Critical Strategies for Academic Thinking and Writing : A Text with Readings

by Rose, Mike; Kiniry, Malcolm

• ISBN13: 9780312115616
• ISBN10: 031211561X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Critical Strategies for Academic Thinking and Writing,Third Edition, is a text and reader that gets to the heart of what is so essential for success in college but is so hard for students to develop. Based on years of research on the reading and writing demands of the college curriculum, Critical Strategiesteaches students the six thinking and writing strategies necessary for college-level work in any discipline and gives them practice with the kinds of material they'll use in their other college courses. Edited by Mal Kiniry and by Mike Rose, one of the most well known figures in composition studies, the streamlined third edition gives students more help and guidance to develop competence and confidence with academic work.

Author Biography

MALCOLM KINIRY is director of writing at Rutgers University, Newark, and has written articles on basic writing, writing across the curriculum, and curriculum development, as well as Renaissance studies. He taught in the UCLA Writing Program for seven years and is currently working on a language reader for composition courses.

MIKE ROSE, a professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, is one of the most prominent names in composition studies. He has produced important work in remedial reading and writing, writing across the curriculum, the cognition of composing, and the politics of literacy. Among his books are Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underprepared (1989) andPossible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America (1995). He has received numerous awards for his work in language and literacy, including awards from the National Academy of Education, the National Council of Teachers of English, the Modern Language Association, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Both in 1991 and 1992 he, as coauthor, won the prestigious Richard Braddock Award for the outstanding article published each year in College Composition and Communication. His most recent award is the 1997 Grawemeyer Award in Education for Possible Lives.

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	v
Introduction for Students: Critical Strategies for Academic Situations	1	(8)
Defining • Negotiating Meanings	9	(69)
Defining Across the Curriculum	9	(45)
Opening Problem: Defining Intelligence	10	(3)
Working Examples	13	(7)
A Professional Application	20	(1)
Assignments	21	(33)
Readings: Reconsidering Intelligence	54	(21)
Further Assignments	75	(3)
Summarizing • Synthesis and Judgment	78	(92)
Summarizing Across the Curriculum	78	(66)
Opening Problem: Summarizing Trends in Child Poverty	79	(3)
Working Examples	82	(12)
A Professional Application	94	(5)
Assignments	99	(45)
Readings: The Dimensions of Child Poverty	144	(24)
Further Assignments	168	(2)
Serializing • Establishing Sequence	170	(115)
Serializing Across the Curriculum	170	(61)
Opening Problem: Constructing a Serial Account	171	(7)
Working Examples	178	(8)
A Professional Application	186	(3)
Assignments	189	(42)
Readings: Crime Stories: Constructing Guilt and Innocence	231	(51)
Further Assignments	282	(3)
Classifying • Creating and Evaluating Categories	285	(135)
Classifying Across the Curriculum	285	(71)
Opening Problem: Classifying Characteristics of Immigration to the United States	286	(8)
Working Examples	294	(14)
A Professional Application	308	(3)
Assignments	311	(45)
Readings: U. S. Immigration Patterns	356	(61)
Further Assignments	417	(3)
Comparing • Assessing Similarities and Differences	420	(136)
Comparing Across the Curriculum	420	(86)
Opening Problem: Comparing Two Primatologists	421	(10)
Working Examples	431	(13)
A Professional Application	444	(3)
Assignments	447	(59)
Readings: Methods of Inquiry in Primate Research	506	(48)
Further Assignments	554	(2)
Analyzing • Perspectives for Interpretation	556	(114)
Analyzing Across the Curriculum	556	(67)
Opening Problem: Analyzing a Short Story	557	(10)
Working Examples	567	(13)
A Professional Application	580	(3)
Assignments	583	(40)
Readings: Caribbean Literature and Cultural Politics	623	(44)
Further Assignments	667	(3)
APPENDIX • Assignments for Field Study	670	(54)
Assignment 1: Greeting Behavior of College Students	671	(1)
Assignment 2: Defining Literacy	672	(1)
Assignment 3: What's Funny?	673	(3)
Assignment 4: Exploring the Discourse of Your Major	676	(48)
Perspectives for Exploring the Discourse of Your Major	677	(8)
Optional Readings: Complicating the Issues	685	(29)
Further Assignments for Exploring the Discourse of Your Major	714	(10)
Index of Authors and Titles	724