Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum

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.

Table of Contents:
1. Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation What Is a Summary? Can a Summary Be Objective? Using the Summary The Reading Process How to Write Summaries Demonstration: Summary             The Future of Love: Kiss Romance Goodbye, It’s Time for the Real Thing, Barbara Graham Summarizing a Narrative or Personal Essay             Dreams of Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin Summarizing Figures and Tables Paraphrase Quotation Avoiding Plagiarism   2. Critical Reading and Critique Critical Reading             We Are Not Created Equal in Every Way, Joan Ryan Critique Demonstration: Critique             Model Critique: A Critique of Joan Ryan’s “We Are Not Created Equal in Every Way,” Eric Ralston   3.  Introductions, Theses, and Conclusions Writing Introductions Writing a Thesis Writing Conclusions             4. Explanatory Synthesis What is a Synthesis? Purpose Using Your Sources Types of Syntheses: Explanatory and Argument             Explanation: News Article from the New York Times, “Private Gets Three Years for Iraq Prison Abuse”             Argument:  Editorial from the BostonGlobe, “Military Abuse” How to Write Syntheses The Explanatory Synthesis Demonstration: Explanatory Synthesis—The Hydrogen-Powered Automobile             The Fuel Subsidy We Need, Ricardo Bayon             Putting the Hindenburg to Rest, Jim Motavalli             Lots of Hot Air about Hydrogen, Joseph J. Romm Revising the Example: First Draft             Revised Model Paper: The Car of the Future?, Janice Hunte Writing Assignment: The “Legacy” Question in College Admissions     5. Argument Synthesis What Is an Argument Synthesis? Demonstration: Developing an Argument Synthesis—Volunteering in America             A New Start for National Service, John McCain and Evan Bayh             Calls for National Service, Roger Landrum, Donald J. Eberly, and Michael W. Sherraden             Politics and National Service: A Virus Attacks the Volunteer Sector, Bruce Chapman             Model Synthesis: Keeping Volunteering Voluntary 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   6. Analysis What Is an Analysis? Demonstration: Analyses             The Plug-In Drug, Marie Winn             Model Paper: The Coming Apart of a Dorm Society, Edward Peselman How to Write Analyses Analyzing Visual Media             The Appeal of the Democracy of Goods, Roland Marchand             Elements of an Effective Layout, Dorothy Cohen Analysis: A Tool for Understanding   ** New chapter 7.   Practicing Academic Writing Merit vs. Privilege The Assignments             Summary             Paraphrase             Critique             Explanatory Synthesis             Argument Synthesis             Analysis The Readings The Curse of Nepotism, from The Economist May the Best Man or Woman Win, Miriam Schulman Legacy Admissions Are Defensible Because the Process Can’t Be `Fair,’ Debra Thomas and Terry Shepard Time to Bury the Legacy, Robert DeKoven The History of Legacy Admissions, Cameron Howell and Sarah E. Turner Getting In: The Social Logic of Ivy League Admissions, Malcolm Gladwell So Your Dad Went to Harvard, Mark Megalli Preserve Universities’ Right to Shape Student Community, from USAToday Admissions Confidential: An Insider’s Account of the Elite College Selection Process, Rachel Toor Making Ethical Decisions, Gerald F. Cavanagh   II. An Anthology of Readings   ** SOCIOLOGY (new unit)   8.      Marriage and Family in America The Satisfactions of Housewifery and Motherhood/ Paradise Lost, Terry Martin Hekker The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love, Stephanie Coontz The State of Our Unions, David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Debunking Myths about Marriage and Families, Mary Ann Schwartz and Barbara Marliene Scott A Debate on Gay Marriage, Andrew Sullivan / William Bennett Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path–to Motherhood, Louise Story What Yale Women Want, and Why It Is Misguided, Karen Stabiner Work vs. Family, Complicated by Race, Lynette Clemetson A Marriage Agreement, Alix Kate Shulman How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement, Caitlin Flanagan The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be.  