From Inquiry to Academic Writing : A Text and Reader
ISBN: 9780312451653 | 0312451652
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 1/23/2008
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Beginning from the premise that all academic writing is conversational a collegial exchange of ideas, undertaken in a spirit of collaboration in the pursuit of new knowledge From Inquiry to Academic Writingdemystifies cross-curricular thinking and writing by breaking it down into a series of comprehensible habits and skills that students can learn in order to enter those conversations. The second part of the book provides a sampling of those conversations in a thematic reader that reprints substantial essays by intellectuals both inside and out... MORE
Preface for Instructors
Introduction: What Is Academic Writing?
1. Starting with Inquiry: Habits of Mind of Academic Writers
Academic Writers Make Inquiries
Academic Writers Seek and Value Complexity
Academic Writers See Writing as a Conversation
Academic Writers Understand the Writing Process
Collect Information and Material
Draft, and Draft Again
Revise Significantly
2. From Rea... MORE
Introduction: What Is Academic Writing?
1. Starting with Inquiry: Habits of Mind of Academic Writers
Academic Writers Make Inquiries
Academic Writers Seek and Value Complexity
Academic Writers See Writing as a Conversation
Academic Writers Understand the Writing Process
Collect Information and Material
Draft, and Draft Again
Revise Significantly
2. From Rea... MORE
Present the Gist of the Author’s Argument
Contextualize What You Summarize
Synthesizing
Charles Payne, Debating the Civil Rights Movement: The View from the Trenches
Ronald Takaki, Policies: Strategies and Solutions from Debating Diversity
Make Connections Among Different Readings
Decide What Those Connections Mean
Construct the Gist of Your Synthesis
Integrating Quotations into Your Writing
Take an Active Stance When You Quote
Explain the Quotations You Include
Attach Shorter Quotations Effectively to Your Sentences
Citing and Documenting Sources
Basics of Modern Language Association (MLA) Style
Basics of American Psychological Association (APA) Style
8. From Ethos to Logos: Appealing to Your Readers
James Loewen, The Land of Opportunity
Appealing to Ethos
Establish that You Have Good Judgment
Convey to Readers That You Are Knowledgeable
Show That You Understand the Complexity of a Given Issue
Appealing to Pathos
Show That You Know What Your Readers Value
Use Illustrations and Examples that Appeal to Readers’ Emotions
Consider How Your Tone May Affect Your Audience
Appealing to Logos: Using Reason and Evidence to Fit the Situation
State the Premise or Premises
Use Credible Evidence
Demonstrate That the Conclusion Follows from the Premise
Recognizing Logical Fallacies
Jean Anyon, The Economic Is Political
9. From Introductions to Conclusions: Drafting Your Essay
Drafting Introductions: How Can You Set Up Your Argument?
8. From Ethos to Logos: Appealing to Your Readers
James Loewen, The Land of Opportunity
Appealing to Ethos
Establish that You Have Good Judgment
Convey to Readers That You Are Knowledgeable
Show That You Understand the Complexity of a Given Issue
Appealing to Pathos
Show That You Know What Your Readers Value
Use Illustrations and Examples that Appeal to Readers’ Emotions
Consider How Your Tone May Affect Your Audience
Appealing to Logos: Using Reason and Evidence to Fit the Situation
State the Premise or Premises
Use Credible Evidence
Demonstrate That the Conclusion Follows from the Premise
Recognizing Logical Fallacies
Jean Anyon, The Economic Is Political
9. From Introductions to Conclusions: Drafting Your Essay
Drafting Introductions: How Can You Set Up Your Argument?
The Inverted Triangle
The Narrative Introduction
The Interrogative Introduction
The Paradoxical Introduction
Minding the Gap
Developing Paragraphs: How Can You Build Your Argument?
Elizabeth Martinez, Reinventing ‘America’: Call for a New National Identity
Use Topic Sentences to Focus Your Paragraphs
Create Unity
Use Critical Strategies to Develop Your Paragraphs
Drafting Conclusions: How Can You Wrap Up Your Argument?
Echo the Introduction
Challenge the Reader
Look to the Future
Pose Questions
The Narrative Introduction
The Interrogative Introduction
The Paradoxical Introduction
Minding the Gap
Developing Paragraphs: How Can You Build Your Argument?
Elizabeth Martinez, Reinventing ‘America’: Call for a New National Identity
Use Topic Sentences to Focus Your Paragraphs
Create Unity
Use Critical Strategies to Develop Your Paragraphs
Drafting Conclusions: How Can You Wrap Up Your Argument?
