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With more critical reading coverage than any other composition reader, Reading Critically, Writing Well helps students read for meaning and read like a writer, and it guides them to use what they've learned in their writing. Each of the book’s 8 assignment chapters includes a specific guide to reading that challenges students to analyze the authors’ techniques as well as a step-by-step guide to writing and revising that helps them apply these techniques to their own essays.
Now with more readings in each chapter, including 17 provocative new professional selections and student models covering a range of disciplines, this new edition features hands-on activities for critical analysis and invention, helpful reading and research strategies (including 2016 MLA coverage), and multiple opportunities for summary and synthesis. Accessible instruction, engaging readings, and effective writing assignments make Reading Critically, Writing Well ideal for instructors who want the support and readings to demonstrate effective rhetorical choices that students can make in their own writing.
Reading Critically, Writing Well A Reader and Guide
by Axelrod, Rise B.; Cooper, Charles R.; Warriner, Alison M.Edition: 11th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2016-10-14
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Author Biography
Rise B. Axelrod is McSweeney Professor of Rhetoric and Teaching Excellence, Emeritus, at the University of California, Riverside, where she was also director of English Composition. She has previously been professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino; director of the College Expository Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder; and assistant director of the Third College (now Thurgood Marshall College) Composition Program at the University of California, San Diego. She is the co-author, with Charles R. Cooper, of the best-selling textbook The St. Martin's Guide to Writing as well as The St. Martin's Concise Guide to Writing. Charles R. Cooper is an emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego. He served as coordinator of the Third College (now Thurgood Marshall College) Composition Program at the University of California, San Diego, and co-director of the San Diego Writing Project, one of the National Writing Project Centers. He advised the National Assessment of Educational Progress writing study and coordinated the development of California's first statewide writing assessment. He taught at the University of California, Riverside; the State University of New York at Buffalo; and the University of California, San Diego. He is co-editor, with Lee Odell, of Evaluating Writing and Research on Composing: Points of Departure, and he is co-author, with Rise Axelrod, of the best-selling textbook The St. Martin's Guide to Writing as well as The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing.
Alison M. Warriner is professor of English emerita at California State University, East Bay, where she was the Coordinator of Composition and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum. Previously she was Director of Communications at Sacred Heart University. She is co-author of Academic Literacy: A Statement of Competencies Expected of Students Entering California's Public Colleges and Universities (2002) and of the Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC 2005-present) that is currently adopted as Senior English in many California public high schools
Table of Contents
Contents by Theme Contents by Discipline CHAPTER 1 ACADEMIC HABITS OF MIND: FROM READING CRITICALLY TO WRITING WELLJoining the Academic Conversation Developing Curiosity Analyzing Ideas Developing Rhetorical SensitivityExploring the Rhetorical SituationFrom Reading Critically to Writing WellThe Writing ProcessCHAPTER 2 A CATALOG OF READING STRATEGIESAnnotating Martin Luther King Jr., "An Annotated Sample from "Letter from Birmingham Jail"Taking Inventory Outlining Summarizing Paraphrasing Synthesizing Analyzing Assumptions Contextualizing Exploring the Significance of Figurative Language Analyzing Visuals Looking for Patterns of Opposition Reflecting on Challenges to Your Beliefs and ValuesComparing and Contrasting Related ReadingsLewis H. Van Dusen Jr., "Legitimate Pressures and Illegitimate Results"Evaluating the Logic of an Argument Recognizing Logical Fallacies Recognizing Emotional Manipulation Judging the Writer’s CredibilityCHAPTER 3 AUTOBIOGRAPHY Rhetorical Situations for AutobiographiesA GUIDE TO READING AUTOBIOGRAPHY Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood"*David Sedaris, "Me Talk Pretty One Day" (Annotated Essay) Tom Ruprecht, "In Too Deep"Saira Shah, "Longing to Belong" Jenée Desmond-Harris, "Tupac and My Non-Thug Life" Brad Benioff, "Rick" (Student Essay) A GUIDE TO WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHYWriting Your Draft Reviewing and Improving the Draft CHAPTER 4 OBSERVATION Rhetorical Situations for Observations A GUIDE TO READING OBSERVATIONS