The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across the Disciplines

by Muller, Gilbert

• ISBN13: 9780073533131
• ISBN10: 0073533130
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-28
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

The McGraw-Hill Readeraddresses the liberal arts tradition, cross-curricular ideas, and diverse viewpoints through more than one hundred quality prose works from prominent writers and thinkers. A range of readings from both classic and contemporary sources and from across the disciplinesfrom education, the social sciences, business and economics, the humanities, and the sciencesprovoke critical thought and effective writing.

Table of Contents

An Overview Of College Writing

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing Steps to Reading Critically and Actively Preparing to Read Critical Reading Annotating Note Taking Questioning the Text Beyond Content: Focusing on Process Paraphrasing, Summarizing, Quoting Paraphrasing Summarizing Quoting Avoiding Plagiarism Synthesis

Drawing Connections from Texts Case Study for Synthesis

How Do Writers Influence Each Other?

The Death of the Moth

Death of a Moth Reading and Analyzing Visual Texts Classic and Contemporary Images: How Do We Communicate?

Marines Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima

Firefighters Raising the Flag at Ground Zero The Writing Process Prewriting Drafting Student Essay

Cultist Behavior or Doltish Behavior? Revising Responding to Editorial Comments A Portfolio on Writing and Communication

How to Mark a Book

Mother Tongue

Freewriting

The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts

The Blogs of War

Sex, Lies, and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?

Politics and the English Language

Reading and Writing Effective Arguments The Language of Argument The Test of Justification Reading and Analyzing Argument Understanding Claims and Warrants Reasoning from Evidence Thinking Critically about Arguments The Purpose of Argumentation Appeals to Reason, Emotion, and Ethics

The Gettysburg Address Writing Powerful Arguments Identify an Issue Take a Stand and Clarify Your Claim Analyze Your Audience Establish Your Tone Develop and Organize the Grounds for Your Claim Gather and Evaluate Your Evidence Consider Your Warrants Deal with Opposing Viewpoints Argumentative Synthesis Critique Guidelines for Argumentative Synthesis Case Study: MySpace: Friend or Foe?

Fakesters

Social Sites Are Becoming Too Much of a Good Thing

MySpace Is Not Responsible for Your Kids A Portfolio on Argumentation Classic and Contemporary Images: What Is an Argument?

The Third of May, 1808

Police Chief Brigadier General Classic and Contemporary Essays

How Do We Argue?

The Penalty of Death

The Death Penalty Is a Step Back

IS IT ETHICAL?

Animal Research Saves Human Lives

A Question of Ethics

Debate: The Patriot Act: Should We Sacrifice Civil Liberties For Security?

Security versus Civil Liberties

Acts of Resistance

Face Facts: Patriot Act Aids Security, Not Abuse

The Patriot Act of the 18th Century

Writing a Research Paper Research Writing: Preconceptions and Practice The Research Process

Defining Your Objective

Locating Your Sources

Gathering and Organizing Data

Writing and Submitting the Paper Documenting Sources Sample Student Paper (MLA Style) A Portolio of Professional Research Papers Humanities

Plath's "Lady Lazarus" Social Sciences

Playing with Fire: The Civil Liberties Implications of September 11th Science and Medicine

Compensation for Energy Intake from Fast Food among Overweight and Lean Adolescents

Issues Across The Disciplines

Education and Society: How, What, and Why Do We Learn?

Classic and Contemporary Images: Does Education Change Over Time?

Zoology Lab, Oberlin College, 1

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