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Table of Contents:
Preface for Instructors A Note to the Student   PART I How to Write Summaries, Critiques, Syntheses, and Analyses Chapter 1–Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation What Is a Summary? Can a Summary Be Objective? Using the Summary   BOX: Where Do We Find Written Summaries? The Reading Process   BOX: Critical Reading for Summary How to Write Summaries   BOX: Guidelines for Writing Summaries Demonstration: Summary   Will Your Job Be Exported?–Alan S. Blinder   Read, Reread, Highlight   Divide into Stages of Thought   Write a Brief Summary of Each Stage of Thought   Write a Thesis: A Brief Summary of the Entire Passage   Write the First Draft of the Summary Summary 1: Combine Thesis Sentence with Brief Section Summaries   The Strategy of the Shorter Summary Summary 2: Combine Thesis Sentence, Section Summaries, and Carefully Chosen Details   The Strategy of the Longer Summary How Long Should a Summary Be?   Exercise 1.1: Individual and Collaborative Summary Practice Summarizing Figures and Tables   Bar Graphs   Exercise 1.2: Summarizing Graphs   Pie Charts   Exercise 1.3: Summarizing Pie Charts   Line Graphs   Exercise 1.4: Summarizing Line Graphs   Tables   Exercise 1.5: Summarizing Tables Paraphrase   BOX: How to Write Paraphrases   Exercise 1.6: Paraphrasing Quotations   Choosing Quotations Quoting Memorable Language   BOX: When to Quote Quoting Clear and Concise Language Quoting Authoritative Language   Incorporating Quotations into Your Sentences Quoting Only the Part of a Sentence or Paragraph That You Need Incorporating the Quotation into the Flow of Your Own Sentence Avoiding Freestanding Quotations   Exercise 1.7: Incorporating Quotations Using Ellipses Using Brackets to Add or Substitute Words   BOX: When to Summarize, Paraphrase, and Quote   Exercise 1.8: Using Brackets   BOX: Incorporating Quotations into Your Sentences Avoiding Plagiarism   BOX: Rules for Avoiding Plagiarism   Chapter 2–Critical Reading and Critique Critical Reading   Question 1: To What Extent Does the Author Succeed in His or Her Purpose?   BOX: Where Do We Find Written Critiques?   Writing to Inform     Evaluating Informative Writing Writing to Persuade   Exercise 2.1: Informative and Persuasive Thesis Statements Evaluating Persuasive Writing   The Moon We Left Behind–Charles Krauthammer   Exercise 2.2: Critical Reading Practice     Persuasive Strategies Logical Argumentation: Avoiding Logical Fallacies   BOX: Tone   Exercise 2.3: Understanding Logical Fallacies   Writing to Entertain   Question 2: To What Extent Do You Agree with the Author? Identify Points of Agreement and Disagreement   Exercise 2.4: Exploring Your Viewpoints–in Three Paragraphs Explore the Reasons for Agreement and Disagreement: Evaluate Assumptions Inferring and Implying Assumptions An Example of Hidden Assumptions from the World of Finance Critique   How to Write Critiques   BOX: Guidelines for Writing Critiques Demonstration: Critique   To What Extent Does the Author Succeed in His or Her Purpose?   To What Extent Do You Agree with the Author? Evaluate Assumptions   Model Critique: A Critique of Charles Krauthammer's "The Moon We Left Behind"- Andrew Harlan   Exercise 2.3: Informal Critique of the Model Critique   BOX: Critical Reading for Critique   The Strategy of the Critique   Chatper 3 Thesis, Introduction, Conclusion Writing a Thesis   The Components of a Thesis Making an Assertion Starting with a Working Thesis Using the Thesis to Plan a Structure   BOX: How Ambitious Should Your Thesis Be?   