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Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Brief Edition

by: Behrens, Laurence; Rosen, Leonard J.

Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Brief Edition

by: Behrens, Laurence; Rosen, Leonard J.

ISBN 13:
9780321395818
ISBN 10:
0321395816
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2007
Publisher: Longman
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Summary

This portable writing guide and reader presents five highly engaging chapters of readings from five disciplines (communication, psychology, sociology, health, marketing) and a brief writing guide that covers the skills of summary, critique, analysis, and synthesis. Teaches readers source-based writing skills and offers highly engaging readings.Writing skills of summary, critique, analysis, and synthesis; Cyberspace and Identity; Obedience to Authority; Whatrs"s Happening at the Mall?rs"; The Weight Debate; Six Decades of Advertising. General interest in writing and on current topics.

Preface

A Note to the Student

xxi

Part I How to Write Summaries, Critiques, Syntheses, and Analyses

(104)

Summary

(21)

What Is a Summary?

(1)

Can a Summary Be Objective?

(1)

Using the Summary

(1)

Box: Where Do We Find Written Summaries?

(1)

The Reading Process

(2)

Box: Critical Reading for Summary

(1)

How to Write Summaries

(1)

Box: Guidelines for Writing Summaries

(1)

Demonstration: Summary

(13)

The Future of Love: Kiss Romance Goodbye. It's Time for the Real Thing

(3)

Barbara Graham

Read, Reread, Highlight

(2)

Divide Selection into Stages of Thought

(1)

Write a One- or Two-Sentence Summary of Each Stage of Thought

(1)

Write a Thesis: A One- or Two-Sentence Summary of the Entire Passage

(2)

Write the First Draft of the Summary

(1)

Summary 1: Combine Thesis Sentence with One-Sentence Section Summaries

(1)

Discussion

(1)

Summary 2: Combine Thesis Sentence, Section Summaries, and Carefully Chosen Details

(2)

Discussion

(1)

Exercise 1.1: Individual and Collaborative Summary Practice

(1)

Avoiding Plagiarism

(3)

Box: Rules for Avoiding Plagiarism

(1)

Critical Reading and Critique

(21)

Critical Reading

(13)

Question Category 1: What Is the Author's Purpose in Writing? Does the Author Succeed in This Purpose?

(1)

Box: Where Do We Find Written Critiques?

(1)

Writing to Inform

(1)

Evaluating Informative Writing

(1)

Writing to Persuade

(1)

Exercise 2.1: Informative and Persuasive Thesis Statements

(1)

Evaluating Persuasive Writing

(1)

Exercise 2.2: Critical Reading Practice

(1)

Persuasive Strategies

(1)

Logical Argumentation: Avoiding Logical Fallacies

(2)

Box: Tone

(2)

Exercise 2.3: Understanding Logical Fallacies

(1)

Writing to Entertain

(1)

Question Category 2: To What Extent Do You Agree or Disagree with the Author?

(1)

Identify Points of Agreement and Disagreement

(1)

Exercise 2.4: Exploring Your Viewpoints---in Three Paragraphs

(1)

Explore the Reasons for Agreement and Disagreement: Evaluate Assumptions

(2)

Critique

(1)

How to Write Critiques

(1)

Box: Guidelines for Writing Critiques

(1)

Demonstration: Critique

(6)

What Is the Author's Purpose in Writing?

(1)

Does the Author Succeed in This Purpose?

(1)

To What Extent Do You Agree or Disagree with the Author?

(1)

Model Critique: A Critique of Greg Critser's ``Too Much of a Good Thing''

(3)

Box: Critical Reading for Critique

(1)

Exercise 2.5: Informal Critique of Sample Essay

(1)

Discussion

(1)

Practice Critique

(1)

Synthesis

(40)

What Is a Synthesis?

(1)

Purpose

(2)

Box: Where Do We Find Written Syntheses?

(1)

Using Your Sources

(1)

Types of Syntheses: Argument and Explanatory

(2)

How to Write Syntheses

(1)

Box: Guidelines for Writing Syntheses

(1)

The Argument Synthesis

(3)

The Elements of Argument: Claim, Support, and Assumption

(1)

Exercise 3.1: Practicing Claim, Support, and Assumption

(1)

Demonstration: Developing a Source-Based Argument Synthesis--- Volunteering in America

(22)

A New Start for National Service

(1)

John McCain

Evan Bayh

A Time to Heed the Call

(1)

David Gergen

Volunteering in the United States, 2003

(3)

Crito

(1)

Plato

Politics and National Service: A Virus Attacks the Volunteer Sector

(1)

Bruce Chapman

Consider Your Purpose

(1)

Make a Claim: Formulate a Thesis

(1)

Decide How You Will Use Your Source Material

(1)

Develop an Organizational Plan

(1)

Formulate an Argument Strategy

(1)

Draft and Revise Your Synthesis

(1)

Model Synthesis: Keeping Volunteering Voluntary

(6)

Discussion

(3)

Developing and Organizing the Support for Your Arguments

(6)

Summarize, Paraphrase, and Quote Supporting Evidence

(1)

Provide Various Types of Evidence and Motivational Appeals

(1)

Use Climactic Order

(1)

Use Logical or Conventional Order

(1)

Present and Respond to Counterarguments

(1)

Use Concession

(1)

Use Comparison and Contrast Synthesis

(2)

Exercise 3.2: Comparing and Contrasting

(1)

Avoid Common Fallacies in Developing and Using Support

(1)

The Explanatory Synthesis

(1)

Practice Explanatory Synthesis

(1)

Summary

(2)

Analysis

(20)

What Is an Analysis?

