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Texts and Contexts A Contemporary Approach to College Writing

by: Robinson, William S.; Tucker, Stephanie

Texts and Contexts A Contemporary Approach to College Writing

by: Robinson, William S.; Tucker, Stephanie

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Copyright: 08/30/2002
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

TEXTS AND CONTEXTS is designed to help developmental and freshman composition students write academic essays in response to high-interest readings about contemporary issues.

To the Student

xiii

Preface: To the Instructor

xvii

Part I Writing from the Top Down

(70)

The Writing Process

(50)

Reading Actively and Efficiently

(8)

Writing Summaries

(1)

Steps in Writing a Summary

(1)

An Experienced Writer Writes a Summary

(11)

Analyzing and Evaluating Your Information

(1)

Organizing and Finding Your Point

(1)

Writing a Report

(6)

The Idea Draft

(2)

Later Drafts

(2)

Using Quotations

(2)

Paraphrasing

(16)

Sentence Combining

(1)

Shaping Sentences

(2)

Recognizing Verb Forms for Writing and Sentence Combining

(3)

Shaping Sentences with Adjectives and Verb Forms

(4)

Shaping Sentences with Prepositional Phrases

(5)

The Shape of Texts

(18)

Introductions and Thesis Statements

(3)

Students at Work: Introductions

(3)

Paragraphs: Proving Your Points

(2)

Topic Sentences and the Organization Process

(3)

Students at Work: Paragraphs

(3)

Conclusions

(4)

Part II Discovering and Writing

(320)

Learning by Sorting It Out

(74)

An Important Thinking Tool: Making Inferences

(2)

Inferences and Guesses

(1)

Good Inferences and Bad Inferences

(2)

Classifying to Discover

(70)

Assignments and Readings

(1)

Analyzing Television for Children

(1)

Reading Assignment

(1)

What Are TV Ads Selling to Children?

(2)

John J. O'Connor

Females and Minorities in TV Ads in 1987 Saturday Children's Programs

(3)

Daniel Riffe

Helene Goldson

Kelly Saxton

Yang-Chou Yu

Essay Assignment

(1)

Analyzing the Job Market

(1)

Reading Assignment

(1)

U.S. Income Inequality Keeps on Rising

(7)

Robert B. Reich

Tomorrow's Jobs by Bureau of Labor Statistics U.S. Department of Labor

(6)

Benefits Dwindle Along with Wages for the Unskilled

102

(2)

Peter Passell

Present Day Jobs

104

(3)

Essay Assignment

107

(1)

Learning What Our Magazines Tell About Us

108

(1)

Reading Assignment

109

(1)

Help or Hindrance? Women's Magazines Offer Readers Little but Fear, Failure

109

(3)

Mary Kay Blakely

We've Come a Long Way, but Magazines Stayed Behind

112

(4)

Susan Dudash

Essay Assignment

116

(1)

How Do Advertisers Try to Manipulate Us?

117

(1)

Reading Assignment

118

(1)

Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals

118

(10)

Jib Fowles

Essay Assignment

128

(1)

The Writer's Checklist

129

(2)

Sentence Combining

131

(1)

Joining Ideas to Show Basic Logical Relationships

131

(4)

Subordinating Conjunctions

135

(7)

Transition Words

142

(5)

Learning by Comparing

147

(62)

Comparing and Contrasting to Discover

147

(1)

Organizing Essays Based on Comparison and Contrast

148

(21)

Assignments and Readings

150

(1)

Changing Tastes in Television: 1970 and Today

150

(1)

Reading Assignment

151

(1)

Network Prime-Time Programming

152

(4)

Essay Assignment

156

(1)

Comparing American Families in the Past and Present

157

(1)

Reading Assignment

158

(1)

The Social Order in Colonial New England

158

(1)

Edmund S. Morgan

The Role of Men and Women in Colonial New England

159

(2)

Edmund S. Morgan

Louis B. Wright

The Role of Children in Colonial New England

161

(2)

Edmund S. Morgan

Men Assuming Bigger Share at Home, New Survey Shows

163

(2)

Tamar Lewin

For First Time, Nuclear Families Drop Below 25% of Households

165

(2)

Eric Schmitt

Essay Assignment

167

(1)

Examining American and Asian Educational Methods

168

(1)

Reading Assignment

169

(40)

New Math-Science Study Rates U.S. Students Mediocre at Best

169

(1)

William S. Robinson

Why Are U.S. Kids Poor in Math?

