Reading and Writing in the Academic Community, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (July 9, 2009) © 2010

  • Mary Lynch Kennedy State University of New York at Cortland
  • Hadley M. Smith
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Making few assumptions about students' prior preparation, Reading and Writing in the Academic Community is a rhetoric with readings designed to teach the most common academic forms of summary, response, critique, analysis, and synthesis.  Each form is taught with an emphasis on writing process, and strengthened with coverage of reading and research. 

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

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