Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader and Rhetoric Academic Writers with NEW MyCompLab -- Access Card Package

ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products.   Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the seller before completing your purchase.   Used or rental books If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code.   Access codes Access codes that are purchased from sellers other than Pearson carry a higher risk of being either the wrong ISBN or a previously redeemed code. Check with the seller prior to purchase.   -- This rhetoric/anthology instructs college students in how to read academic texts with understanding and how to use them as sources for papers in a variety of disciplines.   In Writing in the Disciplines, Mary Kennedy and William Kennedy emphasize academic writing as ongoing conversations in multiple genres, and do so in the context of WPA Outcomes. The rhetoric chapters teach critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing process, synthesizing, analyzing, researching, and developing arguments. The anthology balances journal articles with works by public intellectuals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.     0321882059 / 9780321882059 Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader and Rhetoric Academic Writers with NEW MyCompLab -- Access Card Package Package consists of 0205726623 / 9780205726622 Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader and Rhetoric Academic for Writers 020589190X / 9780205891900 NEW MyCompLab - Valuepack Access Card  

Table of Contents:
Brief Contents   Contents   Preface   Part I: Reading and Writing in the Academic Disciplines   Chapter 1: Active Critical Reading    Academic Reading-Writing Process    Conversation with the Texts    Active Critical Reading    Keeping a Writer’s Notebook    Prereading    Preview the Text and Ask Questions that Will Help You Set Goals for Close Reading    Use Freewriting and Brainstorming to Recall Your Prior Knowledge and Express Your Feelings about the Reading  Topic    Close Reading    Mark, Annotate, and Elaborate on the Text    Take Effective Notes    Pose and Answer Questions about the Text    Reading for Genre, Organization, and Stylistic Features    Genre    Organization    Stylistic Features    Rhetorical Context of Text    Rhetorical Context of Your Reading    Analyze Writing Assignments      Chapter 2: Responses, Paraphrases, Summaries, and Quotations    Write an Informal Response    Convert Informal Response to Response Essay    Paraphrase    Summarize    Quote    Altering Quotations    Weaving Quotations into Your Essay   Chapter 3: Critical Analysis Part I: Critical Analysis    Focus of the Chapter    Adopting a Questioning Frame of Mind    Types of Analyses You Will Be Asked to Write    Importance of Genre Knowledge    Approaches to Analysis    Purpose of Critical Analysis    Critical Analysis and the Academic Conversation    *Examination of “Dry Your Eyes: Examining the Role of Robots for Childcare Applications,” by David Feil-Seifer and Maja  J. Mataric’s Critical Analysis  of Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey’s, “The Crying Shame of Robot Nannies: An  Ethical Appraisal” Part II: Writing a Critical Analysis: A Detailed Demonstration of Reading-Writing Process    Critical Reading    Planning    Drafting    Revising the Preliminary Draft    Editing    Student’s Critical Analysis Essay: Final Draft   Chapter 4: Literary Analysis and Comparative Analysis    Literary Analysis    Process of Writing a Literary Analysis    Comparative Analysis    Incorporate Comparative Analysis into Longer Essays    Stand-Alone Comparative Analysis of Texts    Process of Writing a Comparative Analysis of Texts    Sample Comparative Analysis Essay    A Brief Word About Other Types of Analysis Essays    Rhetorical Analysis    Process Analysis    Casual Analysis   Chapter 5: Visual Analysis    Principles of Visual Analysis    Portfolio of Photographs    Overview of Visual Analysis    Process of Writing a Visual Analysis Essay    Previewing    Viewing for Content    Viewing for Genre, Organization, and Stylistic Features    Viewing for Rhetorical Context   Chapter 6: Synthesis    Analysis and Synthesis    Process of Writing Synthesis Essays    Examine the Assignment    Determine Your Rhetorical Purpose: Purposes for Synthesizing Sources    Ask Questions to Identify Relationships among the Sources    Formulate a Thesis and Review the Texts    Process of Writing an Exploratory Synthesis    Decide on Rhetorical Purpose    Formulate Working Thesis    Process of Writing a Literature Review    *Examination of “Adolescents’ Expressed Meanings of Music In and Out of School”: Patricia Shehard Campbell, Claire Connell, and Amy Beegle’s Literature Review    Organize the Literature Review to Focus on Ideas Rather than Sources    Process of Writing a Thesis-Driven Synthesis    Support Thesis with Evidence    Examination of Student’s Thesis-Drive Synthesis    Revising Synthesis Essays   Chapter 7: Argument    Nature of