Exercise 3.1: Drafting Thesis Statements Introductions   Quotation   Historical Review   Review of a Controversy   From the General to the Specific   Anecdote and Illustration: From the Specific to the General   Question   Statement of thesis   Exercise 3.2: Introductions Conclusions   Statement of the Subject's Significance   Call for Further Research   Solution/ Recommendation   Anecdote   Quotation   Question   Speculation   Exercise 3.3: Drafting Conclusions   Chapter 4 Explanatory Synthesis What is a Synthesis?   Summary and Critique as a Basis for Synthesis   Inference as a Basis for Synthesis: Moving Beyond Summary and Critique Purpose   Example: Same Sources, Different Uses   BOX: Where Do We Find Written Syntheses? Using Your Sources Types of Syntheses: Explanatory and Argument Explanation: News Article from the New York Times   While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales- Michael Moss Argument: Editorial from the Boston Globe   Got Too Much Cheeses?- Derrick Z. Jackson What Are Genetically Modified (GM) Foods?  Genetically Modified Foods and Organisms- The United States Department of Energy   Why a GM Freeze?- The GM Freeze Company How to Write Syntheses   BOX: Guidelines for Writing Syntheses  The Explanatory Syhtesis Demonstration: Explanatory Synthesis- Going Up? An Elevator ride to Space   Exercise 4.1: Exploring the Topic   The History of the Space Elevator- P.K. Aravind   Applications of the Space Elevator- Bradley C. Edwards   Going Up- Brad Lemley   Consider Your Purpose   Exercise 4.2: Critical Reading for Synthesis   Formulate a Thesis   Decide How You Will Use Your Source Material   Develop and Orgnizational Plan    Summary Statements   Write the Topic Sentences   BOX: Organize a Synthesis by Idea, Not by Source   Write Your Synthesis Explanatory Synthesis: First Draft   Revise Your Synthesis: Global, Local, and Surface Revisions   Revising the First Draft: Highlights Global Local Surface   Exercise 4.3: Revising the Explanatory Synthesis   Model Explanatory Synthesis: Going Up? An Elevator Ride to Space- Sheldon Kearney   BOX: Critical Reading for Synthesis   Chapter 5 Argument Synthesis What Is an Argument Synthesis?   The Elements of Argument: Claim, Support, and Assumption    Exercise 5.1: Practicing Claim, Support, and Assumption   The Three Appeals of Argument: Logos, Ethos, Pathos Logos   Exercise 5.2: Using Deductive and Inductive Logic Ethos    Exercise 5.3: Using Ethos Pathos   Exercise 5.4: Using Pathos   The Limits of Argument Fruitful Topics for Argument Demonstration: Developing an Argument Synthesis- Balancing Privacy and Safety in the Wake of Virginia Tech   Mass Shootings at Virginia Tech, April 16, 2007- Report of the Review Panel   Laws Limit Schools Even After Alarms- Jeff Gammage and Stacey Bluring   Perilous Privacy at Virginia Tech- Christian Science Moniter Colleges   Are Watching Troubled students- Jeffrey McMurray   The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)   Exercise 5.5: Critical Readings for Synthesis   Consider Your Purpose   Making a Claim: Formulate a Thesis   Decide How You Will Use Your Source Material   Develop an Organizational Plan   Formulate an Argument Strategy   Draft and Revise Your Synthesis   Model Argument Synthesis: Balancing Privacy and Safety in the Wake of Virginia Tech- David Harrison   The Strategy of the Argument Synthesis Developing and Organizing the Support for Your Arguments   Summarize, Paraphrase, and Quote Supporting Evidence   Provide Various Types of Evidence and Motivational Appeals   Use Climactic order   Use Logical or Conventional Order   Present and Respond to Counterarguments   Use Concession   BOX: Developing and Organizing the Support for Your Arguments   Avoid Common Fallacies in Developing and using Support The Comparison-and-Contrast Synthesis   Organizing Comparison-and-Contrast Syntheses Organizing by Source or Subject     Organizing by Criteria   Exercise 5.6: Comparing and Contrasting A Case for Comparison-and-Contrast: World War I and World War II   Comparison-and-Contrast Organized by Criteria   Model Exam Response   The Strategy of the Exam Response Summary of Synthesis Chapters   Chapter 6 Analysis What Is an Analysis?   