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NextText Making Connections Across and Beyond the Disciplines

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ISBN-10: 031240106X

ISBN-13: 9780312401061

Edition: 2008

Authors: Anne Kress, Suellyn Winkle

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"NextText" addresses the problems students have transitioning into the critical thinking, reading, and writing required for academic work. Anne Kress and Suellyn Winkle, both at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida, carefully researched the skills required in disciplines across the university and developed "NextText" to teach students those skills. Every chapter in "NextText" offers students a rich range of readings from the informal magazine article to the researched academic essay. Students are encouraged to make connections between and among the multiple voices, genres, and disciplines represented in every chapter. "NextText: Making Connections Across and Beyond the…    
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List price: $71.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 7/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 6.86" wide x 8.69" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

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Opening Image: Counterfeit Items on Canal Street, New York
What the Bagelman Saw From: Freakonomics, Morrow, 2005
Everybody Does It From: The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead, Harvest, 2003
The Art of College Management: Cheating From: My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, Cornell University Press, 2005
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Justice or Just Us? What to do About Cheating From: www.carnegiefoundation.org/perspectives/perspectives2004.May.htm
God's Little Toys: Confessions of a Cut and Paste Artist From: Wired, July 2005
Rise of the Plagiosphere: How New Tools to Detect Plagiarism Could Induce Mass Writer's Block From: Technology Review, June 2005
Focus on Genre: Web Sites
A Portfolio of Term Papers
Term Paper Terminal
www.samedayresearch.com
www.fastpapers.ca
Reading Deeply: An Annotated Selection
Malcolm Gladwell, Something Borrowed From: The New Yorker, 22 November 2004
The Changing Landscape of Family: Sociology + Public Policy
Opening Image: Burst of Joy, 1973
Coming Home From: Smithsonian, January 2005
The American Family From: Life, November 1999
Le Beau-Pere From: My Father Married Your Mother: Writers Talk about Stepparents, Stepchildren, and Everyone in Between, W.W. Norton, 2006
Rabenmutter: Germany in Angst Over Low Birthrate From: Women's eNews, 11 April 2006
Executive Child From: To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife, Little, Brown, 2006
The Politics of Family From: The American Prospect, 8 April 2002
Growing Up with Mom and Mom From: The New York Times Magazine, 24 October 2004
My Yiddishe Mama From: The Wall Street Journal, 01 February 2006
We're All Cousins and Other Web Revelations From: Computers in Libraries, February 2000
Roca Wear and Brooks Brothers advertisements From: Cookie, September 2006
Focus On Genre: Memoirs
A Portfolio of Family Memoirs
The Important Things From: Nebraska Life, September/October 2005
Grandmothers From: Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Broadway Books, 1999
Where He Was: Memories of My Father From: The Granta Book of the Family, Granta Books, 1995
Casa: A Partial Rememberance of a Puerto Rican Childhood From: Prairie Schooner, Fall 1989
Reading Deeply: An Annotated Selection
Complexity of Family Life Among the Low-Income and Working Poor From: Family Relations, March 2004
Defining Identity in a Virtual World: Pscyhology + Technology
Opening Image: From Second Life -- 2up and 2down
Second Life, Snow
Second Life, Hanging
Second Life, Overheard
Second Life, Skydiving
Growing up Online From: Science News with Paula Lehman, 17 June 2006
The MySpace Generation From: BusinessWeek, 12 December 2005
R We D8ting? From: The New York Times, 24 July 2005
The Sims: Suburban Rhapsody From: Psychology Today, Nov./Dec. 2003
Life or Something Like It From: Computer Graphics World, July 2004
The Perils and Promise of Online Schmoozing From: Business Week, 20 December 2004
The Business of Life: Making a Virtual Living Telecommunting to a Brave New World From: abcnews.go.com, 2005
Community: From Neighborhood to Network From: Communications of the ACM, October 2005
How Computers Change the Way We Think From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 January 2004
Focus on Genre: Blogs
A Portfolio of Personal Identity Blogs
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www.vanityrunamok.com/blog/
www.memyi.us/
livesstrong.blogspot.com/
mylifeitalian.blogspot.com/
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www.mylifemypace.com/my-hp/
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