Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Brief Edition, 3rd Edition

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.

Preface

A Note to the Student

I. HOW TO WRITE SUMMARIES, CRITIQUES, SYNTHESES, AND ANALYSES

1. Summary

What is a Summary?

Can a Summary Be Objective?

Using the Summary

The Reading Process

How to Write Summaries

Demonstration:  Summary

Avoiding Plagiarism

2. Critical Reading and Critique

Critical Reading

Critique

Demonstration: Critique

Practice Critique

3. Synthesis

What Is a Synthesis?

Purpose

Using Your Sources

Types of Syntheses: Argument and Explanatory

How to Write Syntheses

The Argument Synthesis

Demonstration: Developing a Source-Based Argument Synthesis

Developing and Organizing Support for Your Arguments

The Comparison-and-Contrast Synthesis

The Explanatory Synthesis

Summary

4. Analysis

What Is an Analysis?

Demonstration of Analysis

How to Write Analyses

Analysis: A Tool for Understanding

II. An Anthology of Readings

SOCIOLOGY 

5.Marriage and Family in America

The Satisfactions of Housewifery and Motherhood/ Paradise Lost, Terry Martin Hekker

The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love, Stephanie Coontz

The State of Our Unions, David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

Debunking Myths about Marriage and Families, Mary Ann Schwartz and Barbara Marliene Scott

A Debate on Gay Marriage, Andrew Sullivan / William Bennett

Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path—to Motherhood, Louise Story

What Yale Women Want, and Why It Is Misguided, Karen Stabiner

A Marriage Agreement, Alix Kates Shulman

The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be.  How It Was, Hope Edelman

My Problem with Her Anger, Eric Bartels

Synthesis Activities

Research Activities

PSYCHOLOGY.

6. Obedience to Authority.

Opinions and Social Pressure, Solomon E. Asch.

The Perils of Obedience, Stanley Milgram.

Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience, Diana Baumrind.

The Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip G. Zimbardo.

Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem, Erich Fromm.

Uncivil Disobedience: Violating the Rules for Breaking the Law, James L. Lopach and Jean A. Luckowski

Synthesis Activities

Research Activities 

AMERICAN STUDIES

7. What's Happening at the Mall?

Shopping for American Culture, James J. Farrell.

A Brief History of Malls. Kenneth T. Jackson

The Mall as Civic/Cultural Center, Victor Gruen and Larry Smith

The Mall as Disneyland, Richard Francaviglia.

The Mall as Prison, David Guterson.

The Mall as Sacred Space, John Pahl

The Mall as Setting for Authentic Life, Virginia Postrel

The Mall as Refuge, George Lewis.

The Mall as Threat to Democratic Values,  Lizabeth Cohen.

Mallaise: How to Know If You Have It, William Kowinski

Synthesis Activities

Research Activities

BIOLOGY 

8. To Sleep

A Third of Life, Paul Martin

Improving Sleep, Lawrence Epstein, MD, Editor

America’s Sleep-Deprived Teens Nodding off at School, Behind the Wheel, National Sleep Foundation

When Worlds Collide: Adolescent Need for Sleep vs. Societal Demands, Mary A. Carskadon

Sleep Debt and the Mortgaged Mind, William C. Dement and Christopher Vaughan

The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, D.J. Buysse

How Sleep Debt Hurts College Students, June J. Pilcher and Amy S. Walters

Starting Time and School Life, Patricia K. Kubow, Kyla L. Wahlstrom, and Amy Bemis

Synthesis Activities

Research Activities

BUSINESS/ COMMUNICATIONS

9. New and Improved: Six Decades of Advertising.

Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals, Jib Fowles.

Making the Pitch in Print Advertising, Courtland L. Bovée, John V. Thill, George P. Dovel, and Marian Burk Wood.

Elements of Effective Layout, Dorothy Cohen.

A Portfolio of Advertisements: 1945-2003.

Synthesis Activities

Research Activities