BOX: Where Do We Find Written Analyses? How to Write Analyses   The Plug-In Drug- Marie Winn   Exercise 6.1: Reading Critically: Winn   Locate and Appply an Analytic Tool Locate an Analytic Tool Apply the Analytic Tool Analysis Across the Curriculum   BOX: Guidelines for Writing Analyses   Formulate a Thesis   Develop an Organizational Plan Turning Key Elements of a Principle or a Definition into Questions Developing the Paragraph-by-Paragraph Logic of Your Paper   Draft and Revise Your Analysis Write an Analysis, Not a Summary Make your Analysis Systematic  Answer the "So What?" Question Attribute Sources Appropriately   BOX: Critical reading for Analysis   When Your Perspective Guides the Analysis Demonstration: Analysis   Model Analysis: The Case of the Missing Kidney: An Analysis of Rumor- Lisa Shanker   Exercise 6.2: Informal Analysis of the Model Analysis The Strategy of the Analysis Part II Brief Takes   Part II Brief Takes Chapter 7 Artifical intelligence Read; Prepare to Write   BOX: Group Assignment #1: Make a Topic List   BOX: Group Assignment #2: Create a Topic Web   Toward an Intelligence Beyond Man's- Robert Jastrow   The AI Revolution Is On- Steven Levy   Computer Wins on 'Jeopardy!': Trivial, It's Not- John Markoff   Watson Doesn't Know It Won on 'Jeopardy!'- John Searle   What Did Watson the Computer Do?- Stanley Fish   Watson Is Far from Elementary- Stephen Baker Summary Critique Explanatory Synthesis Analysis Argument Alternate Assignment for Argument   Chapter 8 Fairy Tales: A Close Look at "Cinderella" Read; Prepare to Write   BOX: Group Assignment #1: make a Topic List   BOX: Group Assignment #2: Create a Topic Web   An Introduction to Fairy Tales- maria Tatar Five Variants of "Cinderella"   Cinderella- Charles Perrault   Cinderella- Jakob and Willhelm Grimm   Oochigeaskw- The Rough-Faced Girl (a Native American "Cinderella")   Walt Disney's "Cinderella"- Adapted by Campbell Grant   Cinderella- Anne Sexton Summary Critique Explanatory Synthesis Analysis Argument   Chapter 9 The Roar of the Tiger Mom Read; Prepare to Write   BOX: Group Assignment #1: Make a Topic List   BOX: Group Assignment #2: Create a Topic Web   Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior- Amy Chua   Mother Inferior?- Hanna Rosin   Amy Chua Is a Wimp- David Brooks   In the Eye of the Tiger- Meghan Daum   Tiger Mom vs. Tiger Mailroom -Patrick Goldstein   America's Top Parent- Elizabeth Kolbert   In Defense of Being a Kid- James Bernard Murphy Summary Critique Explanatory Synthesis Analysis Argument   Part III An Anthology of Readings Chapter 10 The Changing Landscape of Work in the Twenty-First Century Prospect for Graduates   A Post-College Flow Chart of Misery and Pain- Jenaa Brager   Many with New College Degree Find Jon Market Humbling- Chaterine Rampell   Job Outlook for College Graduates Slowly Improving- Lacey Johnson Data on the Job Market   College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings: Not all College Degrees are Created Equal- Anthony P. Carnevale, Ban Cheah, and Jeff Strohl   Employment Projections: 2010- 2020 Summary- U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics Work and Identity   No Long Term: New Work and the Corrosion of Character- Richard Sennett Trends Affecting Work   Making It in American- Adam Davidson   Will Your Job Be Exported? (Summary)- Alan S. Blinder   Is Your Job and Endangered Species?