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Writing, Reading, and Research

by: Veit, Richard; Gould, Christopher; Clifford, John

Writing, Reading, and Research

by: Veit, Richard; Gould, Christopher; Clifford, John

ISBN 13:
9780205318810
ISBN 10:
0205318819
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 09/01/2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary

Flexible and goal-oriented, this text integrates instruction in reading, writing, and research with topical, interdisciplinary readings and concludes with a research handbook. Helps readers write more effective research papers. Analytical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesizing, writing the research paper. Anyone interested in writing better research papers.

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PART I: WRITING, READING, AND RESEARCH

(438)

Introduction to Writing, Reading, and Research

(50)

Writing

(27)

Writing Habits and Strategies

(3)

Audience and Purpose

(7)

Prewriting

(5)

The First Draft

(7)

Peer Review

(1)

Rewriting

(2)

Editing and Proofreading

(1)

Discovering Your Own Writing Rules

(1)

Reading

(13)

Interpreting Reading

(3)

Responding to Reading

(3)

Reading Response Groups

(1)

Freewriting

(7)

Research

(2)

Reading Selection: ``The Holly Pageant,''

(6)

Lavonne Adams

Freewriting

(1)

Group Work

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Discussion Questions

(1)

Writing

(1)

About the Rest of This Book

(1)

Strategies for Reading

(34)

Interpretation

(2)

Context

(2)

Strategies for Understanding

(24)

Prereading Strategies

(1)

Sources of Information

(4)

Textual Clues

(2)

Transitions

(2)

Reading with a Pencil

(1)

Annotating and Underlining for Recall

(5)

Annotating to Stimulate Response

(5)

Keeping a Reading Journal

(4)

Reading Selection: ``Buffaloed: Was the Native American Always Nature's Friend?''

(6)

Nicholas Lemann

Freewriting

(1)

Group Work

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Discussion Questions

(1)

Writing

(1)

Writing a Paraphrase

(30)

Paraphrase as a Reading Strategy

(2)

Using Paraphrase in Writing

(16)

Paraphrasing for a Different Audience

(9)

Paraphrasing an Argument

(3)

Paraphrasing in Research Papers

102

(3)

Reading Selection: ``On the Fringe,''

105

(12)

Brian Feagans

Freewriting

114

(1)

Group Work

114

(1)

Review Questions

114

(1)

Discussion Questions

114

(1)

Writing

114

(3)

Reading for the Main Idea

117

(24)

General and Specific Statements

117

(2)

Deductive and Inductive Organization

119

(2)

Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences

121

(2)

Identifying Topic Sentences

122

(1)

Restating the Main Idea

123

(6)

Paragraphs with Implied Main Ideas

124

(3)

Discovering Implications

127

(2)

A Further Comment on Paragraphs

129

(2)

Reading Selection: ``An Enduring Hoax: H. L. Mencken's Fraudulent History of the White House Bathtub,''

131

(10)

Fred Fedler

Freewriting

138

(1)

Group Work

138

(1)

Review Questions

138

(1)

Discussion Questions

139

(1)

Writing

139

(2)

Writing a Summary

141

(25)

Summary and Paraphrase

142

(2)

Writing Summaries

144

(5)

A Process for Summarizing Longer Passages

144

(5)

Uses of Summary

149

(7)

Summarizing an Argument

150

(1)

Summarizing in Research Papers

151

(5)

Reading Selection: ``Class Struggle: Poor, Black, and Smart, an Inner-City Teen Tries to Survive at MIT,''

156

(10)

Ron Suskind

Freewriting

163

(1)

Group Work

164

(1)

Review Questions

164

(1)

Discussion Questions

164

(1)

Writing

164

(2)

Synthesizing Sources: Writing a Summary Report

166

(33)

Writing a Brief Summary Report

166

(14)

Writing an Objective Report on Sources

180

(7)

Acknowledging Sources-The Obligation of Scholarship

187

(6)

The List of Works Cited

188

(3)

Parenthetical Notes

191

(2)

Reading Selections: ``Wipe Off That Milk Mustache,''

193

(1)

Froma Harrop

``Ad Nauseum,''

194

(2)

Michael J. Sandel

``School Daze: Today's Kids Not Only Take Advertising's Presence in Their Classrooms for Granted, They Actually Like It,''

196

(3)

Debra Goldman

Freewriting

198

(1)

Group Work

198

(1)

Review Questions

198

(1)

Discussion Questions

198

(1)

Writing

198

(1)

Analytical Reading and Writing

199

(31)

Analyzing the Parts

200

(20)

Purpose

201

(3)

Audience

204

(6)

Main Idea

210

(2)

Development

212

(4)

Organization and Coherence

216

(4)

Writing a Brief Reading Analysis

220

(6)

Reading Selection: ``Classroom Cheating a Serious Problem,''

226

(4)

William Raspberry

Freewriting

227

(1)

Group Work

228

(1)

Review Questions

228

(1)

Discussion Questions

228

(1)

Writing

228

(2)

Beginning a Research Project

230

(45)

The Research Paper

230

(1)

Primary and Secondary Research

231

(1)

Benefits of Doing Research

232

(2)

Learning an Essential Skill

232

(1)

Contributing to Scholarship

233

(1)

Gaining Personal Knowledge

233

(1)

The Research Process

234

(1)

A Research Assignment

235

(2)

The Finished Product

237

(25)

A Sample Standard Research Paper

237

(10)

