Writing, Reading, and Research
ISBN: 9780547191041 | 0547191049
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 7/22/2009
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Broadening the traditional notion of undergraduate research, this English composition text thoroughly covers the skills essential for developing a research paper: analytical reading, synthesizing, paraphrasing, and summarizing. Presenting the process of research in a practical sequence, the authors illustrate each stage of the process with examples of student and professional writing. Using a flexible and goal-oriented approach, the authors integrate coverage of writing, reading, and research with topical, interdisciplinary readings and a supportive research handbook. Unlike comparable books, Veit and Gould's WRITING, READING, AND RESEARCH, Eighth Edition leads off with a sample student paper in the first chapter, providing a foundation for students as they progress through each step of the research and writing process.
| Writing, Reading, And Research | |
| Introduction to Writing and Research | |
| Writing | |
| Writing Habits and Strategies | |
| Audience and Purpose | |
| Student Writing."It's Not About Looking Cute" | |
| Prewriting | |
| Composing a First Draft | |
| Guidelines: Peer Review | |
| Student Writing | |
| "A Night at the Roller Derb... MORE | |
| Peer Review | |
| Revising | |
| Editing and proofreading | |
| Developing Your Own Writing Routines | |
| Guidelines: Writing an Essay That Incorporates Primary Research | |
| Research | |
| Reading Selection | |
| "The Holly Pageant" | |
| Freewriting | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Additional Readings | |
| "Passage to Manhood" | |
| "The Price of Parsimony" | |
| About the Rest of This Book | |
| Introduction to Reading | |
| Reading Habits and Strategies | |
| Interpreting Texts | |
| Audience | |
| Tacit Knowledge | |
| Context | |
| Efferent and Aesthetic Approaches to Rading | |
| Responding to Reading | |
| Reading Response Groups | |
| Practice Reading | |
| "A Short History of Love" | |
| Student Writings | |
| Janet's Freewriting | |
| Alex's Freewriting | |
| Agnes's Freewriting | |
| Guidelines: Group Work | |
| Reading Selection | |
| "The Future of Reading" | |
| Freewriting | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Strategies for Reading | |
| Inferences | |
| Context | |
| Strategies for Understanding | |
| Surveying a Text | |
| Prereading | |
| Practice Reading | |
| "Study Hard and You, Too, Can Deliver Pizza." | |
| Responding to Textual Clues | |
| Recognizing Transitions | |
| Reading with a Pencil | |
| Annotating and Underlining for Recall | |
| Practice Reading | |
| "Relationships with Maturing Children" | |
| Guidelines: Annotating and Underlining for Recall | |
| Practice Reading | |
| "Keeping Parents off Campus" | |
| Annotating to Stimulate Response | |
| Practice Reading | |
| "Some Geography, Some History" | |
| Practice Reading | |
| "The Dehydrated States of America" | |
| Keeping a Reading Journal | |
| Practice Reading | |
| From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | |
| Checklist: Reading Strategies | |
| Reading Selections | |
| "Learning How to Learn" | |
| "Adapting to College Life in an Era of Heightened Stress" | |
| Freewriting | |
| Group Work | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Additional Readings | |
| "The Challenge of First-Generation College Students" | |
| "Pressure and Competition" | |
| Reading for the Main Idea | |
| General and Specific Categories | |
| Deductive and Inductive Organization | |
| Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences | |
| Identifying Topic Sentences | |
| Restating the Main Idea | |
| Paragraphs with Implied Main Ideas | |
| Detecting Implications | |
| Questioning Implications | |
| A Further Comment on Paragraphs | |
| Reading selection | |
| "Girls Just Want to Be Mean" | |
| Freewriting | |
| Group Work | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Additional Reading | |
| "Listen to Boys' Voices" | |
| Paraphrasing | |
| Paraphrasing as a Reading Strategy | |
| Using Paraphrase in Writing | |
| Paraphrasing for a Different Audience | |
| Paraphrasing an Argument | |
| Paraphrasing in Research Papers | |
| Guidelines: Effective Paraphrasing | |
| Reading Selection | |
| "Another Day, Another Indignity" | |
| Freewriting | |
| Group Work | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Additional Reading | |
| "Who Moved My Ability to Reason?" | |
| Summarizing | |
| Summary and Paraphrase | |
| Writing Summaries | |
| Guidelines: Summarizing Longer Passages | |
| Practice Reading | |
| "Stereotyping: Homogenizing People" | |
| Uses of Summary | |
| Summarizing an Argument | |
| Summarizing in Research Papers | |
| Guidelines: Effective Summarizing | |
| Reading Selection | |
| "What Meets the Eye" | |
| Freewriting | |
| Group Work | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Additional Readings | |
| "The Great Sorority Purge" | |
| "Fat Gregg is Dead" | |
| Synthesizing | |
| A Brief Summary Report | |
| Practice Readings | |
| Readings on Thomas Kinkade | |
| Practice Readings | |
| "Not a Pretty Picture" | |
| Guidelines: Writing a Brief Summary Report | |
| An Objective Report on Sources | |
| Practice Readings | |
| "Reagan Deserves Landmarks" | |
| "The Rename Game" | |
| The Obligation of Acknowledging Sources | |
| The List of Works Cited | |
| Parenthetical Notes | |
| Reading Selection | |
| "Service Learning" | |
| Freewriting | |
| Group Work | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Additional Readings | |
| "Serve or Fail" | |
