Than Craigslist?”
Jennifer 8. Lee, “The Man Date”
Questions to Help You Think and Write About Family and Personal Relationships
Section 2: Issues Concerning Modern Technology
The Issues
Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research
Films and Literature Related to Modern Technology
The Rhetorical Situation
A. How Are Web 2.0 Technologies Changing the Way We Live and Our Knowledge of the World?
*Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
Andrew Keen, “Introduction, The Cult of the Amateur”
*Clay Shirky, “Does the Internet Make You Smarter?”
Reading Images: Ways of Reading
Matthew Kirschenbaum, “How Reading Is Being Reimagined”
B. What Are the Benefits and Dangers of Genetic Engineering for Individuals and for Society?
Ray Kurzweil, “Our Bodies, Our Technologies”
Peggy Orenstein, “Your Gamete, Myself”
*Kathleen Craig, “Making a Living in Second Life”
Questions to Help You Think and Write about Modern Technology
Section 3: Issues Concerning Education and School
The Issues
Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research
Films and Literature Related to Education and School
The Rhetorical Situation
A. How Should Our Current Education System Be Reformed?
*John Taylor Gatto, “Take Back Your Education”
*Scott Jaschik, “Getting Out of Grading”
*Kevin Carey, “College Consumerism Run Amok”
*Linda Morgan, “I’m Bored! What Your Child is Really Telling You”
B. What Role Should Technology Play in Education?
*Sarah Perez, “Social Network Profile Costs Woman College Degree”
*Mira Jacob, “The Great Baby Einstein Scam”
*Zach Miners, “Twitter Goes to College”
*Kerry Soper, “Rate My Professor’s Appearance”
Questions to Help You Think and Write About Education and School
Section 4: Issues Concerning Race, Culture, and Identity
The Issues
Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research
Films and Literature Related to Race, Culture, and Identity
The Rhetorical Situation
A. How Important Is Race to American Identity?
Emma Daly, “DNA Test Gives Students Ethnic Shocks”
Reading Images: Racial Role Reversal in William Shakespeare’s Othello
Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream”
K.A. Dilday, “Go Back to Black”
B. To What Extent Does Individual Identity Depend on Ethnic Affiliation?”
*Roger Simon, “What Happened to Post-Racial America?
Dorinne K. Kondo, “On Being a Conceptual Anomaly”
Katie Halper, “Digging For Roots at Secular Camp”
Richard Rodriguez, “Surnames Reflect Changing Face of America”
Questions to Help You Think and Write about Race, Culture, and Identity
Section 5: Issues Concerning the Environment
The Issues
Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research
Film and Literature Related to the Environment
The Rhetorical Situation
A. Is Global Warming a Problem, and If It Is, What Can Be Done about It?
Al Gore, “An Inconvenient Truth” Introduction
George F. Will, “An Inconvenient Price”
Gregg Easterbrook, “Some Convenient Truths”
Brian Clark, “The Butterfly Effect and the Environment: How Tiny Actions Can Save the World”
B. How Can We Resolve the Economy versus Environment Debate?
Reading Images: Coal Mining and the Environment
*Daniel Stone, “Slaves to Industry”
Reading Images: The Rain Forest
Stuart Price, “Carving Up the Congo”
*Lisa Hamilton, “Unconventional Farmers; Let Them Eat Meat”
Brian Wingfield, “For Job Market, Green Means Growth”
Reading Images: “Near-Zero Energy Home” Advertisement
Questions to Help You Think and Write about Issues of the Environment
Section 6: Issues Concerning Immigration
The Issues
Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research
Films and Literature Related to Immigration
The Rhetorical Situation
A. How Should We Respond to the Global Problem of Illegal Immigration?
Marc Cooper, “Exodus”
Peter Wilby, “The Right to Sell Labor”
*Angela Maria Kelley, “The Changing Face of Immigration in America”
B. Do Good Fences Mark Good Neighbors When Defining National Borders?
Jonah Goldberg, “To Wall or Not to Wall”
*David Aaronovitch, “It’s Not Immigrations We Fear, It’s Change”
Reading Images: What Is American?
Miguel Bustillo, “Town Against the Wall”
C. What Is the Relationship between Immigration and Nationality?
Arian Campo-Flores, “America’s Divide”
Jae Ran Kim, “The Great American Melting Pot?”
Lynn Ahrens, “The Great American Melting Pot”
Reading Images: American Ideals
James Montague, “They Just Won’t Mix”
Questions to Help You Think and Write about Immigration
Section 7: Issues Concerning War and Peace
The Issues
Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research
Films and Literature Related to War and Peace
The Rhetorical Situation
A. Is War Inevitable? How Does War Become Integral to Society?”
William James, “The Moral Equivalent of War”
Reading Images: War Memorials and Martial Character
Margaret Mead, “Warfare: An Invention — Not a Biological Necessity”
Reading Images: Seeking Shelter Where He Can Find It
*David Goodman, “A Few Good Kids?”
B. How Do People Justify War?
*Noah Charles Pierce, “Iraq War Poems”
*Frank Deford, “Sweetness and Light”