This brief rhetoric focuses on the key strategies that any academic writer needs to know -- summary, synthesis, analysis, and critique. Building off of the hallmark writing instruction of the best-selling Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, this writing guide focuses on the critical reading and writing strategies that students need in order to thoughtfully interpret and incorporate source material into their own papers. The text employs high-interest readings from a range of disciplines to allow students to practice these strategies and skills, while numerous student papers model the kinds of academic texts that students are expected to produce.

Preface for Instructors

Note to the Student

Part One: Structures

Chapter 1—Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation

What Is a Summary?

The Reading Process

How to Write Summaries

Will Your Job Be Exported?—Alan S. Blinder

Summarizing Figures and Tables

Paraphrase

Quotations

Avoiding Plagiarism

The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln—Doris Kearns Goodwin

Chapter 2—Critical Reading and Critique

Critical Reading

The Moon We Left Behind Charles Krauthammer

Critique

Model Critique: A Critique of ”The Moon We Left Behind” by Charles Krauthammer—Andrew Harlan

The Common App Fallacy—Damon Beres

Chapter 3—Explanatory Synthesis

What Is a Synthesis?

Explanation: News Article from the New York Times

While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales—Michael Moss

Argument: Op-Ed from the Boston Globe

Got Too Much Cheese?—Derrick Z. Jackson

How to Write Syntheses

The Explanatory Synthesis

The History of the Space Elevator—P. K. Aravind

Applications of the Space Elevator—Bradley C. Edwards

Going Up—Brad Lemley

Why We Need a Space Elevator—Cathy Swan and Peter Swan

Model Paper: The Space Elevator—Sheldon Kearney

Chapter 4—Argument Synthesis

What Is an Argument Synthesis?

Demonstration: Developing an Argument Synthesis—Balancing Privacy and Safety in the Wake of Virginia Tech

Mass Shootings at Virginia Tech: Report of the Review Panel

Laws Limit Schools Even After Alarms—Jeff Gammage and Stacey Burling

Perilous Privacy at Virginia Tech—Christian Science Monitor

Colleges Are Watching Troubled Students—Jeffrey McMurray

Campus Stabbing Student Sues UC Regents—Larry Gordon

Virginia Tech Massacre Has Altered Campus Mental Health Systems—Associated Press

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Model Argument Synthesis: Balancing Privacy and Safety in the Wake of Virginia Tech—David Harrison

Developing and Organizing the Support for Your Arguments

The Comparison-and-Contrast Synthesis

Model Exam Response: Key Similarities and Differences between World Wars I and II

Summary of Synthesis Chapters

Chapter 5—Analysis

What Is an Analysis?

How to Write Analyses

The Plug-In Drug—Marie Winn

When Your Perspective Guides the Analysis

Model Analysis: The Case of the Missing Kidney Linda Shanker

A Theory of Human Motivation—Abraham H. Maslow

The Appeal of the Democracy of Goods—Roland Marchand

Elements of an Effective Layout—Dorothy Cohen

Part Two: Strategies

Chapter 6—Writing as a Process

Writing as Thinking

Stages of the Writing Process

Stage 1: Understanding the Task

Stage 2: Gathering Data

Stage 3: Invention

Stage 4: Drafting

Stage 5: Revision

Stage 6: Editing

Chapter 7- Locating, Mining, and Citing Sources

Source-Based Papers

Preliminary Research

Focused Research

The Working Bibliography

Arrainging Your Notes: The Outline

Plagiarism, the Internet, and Fair Use

MLA Style: In-text Citations

MLA Style: Citations in the Works Cited List

APA Style: In-text Citations

APA Style: Citations in the References List

Chapter 8- Practicing Academic Writing

The Changing Landscape of Work in the Twenty-first Century

Work and Workers in the Twenty-first Century- Richard Judy and Carol D'Amico

The Untouchables- Thomas Friedman

Will Your Job Be Exporter?- Alan Blinder

Into the Unknown- The Economist

Employment Projections: 2006-2016 Summary- The Bureau of Labor Statistics

Engineering- Victoria Reitz

Business- Tom Peters

Technology and Services- Steve Lohr

Law- Tom McGrath

Medicine- Matt Richtel

Credits

Index

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