Academic Argument    Argument in a Broad Sense and Argument in a Specialized Sense    Specialized Argument Expressed as Statement vs. Specialized Argument Synthesized with Sources    Developing Support for Arguments    Joining the Academic Conversation    *Examination of “Predators or Plowshares? Arms Control of Robotic Weapons,” Robert Sparrow’s Argument Synthesis    Process of Writing an Argument Synthesis Essay    Differentiate Between Issues and Topics    Differentiate Between Claims and Evidence    Differentiate Between Opinions and Reasons    Probe Both Sides of the Issue    Question the Reading Sources    State Your Claim    Support Reasons with Evidence from Reading Sources    Acknowledge and Respond to Competing Claims    Illustration of Student’s Process in Writing an Argument Synthesis Essay    Consider Audience    Determine Issue, Thesis, and Competing Positions    Organize Argument Synthesis Essays    Acknowledge and Respond to Alternative views in Separate, Self-Contained Sections    Acknowledge and respond to Objections in a Point-by-Point Fashion    Revising and Editing   Chapter 8: Writing Research Papers    The Research Paper: An Introduction    Identify a Research Topic: The Role of the Assignment    Illustration of a Student’s Process of Writing a Research Paper    Select a Research Topic    Develop a Research Strategy    Set a Schedule    Brainstorm a Preliminary Search Vocabulary    Determine How You Will Find the Sources    Locate Sources in an Academic Library    Use Catalogues to Find Books    Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)    Library of Congress and OCLC World Cat    Bibliographic Details for Electronic Sources    A Word About Electronic Retrieval Systems    Types of Searches    Conduct Research on the World Wide Web    Advantages and Disadvantages of the Web    Advantages of College Libraries    Find Digital Resources on the Web    How to Increase the Precision of Your Web Search    Evaluate What You Find    Which Articles Are the Most Important    How to Evaluate Web Sources    Evaluate Information Sources    Collect Information on Your Own    Modify Your Search Strategy    Excerpt Information from Sources and Cite What You Find Using a Standard Format    Formulate a Working Thesis    Planning the Research Paper    Select an Organizational Plan    Outline    Write from Your Outline    Revising   Part II: An Anthology of Readings   Natural Sciences and Technology Chapter 9: Who Owns Your Body?    *“Who Owns Your Body Parts?” by Kerry Howley    *“Donors Have No Rights to Donated Tissue” by Kristine E. Schleiter, JD, LLM    *“The Trouble with Organ Trafficking,” by Arthur Caplan    *“Why We Need a Market for Human Organs,” by Sally Satel    *“The Gendered Language of Gamete ‘Donation’,” by Caroline Rubin     Chapter 10: Human/Machine Interaction    *“Humanoid and Android Science,” by Hiroshi Ishiguro and Minoru Asada    *“Looking Forward to Sociable Robots,” by Glenda Shaw-Garlock    *“The Ethical Frontier of Robotics,” by Noel Sharkey    *“The Way Forward in the World of Robotics,” Kenneth W. Goodman and Norman G. Einspruch   Chapter 11: Privacy and Technology      *“I Just Called to Say I Love You,” by Jonathan Franzen    “Kyllo v. United States: Technology v. Individual Privacy,” by Thomas Colbridge    *“The Anonymity Experiment,” by Catherine Price    “Trading Liberties for Illusions,” by Wendy Kaminer    *“If Looks Could Kill,” The Economist   Social Sciences Chapter 12: The Changing American Family    “What Is a Family,” by Pauline Irit Erera    “Children of Gay Fathers,” by Robert L. Barret and Bryan E. Robinson    “Cohabitation Instead of Marriage,” by James Q. Wilson    *“The Origins of the Ambivalent Acceptance of Divorce,” by Andrew J. Oberlin    “Absent Fathers: Why Don’t We Ever Talk about the Unmarried Men?” by Rebecca M. Blank    *“The Ballad of a Single Mother,” by Lynn Olcott   Chapter 13: Social Class and Inequality    “Born Poor and Smart,” by Angela Locke    *“Culture of Success,” by Brink Lindsey    “The War Against the Poor Instead of Programs to End Poverty,” by Herbert J.  Gans    *“The Inequality Challenge,” by Matt Yglesias    “Serving in Florida,” by Barbara Ehrenreich    “Middle of the Class,” The Economist    “When Shelter Feels Like a Prison,” by Charmion Browne   Humanities Chapter 14: Rock Music and Cultural Values    “Toward an Aesthetic of Popular Music,” by Simon Frith    *“Music and Morality,” by Roger Scruton    “Redeeming the Rap Experience,” Venise Berry    *“Digital Music: You Are What You Listen To,” by Lane Jennings    *“Of Ipods and Dirty Underwear,” by James Rosen   Chapter 15: Stories of Ethnic Difference    “A Different Mirror,” by Ronald Takaki    “Jasmine,” by Bharati Mukherjee    “Snapshots,” by Helena Maria Viramontes    “Between the Pool and the Gardenias,” Edwidge Danticat    “Bohemians,” by George Saunders   Chapter 16: Three Visual Portfolios    Portfolio 1: Images of Families    Portfolio 2: Images of Inequality    Portfolio 3: Images of Ethnic Diversity   Appendix: Documenting Sources   Index