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Reading and Writing in the Academic Community with 2001 APA Guidelines

by: Kennedy, Mary Lynch

Reading and Writing in the Academic Community with 2001 APA Guidelines

by: Kennedy, Mary Lynch

ISBN 13:
9780130452948
ISBN 10:
0130452947
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2001
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Summary

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

Introduction: The Academic Community and Its Conventions.

I. READING AND WRITING CONVENTIONS.

1. Reading Academic Sources.
2. Learning the Basic Conventions: Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting.

II. WRITING ACADEMIC ESSAYS.

3. Responding to Sources.
4. Comparing and Contrasting Sources.
5. Composing Other Types of Multiple-Source Essays.
6. Drawing on Sources for an Argument Essay.
7. Analysis and Evaluation.
8. Writing Research Papers.

III. READING SELECTIONS.

9. Grades and Learning.
Jerry Farber, A Young Person's Guide to the Grading System. Steven Vogel, Grades and Money. David Rothenberg, Learning in Finland: No Grades, No Criticism. Stephen Goode and Timothy W. Maier, Inflating the Grades.

10. Technology and Society.
Joshua Quittner, Invasion of Privacy. John Leo, When Life Imitates Video. Lee M. Silver, Jennifer and Rachel. Lori B. Andrews, The Sperminator.

11. Tastes in Popular Music.
Dave Berry,Bad Songs. Richard Brookhiser, All Junk, All the Time. David Byrne, I Hate World Music. Michael J Budds, From Fine Romance to Good Rockin'—and Beyond: Look What They've Done to My Song.

12. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide.
Anonymous, It's Over, Debbie. Sidney Hook, In Defense of Voluntary Euthanasia. Ernest van den Haag, Make Mine Hemlock. Rand Richards Cooper, The Dignity of Helplessness: What Sort of Society Would Euthanasia Create? Charles Krauthammer, First and Last Do No Harm.

13. Racial Profiling.
Alton Fitzgerald White, Ragtime, My Time. Patricia J. Williams, Road Rage. Jeffrey Goldberg, The Color of Suspicion. David Cole, The Color of Justice.

14. Gender Equity in Sports.
Pat Griffin, Sport: Where Men Are Men and Women Are Trespassers. Douglas T. Putnam, Gender Games; What about Men? Leslie Heywood, Satellite. Walter Olson, Title IX from Outer Space. Don Sobo, Different Stakes: Men's Pursuit of Gender Equity in Sports. Laurie Tarkan, Unequal Opportunity. Craig T. Greenlee, Title IX: Does Help for Women Come at the Expense of African Americans?

Appendix A: Documenting Sources.
Appendix B: Writing Essay Examinations.

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