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Thinking and Writing by Design A Cross-Disciplinary Rhetoric and Reader

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ISBN-10: 0023247029

ISBN-13: 9780023247026

Edition: 1996

Authors: Allene Cooper

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Thinking and Writing by Design is both a cross-curricular rhetoric and reader. It not only introduces students to strategies of thinking and writing common to all disciplines, but includes cross-curricular readings that were chosen to prompt critical thinking. Beginning with chapters on summarizing, serializing, and defining, students learn how to use essential strategies to invent and write about subjects they will encounter throughout college. Subsequent chapters introduce the strategies of comparing and contrasting, classifying, stating causes and effects, and analyzing, among others, with the more advanced strategies of synthesizing and arguing. Most of the readings are drawn from…    
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Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Longman Publishing
Publication date: 12/28/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 700
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Thinking and Writing to Summarize
Choices in Thinking to Summarize
Sample Paragraphs
Practice Thinking to Summarize
Design in Writing to Summarize
Readings for Summary Writing
Summarizing an Agriculture Reading
Contributions of Insects to Humanity
Summarizing a Biology Reading
Changing Conceptions of the Circulatory System
Summarizing a Philosophy Reading
Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated
Summarizing an Economics Reading
The Costs of Unemployment
Summarizing a Science Reading
Gene Therapy
Summarizing a Literature Reading
A New England Nun
Thinking and Writing by Serializing
Choices in Thinking by Serializing
Sample Paragraphs
Practice in Thinking by Serializing
Design in Writing to Serialize
Readings for Serializing
Serializing in Political Science
Birth of the National Environmental Policy Act
Serializing in Biology
The Discovery of DNA and Its Role in Living Organisms
Serializing in Economics
The Household Sector Since 1970
Serializing in Social Science
Socialization Across the Life Cycle
Serializing in Anthropology
Conflicts and Benefits Theories
Serializing in History, Social Science, and Political Science
Women in American Politics
Making a Living versus Making a Home
Thinking and Writing by Defining
Choices in Thinking by Defining
Sample Paragraphs
Practice Thinking by Defining
Design in Writing to Define
Readings for Definitions
Defining in Biology
The Forces of Change
Defining in English
The Family
Defining in Social Science
Marriage Customs
Defining in a Music Course
Jazz, Jean Ferris What is Jazz
Defining in Health Science
Nursing Case Studies
Thinking and Writing by Comparing and Contrasting
Choices in Thinking by Comparing and Contrasting
Sample Paragraphs
Practice Thinking by Comparing and Contrasting
Design in Writing to Compare and Contrast
Readings for Comparison and Contrast
Comparing and Contrasting Psychological and Sociological Approaches
Who Decides That a Particular Activity or Appearance is Deviant?
Psychological Disorders
Comparing and Contrasting in Business Law
Intentional Torts and Negligence
Comparing and Contrasting in Education
Schools of Philosophy and Their Influence on Education