170

(1)

Barbara Vobejda

Japan's School System

171

(2)

James Kilpatrick

We Should Cherish Our Children's Freedom to Think

173

(1)

Kie Ho

Strengths, Weaknesses, and Lessons of Japanese Education

174

(6)

James Fallows

School Here in the United States and There in Vietnam, Student Essay

180

(2)

Some Public Schools Don't Make the Grade

182

(1)

Richard Morin

Essay Assignment

183

(1)

The Health-Care Crisis: Examining Two Approaches to National Health

184

(2)

Reading Assignment

186

(3)

U.S. Spends Most on Health, but France No. 1 in Treatment

189

(1)

Lauran Neergaard

A Hard Lesson about Socialized Medicine

190

(1)

Michael Tanner

Why the U.S. Needs a Single Payer Health System

191

(3)

David U. Himmelstein

Steffie Woolhander

Essay Assignment

194

(1)

The Writer's Checklist

195

(2)

Sentence Combining

197

(1)

Joining Ideas to Show Contrast and Concession

197

(1)

What Is Concession?

198

(1)

Summary of Comparison/Contrast Words

198

(1)

Using Joining Words to Show Emphasis

199

(10)

Arguing

209

(102)

Facts and Opinions

209

(3)

Evaluating Evidence and Shaping Your Argument

212

(99)

Assignments and Readings

216

(1)

Deciding Carmen Herrera's Future

216

(1)

Reading Assignment

217

(1)

Various Comments on Carmen's Dilemma by her counselor, parents, boyfriend, employer, friend, sister, brother

218

(1)

Essay Assignment

219

(1)

Should High School Students Work?

220

(1)

Reading Assignment

221

(1)

Part-Time Work Ethic: Should Teens Go for It?

221

(4)

Dennis McLellan

McJobs

225

(4)

Ben Wildavsky

Why Fast-Food Joints Don't Serve Up Good Jobs for Kids

229

(4)

Amitai Etzioni

Why Not Ask the Students? Urban Teenagers Make the Case for Working

233

(7)

Katherine Cress

Essay Assignment

240

(1)

Should People Keep Handguns at Home?

241

(1)

Reading Assignment

241

(1)

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

242

(1)

Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States and 35 Other High- and Upper-Middle-Income Countries

242

(7)

E. G. Krug

K. E. Powell

L. L. Dahlberg

Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities

249

(5)

Drs. J. H. Sloan

A. L. Kellermann

D. T. Reay

J. A. Ferris

T. Koepsell

F. P. Rivara

C. Rice

L. Gray

J. LoGerfo

Crime Is the Basic Problem, Not Guns

254

(1)

Wayne LaPierre

Should You Carry a Gun? A New Study Argues for Concealed Weapons

255

(2)

Romesh Ratnesar

Taking Another Look at Right to Bear Arms

257

(2)

Neil A. Lewis

Why I Bought a Gun

259

(4)

Gail Buchalter

Man Shoots Own Son

263

(1)

Essay Assignment

264

(1)

Censorship of High School Newspapers

265

(1)

Reading Assignment

266

(1)

Pregnancy at Hazelwood High

266

(1)

Christine de Hass

Divorce's Impact on Kids May Have Lifelong Effects

267

(2)

Shari Gordon

A Limit on the Student Press

269

(1)

Jean Seligmann

Tessa Namuth

High School Papers Grow Up

270

(2)

Jerry Carroll

High Court Gives a Civics Lesson

272

(2)

Fred M. Hechinger

Censorship: A Fact of Life Students Are Forced to Face

274

(3)

Jonathan Yardley

Essay Assignment

277

(1)

Should English Be the Official Language of the United States?

