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Summary Table of Contents

This brief guide teaches students how to read rhetorically and write about what they have read with rhetorical insight. Offering concise yet thorough treatment of academic reading and writing in college, Reading Rhetorically shows students how to analyze texts by recognizing their strategies and genre conventions, and how to use other texts when writing about research. Two important features distinguish this reader from others: (1) its emphasis on reading as an interactive process of composing meaning, and (2) its emphasis on academic writing a... MORE

Preface

xiii

Part One: Reading Rhetorically

Your Life as a Reader

(10)

Exploring Your Readi... MORE

(1)

Taking Stock of Why You Read

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(2)

Summary

(1)

Scenes of Reading

(6)

A Brief Writing Project

(2)

Option 1: Memories

Option 2: Observations

Option 3: Interviews

The Writing Life

(1)

Gloria Naylor

Reading on the Fourth of July

(2)

Virginia Chappell

A Lawyer and His Reading

(1)

Melissa Martinie

The Special Demands of Academic Reading

(14)

Reading as Conversation

(2)

For Writing and Discussion

(1)

Challenges Presented by Academic Reading

(1)

Rhetorical Reading as an Academic Strategy

(1)

Questions That Rhetorical Readers Ask

(1)

Writers' Purposes Versus Readers' Purposes

(1)

A Further Look at Writers' Purposes

(5)

Expressing and Reflecting

(1)

Inquiring and Exploring

(1)

Informing and Explaining

(1)

Analyzing and Interpreting

(1)

Taking a Stand

(1)

Evaluating and Judging

(1)

Proposing Solutions

(1)

Seeking Common Ground

(1)

Summary

(1)

Strategies for Reading Rhetorically

(18)

Reading and Writing as Acts of Composing

(2)

The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently

(1)

Thomas Lux

For Writing and Discussion

(2)

Texts and Their Rhetorical Contexts

(1)

An Extended Example: Articles About Teenagers' Sleep Habits

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(2)

Learning from the Practices of Experienced Readers

(2)

Building a Context for Reading

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(3)

Matching Strategies with a Text's Genre

(1)

Matching Strategies with Purpose for Reading

(1)

Taking Stock of How You Read

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(1)

Summary

(5)

Sources of the Article Excerpts About Teenagers' Sleep Patterns

(4)

Part Two: Reading and Responding to Texts

Listening to a Text

(24)

Writing as You Read

(1)

Preparing to Read

(4)

Identifying Your Purpose

(1)

Recalling Background Knowledge

(1)

Reconstructing Rhetorical Context

(2)

Spot Reading

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(1)

Listening as You Read Initially

(4)

Noting Organizational Signals

(1)

Marking Unfamiliar Terms and References

(1)

Identifying Points of Difficulty

(1)

Annotating

(2)

For Writing and Discussion

(1)

Listening as You Reread

(3)

Mapping the Idea Structure

(2)

Descriptive Outlining

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(5)

Composing a Summary

(2)

Jenny's Process Notes for Writing a Summary

(1)

Jenny's Summary

(1)

Checklist for Evaluating Summaries

(1)

Writing a Rhetorical Precis

(1)

Structure of a Rhetorical Precis

(1)

Jenny's Rhetorical Precis

(1)

Summary

(1)

A Brief Writing Project

(5)

Who Cares If Johnny Can't Read?

(4)

Larissa MacFarquhar

Questioning a Text

(22)

What It Means to Question a Text

(1)

Strategies for Questioning a Text

(1)

Examining a Writer's Credibility

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(3)

Examining a Writer's Appeals to Reason

(1)

Claims

(1)

Reasons

(1)

Evidence

(1)

Assumptions

(1)

Examining a Writer's Strategies for Engaging Readers

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(2)

Examining a Writer's Language

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(3)

Examining a Text's Ideology

(2)

For Writing and Discussion

(1)

Exploring Your Responses to a Text

(1)

Before/After Reflections

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(2)

The Believing and Doubting Game

(1)

Jenny's Believing-Doubting Game Freewrite

(2)

Interviewing the Author

(1)

Jenny's Interview Questions

(1)

Applying Rhetorical Reading Strategies: An Example

(4)

Jenny's Assignment to Examine Rhetorical Strategies

(1)

Jenny's Paper: Who Cares If the Value of Books Is Overstated?

(3)

For Writing and Discussion

(1)

Summary

(4)

Part Three: The Rhetorical Reader as Writer

Writing About Reading: The Special Demands of Academic Writing

(18)

Overview of Part Three

(1)

Typical Reading-Based Writing Assignments Across the Curriculum

(5)

Writing to Understand Course Content More Fully

(1)

In-Class Freewriting

(1)

Reading or Learning Logs

(1)

Double-Entry Notebooks

(1)

One-Page Response Papers or Thought Pieces

(1)

Writing to Report Your Understanding of What a Text Says

(1)

Writing to Practice the Conventions of a Particular Type of Text

(1)

Writing to Make Claims About a Text

(1)

Writing to Extend the Conversation

(1)

Asserting Your Authority as a Reader and Writer

(1)

Seeing Writing as a Process of ``Putting in Your Oar''

(8)

Strategies for Getting Started

(2)

Strategies for Generating Ideas

101

(1)

Strategies for Writing a First Draft

101

(2)

Strategies for Evaluating Your Draft for Revision

103

(1)

Strategies for Peer Response and Revision

103

(1)

Tips for Offering Feedback to Others

104

(1)

Tips for Using Feedback to Revise

105

(1)

Strategies for Editing and Polishing Your Final Draft

105

(2)

Summary

107

(2)

Using Rhetorical Reading to Conduct Research

109

(14)

Choosing Readings

110

(7)

Jenny's Assignment to Extend the Conversation

111

(1)

Formulating Questions: Know What You're Looking For

111

(1)

Question Analysis

112

(1)

Clarifying Your Purpose

113

(1)

Prompts for Question Analysis

113

(1)

Excerpts from Jenny's Research Log

114

(1)

Discerning Purpose in Potential Sources

115

(2)

For Writing and Discussion

117

(1)

Evaluating Potential Sources

117

(4)

Library Databases and Web Search Engines

117

(1)

Questions About Relevance

118

(1)

Questions About Currency and Scope

119

(1)

Questions About Authors and Experts

119

(1)

Questions About Publishers and Sponsors

120

(1)

More Excerpts from Jenny's Research Log

121

(1)

Summary

122

(1)

Making Knowledge: Incorporating Reading into Writing

123

(22)

Summary, Paraphrase, and Direct Quotation

124

(5)

Using Summary

124

(1)

Using Paraphrase

125

(2)

Using Direct Quotation

127

(2)

For Writing and Discussion

129

(1)

Avoiding Plagiarism

130

(2)

Attributive Tags

132

(2)

Citation Conventions

134

(5)

Formats for In-Text Citations

136

(1)

Placement Guidelines

136

(1)

Page Number Guidelines

136

(1)

Author and Title Guidelines

137

(2)

Summary

139

(1)

Incorporating Reading into Writing: An Example

140

(1)

Jenny's Paper: Romance Fiction: Brain Candy or Culturally Nutritious?

140

(5)

Appendix: Building a Citation

145

(18)

Basic Guidelines for Works Cited Lists

145

(1)

Citation Formats for Books

146

(5)

Citation Formats for Articles in Periodicals

151

(4)

Citation Formats for World Wide Web Sources

155

(3)

Citation Formats for Other Materials and Media

158

(5)

Credits

163

(2)

Index

165

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