Reading and Writing in the Academic Community, 4th Edition

Reading and Writing in the Academic Community is a comprehensive rhetoric with engaging, timely readings.  The authors wrote their book to include more coverage of the writing process.   This text  provides explicit, step-by-step instruction in paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing essays in response to readings, composing synthesis essays, and using sources to compose comparison-and-contrast essays, argument essays, analysis essays, evaluation essays, and research papers.

 

PART I The Composing Process

CHAPTER 1 Writing as Process

 

PART II Reading Sources and Incorporating

Them into Your Writing

CHAPTER 2 Reading Sources

CHAPTER 3 Paraphasing, Quoting, and Acknowledging Sources

CHAPTER 4 Summarizing Sources

 

PART III Responding to, Analyzing, and Evaluating Sources

CHAPTER 5 Responding to Sources

CHAPTER 6 Analyzing and Evaluating Sources

 

PART IV Synthesizing Sources

CHAPTER 7 Writing Multiple-Source Essays

CHAPTER 8 Arguing from Sources

CHAPTER 9 Researching Sources and Writing Research Papers

 

PART V Reading Selections

CHAPTER 10 Grades and Learning

LIZ MANDRELL, “Zen and the Art of Grade Motivation”

JERRY FARBER, “A Young Person’s Guide to the Grading System”

STEVEN VOGEL, “Grades and Money”

STEPHEN RAY FLORA AND STACY SUZANNE POPONAK, “Childhood Pay for Grades

Is Related to College Grade Point Averages”

CHAPTER 11 Cyberhood

CELESTE BIEVER, “Modern Romance”

SHERRY TURKLE, “Cyberspace and Identity”

JOHN PERRY BARLOW, “Is There a There in Cyberspace?”

CHAPTER 12 Adolescent Pregnancy

KAY S. HYMOWITZ, “Gloucester Girls Gone Wild”

CATHY GULLI, “Suddenly Teen Pregnancy Is Cool?”

NANCY GIBBS, “Give the Girls a Break”

CAROL COWLEY AND TILLMAN FARLEY, “Adolescent Girls’Attitudes Toward Pregnancy:

The Importance of Asking What the Boyfriend Wants”

CHAPTER 13 Creativity and Ownership

LAWRENCE LESSIG, “Why Crush Them?”

DAVID BOLLIER AND LAURIE RACINE, “Control of Creativity?”

MARK HELPRIN, “A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?”

DAVID HAJDU, “I,Me,Mine”

CHAPTER 14 Race and American Society

YOLANDA T.MOSES, “Race, Higher Education, and American Society”

BARACK OBAMA, “A More Perfect Union”

 

APPENDICES

Appendix A Documenting Sources

Appendix B Editing for Correctness

Appendix C Revising for Style