(2)

Box: Where Do We Find Written Analyses?

(1)

Demonstration of Analysis

(6)

The Plug-In Drug

(1)

Marie Winn

Exercise 4.1: Reading Critically: Winn

(1)

The Coming Apart of a Dorm Society

(4)

Edward Peselman

Exercise 4.2: Reading Critically: Peselman

(1)

How to Write Analyses

(10)

Consider Your Purpose

(1)

Locate an Analytical Principle

(3)

Formulate the Argument

(1)

Part 1 of the Argument

(1)

Part 2 of the Argument

(1)

Box: Guidelines for Writing Analysis

(1)

Develop an Organizational Plan

(1)

Turn Key Elements of a Principle or Definition into Questions

(1)

Develop the Paragraph-by-Paragraph Logic of Your Paper

(2)

Box: Critical Reading for Analysis

101

(1)

Draft and Revise Your Analysis

101

(1)

Write an Analysis, Not a Summary

102

(1)

Make Your Analysis Systematic

102

(1)

Answer the ``So-What?'' Question

102

(1)

Attribute Sources Appropriately

103

(1)

Analysis: A Tool for Understanding

103

(2)

Part II An Anthology of Readings

105

(402)

Technology/Communication

Cyberspace and Identity

107

(63)

We've Got Mail---Always

110

(5)

Andrew Leonard

Journey of an E-Mail

115

(4)

John Dyson

The End of History

119

(3)

Fred Kaplan

I Think, Therefore IM

122

(4)

Jennifer Lee

The Blog Phenomenon

126

(3)

John C. Dvorak

The Intimacy of Blogs

129

(3)

Michael Snider

A Shared Sadness

132

(5)

Russ Parsons

Virtual Love

137

(8)

Meghan Daum

Cyberspace and Identity

145

(9)

Sherry Turkle

Boy, You Fight Like a Girl

154

(5)

Alex Pham

The 15-Year-Old Legal Whiz

159

(6)

Michael Lewis

Synthesis Activities

165

(3)

Research Activities

168

(2)

Psychology

Obedience to Authority

170

(75)

The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism

172

(4)

Marianne Szegedy-Maszak

Opinions and Social Pressure

176

(7)

Solomon E. Asch

The Perils of Obedience

183

(13)

Stanley Milgram

Review of Stanley Milgram's Experiments on Obedience

196

(6)

Diana Baumrind

Obedience

202

(12)

Ian Parker

The Stanford Prison Experiment

214

(12)

Philip G. Zimbardo

Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem

226

(6)

Erich Fromm

The Genocidal Killer in the Mirror

232

(2)

Crispin Sartwell

Just Do What the Pilot Tells You

234

(4)

Theodore Dalrymple

Synthesis Activities

238

(4)

Research Activities

242

(3)

American Studies

What's Happening at the Mall?

245

(88)

Shopping for American Culture

248

(7)

James Farrell

A Social History of Shopping

255

(12)

Laura Paquet

Main Street Revisited

267

(6)

Richard Francaviglia

Shopping Towns USA

273

(6)

Victor Gruen

Larry Smith

Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: One Week at the Mall of America

279

(7)

David Guterson

The Shopping Mall as Sacred Space

286

(9)

Ira Zepp, Jr.

From Town Center to Shopping Center

295

(16)

Lizabeth Cohen

Community Through Exclusion and Illusion

311

(12)

George Lewis

Mallaise: How to Know If You Have It

323

(4)

William Kowinski

Synthesis Activities

327

(3)

Research Activities

330

(3)

Nutrition

Weight Debate

333

(76)

Rethinking Weight

335

(8)

Amanda Spake

Caloric Imbalance and Public Health Policy

343

(7)

Jeffrey P. Koplan

William H. Dietz

Prevalence of Obesity Among U.S. Adults, by Characteristics and by State

350

(4)

Too Much of a Good Thing

354

(4)

Greg Critser

NAAFA Policy on Dieting and the Diet Industry

358

(4)

Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance

362

(5)

Mary Ray Worley

Too ``Close to the Bone'': The Historical Context for Women's Obsession with Slenderness

367

(13)

Roberta Seid

Fat and Happy?

380

(8)

Hillel Schwartz

The Ironic Politics of Obesity

388

(2)

Marion Nestle

The Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating

390

(14)

Atul Gawande

Synthesis Activities

404

(2)

Research Activities

406

(3)

Business

New and Improved: Six Decades of Advertising

409

(98)

Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals

412

(18)

Jib Fowles

Making the Pitch in Print Advertising

430

(6)

Courtland L. Bovee

John V. Thill

George P. Dovel

Marian Burk Wood

Elements of Effective Layout

436

(4)

Dorothy Cohen

The Indictments Against Advertising

440

(6)

Courtland L. Bovee

William F. Arens

A Portfolio of Advertisements: 1945-2003

446

(56)

Synthesis Activities

502

(3)

Research Activities

505

(2)

Credits

507

(4)

Index

511

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