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Brief Contents
Contents
Preface
Part I: Reading and Writing in the Academic Disciplines
Chapter 1: Active Critical Reading
Academic Reading-Writing Process
Conversation with the Texts
Active Critical Reading
Keeping a Writer’s Notebook
Prereading
Preview the Text and Ask Questions that Will Help You Set Goals for Close Reading
Use Freewriting and Brainstorming to Recall Your Prior Knowledge and Express Your Feelings about the Reading
Topic
Close Reading
Mark, Annotate, and Elaborate on the Text
Take Effective Notes
Pose and Answer Questions about the Text
Reading for Genre, Organization, and Stylistic Features
Genre
Organization
Stylistic Features
Rhetorical Context of Text
Rhetorical Context of Your Reading
Analyze Writing Assignments
Chapter 2: Responses, Paraphrases, Summaries, and Quotations
Write an Informal Response
Convert Informal Response to Response Essay
Paraphrase
Summarize
Quote
Altering Quotations
Weaving Quotations into Your Essay
Chapter 3: Critical Analysis
Part I: Critical Analysis
Focus of the Chapter
Adopting a Questioning Frame of Mind
Types of Analyses You Will Be Asked to Write
Importance of Genre Knowledge
Approaches to Analysis
Purpose of Critical Analysis
Critical Analysis and the Academic Conversation
*Examination of “Dry Your Eyes: Examining the Role of Robots for Childcare Applications,” by David Feil-Seifer and Maja
J. Mataric’s Critical Analysis of Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey’s, “The Crying Shame of Robot Nannies: An
Ethical Appraisal”
Part II: Writing a Critical Analysis: A Detailed Demonstration of Reading-Writing Process
Critical Reading
Planning
Drafting
Revising the Preliminary Draft
Editing
Student’s Critical Analysis Essay: Final Draft
Chapter 4: Literary Analysis and Comparative Analysis
Literary Analysis
Process of Writing a Literary Analysis
Comparative Analysis
Incorporate Comparative Analysis into Longer Essays
Stand-Alone Comparative Analysis of Texts
Process of Writing a Comparative Analysis of Texts
Sample Comparative Analysis Essay
A Brief Word About Other Types of Analysis Essays
Rhetorical Analysis
Process Analysis
Casual Analysis
Chapter 5: Visual Analysis
Principles of Visual Analysis
Portfolio of Photographs
Overview of Visual Analysis
Process of Writing a Visual Analysis Essay
Previewing
Viewing for Content
Viewing for Genre, Organization, and Stylistic Features
Viewing for Rhetorical Context
Chapter 6: Synthesis
Analysis and Synthesis
Process of Writing Synthesis Essays
Examine the Assignment
Determine Your Rhetorical Purpose: Purposes for Synthesizing Sources
Ask Questions to Identify Relationships among the Sources
Formulate a Thesis and Review the Texts
Process of Writing an Exploratory Synthesis
Decide on Rhetorical Purpose
Formulate Working Thesis
Process of Writing a Literature Review
*Examination of “Adolescents’ Expressed Meanings of Music In and Out of School”: Patricia Shehard Campbell, Claire Connell, and Amy Beegle’s Literature Review
Organize the Literature Review to Focus on Ideas Rather than Sources
Process of Writing a Thesis-Driven Synthesis
Support Thesis with Evidence
Examination of Student’s Thesis-Drive Synthesis
Revising Synthesis Essays
Chapter 7: Argument
Nature of Academic Argument
Argument in a Broad Sense and Argument in a Specialized Sense
Specialized Argument Expressed as Statement vs. Specialized Argument Synthesized with Sources
Developing Support for Arguments
Joining the Academic Conversation
*Examination of “Predators or Plowshares? Arms Control of Robotic Weapons,” Robert Sparrow’s Argument Synthesis
Process of Writing an Argument Synthesis Essay
Differentiate Between Issues and Topics
Differentiate Between Claims and Evidence
Differentiate Between Opinions and Reasons
Probe Both Sides of the Issue
Question the Reading Sources
State Your Claim
Support Reasons with Evidence from Reading Sources
Acknowledge and Respond to Competing Claims
Illustration of Student’s Process in Writing an Argument Synthesis Essay
