Title:
Writing and reading across the curriculum
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Edition:
8th ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Longman, 2003
ISBN:
9780321091024
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Summary
Summary
"This rhetoric and reader guides the reader through the essential college-level writing skills of summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis, and offers a focused opportunity for practicing these skills." Guides the reader through the writing skills of summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis. Summary, critique, synthesis, analysis. General Interest.
Table of Contents
| Introduction to the Art of Essay Writing |
| I Aspects of the Writing Process |
| 1 Process and Thesis |
| 2 Paragraphs: Forming and Shaping Ideas |
| 3 Research |
| 4 Documenting Sources |
| II Elements of Academic Essays |
| 5 Representing Others: Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation |
| 6 Critiquing Others: Textual Analysis and Response |
| 7 Synthesizing Self and Others: Research Essays |
| III An Anthology of Readings |
| 8 Homeless in the "Just Society" [Political Science] |
| 9 Obedience to Authority [Psychology] |
| 10 The Book of Job [Philosophy/Religion] |
| 11 Power and Privilege in School Culture [Education] |
| 12 The Brave New World of Biotechnology [Biology] |
| 13 Fairy Tales: A Closer Look at "Cinderella" [Folklore] |
| 14 The Beast Within: Perspectives on the Horror Film [Film Studies] |
