Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, 10th Edition

This rhetoric and reader guides the reader through the essential college-level writing skills of summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis, and offers a focused opportunity for practicing these skills.

1. Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation

What Is a Summary?

Can a Summary Be Objective?

Using the Summary

The Reading Process

How to Write Summaries

Demonstration: Summary

            The Future of Love: Kiss Romance Goodbye, It’s Time for the Real Thing, Barbara Graham

Summarizing a Narrative or Personal Essay

            Dreams of Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin

Summarizing Figures and Tables

Paraphrase

Quotation

Avoiding Plagiarism

2. Critical Reading and Critique

Critical Reading

            We Are Not Created Equal in Every Way, Joan Ryan

Critique

Demonstration: Critique

            Model Critique: A Critique of Joan Ryan’s “We Are Not Created Equal in Every Way,” Eric Ralston

3.  Introductions, Theses, and Conclusions

Writing Introductions

Writing a Thesis

Writing Conclusions

4. Explanatory Synthesis

What is a Synthesis?

Purpose

Using Your Sources

Types of Syntheses: Explanatory and Argument

            Explanation: News Article from the New York Times, “Private Gets Three Years for Iraq Prison Abuse”

            Argument:  Editorial from the Boston Globe, “Military Abuse”

How to Write Syntheses

The Explanatory Synthesis

Demonstration: Explanatory Synthesis—The Hydrogen-Powered Automobile

            The Fuel Subsidy We Need, Ricardo Bayon

            Putting the Hindenburg to Rest, Jim Motavalli

            Lots of Hot Air about Hydrogen, Joseph J. Romm

Revising the Example: First Draft

            Revised Model Paper: The Car of the Future?, Janice Hunte

Writing Assignment: The “Legacy” Question in College Admissions

5. Argument Synthesis

What Is an Argument Synthesis?

Demonstration: Developing an Argument Synthesis—Volunteering in America

            A New Start for National Service, John McCain and Evan Bayh

            Calls for National Service, Roger Landrum, Donald J. Eberly, and Michael W. Sherraden

            Politics and National Service: A Virus Attacks the Volunteer Sector, Bruce Chapman

            Model Synthesis: Keeping Volunteering Voluntary

Developing and Organizing the Support for Your Arguments

The Comparison-and-Contrast Synthesis

            Model Exam Response: Key Similarities and Differences between World Wars I and II

6. Analysis

What Is an Analysis?

Demonstration: Analyses

            The Plug-In Drug, Marie Winn

            Model Paper: The Coming Apart of a Dorm Society, Edward Peselman

How to Write Analyses

Analyzing Visual Media

            The Appeal of the Democracy of Goods, Roland Marchand

            Elements of an Effective Layout, Dorothy Cohen

Analysis: A Tool for Understanding

** New chapter

7.   Practicing Academic Writing

Merit vs. Privilege

The Assignments

            Summary

            Paraphrase

            Critique

            Explanatory Synthesis

            Argument Synthesis

            Analysis

The Readings

The Curse of Nepotism, from The Economist

May the Best Man or Woman Win, Miriam Schulman

Legacy Admissions Are Defensible Because the Process Can’t Be ‘Fair,’ Debra Thomas and Terry Shepard

Time to Bury the Legacy, Robert DeKoven

The History of Legacy Admissions, Cameron Howell and Sarah E. Turner

Getting In: The Social Logic of Ivy League Admissions, Malcolm Gladwell

So Your Dad Went to Harvard, Mark Megalli

Preserve Universities’ Right to Shape Student Community, from USA Today

Admissions Confidential: An Insider’s Account of the Elite College Selection Process, Rachel Toor

Making Ethical Decisions, Gerald F. Cavanagh

II. An Anthology of Readings

** SOCIOLOGY (new unit)

8.      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

Work vs. Family, Complicated by Race, Lynette Clemetson

A Marriage Agreement, Alix Kate Shulman

How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement, Caitlin Flanagan

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

My Problem with Her Anger, Eric Bartels

Two-Timing,  Michelle Cottle

Single-Minded, Keith O’Brien

 PSYCHOLOGY.

 9.        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.

Obedience, Ian Parker.

The Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip K. 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

** From Antigone, Jean Anouilh (adapted and translated by Lewis Galantiere)

AMERICAN STUDIES

10.   What's Happening at the Mall?

Shopping for American Culture , James J. Farrell.

**A Brief History of Malls. Kenneth T. Jackson

Shopping Towns USA, Victor Gruen and Larry Smith

The Mall as Disneyland, Richard Francaviglia.

The Mall as Prison, David Guterson.

**The Mall as Walled Garden, Richard Simon

**The Mall as Sacred Space, John Pahl

**The Mall as Setting for Authentic Life, Virginia Postrel

The Mall as Refuge, George Lewis.

From Town Center to Shopping Center, Lizabeth Cohen.

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

**BIOLOGY  (new unit)

11. Adolescent Sleep

A Third of Life, Paul Martin

Improving Sleep, Susan Ince

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

The Medicalization of Sleep: A Case Study in Conflicting Interpretations of Data

LITERATURE/ FOLKLORE

12. Fairy Tales: A Closer Look at “Cinderella”.

Universality of the Folktale , Stith Thompson.

Ten Variants of   “Cinderella” :

Cinderella, Charles Perrault.

Ashputtle , Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm.

**The Cat Cinderella, Giambattista Basile

A Chinese “Cinderella” , Tuan Ch’êng-shih.

The Maiden, the Frog, and the Chief’s Son (An African “Cinderella”) .

Oochigeaskw–The Rough-Faced Girl (A Native American “Cinderella”) .

**A Yemeni Version of “Cinderella”

**The Seven Foals, Andrew Lang

Walt Disney’s “Cinderella” , Adapted by Campbell Grant.

Cinderella, Anne Sexton.

**The Rise of Perrault’s “Cinderella,” Bonnie Cullen

 “Cinderella”: A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts , Bruno Bettelheim.

**My Best White Friend: Cinderella Revisited, Patricia Williams

I Am Cinderella's Stepmother and I Know My Rights , Judith Rossner.

Cinderella": Not So Morally Superior, Elisabeth Panttaja.

BUSINESS/ COMMUNICATIONS

13. 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.

The Indictments against Advertising , Courtland L. Bovée and William F. Arens.

A Portfolio of Advertisements: 1945-2003.

LAW

14. Has the Jury Reached a Verdict?

Incident at the Airport, Leonard Tourney

IRAC: How to Argue Your Case, Leonard Tourney and Gina Genova

Cases:

Outrageous Conduct? Some Cases of Emotional Distress

Do Students Have Freedom of Speech?

The Felled Stop Signs: Two Cases of Homicide

Should We Hold Parents Responsible for the Acts of Their Children?

Legal Glossary.

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