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| Preface to the Instructor | |
| Writing, Reading, and Research | |
| Introduction to Writing, Reading, and Research | |
| Writing | |
| Writing Habits and Strategies | |
| Student Writing: | |
| Eighth Grade Revisited | |
| Prewriting | |
| Student Writing: Peer Review | |
| Glad to Call Them Friends | |
| Peer Review | |
| Student Writing | |
| EatinÖ AinÖt CheatinÖ | |
| Revising | |
| Editing and Proofreading | |
| Developing Your Own Writing Routines | |
| Guidelines for Writing an Essay That Incorporates Primary Research | |
| Reading | |
| Reading Habits and Strategies | |
| Interpreting Texts | |
| Responding to Reading | |
| Reading Response Groups | |
| Practice Reading: | |
| A Short History of Love | |
| Student Writing: | |
| JanetÖs freewriting | |
| AlexÖs freewriting | |
| AgnesÖs freewriting | |
| Guidelines for Group Work | |
| Research | |
| Reading Selection: | |
| Going with the Flow | |
| Freewriting | |
| Additional Readings: | |
| Making Fairy Tales into Learning Tools | |
| Hackers Devise Their Own Language Literacies | |
| The Holly Pageant | |
| About the Rest of This Book | |
| Strategies for Reading | |
| Inferences | |
| Context | |
| Strategies for Understanding | |
| Student Writing: | |
| My Turn | |
| Sources of Information | |
| Responding to Textual Clues | |
| Practice Reading: | |
| Relationships with Maturing Children | |
| Guidelines for Annotating and Underlining for Recall | |
| Practice Readings: | |
| Keeping Parents Off Campus | |
| Annotating to Stimulate Response | |
| Some Geography, Some History | |
| Not a Drop to Drink | |
| Keeping a Reading Journal | |
| Practice Reading: | |
| From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | |
| Checklist of Reading Strategies | |
| Reading Selections: | |
| Learning How to Learn | |
| Adapting to College Life in an Era of Heightened Stress | |
| Freewriting | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Write, Read, and Research the Net | |
| Additional Readings: | |
| The Challenge of First-Generation College Students | |
| What Your College Kid Is Really Up To | |
| Pressure and Competition: Academic, Extracurricular, and Parental | |
| Paraphrasing | |
| Paraphrase as a Reading Strategy | |
| Using Paraphrase in Writing | |
| Paraphrasing for a Different Audience | |
| Paraphrasing an Argument | |
| Paraphrasing in Research Papers | |
| GUIDELINES for Effective Paraphrasing | |
| Reading Selections: | |
| Another Day, Another Indignity | |
| Freewriting | |
| Group Work | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Write, Read, and Research the Net | |
| ADDITIONAL READINGS: | |
| Get a Job | |
| The High Cost of Summer Cash | |
| Reading for the Main Idea | |
| General and Specific Statements | |
| Deductive and Inductive Organization | |
| Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences | |
| Restating the Main Idea | |
| A Further Comment on Paragraphs | |
| Reading Selection: | |
| Girls Want to Be Mean | |
| Freewriting | |
| Group Work | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Write, Read and Research the Net | |
| Additional Readings: | |
| Listening to Boys' Voices | |
| Bad Girls | |
| Be a Man | |
| Summarizing | |
| Summary and Paraphrase | |
| Writing Summaries | |
| Guidelines for Summarizing Longer Passages | |
| Practice Reading: | |
| Stereotyping: Homogenizing People | |
| Uses of Summary | |
| Summarizing an Argument | |
| Summarizing in Research Papers | |
| Guidelines for Effective Summarizing | |
| Reading Selection: | |
| Understanding Grace | |
| Freewriting | |
| Group Work | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Write, Read and Research on the Internet | |
| Additional Readings: | |
| AmericaÖ God Save the QueenÖ and Postmodernity | |
| The Dream Is Over | |
| Synthesizing | |
| A Brief Summary Report | |
| Practice Readings: | |
| Readings on Thomas Kinkade | |
| Not a Pretty Picture | |
| Guidelines for Writing a Brief Summary Report | |
| An Objective Report on Sources | |
| Practice Readings: | |
| Reagan Deserves Landmarks | |
| The Rename Game | |
| The Obligation of Acknowledging Sources | |
| The List of Works Cited | |
| Parenthetical Notes | |
| Reading Selection: | |
| The Great Mosquito Crusade | |
| Freewriting | |
| Group Work | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Write, Read and Research on the Internet | |
| Additional Reading: | |
| The Air-Conditioned Nightmare | |
| Analyzing Texts | |
| Analyzing the Parts | |
| Purpose | |
| Practice Readings: | |
| Be Prepared | |
| Control and Choice: YouÖre In Charge When You Research and Book Your Travel Online | |
| Audience | |
| Practice Readings: | |
| Left-Handedness and Premature Death | |
| Really? | |
| Main Idea | |
| Practice Readings: | |
| Who Cares as Long as ItÖs Natural? | |
| Development | |
| Practice ReadingsS: | |
| In Memory of Merry Oldsmobiles | |
| The Evolution of a Daffy Species | |
| Organization and Coherence | |
| Practice ReadingsS: | |
| Writers Have Feelings, Too | |
| Forever Yours: The Best Commercial Brands Build Strong Consumer Loyalty | |
| Writing a Brief Reading Analysis | |