Echo the Introduction
Challenge the Reader
Look to the Future
Pose Questions
Conclude with a Quotation
10. From Revising to Editing: Working with Peer Groups
Revising Versus Editing
The Peer Editing Process
Peer Groups in Action: A Sample Session
Working with Early Drafts
Working with Later Drafts
Working with Final Drafts
Further Suggestions for Peer Editing Groups
11. Other Methods of Inquiry: Interviews and Focus Groups
Why Do Original Research?
Getting Started: Writing a Proposal
Describe Your Purpose
Define Your Method
Discuss Your Implications
Include Additional Materials That Support Your Research
Interviewing
Plan the Interview
Prepare Your Script
Conduct the Interview
Make Sense of Your Interview
Turn Your Conversation into an Essay
Using Focus Groups
Select Participants for Your Focus Group
Prepare a Script for the Focus Group
Conduct the Focus Group
Interpret Data from the Focus Group
PART II. A READER FOR ENTERING THE CONVERSATION OF IDEAS
12. Conventional and Unconventional Wisdom
What does it mean to be educated, and who decides?
Mark Edmundson, On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students
bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress and Engaged Pedagogy
Jonathan Kozol, Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid
James W. Loewen, From Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.
Mary Louise Pratt, Arts of the Contact Zone
Robert Scholes, On Reading a Video Text
13. A World of Difference/A Shrinking World
Who are we in relation to others?
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Moral Disagreements
Jared Diamond, from Collapse
Franklin Foer, from How Soccer Explains the World
Thomas Friedman, from The World Is Flat
Malcolm Gladwell, from The Tipping Point
Michael Kimmel, Gender, Class, and Terrorism
14. ‘Check All the Boxes that Apply’: Unstable Identities in the U.S.
How do we experience the daily effects of race and class assumptions?
Ann duCille, Dyes and Dolls
Barbara Ehrenreich, Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women’s Work
Thomas Frank, The Two Nations
Noel Ignatiev, Immigrants and Whites
Peggy McIntosh, White Privilege and Male Privilege
Hector Tobar, Americanismo, City of Peasants,
15. Acting Naturally: The Practices of Gender
How do we learn to think and behave as gendered people?
Shari L. Dworkin and Michael A. Messner, Just Do ... What? Sport, Bodies, Gender
Henry A. Giroux, Children’s Culture and Disney’s Animated Films
Jean Kilbourne, Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt,
Judith Lorber, Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender
Karin A. Martin, Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools
Kathryn Morgan, Women and the Knife
Deborah Tannen, Talking Up Close: Status and Connection
16. Indoctrination or Revolution? Technologies of Popular Culture
How does pop culture reinforce or unsettle social standards?
Marguerite Helmers, Media, Discourse, and the Public Sphere: Electronic Memorials to Diana, Princess of Wales
Henry Jenkins, Complete Freedom of Movement
Steven Johnson, From Everything Bad is Good for You
David Kline, I Blog, Therefore I Am
Eric Schlosser, Your Trusted Friends
Cynthia Selfe, Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution
Elizabeth Teare, Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic
Assignment Sequences
Appendix: Using MLA and APA Styles
How to Use Modern Language Association (MLA) Style
How to Use American Psychological Association (APA) Style
Index of Authors and Titles
Index of Terms
STUART GREENE (Ph.D. Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University) is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has published numerous articles on writing and writing programs, especially on issues of teaching writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines. He has contributed to and co-edited many books on writing and literacy, including Teaching Academic Literacy: The Uses of Teacher-Research in Developing a Writing Program (1999) and Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Cultural Understanding (2003; 2006). He has also won several awards for his scholarship and teaching, most recently in 2005 the National Council of Teachers of English Richard A. Meade Award for Research in English Education.
APRIL LIDINSKY (Ph.D. Literatures in English, Rutgers) is an assistant professor of Women’s Studies at Indiana University South Bend. She has published and delivered numerous conference papers on writing pedagogy, women's autobiography, creative non-fiction, and film, and contributed to several textbooks on writing. She has served as acting director of the University Writing Program at Notre Dame and has won several awards for her teaching and research.
APRIL LIDINSKY (Ph.D. Literatures in English, Rutgers) is an assistant professor of Women’s Studies at Indiana University South Bend. She has published and delivered numerous conference papers on writing pedagogy, women's autobiography, creative non-fiction, and film, and contributed to several textbooks on writing. She has served as acting director of the University Writing Program at Notre Dame and has won several awards for her teaching and research.
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