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Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader for Writers, Fifth Edition, provides an anthology of readings that represents various rhetorical approaches across academic disciplines such as humanities, the natural sciences and technology, and the social sciences. Book jacket.

Preface	p. xv
Reading and Writing in the Academic Disciplines	p. 1
Preparing to Write: Active Reading	p. 3
Academic Writing: An Introduction	p. 3
Active Reading Strategies	p. 5
Prereading	p. 6
Preview the Source and Derive Questions That Will Help You Set Goals for Close Reading	p. 6
Freewrite or Brainstorm to Recall Your Prior Knowledge or Feelings About th... MOREe Reading Topic	p. 7
Close Reading	p. 8
Annotate and Elaborate on the Source	p. 9
Take Content Notes	p. 10
Pose and Answer Questions About the Source	p. 11
Postreading	p. 15
Review the Source and Your Notes	p. 15
Compose Paraphrases and Summaries and Record Quotations That May Be Useful at a Later Date	p. 16
Writing an Essay in Response to a Source: An Illustration of the Writing Process	p. 37
The Reading-Writing Process	p. 37
Personal Response in Academic Writing	p. 40
Active Reading Strategies for Response Essays	p. 41
Analyze the Assignment	p. 41
Elaborate on Reading Sources	p. 43
Planning	p. 45
Formulating a Thesis	p. 46
Organizing	p. 46
Drafting	p. 50
Planning Individual Paragraphs	p. 52
Using Quotations, Paraphrases, and Summaries	p. 54
Writing Introductory Paragraphs	p. 54
Writing Conclusions	p. 57
Preparing Lists of References or Works Cited	p. 57
Titling the Essay	p. 58
Revising the Preliminary Draft	p. 59
Revising Ideas	p. 62
Revising Organization	p. 63
Revising Style	p. 63
Editing	p. 70
Manuscript Format	p. 72
Sample Response Essay	p. 73
Composing Essays Drawing from Two or More Sources: Comparison and Contrast and Synthesis	p. 78
Comparison and Contrast Essay	p. 78
Identifying Comparisons and Contrasts	p. 79
Planning Comparison and Contrast Essays	p. 82
Organizing the Comparison and Contrast Essay	p. 84
Drafting Comparison and Contrast Essays	p. 86
Sample Comparison and Contrast Essay	p. 87
Revising the Preliminary Draft	p. 91
Editing the Preliminary Draft	p. 93
Synthesizing Sources	p. 94
Sample Synthesis Essay	p. 97
Essays of Argument, Analysis, and Evaluation	p. 103
Argument: An Introduction	p. 103
Developing Support for Arguments	p. 105
Using Sources in Argument Essays	p. 105
Organizing Argumentative Essays	p. 112
Sample Argument Essay	p. 115
Revising the Preliminary Draft	p. 120
Editing the Preliminary Draft	p. 122
Analysis and Evaluation: An Introduction	p. 122
Writing an Analytical Essay	p. 124
Reading the Source and Planning Your Essay	p. 124
Clarify the Assignment, Set Your Rhetorical Goal, and Consider Your Audience	p. 124
Do a First Reading to Get a General Impression of the Text	p. 125
Reread and Ask Questions About Analyzing and Evaluating the Text	p. 125
Review Your Answers to the Questions for Analysis	p. 131
Deciding on an Organizational Plan	p. 131
Drafting	p. 134
Sample Essay of Literary Analysis	p. 135
Revising the Preliminary Draft	p. 138
Editing the Preliminary Draft	p. 140
Writing Research Papers	p. 142
The Research Paper: An Introduction	p. 142
Identifying a Research Topic	p. 143
Developing a Research Strategy	p. 145
Allocate Sufficient Time for Research	p. 145
Identify Research Questions	p. 145
Brainstorm a List of Terms or a Search Vocabulary	p. 146
Virtual Libraries	p. 147
Using Electronic Retrieval Systems	p. 148
How Computerized Information Retrieval Systems Function	p. 148
Recall versus Relevancy	p. 150
Keyword Searching	p. 150
Truncation	p. 151
Boolean Searching	p. 151
The Library or the World Wide Web? Choosing a Research Site	p. 153
Locating Information in an Academic Library	p. 156
The Library Catalog	p. 157
Periodical Indexes	p. 160
Conducting Research Using the World Wide Web	p. 164
Collecting Information on Your Own: Surveys and Interviews	p. 166
Modifying Your Search Strategy	p. 167
Evaluating Information Sources	p. 168
Excerpting Information from Sources	p. 169
Writing a Preliminary Thesis	p. 170
Planning the Research Paper	p. 172
Writing from Your Outline	p. 174
Revising	p. 174
Editing	p. 175
Sample Research Paper	p. 176
An Anthology of Readings	p. 191
Natural Sciences and Technology	p. 193
Cloning	p. 197
Jennifer and Rachel	p. 198
Me, My Clone, and I (Or In Defense of Human Cloning)	p. 208
Narcissus Cloned	p. 211
Crossing Lines: A Secular Argument Against Research Cloning	p. 217
Species on Ice	p. 228
Bessie and the Gaur	p. 232
Human/Machine Interaction	p. 239
We Are Not Special	p. 240
Cyborg Seeks Community	p. 245
Loving Technology	p. 252
Live Forever	p. 260
Isolated by the Internet	p. 269
The Gist Generation	p. 278
Time to Do Everything but Think	p. 281
Crime-Fighting Technology: Balancing Public Safety and Privacy	p. 285
Computer Project Seeks to Avert Youth Violence	p. 286
Rooting Out the Bad Seeds?	p. 291
Kyllo V. United States: Technology v. Individual Privacy	p. 298
DC's Virtual Panopticon	p. 311
Trading Liberty for Illusions	p. 318
Invasion of Privacy	p. 321
Social Sciences	p. 331
The Changing American Family	p. 336
Brave New Family	p. 337
Children of Gay Fathers	p. 340
What Is A Family?	p. 350
Seven Tenets for Establishing New Marital Norms	p. 368
Cohabitation Instead of Marriage	p. 373
Promoting Marriage as a Means for Promoting Fatherhood	p. 378
Toward Revels or a Requiem for Family Diversity?	p. 389
Social Class and Inequality	p. 398
What Are "Class" and "Inequality"?	p. 399
Grandma Went to Smith, All Right, But She Went from Nine to Five: A Memoir	p. 412
The Revolt of the Black Bourgeoisie	p. 427
The War Against the Poor Instead of Programs to End Poverty	p. 432
When Shelter Feels Like a Prison	p. 442
White Standard for Poverty	p. 445
Serving in Florida	p. 449
Rethinking School	p. 471
High School, an Institution Whose Time Has Passed	p. 472
A Day in the Life of Rafael Jackson	p. 475
Educating Black Students	p. 490
Challenging Our Assumptions	p. 500
Homework	p. 510
Myth 5: Self-Esteem Must Come First--Then Learning	p. 514
Manufacturing a Crisis in Education	p. 522
Humanities	p. 529
Religion and Identity	p. 535
Excellent Things in Women	p. 537
Politics and the Muslim Woman	p. 544
I Still Hear the Cry	p. 551
Threads	p. 558
Sin Big	p. 565
The Pope's Loyal Opposition	p. 569
America, a Christian Nation	p. 574
Is America a Christian Nation?	p. 578
Literatures of Diaspora: Fiction and Nonfiction	p. 586
The Proper Respect	p. 588
The Journey	p. 595
A Different Mirror	p. 604
Jasmine	p. 618
Everyday Use	p. 628
Documenting Sources	p. 639
Rhetorical Index	p. 663
Index	p. 665
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