| Practice Readings: | |
| Ernie's Nuns | |
| Reading Selection: | |
| Opening Ourselves to Unconditional Love in Our Relationships with Students | |
| Freewriting | |
| Group Work | |
| Review Questions | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Writing | |
| Write, Read and Research on the Internet | |
| Additional Readings: | |
| Crossing the Fine Line Between Teacher and Therapist | |
| Hollywood Goes to School | |
| Beginning a Research Project | |
| The Research Paper | |
| Primary and Secondary Research | |
| Benefits of Doing Research | |
| Learning an Essential Skill | |
| Contributing to Scholarship | |
| Gaining Personal Knowledge | |
| The Research Process | |
| A Research Assignment | |
| The Finished Product | |
| A Sample Standard Research Paper | |
| Student Writing: | |
| Identical Twins: Born To Be Alike? | |
| A Sample Personal Research Paper | |
| STUDENT WRITING: | |
| Pharmaceutical Sales: More Than Just Viagra Pens | |
| Exercise | |
| Your Research Schedule: Planning in Advance | |
| A Research Notebook | |
| Your Research Topic | |
| Generating Ideas | |
| Brainstorming | |
| Developing an Idea: Clustering | |
| Tools for Finding Sources | |
| Beginning Your Research | |
| Your Campus Library | |
| Electronic Resources | |
| Networks | |
| Using Your LibraryÖs Research Tools | |
| Finding Books and Other Library Holdings | |
| Doing a Keyword Search | |
| Exercise | |
| Encyclopedias and Other General Reference Works | |
| Finding Articles: Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers | |
| Using Electronic Databases | |
| A Sample Search for Periodical Sources | |
| Finding Government Documents | |
| Internet Resources | |
| Web Search Engines | |
| The Reference Librarian: The Most Resourceful Resource | |
| Finding Sources outside the Library: Conducting Interviews and Writing Letters | |
| Interviewing Sources | |
| Arranging the Interview | |
| Conducting the Interview | |
| Writing for Information | |
| Still Other Sources | |
| Putting Your Sources to Work | |
| A Research Prospectus | |
| Student Prospectus: Allen Strickland | |
| The Working Bibliography | |
| Using Your Sources | |
| Reading Your Sources | |
| Evaluating Your Sources | |
| Internet Sources | |
| Narrowing Your PaperÖs Focus | |
| Formulating and Refining a Plan | |
| Taking Notes on Note Cards | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| GUIDELINES for Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Reporting on Sources: Paraphrase and Quotation | |
| The Conventions of Reporting | |
| Options for Presenting Sources | |
| Paraphrase | |
| Direct Quotation of a Sentence | |
| Quoting Part of a Sentence | |
| Quoting Longer Passages | |
| Acknowledging Sources | |
| Relying on Experts | |
| Paraphrasing Sources | |
| Quoting Sources | |
| Punctuating Quotations | |
| Altering Quotations | |
| When To Quote and When To Paraphrase | |
| A Further Note on Plagiarism | |
| Practice with Using Sources | |
| Writing a Brief Objective Research Essay | |
| Writing a Brief Subjective Research Essay | |
| Writing and Revising the Research Paper | |
| Getting Organized | |
| Formulating a Thesis Statement | |
| Sorting Your Note Cards | |
| Updating Your Outline | |
| Writing the First Good Draft | |
| Guidelines for General Research Writing | |
| Some Practical Writing Tips | |
| Getting Started | |
| Writing the Opening | |
| Writing the Conclusion | |
| Giving Your Paper a Title | |
| Editing and Revising | |
| Reworking Your Paper | |
| Checklist for Editing and Revising | |
| Getting Advice from Other Readers | |
| Student Writing: | |
| Editing Draft Courtney Holbrook | |
| Identical Twins: Born To Be Alike? | |
| Typing and Proofreading Your Polished Draft | |
| Argument: Reading, Writing, and Research | |
| Emotional Persuasion | |
| Logical Argument | |
| The Structure of Logical Argument: Claims, Evidence, and Values | |
| Varieties of Evidence | |
| Ethical and Emotional Appeals | |
| An Informal Analysis of Argument | |
| Practice ReadingsS: | |
| Abolish the Penny | |
| A Cell Phone? | |
| Neve4r for Me | |
| A Critique of an Argument | |
| Guidelines for Writing a Critique of an Argument | |
| Practice ReadingsS: | |
| Workplace Worrywarts | |
| ItÖs Really the Selectorial or Ejectorial College and Needs to Go | |
| An Argumentative Research Essay | |
| Purpose | |
| Thesis | |
| Audience | |
| Persona | |
| Evidence | |
| Opposition | |
| Organization | |
| A Sample Argumentative Essay | |
| Student Writing: | |
| Title IX: Leveling the Playing Field | |
| Exercise | |
| Research Paper Reference Handbook | |
| List of Works Cited (MLA Format) | |
| Bibliographic Formats | |
| General GuidelinesôMLA Format | |
| Parenthetical Notes (MLA Format) | |
| Types of Notes | |
| Parenthetical Notes | |
| Information Footnotes | |
| Research Paper Format (MLA Style) | |
| Format for Your Polished Draft | |
| A Formal Outline | |
| Footnotes and Endnotes | |
| Sample Footnotes and Endnotes | |
| APA Format | |
| Formats Other Than MLA | |
| APA Style | |
| Format Featuring Numbered References | |
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