Sequence for Academic Writing, A, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (January 11, 2017) © 2018
  • Laurence Behrens
  • Leonard J. Rosen

Title overview

For courses in First-Year Composition: Rhetoric, Writing Across the Curriculum or Writing in the Disciplines.

A brief rhetoric on essential academic writing strategies: summary, synthesis, analysis and critique.

A Sequence for Academic Writing presents the reading and writing strategies needed to interpret and incorporate source material into papers. The text builds off the rhetoric portion of the best-selling Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum employing readings from a range of disciplines for use apart from any additional reading content. Exemplary models of student papers and ample practice with strategies and skills are provided throughout.

The 7th Edition freshens examples and clarifies and expands instruction, making this renowned intro to source-based writing even more accessible.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Flexible chapters can be used in the sequence of your choosing. Grasping material in later chapters does not, in most cases, require having read earlier chapters.
  • Model papers accompany writing assignment and 6 annotated student papers in various draft stages model the development of key writing skills.
  • Writing assignments in each chapter prompt individual and group activities and provide opportunities to apply related skills.
  • The writing process is discussed early and reinforced throughout. Each chapter also features summary boxes of key concepts.
  • More than 35 compelling readings offer practice applying new skills.
  • A controlled research assignment addresses the topic of plagiarism and encourages the highest ethical standards.
  • Free download: The Pearson Guide to the 2021 MLA Handbook.

New and updated features of this title

  • NEW: All-new Ch. 1, “An Introduction to Thinking and Writing in College,” orients students to 4 critical habits of mind: cultivating intellectual curiosity, exploring similarities and differences, arguing with logic and evidence and challenging arguments.
  • NEW: Models illustrate key concepts. A new model critique (referencing an op-ed) takes on digital life, free speech and censorship. A new model explanation paper explores money as an agreement or shared idea (more than an object), and 2 new passages demonstrate arguing vs. explaining.
  • NEW: Critical reading is separated from writing summaries, supported by the new Ch. 2, “Reading with Attention,” with accessible strategies for previewing selections to identify an author's purpose and reading to understand the structure and content used to achieve that purpose.
  • NEW: Quotation is separated into an all-new Ch. 3, focusing on partial sources, sources in their entirety and challenging sources. A new Ch. 4 is devoted to what and how to quote and integrate quotations.
  • NEW: Enhanced photos and graphics add visual appeal.
  • REVISED: A research librarian has revamped Ch. 10, “Locating, Mining, and Citing Sources,” with current research practices and techniques and the latest digital tools and methods (reflects 2010 APA and 2016 MLA guidelines).

Table of contents

BRIEF CONTENTS

  1. An Introduction to Thinking and Writing in College

PART 1: STRUCTURES

  1. Reading with Attention
  2. Summarizing and Paraphrasing Sources
  3. Quoting Sources, Using Signal Phrases, and Making Standard ‘Moves'
  4. Critical Reading and Critique
  5. Explanatory Synthesis
  6. Argument Synthesis
  7. Analysis

PART 2: STRATEGIES

  1. Writing as a Process
  2. Locating, Mining, and Citing Sources
  3. Practicing Academic Writing

Author bios

About our authors

Laurence Behrens has focused for more than thirty-five years on interdisciplinary approaches to the teaching of undergraduate writing. His Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, co-authored with Leonard J. Rosen, originally published in 1982 and now in its 13th Edition, was the first widely-used cross-curricular textbook in freshman composition.

Dr. Behrens earned an A.B. in Theatre Arts from Brandeis University, an M.F.A. in Film, Radio, and Television from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in literature from UCLA.  He has taught at UCLA, the University of California at Irvine, The American University in Washington, D.C., and most recently, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  He was one of the original members of the interdisciplinary Writing Program at UCSB, where he originated the lower division course in writing about classical music.  He has also taught lower-division courses in writing about sociology and psychology.  At the upper division level, he has taught business writing, legal writing, and writing about history and film studies, as well as graduate seminars in writing for teaching assistants.

His articles have appeared in College English, College Composition and Communication, The English Journal, The Maryland Composition Review, Freshman English News, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Notes and Queries, Literature/Film Quarterly, and The Journal of the University Film Association. In addition to Sequence for Academic Writing and Writing Across the Curriculum, Dr. Behrens' other books with Leonard J. Rosen include Writing Papers in College, Reading for College Writers, Theme and Variations: The Impact of Great Ideas, and The Allyn & Bacon Handbook.  He has also authored the historically-oriented The American Experience: A Writer's Sourcebook and the legal casebook for undergraduate writers, Making the Case: An Argument Reader.

Leonard Rosen, after earning a B.A. in English and Education at Trinity College (Hartford), taught high school English in Baltimore City before earning his Ph.D. in Literary Studies, with a focus in composition, at The American University. He went on to teach at Bentley University and in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University.

In addition to best-selling textbooks co-authored with Laurence Behrens, most notably Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum and Sequence for Academic Writing, he has written (and read) commentaries for Boston's NPR station and written numerous op-eds published in the Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere. He is also an award-winning novelist, the author of All Cry Chaos (translated into ten languages) and The Tenth Witness.

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