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| Preface | |
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| A Note to the Student | |
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| How To WriteSummaries, Critiques, Syntheses, And Analyses | |
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| Summary | |
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| What is a Summary? | |
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| Can a Summary Be Objective? | |
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| Using the Summary | |
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| The Reading Process | |
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| How to Write Summaries | |
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| Demonstration: Summary | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Critical Reading and Critique | |
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| Critical Reading | |
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| Critique | |
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| Demonstration: Critique | |
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| Practice Critique | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| What Is a Synthesis? | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Using Your Sources | |
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| Types of Syntheses: Argument and Explanatory | |
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| How to Write Syntheses | |
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| The Argument Synthesis | |
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| Demonstration: Developing a Source-Based Argument Synthesis | |
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| Developing and Organizing Support for Your Arguments | |
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| The Comparison-and-Contrast Synthesis | |
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| The Explanatory Synthesis | |
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| Summary | |
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| Analysis | |
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| What Is an Analysis? | |
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| Demonstration of Analysis | |
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| How to Write Analyses | |
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| Analysis: A Tool for Understanding | |
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| II. An Anthology of Readings | |
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| Sociology | |
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| Marriage and Family in America | |
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| The Satisfactions of Housewifery and Motherhood/ Paradise Lost | |
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| The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love | |
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| The State of Our Unions, David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead | |
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| Debunking Myths about Marriage and Families | |
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| A Debate on Gay Marriage, Andrew Sullivan | |
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| Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path-to Motherhood | |
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| What Yale Women Want, and Why It Is Misguided | |
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| A Marriage Agreement | |
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| The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was | |
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| My Problem with Her Anger | |
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| Synthesis Activities | |
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| Research Activities | |
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| Psychology | |
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| Obedience to Authority | |
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| Opinions and Social Pressure | |
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| The Perils of Obedience | |
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| Review of Stanley Milgram's Experiments on Obedience | |
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| The Stanford Prison Experiment | |
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| Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem | |
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| Uncivil Disobedience: Violating the Rules for Breaking the Law | |
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| Synthesis Activities | |
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| Research Activities | |
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| American Studies | |
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| What's Happening at the Mall? | |
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| Shopping for American Culture | |
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| A Brief History of Malls | |
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| The Mall as Civic/Cultural Center | |
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| The Mall as Disneyland | |
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| The Mall as Prison | |
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| The Mall as Sacred Space | |
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| The Mall as Setting for Authentic Life | |
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| The Mall as Refuge | |
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| The Mall as Threat to Democratic Values | |
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| Mallaise: How to Know If You Have It | |
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| Biology | |
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| To Sleep | |
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| A Third of Life | |
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| Improving Sleep | |
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| America's Sleep-Deprived Teens Nodding off at School, Behind the Wheel, National Sleep Foundation | |
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| When Worlds Collide: Adolescent Need for Sleep vs. Societal Demands | |
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| Sleep Debt and the Mortgaged Mind | |
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| The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index | |
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| How Sleep Debt Hurts College Students | |
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| Starting Time and School Life | |
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| Synthesis Activities | |
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| Research Activities | |
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| Business/ Communications | |
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| New and Improved: Six Decades of Advertising | |
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| Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals | |
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| Making the Pitch in Print Advertising | |
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| Elements of Effective Layout | |
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| A Portfolio of Advertisements: 1945-2003 | |
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| Synthesis Activities | |
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| Research Activities | |
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| Appendix: A Quick Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism | |