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| To the Instructor | |
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| To the Student | |
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| Citations | |
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| Making Sources Your Own | |
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| Reading for Understanding | |
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| Underlining | |
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| Annotating | |
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| Reading: William Leach, from Land of Desire | |
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| Annotating a Passage | |
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| Sex and Suits | |
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| Asking Questions | |
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| Reading: Blanche Blank, A Question of Degree | |
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| Understanding What You Read | |
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| A Victim of Circumstance | |
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| Questioning the Author | |
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| Reading: Rub�n Mart�nez: The Kindness of Strangers | |
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| Examining Intention | |
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| Cosmopolitan Emotions? | |
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| Analyzing the Author's Use of Evidence and Reading | |
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| Interpreting Evidence: Inference | |
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| Drawing Inferences | |
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| The Other Gender Gap | |
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| Logical Reasoning | |
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| Analyzing an Author's Logic | |
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| Analyzing an Author's Logic | |
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| The Code of Man | |
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| Presenting Sources To Others | |
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| Summarizing Sources | |
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| Summarizing a Paragraph | |
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| Summarizing a Paragraph | |
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| The Love Bloat | |
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| Comic Book Nation | |
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| America's Women | |
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| Americans: The National Experience | |
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| The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature | |
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| Summarizing an Article | |
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| Reading: Selwyn Raab, Holdup Man Tells Detectives How to Do It | |
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| Summarizing an Article | |
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| Crying Foul Over Fans' Boorish Behavior | |
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| Summarizing a Complex Essay | |
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| Reading: Bertrand Russell, The Social Responsibility of Scientists | |
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| Assignment 1: Summarizing an Essay | |
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| When Teaching the Ethics of War Is Not Academic | |
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| Our Celebrities, Ourselves | |
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| Against School | |
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| Quoting Sources | |
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| Reasons for Quoting | |
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| Using Quotations | |
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| Quoting Correctly | |
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| Quoting Accurately | |
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| Tailoring Quotations to Fit Your Writing | |
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| Using Ellipses and Brackets in Quotations | |
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| Writing Citations | |
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| Deciding What to Quote | |
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| Reading: Lizabeth Caten, Feminizing Public Space | |
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| Why Quote? | |
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| America's Women | |
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| What to Quote | |
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| Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology | |
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| The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy At Home and Abroad | |
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| Integrating Quotations into Your Paragraphs | |
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| Integrating Quotations Into a Paragraph | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Identifying Plagiarism | |
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| Paraphrasing Sources | |
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| Using Paraphrase in Your Essays | |
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| Using Paraphrase as Preparation for Reading and Writing Essays | |
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| Writing a Good Paraphrase | |
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| Paraphrase and Summary | |
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| Writing an Accurate Paraphrase | |
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| Identifying a Good Paraphrase | |
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| Evolution, Males, and Violence | |
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| Paraphrasing a Difficult Text | |
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| Writing a Literal Paraphrase | |
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| Writing a Free Version of the Literal Paraphrase | |
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| Assignment 2: Paraphrasing a Difficult Passage | |
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| Using Paraphrase with Quotation and Summary | |
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| Reading: Conor Cruise O'Brien, Violence -- And Two Schools of Thought | |
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| Distinguishing Between Quotation, Paraphrase, Summary, and Commentary | |
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| Does Class Count in Today's Land of Opportunity? | |
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| Citing Your Paraphrased Sources | |
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| Writing a Paragraph that Incorporates Paraphrase and Quotation | |
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| Reading: Anthony Swofford, Jarhead | |
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| Writing a Paragraph That Incorporates Paraphrase and Quotation | |
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| Presenting Sources: A Summary of Preliminary Writing Skills | |
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| Writing From Sources | |
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| The Single-Source Essay | |
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| Strategy One: Arguing Against Your Source | |
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| Reading: Roger Sipher, So That Nobody Has to Go to School If They Don't Want To | |
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| Presenting Your Source's Point of View | |
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| Presenting Your Point of View | |
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| An Argument Based On a Single Source | |
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| Reading: Let Teenagers Try Adulthood | |
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| Reading: What Our Education System Needs is More Fs | |
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| Reading: Fixing the American High School System | |
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| Assignment 3: Writing an Argument Based on a Single Source | |
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| Reading: Forcing Greek Organizations to Go Coeducational Won't Lead to Greater Diversity | |
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| Reading: Now, For Tonight's Assignment... | |
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| Reading: Falling on Deaf Ears | |
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| Strategy Two: Developing an Essay Based on a Source | |
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| Finding and Narrowing a Topic | |
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| Taking Notes and Writing a Thesis | |
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| Deciding on a Strategy | |
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| Structuring Your Essay | |
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| Writing the Essay | |
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| Revising the Essay | |
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| Assignment 4: Writing an Essay Based on a Single Source | |
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| An Army of One | |
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| The Pillars of the Temple of Liberty | |
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| The End of Courtship | |
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| The Multiple-Source Essay | |
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| Selecting Information for a Multiple-Source Essay | |
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| Selecting and Presenting Information | |
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| Assignment 5: Writing an Essay from Factual Information | |
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| Generalizing from Examples | |
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| Analyzing Multiple Sources | |
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| Analyzing Shades of Meaning in Multiple Sources | |
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| Assignment 6: Writing a Definition Essay from Multiple Sources | |
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| Synthesizing Multiple Sources | |
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| Identifying Common Ideas | |
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| Organizing Multiple Sources | |
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| Reading: from Rule Tying Pupil Promotion to Reading Skill Stirs Worry | |
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| How the Three Steps Work | |
