Synopses & Reviews
Read, Write, Connect provides integrated instruction in reading and writing paragraphs and essays, complete coverage of research and grammar, and a thematic reader full of high-interest selections students will want to both read and write about. The text begins with a walk-through of the reading and writing processes and then moves on to a series of reading and writing workshop chapters providing in-depth coverage of key topics like finding main ideas and drafting and organizing an essay.
Throughout, the text demonstrates that academic processes are recursive—for example, drafting is not a phase or stage a writer finishes or completes; drafting continues as the writer revises, based on reading and reflection. The structure of the text reflects this recursivity: as students move from the early chapters to later chapters, they reinforce and expand upon earlier learning, digging deeper into the material and their own ideas and building confidence along the way.
About the Author
Kathleen Green is an Associate Professor of English at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, where she has taught integrated reading and writing courses since 2001. She earned her Ph.D. in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and served as Assistant Professor of English at Purdue University-Calumet before moving to California. She has taught a wide variety of courses--including film history, film theory, women's literature, African-American literature, and children's literature--as well as the entire range of English composition courses, from basic skills to developmental to advanced composition. She has published scholarly articles on women's history and popular culture, but prefers working with students just beginning their journeys into higher education. She has served as a faculty tutor in the Pasadena City College Writing Center, has been involved with Writing Across the Curriculum, and has developed online curricula to help students with basic writing and reading skills across many disciplines. Currently, she teaches in the Veterans Learning Collaborative at PCC, a cohort-based program that helps U.S. military veterans make the transition to college learning.Amy Lawlor is a Professor of English at City College of San Francisco where she has been teaching integrated reading/writing and creative writing since 2008. She earned her M.A. in English as well as a Composition Certificate from San Francisco State University and a Post-Secondary Reading Certificate from Cal State Fullerton. In the 15 years that she has been teaching college, she has enjoyed working at a number of Bay Area community colleges as well as Pasadena City College where she was exposed to a wide variety of composition curricula and experience teaching integrated reading/writing, reading, composition, Filipino-American literature, Latino-American literature, and other courses, including learning community courses and writing-across-the-curriculum courses. At Pasadena City College, in addition to teaching composition and literature, she worked as a faculty tutor in the Pasadena City College Writing Center and collaborated with Kathy Green in developing online curricula for reading and writing. She is currently co-lead faculty for one of City College of San Franciscos accelerated courses and calls curriculum and faculty development her primary professional interests outside the classroom.
Table of Contents
Part One: Getting into a College MindsetChapter 1: Reading and Responding to College Texts How to Approach a Text: Pre-Reading Strategies in Brief Take Stock of What You Know about a Topic Preview the TextAnnotating While You Read Active Readers Annotate Record Your Thoughts about the Text Ask Questions about the Text Identify New WordsFinding Main Ideas and Supporting Evidence What is the Main Idea? What is Support? How Do You Find the Main Idea and Support in an Essay or Article?Writing A SummaryReading Textbooks EffectivelyChapter ReviewPart Two: From Pre-Reading to Proofreading: The Reading and Writing ProcessesChapter 2: Active and Critical ReadingReading Critically Reading with and against the Grain Read with the Grain Read against the Grain Compare Your Notes Reading Sherie Holder and Kenneth Meeks, "Teach Your Children the Building Blocks of Finance" with and against the GrainReadings on Money, Wealth, and Financial Literacy Sherie Holder and Kenneth Meeks, "Teach Your Children the Building Blocks of Finance" Olivia Mellan, "Men, Women, and Money" Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Education Pays" (Chart) Mark Schug and Eric Hagedorn, "Milwaukees Youth Enterprise Academy" Paul Taylor, Richard Fry, and Rakesh Kochhar, "Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics" (Pew Research Report Executive Summary) Pam Fessler, "Making