Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Brief Edition
ISBN: 9780205622290 | 0205622291
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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This portable writing guide and reader presents five highly engaging chapters of readings from five disciplines (communication, psychology, sociology, health, marketing) and a brief writing guide that covers the skills of summary, critique, analysis, and synthesis.
| Preface | |
| A Note to the Student | |
| How To WriteSummaries, Critiques, Syntheses, And Analyses | |
| Summary | |
| What is a Summary? | |
| Can a Summary Be Objective? | |
| Using the Summary | |
| The Reading Process | |
| How to Write Summaries | |
| Demonstration: Summary | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Cr... MORE | |
| Critical Reading | |
| Critique | |
| Demonstration: Critique | |
| Practice Critique | |
| Synthesis | |
| What Is a Synthesis? | |
| Purpose | |
| Using Your Sources | |
| Types of Syntheses: Argument and Explanatory | |
| How to Write Syntheses | |
| The Argument Synthesis | |
| Demonstration: Developing a Source-Based Argument Synthesis | |
| Developing and Organizing Support for Your Arguments | |
| The Comparison-and-Contrast Synthesis | |
| The Explanatory Synthesis | |
| Summary | |
| Analysis | |
| What Is an Analysis? | |
| Demonstration of Analysis | |
| How to Write Analyses | |
| Analysis: A Tool for Understanding | |
| II. An Anthology of Readings | |
| Sociology | |
| Marriage and Family in America | |
| The Satisfactions of Housewifery and Motherhood/ Paradise Lost | |
| The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love | |
| The State of Our Unions, David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead | |
| Debunking Myths about Marriage and Families | |
| A Debate on Gay Marriage, Andrew Sullivan | |
| Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path-to Motherhood | |
| What Yale Women Want, and Why It Is Misguided | |
| A Marriage Agreement | |
| The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was | |
| My Problem with Her Anger | |
| Synthesis Activities | |
| Research Activities | |
| Psychology | |
| Obedience to Authority | |
| Opinions and Social Pressure | |
| The Perils of Obedience | |
| Review of Stanley Milgram's Experiments on Obedience | |
| The Stanford Prison Experiment | |
| Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem | |
| Uncivil Disobedience: Violating the Rules for Breaking the Law | |
| Synthesis Activities | |
| Research Activities | |
| American Studies | |
| What's Happening at the Mall? | |
| Shopping for American Culture | |
| A Brief History of Malls | |
| The Mall as Civic/Cultural Center | |
| The Mall as Disneyland | |
| The Mall as Prison | |
| The Mall as Sacred Space | |
| The Mall as Setting for Authentic Life | |
| The Mall as Refuge | |
| The Mall as Threat to Democratic Values | |
| Mallaise: How to Know If You Have It | |
| Synthesis Activities | |
| Research Activities | |
| Biology | |
| To Sleep | |
| A Third of Life | |
| Improving Sleep | |
| America's Sleep-Deprived Teens Nodding off at School, Behind the Wheel, National Sleep Foundation | |
| When Worlds Collide: Adolescent Need for Sleep vs. Societal Demands | |
| Sleep Debt and the Mortgaged Mind | |
| The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index | |
| How Sleep Debt Hurts College Students | |
| Starting Time and School Life | |
| Synthesis Activities | |
| Research Activities | |
| Business/ Communications | |
| New and Improved: Six Decades of Advertising | |
| Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals | |
| Making the Pitch in Print Advertising | |
| Elements of Effective Layout | |
| A Portfolio of Advertisements: 1945-2003 | |
| Synthesis Activities | |
| Research Activities | |
| Appendix: A Quick Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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