278

(1)

Reading Assignment

279

(1)

Proposition 63

279

(1)

Argument in Favor of Proposition 63

280

(1)

S. I. Hayakawa

J. William Orozco

Stanley Diamond

Official English and English Plus: An Update

281

(5)

Liberty and Language for All

286

(2)

Andy Rooney

Essay Assignment

288

(1)

The Writer's Checklist

289

(2)

Sentence Combining

291

(1)

Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Appositives

291

(1)

Punctuating Noun Phrases in Sentences

291

(9)

Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Adjective Clauses

300

(2)

Special Rules

302

(9)

Discussing

311

(75)

Argument and Discussion in School and on the Job

311

(1)

Writing Discussion Essays

312

(74)

Assignments and Readings

313

(1)

Who Should Care for the Children?

313

(1)

Reading Assignment

314

(1)

Who's Taking Care of the Children?

314

(3)

Michael Ryan

Home Day Care Providers Face Increasing Demand

317

(1)

Tammy Hansen

High Staff Turnover Imperils Child Care, Researcher Says

318

(3)

Anastasia Hendrix

An Interview with Mary S

321

(1)

Canada Takes Steps Toward Universal Child Care

321

(1)

Colin Nickerson

Child Care Sacred as France Cuts Back the Welfare State

322

(4)

Marlise Simons

Essay Assignment

326

(1)

Rating the Movies

327

(1)

Reading Assignment

328

(1)

The Motion Picture Production Code

328

(2)

NC-17 Replaces X in Movie Ratings

330

(1)

The Big Chill

331

(2)

Lois P. Sheinfeld

Avoiding the Censors

333

(1)

Peter Stack

The Rating Game

334

(3)

Paul Attanasio

Essay Assignment

337

(1)

Is Hate Speech Free Speech?

338

(1)

Reading Assignment

339

(1)

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution

339

(1)

The Debate Over Placing Limits on Racist Speech Must Not Ignore the Damage It Does to Its Victims

340

(4)

Charles R. Lawrence III

Free Speech on the Campus

344

(5)

Nat Hentoff

Hate Speech on Campus

349

(2)

Joseph S. Tuman

Rethinking Campus Speech Codes

351

(4)

Ben Wildavsky

Essay Assignment

355

(1)

Should College Athletics Be Reformed?

355

(1)

Reading Assignment

356

(1)

Helping Top Athletes Meet Minimum Standards

356

(3)

Kate Zernike

NCAA Stirs Debate---Are SATs Racist?

359

(1)

Cheers to John Thompson's Empty Chair

360

(1)

John Eisenberg

A Kinder, Gentler Racism

361

(2)

Mona Charen

The Ivy League at 30: A Model for College Athletics or an Outmoded Antique?

363

(3)

Douglas Lederman

Essay Assignment

366

(1)

The Writer's Checklist

366

(2)

Sentence Combining

368

(1)

Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Verbal Phrases

368

(10)

Shaping Sentences to Show Relationships: Parallelism

378

(8)

Writing the In-Class Essay

386

(5)

The Essay Exam

386

(2)

The Writing Test

388

(1)

Planning Your Time

388

(3)

Part III Proofreading Skills Workbook

391

(74)

Self-teaching assignments for common usage problems

Introduction

392

(1)

Proofreading Quiz

393

(72)

Identifying Subjects and Verbs

395

(6)

Agreement Between Subjects and Verbs

401

(7)

Past Tense and Past Participles

408

(5)

The Past-to-Present Tense (Present Perfect)

413

(4)

The Past-Before-Past Tense (Past Perfect)

417

(4)

Comma-Splice Errors

421

(3)

Sentence Fragments

424

(5)

Pronouns

429

(9)

Using A and An

438

(1)

Noun Plurals

439

(2)

Noncountable Nouns

441

(2)

Dropped Contractions of Is and Are

443

(1)

Forming Direct Questions

444

(4)

Forming Indirect Questions

448

(1)

Apostrophes to Show Possession

449

(5)

Homophones

454

(5)

Capitalization

459

(6)

Credits

465

(4)

Index

469

(5)

Index of Authors and Titles

474

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