- Andy Kessler   Degrees and Dollars- Paul Krugman Synthesis Activities Researcg Activities   Chapter 11 Have you Heard This? The Latest on Rumor   The Gossips- Norman Rockwell   Frankenchicken- Snopes.com   Truth Is in the Ear of the Beholder- Gregory Rodriguez   What Cost Chris Dussold His Dream Job?- Thomas Bartlett   Fighting That Old Devil Rumor- Sandra Salmans   A Psychology of Rumor- Roger H. Knapp   “Paul is Dead!” (said Fred)- Alan Glenn Political  Smear Rumors: Three Case Studies   In Untruths About Obama, Echoes of a Distant Time- Samuel G. Freedman   The Anatomy Of a Msear campaignL The Case of John McCain- Richard H. Davis   A Lie Races Across Twitter before the Truth Can Boot Up- Jeremy Peters   How Rumors Help Us Make Sense of an Uncertain World- Nicholas DiFonzo   Rumor Cascades and Group Polarization- Cass R. Sunstein   Managing Rumors- John Doorley and Helio Fred Garcia   The Rumor- John Updike Synthesis Activites Research Activites   Chapter 12 The Pursuit of Happiness   Pig Happiness- Lynne McFall   In Pursuit of Happiness- Mark Kingwell   A Balanced Psychology and a Full Life- Martin E. P. Seligman, Acacia C. Parks, and Tracy Steen   Some Dark Thoughts on Happiness- Jennifer Senior   Finding Flow- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi   If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy, Then You Probably Aren’t Spending It Right- Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert, and Timothy D. Wilson   Happy Like God- Simon Critchley   A Critique of positive Psychology- Richard Schoch   Happiness: Enough Already- Sharon Begley   Happiness- Jane Kenyon   The Good Life- Yi-Fu Tuan   From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- Robert M/ Prisig Synthesis Activites Research Activites   Chapter 13 Green Power   Going Green: a Wedge Issue   National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependence- Report of an independent Task Force   The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence- Robert Bryce A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Power, Post-Fukushima   The Future of Nukes, and of Japan- Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.   No Fail-Safe Option- Eugene Robinson   Why I Still Support Nuclear Power, Even After Fukushima- William Tucker   If the Japanese Can’t Build a Safe Reacter, Who Can?- Anne Applebaum Solar Power   State Solar Power Plans Are as Big as All Outdoors- Marla Dickerson   Here Comes the Sun- Paul Krugman   Solar Is Getting Cheaper, But How Far Can It Go?- Brad Plumer Wind Power   The Island in the Wind- Elizabeth Kolbert   Wind Power Puffer- H. Sterling Burnett Electric Cars   The Great Electric Car Experiment- Daniel Yergin   Why the Gasoline Engine Isn’t Going Away Any Time Soon- Joseph B. White Synthesis Activites Research Activites   Chapter 14 New and Improved: Six Decades of Advertising   Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals- Jib Fowles   Making the Pitch in Print Advertising- Courtland Bovee, John V. Thill, George P. Dovel, and Marian Burk Wood   Selling Happiness: Two Pitches from Mad Men   A Portfolio of Print Advertisements   A Portfolio of TV Commercials Synthesis Activites Research Activites   Chapter 15 Obedience to Authority   Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem- Erich Fronman   The Power of Situations- Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett   The Perils of Obedience- Stanley Milgram   The Power Trip- Jonah Lehrer   The Follower Problem- David Brooks   Group Minds- Doris Lessing   Opinions and Social Pressure- Soloman E. Asch   Prisoner and Guard: The Stanford Expirement Synthesis Activites Research Activites   Video Links Online Videos Linked to Chpater 1-15 Credits Index Quick Index: APA Documentation Basics Quick Index: MLA Documentation Basics