| "Learning Outside of School: Service to the Community Lends Meaning to Education" | |
| Analyzing Texts | |
| Analyzing the Parts | |
| Purpose | |
| Audience | |
| Main Idea | |
| Development | |
| Organization and Coherence | |
| Writing a Brief Reading Analysis | |
| Practice Readings | |
| "Earnie's Nuns Are Pointing the Way" | |
| Reading Selection | |
| "Opening Ourselves to Unconditional Love in our Relationships with Students" | |
| Freewriting | |
| Group Work | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Additional Readings | |
| "Crossing the Fine Line Between Teacher and Therapist" | |
| "Hollywood Goes to School" | |
| Beginning a Research Project | |
| The Research Paper | |
| Primary and Secondary Research | |
| Benefits of Doing Research | |
| Learning an Essential Skill | |
| Contributing to Scholarship | |
| Gaining Personal Knowledge | |
| The Research Process | |
| A Research Assignment | |
| The Finished Product | |
| A Sample Standard Research Paper | |
| Student Writing | |
| "The Great Digital Shift in Music" | |
| A Sample Personal Research Paper | |
| Student Writing | |
| "Human Papilloma Virus (HPV): The Most Common Sexually Transmitted Disease" | |
| Your Research Schedule: Planning in Advance | |
| A Research Notebook | |
| Your Research Topic | |
| Generating Ideas | |
| Brainstorming | |
| Developing an Idea: Clustering | |
| Tools for Finding Sources | |
| Beginning Your Research | |
| Your Campus Library | |
| Electronic Resources | |
| Networks | |
| Using Your Library's Research Tools | |
| Finding Books and Other Library Holdings | |
| Encyclopedias and Other General Reference Works | |
| Finding Articles: Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers | |
| Locating Periodicals | |
| Microforms | |
| Library Vandalism--A Crime Against Scholarship | |
| Using Electronic Databases | |
| A Sample Search for Periodical Sources | |
| Finding Government Documents | |
| Internet Resources | |
| Web Search Engines | |
| The Reference Librarian--The Most Resourceful Resource | |
| Finding Sources Outside the Library: Conducting Interviews and Writing Letters | |
| Interviewing Sources | |
| Arranging the Interview | |
| Conducting the Interview | |
| Writing for Information | |
| Still Other Sources | |
| Putting Your Sources to Work | |
| A Research Prospectus | |
| The Working Bibliography | |
| Using Your Sources | |
| Reading Your Sources | |
| Evaluating Your Sources | |
| Narrowing Your Paper's Focus | |
| Formulating and Refining a Plan | |
| Taking Notes on Note Cards | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Guidelines: Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Using Sources in Research Writing | |
| The Conventions of Reporting | |
| Options for Presenting Sources | |
| Acknowledging Sources | |
| Relying on Experts | |
| Paraphrasing Sources | |
| Quoting Sources | |
| Punctuating Quotations | |
| Altering Questions | |
| When to Quote and When to Paraphrase | |
| A Further Note on Plagiarism | |
| Practice with Using Sources | |
| Writing a Brief Objective Research Essay | |
| Writing a Brief Subjective Research Essay | |
| Writing and Revising the Research Paper | |
| Getting Organized | |
| Formulating a Thesis Statement | |
| Sorting Your Notes | |
| Updating Your Outline | |
| Writing the First Good Draft | |
| Guidelines: Research Writing | |
| Some Practical Writing Tips | |
| Getting Started | |
| Writing the Opening | |
| Writing the Conclusion | |
| Giving Your Paper a Title | |
| Editing and Revising | |
| Reworking Your Paper | |
| Checklist: Editing and Revising | |
| Getting Advice from Other Readers | |
| Typing and Proofreading Your Polished Draft | |
| Argument: Reading, Writing, and Research | |
| Emotional Persuasion | |
| Logical Argument | |
| The Structure of Logical Argument: Claims, Evidence and Values | |
| Varieties of Evidence | |
| Ethical and Emotional Appeals | |
| An Informal Analysis of an Argument | |
| Practice Reading | |
| "Abolish the Penny" | |
| A Critique of an Argument | |
| Guidelines: Writing a Critique of an Argument | |
| Practice Reading | |
| "Workplace Worrywarts" | |
| An Argumentative Research Essay | |
| Purpose | |
| Thesis | |
| Audience | |
| Persona | |
| Evidence | |
| Opposition | |
| Organization | |
| A Sample Argumentative Essay | |
| Student Writing | |
| "A Cure for World Hunger or 'Frankenfood'?: The Controversy over Genetically Modified Foods" | |
| Research Paper Reference Handbook | |
| List of Work Cited(MLA Format) | |
| Bibliographic Formats | |
| General Guidelines--MLA Format | |
| Citing Electronic Sources | |
| Model Entries--MLA Format | |
| Sources in Books | |
| Books | |
| Selections from Books | |
| Sources in Periodicals and Newspapers | |
| Other Sources | |
| Internet and Electronic Sources | |
| Parenthetical Notes (MLA Format) | |
| Types of Notes | |
| Parenthetical Notes | |
| Some Special Cases | |
| When Are Notes Needed? | |
| How Many Notes Are Enough? | |
| How Much Material Can One Note Cover? | |
| Information Footnotes | |
| Research Paper Format (MLA Style) | |
| Format for your Polished Draft | |
| A Formal Outline | |
| Standard Numbering System | |
| Paper Title | |
| Decimal System | |
| Topic and Sentence Outlines | |
| APA Format | |
| Formats Other Than MLA | |
| APA Style | |
| APA Bibliographic Citations (Reference List) | |
| Model Entries | |
| Books | |
| Selections from Books | |
| Periodicals and Newspapers | |
| Other Sources | |
| Internet and Electronic Sources | |
| Notes APA Style | |
| Sample Pages in APA Style | |
| Format Featuring Numbered References | |
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