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| Preface | |
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| Reading and Writing in the Academic Disciplines | |
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| Preparing to Write: Active Reading | |
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| Academic Writing: An Introduction | |
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| Active Reading Strategies | |
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| Prereading | |
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| Preview the Source and Derive Questions That Will Help You Set Goals for Close Reading | |
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| Freewrite or Brainstorm to Recall Your Prior Knowledge or Feelings About the Reading Topic | |
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| Close Reading | |
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| Annotate and Elaborate on the Source | |
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| Take Content Notes | |
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| Pose and Answer Questions About the Source | |
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| Postreading | |
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| Review the Source and Your Notes | |
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| Compose Paraphrases and Summaries and Record Quotations That May Be Useful at a Later Date | |
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| Writing an Essay in Response to a Source: An Illustration of the Writing Process | |
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| The Reading-Writing Process | |
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| Personal Response in Academic Writing | |
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| Active Reading Strategies for Response Essays | |
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| Analyze the Assignment | |
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| Elaborate on Reading Sources | |
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| Planning | |
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| Formulating a Thesis | |
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| Organizing | |
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| Drafting | |
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| Planning Individual Paragraphs | |
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| Using Quotations, Paraphrases, and Summaries | |
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| Writing Introductory Paragraphs | |
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| Writing Conclusions | |
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| Preparing Lists of References or Works Cited | |
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| Titling the Essay | |
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| Revising the Preliminary Draft | |
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| Revising Ideas | |
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| Revising Organization | |
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| Revising Style | |
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| Editing | |
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| Manuscript Format | |
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| Sample Response Essay | |
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| Composing Essays Drawing from Two or More Sources: Comparison and Contrast and Synthesis | |
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| Comparison and Contrast Essay | |
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| Identifying Comparisons and Contrasts | |
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| Planning Comparison and Contrast Essays | |
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| Organizing the Comparison and Contrast Essay | |
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| Drafting Comparison and Contrast Essays | |
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| Sample Comparison and Contrast Essay | |
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| Revising the Preliminary Draft | |
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| Editing the Preliminary Draft | |
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| Synthesizing Sources | |
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| Sample Synthesis Essay | |
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| Essays of Argument, Analysis, and Evaluation | |
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| Argument: An Introduction | |
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| Developing Support for Arguments | |
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| Using Sources in Argument Essays | |
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| Organizing Argumentative Essays | |
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| Sample Argument Essay | |
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| Revising the Preliminary Draft | |
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| Editing the Preliminary Draft | |
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| Analysis and Evaluation: An Introduction | |
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| Writing an Analytical Essay | |
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| Reading the Source and Planning Your Essay | |
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| Clarify the Assignment, Set Your Rhetorical Goal, and Consider Your Audience | |
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| Do a First Reading to Get a General Impression of the Text | |
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| Reread and Ask Questions About Analyzing and Evaluating the Text | |
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| Review Your Answers to the Questions for Analysis | |
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| Deciding on an Organizational Plan | |
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| Drafting | |
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| Sample Essay of Literary Analysis | |
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| Revising the Preliminary Draft | |
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| Editing the Preliminary Draft | |
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| Writing Research Papers | |
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| The Research Paper: An Introduction | |
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| Identifying a Research Topic | |
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| Developing a Research Strategy | |
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| Allocate Sufficient Time for Research | |
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| Identify Research Questions | |
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| Brainstorm a List of Terms or a Search Vocabulary | |
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| Virtual Libraries | |
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| Using Electronic Retrieval Systems | |
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| How Computerized Information Retrieval Systems Function | |
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| Recall versus Relevancy | |
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| Keyword Searching | |
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| Truncation | |
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| Boolean Searching | |
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| The Library or the World Wide Web? Choosing a Research Site | |
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| Locating Information in an Academic Library | |
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| The Library Catalog | |
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| Periodical Indexes | |
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| Conducting Research Using the World Wide Web | |
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| Collecting Information on Your Own: Surveys and Interviews | |
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| Modifying Your Search Strategy | |
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| Evaluating Information Sources | |
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| Excerpting Information from Sources | |
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| Writing a Preliminary Thesis | |
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| Planning the Research Paper | |
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| Writing from Your Outline | |
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| Revising | |
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| Editing | |
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| Sample Research Paper | |
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| An Anthology of Readings | |
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| Natural Sciences and Technology | |
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| Cloning | |
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| Jennifer and Rachel | |
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| Me, My Clone, and I (Or In Defense of Human Cloning) | |
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| Narcissus Cloned | |
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| Crossing Lines: A Secular Argument Against Research Cloning | |
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| Species on Ice | |
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| Bessie and the Gaur | |
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| Human/Machine Interaction | |
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| We Are Not Special | |
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| Cyborg Seeks Community | |
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| Loving Technology | |
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| Live Forever | |
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| Isolated by the Internet | |
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| The Gist Generation | |
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| Time to Do Everything but Think | |
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| Crime-Fighting Technology: Balancing Public Safety and Privacy | |
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| Computer Project Seeks to Avert Youth Violence | |
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| Rooting Out the Bad Seeds? | |
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| Kyllo V. United States: Technology v. Individual Privacy | |
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| DC's Virtual Panopticon | |
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| Trading Liberty for Illusions | |
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| Invasion of Privacy | |
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| Social Sciences | |
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| The Changing American Family | |
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| Brave New Family | |
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| Children of Gay Fathers | |
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| What Is A Family? | |
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| Seven Tenets for Establishing New Marital Norms | |
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| Cohabitation Instead of Marriage | |
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| Promoting Marriage as a Means for Promoting Fatherhood | |
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| Toward Revels or a Requiem for Family Diversity? | |
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| Social Class and Inequality | |
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| What Are "Class" and "Inequality"? | |
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| Grandma Went to Smith, All Right, But She Went from Nine to Five: A Memoir | |
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| The Revolt of the Black Bourgeoisie | |
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| The War Against the Poor Instead of Programs to End Poverty | |
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| When Shelter Feels Like a Prison | |
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| White Standard for Poverty | |
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| Serving in Florida | |
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| Rethinking School | |
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| High School, an Institution Whose Time Has Passed | |
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| A Day in the Life of Rafael Jackson | |
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| Educating Black Students | |
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| Challenging Our Assumptions | |
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| Homework | |
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| Myth 5: Self-Esteem Must Come First--Then Learning | |
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| Manufacturing a Crisis in Education | |
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| Humanities | |
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| Religion and Identity | |
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| Excellent Things in Women | |
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| Politics and the Muslim Woman | |
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| I Still Hear the Cry | |
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| Threads | |
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| Sin Big | |
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| The Pope's Loyal Opposition | |
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| America, a Christian Nation | |
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| Is America a Christian Nation? | |
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| Literatures of Diaspora: Fiction and Nonfiction | |
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| The Proper Respect | |
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| The Journey | |
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| A Different Mirror | |
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| Jasmine | |
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| Everyday Use | |
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| Documenting Sources | |
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| Rhetorical Index | |
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| Index | |