With this ninth edition, Read, Reason, Write becomes 25 years old and although some important new material strengthens the ninth edition, the essential character of Read, Reason, Write remains the same. This text still unites instruction in critical reading and analysis, argument, and research strategies with a rich collection of readings that provide both practice for these skills and new ideas and insights for readers. Through all of its years, this text has been committed to showing students how reading, analytic, argumentative, and research skills are interrelated and how these skills combine to develop each student's critical thinking ability.

Solution Argument
A Checklist for Revision
For Analysis and Debate
Irshed Manji, “When Denial Can Kill”
Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
Suggestions for Discussion and Writing
SECTION 4 THE RESEARCHED AND FORMALLY
DOCUMENTED ARGUMENT
Chapter 12 LOCATING, EVALUATING, AND PREPARING TO USE
SOURCES
Selecting a Good Topic
What Type of Research Essay Am I Preparing?
Who Is My Audience?
How Can I Select a Good Topic?
What Kinds of Topics Should I Avoid?
Writing a Tentative Claim or Research Proposal
Preparing a Working Bibliography
Basic Form for Books
Basic Form for Articles
Locating Sources
The Book Catalog
The Reference Collection
Electronic Databases
The Internet
Field Research
Evaluating Sources, Maintaining Credibility
Guidelines for Evaluating Sources
Chapter 13 WRITING THE RESEARCHED ESSAY
Avoiding Plagiarism
What Is Common Knowledge?
Using Signal Phrases to Avoid Misleading Readers
Guidelines for Appropriately Using Sources
Organizing the Paper
The Formal Outline
Drafting the Paper
Revising the Paper: A Checklist
The Completed Paper
Sample Student Research Essay
Chapter 14 FORMAL DOCUMENTATION: MLA STYLE, APA STYLE
OF DOCUMENTATION
MLA In-Text (Parenthetical) Documentation
MLA Citations for a “Works Cited” Page
APA In-Text Documentation
APA Citations for a “References” Page
SECTION 5 A COLLECTION OF READINGS
Chapter 15 THE MEDIA: IMAGE AND REALITY
Derrick Speight, “Of Losers and Moles: You Think Reality
TV Just Writes Itself?”)
Shelby Steele, “Notes from the Hip-Hop Underground”
Stephen Hunter, “Leading Men: Looking at Presidential
Contenders Through a Hollywood Lens”
Peggy Noonan, “The Blogs Must Be Crazy”
Katherine Ellison, “What’s Up, Doc? A Bloody Outrage,
That’s What”
Jean Kilbourne, “In Your Face . . . All over the Place!”
Michelle Cottle, “Turning Goys into Girls”
Chapter 16 THE ENVIRONMENT: HOW GREEN DO WE GO?
Tom Toles, Cartoon on Global Warming
Wecansolveit.org ad
NRDC “Snake Oil” ad
Michael Novacek, “The Sixth Extinction: It Happened to
Him [Tyrannosaurus Rex]. It’s Happening to You.”
James Howard Kunstler, “Wake Up, America. We’re
Driving Toward Disaster”
Charles Krauthammer, “Carbon Chastity”
Wired Magazine, “Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to
Rethink
What It Means to Be Green”
Alex Steffen, “Counterpoint: Dangers of Focusing Solely on
Climate Change”
Anna Quindlen, “Don’t Mess with Mother”
Chapter 17 SPORTS TALK—SPORTS BATTLES
David Oliver Relin, “Who’s Killing Kids’ Sports?”
Gordon Gee, “My Plan to Put the College Back in College
Sports”
Sally Jenkins, “Education, Athletics: The Odd Couple”
William Saletan, “The Beam in Your Eye: If Steroids Are
Cheating, Why Isn’t LASIK?”
Michael Sokolove , “To the Victor, the Drug Test”
NATURE, Editorial, “A Sporting Chance”
Rosanna Tomiuk, “Bridging the Human Divide”
Chapter 18 EDUCATION: WHAT’S HAPPENING ON CAMPUS?
Ted Gup, “So Much for the Information Age”
Barbara Ehrenreich, “Guys Just Want to Have Fun”
David Cole, “Laptops vs. Learning”
Fred von Lohmann, “Copyright Silliness on Campus”
Katha Pollitt, “Sweatin’ to the Koran?”
Harry Lewis, “A Separate and Unequal Exercise”
Clive Thompson, “I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You”
Chapter 19 CENSORSHIP AND FREE SPEECH DEBATES
Evan Goldstein, “Smoking in the Movies”
Rich Tomaselli and T. L. Stanley, “Phillip Morris: No
Smoking in Movies”
Mark Mathabane, “If You Assign My Book, Don’t Censor It”
Ken Dautrich and John Bare, “Why the First Amendment
(and Journalism) Might Be in Trouble”
Andrew J. McClurg, “Online Lessons on Unprotected Sex”
Ann Applebaum, “Let a Thousand Filters Bloom”
David McHardy Reid, “Business Is Business”
Chapter 20 LAWS AND RIGHTS: CURRENT AND ENDURING
DEBATES
A Look at the Supreme Court Handgun Decision:
2nd amendment cartoon—Morin, MIAMI HERALD
“The Court’s Handgun Common Sense”: Letters to the
Editor Michael Hoxie and Molly Schindler
Arthur Kellerman, “Guns for Safety? Dream on, Scalia”
Linda J. Collier, “Adult Crime, Adult Time”
Richard Cohen, “Kids Who Kill Are Still Kids”
Michael Loud, “Tying Our Hands”
Richard E. Mezo, “Why It Was Called ‘Water Torture’”
Darius Rejali, “5 Myths about Torture and Truth”
Chapter 21 MARRIAGE AND GENDER ISSUES: THE DEBATES
CONTINUE
Linda J. Waite, “Social Science Finds: ‘Marriage Matters’”
Stuart Taylor, Jr., “Gay Marriage by Judicial Decree”
Richard Just, “Justice Delivered”
Michael Kinsley, “Abolish Marriage”
Chong-Suk Han, “Gay Asian-American Male Seeks Home”
Judith D. Auerbach, “The Overlooked Victims of AIDS”
Leonard Sax, “Why Gender Matters”
Chapter 22 GLOBALISM: HOW DO WE FIT IN?
Thomas L. Friedman, “Understanding Globalization”
David Brooks, “The Cognitive Age”
David Rothkoff, “They’re Global Citizens. They’re Hugely
Rich.And They Pull the Strings.”
David Reiff, “Their Hearts and Minds?”
Pranab Bardhan, “Inequality in India and China: Is
Globalization to Blame?”
Robert J. Samuelson, “Rx for Global Poverty”
Fareed Zacaria, “The Post-American World”
Chapter 23 THE AMERICAN DREAM: REALITY, MYTH, GOAL?
Eugene Robinson, “Tattered Dream”
Firoozeh Duman, “The ‘F Word’”
E. J. Dionne, “The Engaged Generation”
A Look at the Immigration Debate:
Mae N. Nagi, “No Human Being Is Illegal”
Marcela Sanchez, “Our Sad Neglect of Mexico”
Amy Chua, “Immigrate, Assimilate”
Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream”
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Read, Reason, Write : An Argument Text and Reader