It in the U.S.: More Than Just Hard Work" Working with Multiple SourcesAdditional Online and Media SourcesChapter ReviewChapter 3: Putting Ideas into WritingWhat Is An Essay and How Do You Write One? The Essay The Writing ProcessHow to Read an Essay PromptEssay Writing Time Management PreWriting for Your Essay Freewriting ListingThesis StatementsOutlining Your IdeasGenerating Evidence to Support Your IdeasTopic SentencesPutting It All Together: Drafting a Rough EssayIntroductions and ConclusionsFinishing the Rough DraftEssay PromptsChapter ReviewChapter 4: Revising, Editing and ProofreadingRevising as Re-Seeing Your WorkPracticing Peer ReviewRevision Strategies Revising to Make Your Audience and Purpose Clear Revising to Focus Your Topic or Strengthen Your Thesis Revising to Improve Your Organization Organizing the Entire Essay Organizing a Paragraph Revising to Develop Your Paragraphs Revising to Integrate Sources Introduce a Quotation Explain What the Quotation Means Explain How the Quotation Supports Your PointEditing Strategies Reading Your Essay Out Loud Reading BackwardsProofreading StrategiesChapter Review Part Three: Reading and Writing WorkshopsChapter 5: Additional Reading Comprehension StrategiesReading Comprehension Strategies SQ3R KWL+ MappingReading Textbooks SQ3R Annotating Outlining or Mapping Muscle ReadingReading Fiction Elements of Fiction Annotating Note Taking Story MapsChapter ReviewChapter 6: Workshop on Topic, Audience, and PurposeAudience and Purpose Determining the Audience and Purpose in a Reading Reading for Audience and PurposeTopics Finding Something to Say and Caring About It Making a Broad Topic More Specific Peer Review QuestionsCrafting Your Papers Audience, Purpose, and Tone Writing for a Particular Audience Writing with a Purpose Writing in a Particular Tone Sharpening Your Topic with a Title Titles of Academic ArticlesChapter ReviewChapter 7: Workshop on Rhetorical Modes in Reading and WritingWhat is a Rhetorical Pattern?A Detailed Look at the Patterns Example or Illustration Definition Classification Narration Description Process Comparison and Contrast Cause and EffectUsing Rhetorical PatternsChapter ReviewChapter 8: Workshop on Vocabulary BuildingStrategies for Discovering the Meaning of Words Using Context Clues Using a DictionaryUnderstanding Word Parts Prefixes Roots SuffixesCommitting New Words to MemoryUsing a ThesaurusUsing New VocabularyChapter 9: Workshop on Pre-WritingFreewritingClusteringListingQuestioningChapter ReviewChapter 10: Workshop on Thesis and Main IdeaThe Purpose of a ThesisThe Explicit Thesis or Main IdeaThe Implied Thesis or Main IdeaFinding the Main Point in a ReadingShaping Your Thesis How DoYou Know what Claim You Want to Make?Drafting Your Thesis, Step by Step Sharpening Your Thesis Improving Weak Thesis StatementsChapter ReviewChapter 11: Workshop on Taking a StanceWhat Is an ArgumentTaking A PositionEvidence Evidence Versus Opinion Kinds of EvidenceCounter Arguments and Rebuttals Concession WordsMaking InferencesChapter Review Chapter 12: Workshop on Topic Sentences and ParagraphsTopic Sentences Identifying Topic Sentences The Topic Sentence and The Thesis Writing Topic SentencesParagraphs Understand Paragraph Structure Strengthen Your Paragraphs Developing Paragraph Support Ask Questions to Develop Support Using a Variety of Types of SupportChapter ReviewChapter 13: Workshop on Essay Organization and OutliningOutlining as a Reader Outlining Another Writers Work Outlining Your Own Rough Draft Outlining as a Writer Formal Outlines Informal OutlinesFrom Informal Outline to Topic Sentence OutlineTwo Commonly Assigned Essay Structures From Outline to DraftTransitions Transitional Words and Expressions Transitions from Paragraph to Paragraph Sequencing TransitionsChapter ReviewChapter 14: Workshop on DraftingWriting the Very Rough Draft Exploratory Drafts Evidence Drafts Conversation DraftsWriting the Public First DraftChapter ReviewChapter 15: Workshop on Introductions and Conclusions Introductions Hook Topic Background Information ThesisConclusions Summing Up Your Essay Providing Context Strategies for Writing Strong ConclusionsChapter ReviewChapter 16: Workshop on Quotation and ParaphraseWhen to Use a Quotation in WritingWhen to Use Paraphrase in WritingIntroducing a Quotation or ParaphraseConnecting Your Evidence to Your ClaimChapter ReviewChapter 17: Workshop on Giving and Receiving Feedback from Instructors and PeersAll Writers Seek Input: Why Feedback is EssentialGuidelines for Peer ReviewHow to Use a RubricInterpreting and Applying Instructors Comments on Your WritingWhen You Need to Meet with an Instructor or TutorChapter ReviewChapter 18: Workshop on Note TakingCornell Notes Simplified Note-Taking in Different Situations: Lecture Classes, Discussions, Films, and InterviewsBeing