How It Was, Hope Edelman My Problem with Her Anger, Eric Bartels Two-Timing,  Michelle Cottle Single-Minded, Keith O’Brien      PSYCHOLOGY.    9.        Obedience to Authority.   Opinions and Social Pressure, Solomon E. Asch. The Perils of Obedience, Stanley Milgram. Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience, Diana Baumrind. Obedience, Ian Parker. The Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip K. Zimbardo. Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem, Erich Fromm. **Uncivil Disobedience: Violating the Rules for Breaking the Law, James L. Lopach and Jean A. Luckowski ** From Antigone, Jean Anouilh (adapted and translated by Lewis Galantiere)   AMERICAN STUDIES   10.   What's Happening at the Mall?   Shopping for American Culture , James J. Farrell. **A Brief History of Malls. Kenneth T. Jackson Shopping Towns USA, Victor Gruen and Larry Smith The Mall as Disneyland, Richard Francaviglia. The Mall as Prison, David Guterson. **The Mall as Walled Garden, Richard Simon **The Mall as Sacred Space, John Pahl **The Mall as Setting for Authentic Life, Virginia Postrel The Mall as Refuge, George Lewis. From Town Center to Shopping Center, Lizabeth Cohen. Mallaise: How to Know If You Have It, William Kowinski **BIOLOGY  (new unit) 11. Adolescent Sleep   A Third of Life, Paul Martin Improving Sleep, Susan Ince America’s Sleep-Deprived Teens Nodding off at School, Behind the Wheel, National Sleep Foundation When Worlds Collide: Adolescent Need for Sleep vs. Societal Demands, Mary A. Carskadon Sleep Debt and the Mortgaged Mind, William C. Dement and Christopher Vaughan The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, D.J. Buysse How Sleep Debt Hurts College Students, June J. Pilcher and Amy S. Walters Starting Time and School Life, Patricia K. Kubow, Kyla L. Wahlstrom, and Amy Bemis The Medicalization of Sleep: A Case Study in Conflicting Interpretations of Data   LITERATURE/ FOLKLORE   12. Fairy Tales: A Closer Look at “Cinderella”.   Universality of the Folktale , Stith Thompson. Ten Variants of   “Cinderella” : Cinderella, Charles Perrault. Ashputtle , Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. **The Cat Cinderella, Giambattista Basile A Chinese “Cinderella” , Tuan Ch’êng-shih. The Maiden, the Frog, and the Chief’s Son (An African “Cinderella”) . Oochigeaskw–The Rough-Faced Girl (A Native American “Cinderella”) . **A Yemeni Version of “Cinderella” **The Seven Foals, Andrew Lang Walt Disney’s “Cinderella” , Adapted by Campbell Grant. Cinderella, Anne Sexton. **The Rise of Perrault’s “Cinderella,” Bonnie Cullen  “Cinderella”: A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts , Bruno Bettelheim. **My Best White Friend: Cinderella Revisited, Patricia Williams I Am Cinderella's Stepmother and I Know My Rights , Judith Rossner. Cinderella": NotSo Morally Superior, Elisabeth Panttaja.   BUSINESS/ COMMUNICATIONS 13. New and Improved: Six Decades of Advertising. Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals, Jib Fowles. Making the Pitch in Print Advertising, Courtland L. Bovée, John V. Thill, George P. Dovel, and Marian Burk Wood. Elements of Effective Layout , Dorothy Cohen. The Indictments against Advertising , Courtland L. Bovée and William F. Arens. A Portfolio of Advertisements: 1945-2003.   LAW   14. Has the Jury Reached a Verdict?   Incident at the Airport, Leonard Tourney IRAC: How to Argue Your Case, Leonard Tourney and Gina Genova Cases: Outrageous Conduct? Some Cases of Emotional Distress Do Students Have Freedom of Speech? The Felled Stop Signs: Two Cases of Homicide Should We Hold Parents Responsible for the Acts of Their Children? Legal Glossary.   Quick Index to MLA and APA Documentation