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Summary

Table of Contents

Preface

SECTION 1 CRITICAL READING AND ANALYSIS

Chapter 1 WRITERS AND THEIR SOURCES

Reading, Writing, and the Contexts of Argument

Responses to Sources

Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address”

The Response to Content

The Analytic Response

The Judgment or Evaluation Response

The Research Response

Deborah Tannen, “Who Does the Talking Here?”

Active Reading: Use Your Mind!

Guidelines for Active Reading

Richard Morin, “Political Ads and the Voters They Attract”

Understanding Your Sources

Writing Summaries

Guidelines for Writing Summaries

Acknowledging Sources Informally

References to People

References to Sources

Joel Achenbach, “The Future Is Now”

Presenting Direct Quotations: A Guide for Form and Style

Reasons for Using Quotation Marks

A Brief Guide to Quoting

For Reading and Analysis

Howard Gardner, “The End of Literacy? Don’t Stop

Reading”

Azar Nafisi, “Words of War”

Suggestions for Discussion and Writing

Chapter 2 RESPONDING TO SOURCES: ANALYZING AND

EVALUATING

Traits of the Critical Reader/Thinker

Examining the Rhetorical Context of a Source

Who is the Author?

What is the Occasion That Has Led to the Work?

What type of source—or genre—is it?

What Is the Author’s Primary Purpose in Writing?

What Are the Author’s Sources of Information?

Analyzing the Style of a Source

Denotative and Connotative Word Choice

Tone

Sentence Structure

Metaphors

Organization and Examples

Repetition

Hyperbole, Understatement, and Irony

Dave Barry, “Remote Control”

Writing about Style

Understanding Your Purpose and Audience

Planning the Essay

Drafting the Style Analysis

A Checklist for Revision

Ellen Goodman, “In Praise of a Snail’s Pace”

Student Essay (on Goodman’s essay)

Analyzing Two or More Sources

Guidelines for Preparing a Contrast Essay

Kent Garber, “Eyeing the Oil Under the Gulf”

Bob Keefe, “National Debate: Weighing Advances vs.

Fears”

For Reading and Analysis

Andrew Vachss, “Watch Your Language”

George Orwell, “A Hanging”

Suggestions for Discussion and Writing

SECTION 2 THE WORLD OF ARGUMENT

Chapter 3 UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS OF ARGUMENT

Characteristics of Argument

Argument Is Conversation with a Goal

Argument Debates an Arguable Issue

Argument Uses Reasons and Evidence

Argument Incorporates Values

Argument Recognizes a Topic’s Complexity

The Shape of Argument: What We Can Learn from Aristotle

Ethos (About the Writer/Speaker)