Organized in Note-Taking to Prevent Plagiarism Chapter ReviewChapter 19: Workshop on ResearchDifferent Types of SourcesUsing an Academic LibraryThe Role of the Internet in Academic ResearchKeeping Track of Source Material in an Organized WayChapter ReviewChapter 20: Workshop on MLA DocumentationWhy Citing Sources Well Increases Your CredibilityThe Three Parts of MLA Format: Document Format, the Works Cited page, and Parenthetical Citation (with Sample Student Paper on Facing Pages as Illustration)Creating a Template for Correct Document FormatDoing your Works Cited PageWhen to Use Parentheses and What to Put in ThemChapter Review Part Four: Thematic Readings and SourcesChapter 21: SiblingsTheme OverviewPre-Reading Questions and ActivitiesReading Selection (with Comprehension Questions, Discussion Questions, and Vocabulary Building Activities)
- Jane Mersky Leder, excerpt from "Close Encounters of a Special Kind" from Brothers and Sisters: How They Shape Our Lives
- Jeffrey Kluger, "The New Science of Siblings"
- Jeffrey Kluger, "The Power of Birth Order"
- Lauren Sandler, "The Only Child: Debunking the Myths"
- Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, "The Sibling Effect" from NurtureShock: New Thinking about Children
Additional Multi-Media Text SuggestionsSample Writing Prompts in a Variety of Rhetorical ModesDetailed Sample Argument Essay Assignment with Suggested Scaffolding for StudentsChapter 22: Public ArtTheme OverviewPre-Reading Questions and ActivitiesReading Selection (with Comprehension Questions, Discussion Questions, and Vocabulary Building Activities)- Jack Becker, "Public Art: An Essential Component of Creating Communities"
- Patrick Frank, "Public Art and Street Art" [textbook excerpt]
- Annick Treguer, "Chicanos Paint Their Way Back"
- Will Shank, "Whose Art is this Anyway?" from Street Art San Francisco
- Koon-Hwee Kan, "Adolescents and Graffiti"
- Los Angeles Police Department,
"What Graffiti Means to a Community"
- James Gaddy, "Nowhere Man"
- Rosanna Xia, "Lighthearted Street Art Delights (and Confuses) Downtown L.A. Visitors"
- Buffalo Law Journal,
"Battles Over Yard Art Sometimes Turn Ugly"
Additional Multi-Media Text SuggestionsSample Writing Prompts in a Variety of Rhetorical ModesDetailed Sample Argument Essay Assignment with Suggested Scaffolding for StudentsChapter 23: Fame and CelebrityTheme OverviewPre-Reading Questions and ActivitiesReading Selection (with Comprehension Questions, Discussion Questions, and Vocabulary Building Activities)- Andrea Chang, "Kashing In"
- Flora Carlin, "Seeing By Starlight"
- Mary Loftus, "The Other Side of Fame"
- Jake Halpern, "The Desire to Belong: Why Everyone Wants to Have Dinner with Paris Hilton and 50 Cent" from Fame Junkies
- Drew Pinsky, "Broadcasting Yourself" from The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America
Additional Multi-Media Text SuggestionsSample Writing Prompts in a Variety of Rhetorical ModesDetailed Sample Argument Essay Assignment with Suggested Scaffolding for Students]Part Five: Grammar, Style, and MechanicsChapter 24: How to Learn the Rules and Apply What Youve Learned to Your Own Writing Chapter 25: Parts of Speech that Matter (and a Few that Dont!) Chapter 26: Basic Sentence Components Chapter 27: VerbsChapter 28: Fragments Chapter 29: Run-ons/Fused Sentences and Comma Splices Chapter 30: Pronouns Chapter 31: CommasChapter 32: Parallelism Chapter 33: How to Fix Common Sentence Structure Problems Chapter 34: Writing Clear and Focused Sentences Chapter 35: ApostrophesChapter 36: Spelling, Commonly Confused Words, and CapitalizationPart Six: Online MaterialsOnline Chapter A: Workshop on Taking Essay ExamsPreparing Mentally and Physically for an Essay ExamUnderstanding ExpectationsDissecting the QuestionMaking and Sticking to a Plan of AttackOnline Chapter B: Workshop on PortfoliosWhy Create Writing PortfoliosSelecting Work for RevisionSelf-ReflectionOnline Chapter C: Workshop on Time Management and Avoiding ProcrastinationYour Typical Weekly ScheduleWhen Life Isnt Typical: How to Handle Personal Crises and Still Get Your Work DoneKeeping Organized Computer FilesHow to Stop ProcrastinatingOnline Chapter D: EducationTheme OverviewPre-Reading Questions and ActivitiesReading Selection (with Comprehension Questions, Discussion Questions, and Vocabulary-building Activities)- Opposing Viewpoints, "Education"
- Lucinda Rosenfeld, "How Charter Schools Can Hurt"
- Diane Ravitch, "Stop the Madness"
- Gerard Robinson and Edwin Chang, "The Color of Success: Black Student Achievement in Public Charter Schools"
- Robert Maranto and James V. Shuls, "Lessons from KIPP Delta"
Additional Multi-Media Text SuggestionsSample Writing Prompts in a Variety of Rhetorical ModesDetailed Sample Argument Essay Assignment with Suggested Scaffolding for Students