The New Yorker, "Soup"*Leslie Jamison, "The Immortal Horizon" (Annotated Essay) John T. Edge, "I’m Not Leaving Until I Eat This Thing"Gabriel Thompson, "A Gringo in the Lettuce Fields"Amanda Coyne, "The Long Goodbye: Mother's Day in Federal Prison"Brian Cable, "The Last Stop" (Student Essay) A GUIDE TO WRITING OBSERVATIONAL ESSAYSWriting Your Draft Reviewing and Improving the DraftCHAPTER 5 REFLECTION Rhetorical Situations for Reflections A GUIDE TO READING REFLECTIVE ESSAYS Brent Staples, "Black Men and Public Space"Dana Jennings, "Our Scars Tell the Stories of Our Lives" (Annotated Essay)*Marina Keegan, "Stability in Motion"*Jacqueline Woodson, "The Pain of the Watermelon Joke"*Manuel Muñoz, "Leave Your Name at the Border"Katherine Haines, "Whose Body Is This?" (Student Essay) A GUIDE TO WRITING REFLECTIVE ESSAYSWriting Your Draft Reviewing and Improving the DraftCHAPTER 6 EXPLAINING CONCEPTS Rhetorical Situations for Concept Explanations A GUIDE TO READING ESSAYS EXPLAINING CONCEPTSSusan Cain, "Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?"*John Tierney, "Do You Suffer from Decision Fatigue?" (Annotated Essay)*Alexis C. Madrigal, "The Machine Zone"*Melanie Tannenbaum, "The Problem When Sexism Just Sounds So Darn Friendly"*Michael Pollan, "Altered State: Why 'Natural' Doesn't Mean Anything"Linh Kieu Ngo, "Cannibalism: It Still Exists" (Student Essay)A GUIDE TO WRITING ESSAYS EXPLAINING CONCEPTSWriting Your Draft Reviewing and Improving the DraftCHAPTER 7 EVALUATION Rhetorical Situations for Evaluations A GUIDE TO READING EVALUATIONSAmitai Etzioni, "Working at McDonald’s"*Molly McHugh, "This App Digitally Curates Your Messiest Relationships. Yay?" (Annotated Essay)*Emily Nussbaum, "The Aristocrats: The Graphic Arts of Game of Thrones"Malcolm Gladwell, "What College Rankings Really Tell Us"Christine Rosen, "The Myth of Multitasking" Christine Romano, "Jessica Statsky’s ‘Children Need to Play, Not Compete’: An Evaluation" (Student Essay) A GUIDE TO WRITING EVALUATIONSWriting Your Draft Reviewing and Improving the DraftCHAPTER 8 ARGUING FOR A POSITION Rhetorical Situations for Position Arguments A GUIDE TO READING ESSAYS ARGUING FOR A POSITIONBrian Greene, "Put a Little Science in Your Life"*David Z. Hambrick and Christopher Chabris, "Yes, IQ Really Matters" (Annotated Essay)Sherry Turkle, "The Flight from Conversation"Daniel J. Solove, "Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’"*Miya Tokumitsu, "In the Name of Love"Jessica Statsky, "Children Need to Play, Not Compete" (Student Essay)A GUIDE TO WRITING ESSAYS ARGUING FOR A POSITIONWriting Your Draft Reviewing and Improving the Draft CHAPTER 9 SPECULATING ABOUT CAUSES OR EFFECTS Rhetorical Situations for Speculating about Causes or Effects A GUIDE TO READING ESSAYS SPECULATING ABOUT CAUSES OR EFFECTSStephen King, "Why We Crave Horror Movies"*Eve Fairbanks, "How Did Sleep Become So Nightmarish?" (Annotated Essay)Shankar Vedantam, "The Telescope Effect"Nicholas Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"*Sendhil Mullainathan, "The Mental Strain of Making Do with Less"*Clayton Pangelinan, #socialnetworking: Why It’s Really So Popular" (Student Essay)A GUIDE TO WRITING ESSAYS SPECULATING ABOUT CAUSES OR EFFECTSWriting Your Draft Reviewing and Improving the DraftCHAPTER 10 PROPOSAL TO SOLVE A PROBLEM Rhetorical Situations for Proposals A GUIDE TO READING PROPOSALSDavid Bornstein, "Fighting Bullying with Babies"*Harold Meyerson, "How to Raise Americans’ Wages" (Annotated Essay) *Naomi Rose, "Captivity Kills Orcas"William F. Shughart II, "Why Not a Football Degree?"Kelly D. Brownell and Thomas R. Frieden, "Ounces of Prevention—The Public Policy Case for Taxes on Sugared Beverages"
Patrick O’Malley, "More Testing, More Learning" (Student Essay)
A GUIDE TO WRITING PROPOSALS
Writing Your Draft Reviewing and Improving the DraftAPPENDIX: STRATEGIES FOR RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATIONPlanning a Research Project Analyzing Your Rhetorical Situation and Setting a Schedule Choosing a Topic and Getting an Overview Focusing Your Topic and Drafting Research Questions Establishing a Research Log Creating a Working Bibliography Annotating Your Working Bibliography Taking Notes on Your Sources Finding Sources Searching Library Catalogs and Databases Searching for Government Documents and Statistical Information Searching for Websites and Interactive Sources Conducting Field Research Conducting Observational Studies Conducting Interviews Conducting Surveys Evaluating Sources Choosing Relevant Sources Choosing Reliable Sources Using Sources to Support Your Ideas Synthesizing Sources Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism Using Information from Sources to Support Your Claims Citing and Documenting Sources in MLA Style Using In-Text Citations Creating a List of Works Cited Citing and Documenting Sources in APA Style Using In-Text Citations Creating a List of ReferencesAn electronic version of this book is available through VitalSource.
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