A Sample Personal Research Paper

247

(15)

Your Research Schedule: Planning in Advance

262

(1)

The Benefits of Word Processing

263

(1)

A Research Notebook

264

(1)

Your Research Topic

265

(1)

Generating Ideas

266

(9)

Brainstorming

266

(5)

Developing an Idea: Clustering

271

(4)

Tools for Finding Sources

275

(23)

Beginning Your Research

275

(1)

Your Campus Library

276

(1)

Electronic Resources

276

(2)

Networks

277

(1)

Using Your Library's Research Tools

278

(6)

Finding Books and Other Library Holdings

279

(4)

Encyclopedias and Other General Reference Works

283

(1)

Finding Articles: Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers

284

(1)

Locating Periodicals

284

(1)

Microforms

285

(1)

Library Vandalism--A Crime against Scholarship

285

(1)

Using Electronic Databases

285

(10)

A Sample Search for Periodical Sources

286

(7)

Finding Government Documents

293

(2)

Internet Resources

295

(2)

Web Search Engines

295

(2)

The Reference Librarian-The Most Resourceful Resource

297

(1)

Finding Sources Outside the Library: Conducting Interviews and Writing Letters

298

(7)

Interviewing Sources

298

(4)

Arranging the Interview

299

(1)

Conducting the Interview

300

(2)

Writing for Information

302

(1)

Still Other Sources

303

(2)

Putting Your Sources to Work

305

(20)

A Research Prospectus

305

(4)

The Working Bibliography

309

(1)

Using Your Written Sources

310

(10)

Reading Your Sources

311

(1)

Evaluating Your Sources

312

(2)

Narrowing Your Paper's Focus

314

(1)

Formulating and Refining a Plan

315

(2)

Taking Notes on Note Cards

317

(3)

Avoiding Plagiarism

320

(5)

Reporting on Sources: Paraphrase and Quotation

325

(34)

The Conventions of Reporting

326

(1)

Options for Presenting Sources

326

(2)

Acknowledging Sources

328

(2)

Relying on Experts

330

(1)

Paraphrasing Sources

331

(2)

Quoting Sources

333

(12)

Punctuating Quotations

333

(7)

Altering Quotations

340

(5)

When to Quote and When to Paraphrase

345

(5)

A Further Note on Plagiarism

350

(1)

Practice with Using Sources

351

(8)

Writing a Brief Objective Research Essay

351

(6)

Writing a Brief Subjective Research Essay

357

(2)

Writing and Revising the Research Paper

359

(37)

Getting Organized

359

(4)

Formulating a Thesis Statement

359

(2)

Sorting Your Note Cards

361

(2)

Updating Your Outline

363

(1)

Writing the First Good Draft

363

(9)

Research Writing: General Guidelines

363

(3)

Some Practical Writing Tips

366

(1)

Getting Started

367

(1)

Writing the Opening

368

(3)

Writing the Conclusion

371

(1)

Giving Your Paper a Title

372

(1)

Editing and Revising

372

(22)

Reworking Your Paper

373

(1)

Checklist for Editing and Revising

373

(3)

Getting Advice from Other Readers

376

(18)

Typing and Proofreading Your Polished Draft

394

(2)

Argument: Reading, Writing, and Research

396

(43)

Emotional Appeal

396

(2)

Logical Argument

398

(4)

Balanced, Credible Argument

402

(1)

Informal Analysis of Arguments

403

(6)

Writing a Critique of an Argument

409

(14)

Procedure for Writing a Critique

409

(14)

Writing an Argumentative Research Essay

423

(4)

Purpose

423

(1)

Thesis

424

(1)

Audience

424

(1)

Persona

425

(1)

Evidence

425

(1)

Opposition

426

(1)

Organization

426

(1)

A Sample Argumentative Research Paper

427

(12)

PART II: RESEARCH PAPER REFERENCE HANDBOOK

439

(82)

A List of Works Cited (MLA Format)

441

(20)

Bibliographic Formats

441

(1)

General Guidelines-MLA Format

442

(1)

Citing Electronic Sources

443

(1)

Model Entries-MLA Format

444

(1)

Sources in Books

444

(7)

Sources in Periodicals and Newspapers

451

(5)

Other Sources

456

(5)

B Parenthetical Notes (MLA Format)

461

(16)

Types of Notes

461

(2)

Parenthetical Notes

463

(1)

Some Special Cases

464

(6)

When Are Notes Needed?

470

(2)

How Many Notes Are Enough?

472

(2)

How Much Material Can One Note Cover?

474

(1)

Information Footnotes

475

(2)

C Research Paper Format (MLA Style)

477

(18)

Format for Your Polished Draft

477

(1)

Format for Computer-Printed or Typed Papers

478

(8)

Format for Handwritten Papers

486

(2)

A Formal Outline

488

(3)

Standard Numbering System

491

(1)

Decimal System

492

(2)

Topic and Sentence Outlines

494

(1)

D Footnotes and Endnotes

495

(12)

Sample Footnotes and Endnotes

495

(1)

Sources in Books

495

(7)

Sources in Periodicals and Newspapers

502

(3)

Other Sources

505

(2)

E APA Format

507

(10)

Formats Other Than MLA

507

(1)

APA Style

507

(1)

APA Bibliographic Citations (Reference List)

508

(1)

Model Entries

508

(5)

Notes in APA Style

513

(1)

Sample Pages in APA Style

514

(3)

F Format Featuring Numbered References

517

(4)

Index

521

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