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Brief Guide to Writing from Readings, A
ISBN: 9780321194619 | 0321194616
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2004
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This brief text teaches students 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 guide teaches students how to critically read texts, accurately quote and paraphrase material, clearly summarize, carefully respond to, precisely critique, and creatively synthesize readings. A Brief Guide is a valuable teaching and reference tool that students of many disciplines w... MORE
| Preface | |
| Critical Reading | |
| Definition and Purpose | |
| Asking Questions about What You Read | |
| Marking Texts | |
| Sample Annotated Reading: Hard Choices | |
| Note-Taking | |
| Additional Reading: Getting Serious about Eradicating Binge Drinking | |
| Summary Chart-Critical Reading: Asking Questions | |
| Summary Chart-Critical Reading: ... MORE | |
| Summary Chart-Critical Reading: Note Taking | |
| Journals | |
| Definition | |
| Purpose | |
| Types of Entries | |
| Language and Format | |
| Final Considerations | |
| Quotation | |
| Definition and Purpose | |
| Guidelines on When to Quote Material | |
| Guidelines on When Not to Quote Material | |
| Integrating Quotations into Your Writing | |
| Reading: Missing Link | |
| Altering Quoted Material and Avoiding Misquotations | |
| Summary Chart: Guidelines on Quotations | |
| Summary Chart: Integrating Quotations into Your Writing | |
| Paraphrase | |
| Definition and Purpose | |
| Qualities of a Good Paraphrase | |
| How to Paraphrase Material | |
| Documentation | |
| Summary Chart: How to Write a Paraphrase | |
| Summary Chart: Qualities of a Good Paraphrase | |
| Summary | |
| Definition and Purpose | |
| Types of Summaries | |
| Qualities of a Good Summary | |
| How to Summarize a Text | |
| Documentation | |
| Sample Summaries | |
| Reading: AIDS and Population `Control' | |
| Sample Informative Summary | |
| Sample Explanatory Summary | |
| Summary Chart: How to Write a Summary | |
| Response Essays | |
| Definition and Purpose | |
| Qualities of a Good Response Essay | |
| Writing the Response Essay | |
| Sample Response Essay: A Response to AIDS and Population Control | |
| Summary Chart: How to Write a Response Essay | |
| Critique | |
| Definition and Purpose | |
| The Film Review as Critique | |
| Writing a Critique | |
| Reading: Clear Message to Teens: `It's OK to Have Sex' | |
| Sample Critique: Beck's Essay Not Convincing | |
| Additional Reading: Condom Availability Promotes Health, Saves Lives | |
| Additional Reading: Apply Peer Pressure, Not Latex, Against Casual Sex | |
| Summary Chart: Writing a Critique | |
| Synthesis | |
| Definition and Purpose | |
| Types of Synthesis Essays | |
| Reading: The Fool on the Hill | |
| Reading: Forrest Gump | |
| Reading: Forrest Gump | |
| Informative Synthesis | |
| Argumentative Synthesis | |
| Sample Informative and Argumentative Syntheses | |
| Additional Reading: Teenage Suicide by The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill | |
| Additional Reading: Complex Set of Ills Spurs Rising Teen Suicide Rate | |
| Additional Reading: Whatever Happened to Affirmative Action? | |
| Additional Reading: Q: Does Diversity in Higher Education Justify Racial Preferences? | |
| Additional Reading: Q: Does Diversity in Higher Education Justify Racial Preferences? | |
| Summary Chart: Synthesis Essays | |
| Plagiarism | |
| Definition | |
| Forms of Plagiarism | |
| How to Avoid Plagiarism | |
| Summary Chart: Plagiarism | |
| Documenta | |
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