Consider Audience
Determine Issue, Thesis, and Competing Positions
Organize Argument Synthesis Essays
Acknowledge and Respond to Alternative views in Separate, Self-Contained Sections
Acknowledge and respond to Objections in a Point-by-Point Fashion
Revising and Editing
Chapter 8: Writing Research Papers
The Research Paper: An Introduction
Identify a Research Topic: The Role of the Assignment
Illustration of a Student’s Process of Writing a Research Paper
Select a Research Topic
Develop a Research Strategy
Set a Schedule
Brainstorm a Preliminary Search Vocabulary
Determine How You Will Find the Sources
Locate Sources in an Academic Library
Use Catalogues to Find Books
Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
Library of Congress and OCLC World Cat
Bibliographic Details for Electronic Sources
A Word About Electronic Retrieval Systems
Types of Searches
Conduct Research on the World Wide Web
Advantages and Disadvantages of the Web
Advantages of College Libraries
Find Digital Resources on the Web
How to Increase the Precision of Your Web Search
Evaluate What You Find
Which Articles Are the Most Important
How to Evaluate Web Sources
Evaluate Information Sources
Collect Information on Your Own
Modify Your Search Strategy
Excerpt Information from Sources and Cite What You Find Using a Standard Format
Formulate a Working Thesis
Planning the Research Paper
Select an Organizational Plan
Outline
Write from Your Outline
Revising
Part II: An Anthology of Readings
Natural Sciences and Technology
Chapter 9: Who Owns Your Body?
*“Who Owns Your Body Parts?” by Kerry Howley
*“Donors Have No Rights to Donated Tissue” by Kristine E. Schleiter, JD, LLM
*“The Trouble with Organ Trafficking,” by Arthur Caplan
*“Why We Need a Market for Human Organs,” by Sally Satel
*“The Gendered Language of Gamete ‘Donation’,” by Caroline Rubin
Chapter 10: Human/Machine Interaction
*“Humanoid and Android Science,” by Hiroshi Ishiguro and Minoru Asada
*“Looking Forward to Sociable Robots,” by Glenda Shaw-Garlock
*“The Ethical Frontier of Robotics,” by Noel Sharkey
*“The Way Forward in the World of Robotics,” Kenneth W. Goodman and Norman G. Einspruch
Chapter 11: Privacy and Technology
*“I Just Called to Say I Love You,” by Jonathan Franzen
“Kyllo v. United States: Technology v. Individual Privacy,” by Thomas Colbridge
*“The Anonymity Experiment,” by Catherine Price
“Trading Liberties for Illusions,” by Wendy Kaminer
*“If Looks Could Kill,” The Economist
Social Sciences
Chapter 12: The Changing American Family
“What Is a Family,” by Pauline Irit Erera
“Children of Gay Fathers,” by Robert L. Barret and Bryan E. Robinson
“Cohabitation Instead of Marriage,” by James Q. Wilson
*“The Origins of the Ambivalent Acceptance of Divorce,” by Andrew J. Oberlin
“Absent Fathers: Why Don’t We Ever Talk about the Unmarried Men?” by Rebecca M. Blank
*“The Ballad of a Single Mother,” by Lynn Olcott
Chapter 13: Social Class and Inequality
“Born Poor and Smart,” by Angela Locke
*“Culture of Success,” by Brink Lindsey
“The War Against the Poor Instead of Programs to End Poverty,” by Herbert J. Gans
*“The Inequality Challenge,” by Matt Yglesias
“Serving in Florida,” by Barbara Ehrenreich
“Middle of the Class,” The Economist
“When Shelter Feels Like a Prison,” by Charmion Browne
Humanities
Chapter 14: Rock Music and Cultural Values
“Toward an Aesthetic of Popular Music,” by Simon Frith
*“Music and Morality,” by Roger Scruton
“Redeeming the Rap Experience,” Venise Berry
*“Digital Music: You Are What You Listen To,” by Lane Jennings
*“Of Ipods and Dirty Underwear,” by James Rosen
Chapter 15: Stories of Ethnic Difference
“A Different Mirror,” by Ronald Takaki
“Jasmine,” by Bharati Mukherjee
“Snapshots,” by Helena Maria Viramontes
“Between the Pool and the Gardenias,” Edwidge Danticat
“Bohemians,” by George Saunders
Chapter 16: Three Visual Portfolios
Portfolio 1: Images of Families
Portfolio 2: Images of Inequality
Portfolio 3: Images of Ethnic Diversity
Appendix: Documenting Sources
Index
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