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| Evaluating Sources | |
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| Writing a Synthesis Essay | |
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| Analyzing a Paragraph Based on a Synthesis of Sources | |
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| Citing Sources for Synthesis | |
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| Reading: Moral Freedom: Till Circumstances Do Us Part | |
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| Assignment 7: Writing an Essay Synthesizing Multiple Sources | |
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| Disappearing Ink | |
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| Assignment 8: Writing an Argument from Multiple Sources | |
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| When Doctors Slam the Door | |
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| When Not to Synthesize | |
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| Synthesizing Sources in Academic Essays | |
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| Reading: Jeffrey Rosen, from The Naked Crowd | |
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| Integrating Three Academic Sources | |
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| In This Year's Fashion Jungle, Beastly Patterns Are the Sincerest Form of Fakery | |
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| Assignment 9: Synthesizing Academic Sources | |
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| Lost in the Life of the Mind | |
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| A Liberal Education Is Not a Luxury | |
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| Writing the Research Essay | |
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| Finding Sources | |
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| Topic Narrowing | |
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| Narrowing a Topic | |
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| Proposing a Topic | |
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| Locating Sources | |
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| Interviewing And Field Research | |
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| Writing About an Issue from Multiple Sources | |
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| Saving and Recording Information for Your Bibliography | |
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| Compiling a Working Bibliography | |
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| Assignment 10: Preparing a Topic Proposal for a Research Essay | |
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| Evaluating Sources | |
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| Learning More about Your Sources | |
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| Evaluating Print Sources | |
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| Evaluating Web Sources | |
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| Evaluating Web Sources About Animal Rights | |
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| Integrating Sources | |
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| Evaluating Web Sites | |
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| Evaluating Internet Sources | |
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| Choosing Internet Sources | |
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| Evaluating Sources | |
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| Making Patriots | |
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| Burning the Flag: The Great 1989-1990 American Flag Desecration | |
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| Patriotism, Morality, and Peace | |
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| To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism | |
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| Flag Burning: Moral Panic and the Criminalization of Protest | |
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| Nation Into State: The Shifting Symbolic Foundations of American Nationalism | |
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| The Flag Protection Act of 1989 (Joint Resolution of Congress) | |
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| O Say Can You See What That Flag Means? | |
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| True Patriotism | |
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| Flag Burning and Other Acts Deemed Disrespectful of American Symbols (web site) | |
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| The Flag Burning Page (web site) | |
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| Comparing Sources | |
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| 300 Killed By Fire (The New York Times) | |
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| Catastrophe: Boston's Worst (Time Magazine) | |
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| The Easy Chair | |
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| Writing the Research Essay | |
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| Saving Information | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| Taking Notes on Two Topics | |
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| Taking Notes on Three Topics | |
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| The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap | |
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| Developing a List of Topics | |
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| Planning a Strategy | |
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| Arranging the Order of Topics | |
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| Completing Your Outline | |
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| Writing an Outline with Cross-Referencing | |
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| Writing Integrated Paragraphs | |
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| Accommodating Argument in Your Paragraphs | |
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| Presenting Arguments Fairly | |
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| Integrating Your Sources: An Example | |
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| Writing an Introduction | |
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| Using Visuals as Sources | |
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| Assignment 11: Organizing and Writing the Research Essay | |
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| Acknowledging Sources | |
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| Documenting Information | |
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| Documenting Ideas Found in Your Source | |
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| Plagiarism: Stealing Ideas | |
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| Plagiarism: Stealing Words | |
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| Understanding When to Document Information | |
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| Understanding Plagiarism | |
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| Comparing Notes (The New York Times) | |
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| Identifying Plagiarism | |
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| Using Documentation | |
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| Acknowledging Sources | |
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| Documenting Sources Correctly | |
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| Signaling the Transitions Between Sources | |
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| Using Explanatory Notes | |
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| Avoiding Excessive Documentation | |
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| Using Umbrella Notes | |
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| The Final Bibliography | |
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| Preparing The Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Preparing the Bibliography | |
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| Presenting Your Essay | |
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| Some Basic Forms For Documentation: MLA, APA, and Endnotes | |
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| MLA Style | |
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| APA Style | |
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| Numbered Bibliography | |
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| Endnote/Footnote Documentation | |
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| Notes Plus Page Numbers In The Text | |
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| Three Research Essays | |
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| Bethany Dettmore, Looking at Horror Films | |
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| Lee Myers, Is Eating People Really Wrong? | |
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| David Morgan, Explaining the Tunguskan Phenomenon | |
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| Writing Essay Examinations | |
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| Reading the Question | |
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| Planning and Developing the Essay | |
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| Analyzing an Essay and an Essay Question | |
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| Reading: Football -- The Game of Aggression | |
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| Answering the Question | |
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| Introducing Your Topic | |
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| Presenting Your Essay to the Reader | |
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| Readings for a Research Essay | |
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| Periodicals | |
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| Essays from The Nation, 7/15/91 | |
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| Debating How Best to Love Your Country (The New York Times, 7/1/00) | |
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| John Lukacs, When Democracy Goes Wrong (Harper's, 4/05) | |
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| Academic Books | |
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| From Democracy in America | |
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| Patriotism, or Peace? | |
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| Civility and Civic Virtue in Contemporary America | |
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| Urban Civilization and Its Discontents | |
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| Honor, Patriotism, and Ultimate Loyalty | |
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| Military Service and Unjust Wars | |
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| Patriotism and Nationalism | |
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| The War on Terrorism and The New Patriotism | |