Academic Reading - Second Edition: Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines

Table of Contents:
General Introduction Introduction Science, Law, and the Search for Truth in the Courtroom: Lessons from Daubert v. Merrell Dow, Joan E. Bertin and Mary S. Henifin Introduction Effects of Lawyers' Socio-political Attitudes on Their Judgments of Social Science in Legal Decision Making, Richard E. Redding and N. Dickon Reppucci Introduction Some Experimental Influences of Lawyers' Complicated Questions on Eyewitness Confidence and Accuracy, Mark R. Kebbell and David C. Giles Introduction Chronicles and Annals, Elisabeth van Houts Introduction The Masked Disease: Oral History, Memory, and the Influenza Pandemic, 1918-19, Lucy Taksa Introduction Retelling Experiments: H.B.D. Kettlewell's Studies of Industrial Melanism in Peppered Moths, Joel B. Hagen Introduction The Master Potter and the Rejected Pots: Eugenic Legislation in Victoria, 1918-1939, Ross L. Jones Introduction "To Watch the Faces of the Poor": Life Magazine and the Mythology of Rural Poverty in the Great Depression, Charles Cunningham Introduction The Power of Imagined Community: The Settlement of Undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States, Leo R. Chavez Introduction The Waltz of Sociability: Intimacy, Dislocation, and Friendship in a Quebec High School, Vered Amit-Talai Introduction Sounding Gender(ed): Vocal Performances in English University Teaching Spaces, Tom Delph-Janiurek Introduction The Structure of "Revealed" Preference: Race, Community, and Female Labour Supply in the London Clothing Industry, Naila Kabeer Introduction Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory, Cheshire Calhoun Introduction The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution, Donald N. Sull Introduction The Battles in Seattle, Margaret Levi and David Olson Introduction The Dance of Power: Ritual and Agency among Unionized American Health Care Workers, E. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem Introduction Similarities in Anti-Racist and Racist Discourse: Duth Local Residents Talking About Ethnic Minorities, Maykel Verkuten, Wiebe de Jong, and Kees Masson Introduction Conflict and Struggle: The Enemies or Preconditions of Basic Writing? Min-Zhan Lu Introduction Construction of the Imaginary Indian, Marcia Crosby Introduction An Indian Remembers, Mary Englund Introduction Annie Battiste: A Mi'kmaq Family History, Annie Battiste and Marie Battiste Sources

About the Author :
Janet Giltrow is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of British Columbia. Her articles have appeared in such journals as American Literature, Sinn und Form, Style, Technostyle, Studies in the Novel, Modern Language Review, and Technical Writing and Communication, and in collections on feminist narratology, genre theory, and ESL, as well as in collections on other topics in rhetoric and literary studies. She is a winner of the 3M Teaching Fellowship.

Review :
Comments on the previous edition: “An outstanding book, Academic Reading offers accessible examples of real scholarly discourse. Indeed, this is the only ‘across the disciplines’ reader that I have seen that accomplishes this effectively.” — Brian Turner, University of Winnipeg “An excellent selection of provocative essays; I will certainly adopt this text for my junior level composition course.” — Kathleen Blumreich, Grand Valley State University