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Writing, Reading, And Research | |
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Introduction to Writing and Research | |
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Writing | |
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Writing Habits and Strategies | |
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Audience and Purpose | |
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Student Writing."It's Not About Looking Cute" | |
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Prewriting | |
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Composing a First Draft | |
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Guidelines: Peer Review | |
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Student Writing | |
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"A Night at the Roller Derby" | |
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Peer Review | |
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Revising | |
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Editing and proofreading | |
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Developing Your Own Writing Routines | |
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Guidelines: Writing an Essay That Incorporates Primary Research | |
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Research | |
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Reading Selection | |
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"The Holly Pageant" | |
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Freewriting | |
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Review Questions | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Writing | |
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Additional Readings | |
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"Passage to Manhood" | |
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"The Price of Parsimony" | |
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About the Rest of This Book | |
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Introduction to Reading | |
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Reading Habits and Strategies | |
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Interpreting Texts | |
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Audience | |
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Tacit Knowledge | |
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Context | |
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Efferent and Aesthetic Approaches to Rading | |
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Responding to Reading | |
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Reading Response Groups | |
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Practice Reading | |
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"A Short History of Love" | |
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Student Writings | |
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Janet's Freewriting | |
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Alex's Freewriting | |
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Agnes's Freewriting | |
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Guidelines: Group Work | |
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Reading Selection | |
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"The Future of Reading" | |
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Freewriting | |
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Review Questions | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Writing | |
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Strategies for Reading | |
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Inferences | |
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Context | |
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Strategies for Understanding | |
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Surveying a Text | |
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Prereading | |
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Practice Reading | |
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"Study Hard and You, Too, Can Deliver Pizza." | |
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Responding to Textual Clues | |
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Recognizing Transitions | |
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Reading with a Pencil | |
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Annotating and Underlining for Recall | |
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Practice Reading | |
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"Relationships with Maturing Children" | |
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Guidelines: Annotating and Underlining for Recall | |
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Practice Reading | |
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"Keeping Parents off Campus" | |
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Annotating to Stimulate Response | |
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Practice Reading | |
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"Some Geography, Some History" | |
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Practice Reading | |
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"The Dehydrated States of America" | |
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Keeping a Reading Journal | |
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Practice Reading | |
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From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | |
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Checklist: Reading Strategies | |
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Reading Selections | |
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"Learning How to Learn" | |
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"Adapting to College Life in an Era of Heightened Stress" | |
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Freewriting | |
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Group Work | |
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Review Questions | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Writing | |
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Additional Readings | |
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"The Challenge of First-Generation College Students" | |
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"Pressure and Competition" | |
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Reading for the Main Idea | |
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General and Specific Categories | |
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Deductive and Inductive Organization | |
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Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences | |
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Identifying Topic Sentences | |
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Restating the Main Idea | |
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Paragraphs with Implied Main Ideas | |
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Detecting Implications | |
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Questioning Implications | |
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A Further Comment on Paragraphs | |
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Reading selection | |
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"Girls Just Want to Be Mean" | |
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Freewriting | |
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Group Work | |
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Review Questions | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Writing | |
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Additional Reading | |
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"Listen to Boys' Voices" | |
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Paraphrasing | |
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Paraphrasing as a Reading Strategy | |
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Using Paraphrase in Writing | |
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Paraphrasing for a Different Audience | |
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Paraphrasing an Argument | |
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Paraphrasing in Research Papers | |
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Guidelines: Effective Paraphrasing | |
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Reading Selection | |
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"Another Day, Another Indignity" | |
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Freewriting | |
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Group Work | |
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Review Questions | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Writing | |
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Additional Reading | |
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"Who Moved My Ability to Reason?" | |
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Summarizing | |
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Summary and Paraphrase | |
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Writing Summaries | |
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Guidelines: Summarizing Longer Passages | |
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Practice Reading | |
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"Stereotyping: Homogenizing People" | |
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Uses of Summary | |
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Summarizing an Argument | |
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Summarizing in Research Papers | |
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Guidelines: Effective Summarizing | |
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Reading Selection | |
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"What Meets the Eye" | |
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Freewriting | |
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Group Work | |
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Review Questions | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Writing | |
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Additional Readings | |
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"The Great Sorority Purge" | |
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"Fat Gregg is Dead" | |
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Synthesizing | |
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A Brief Summary Report | |
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Practice Readings | |
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Readings on Thomas Kinkade | |
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Practice Readings | |
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"Not a Pretty Picture" | |
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Guidelines: Writing a Brief Summary Report | |
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An Objective Report on Sources | |
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Practice Readings | |
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"Reagan Deserves Landmarks" | |
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"The Rename Game" | |
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The Obligation of Acknowledging Sources | |
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The List of Works Cited | |
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Parenthetical Notes | |
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Reading Selection | |
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"Service Learning" | |
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Freewriting | |
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Group Work | |
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Review Questions | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Writing | |
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Additional Readings | |
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"Serve or Fail" | |
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"Learning Outside of School: Service to the Community Lends Meaning to Education" | |
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Analyzing Texts | |
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Analyzing the Parts | |
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Purpose | |
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Audience | |
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Main Idea | |
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Development | |
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Organization and Coherence | |
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Writing a Brief Reading Analysis | |
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Practice Readings | |
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"Earnie's Nuns Are Pointing the Way" | |
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Reading Selection | |
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"Opening Ourselves to Unconditional Love in our Relationships with Students" | |
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Freewriting | |
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Group Work | |
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Review Questions | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Writing | |
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Additional Readings | |
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"Crossing the Fine Line Between Teacher and Therapist" | |
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"Hollywood Goes to School" | |
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Beginning a Research Project | |
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The Research Paper | |
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Primary and Secondary Research | |
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Benefits of Doing Research | |
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Learning an Essential Skill | |
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Contributing to Scholarship | |
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Gaining Personal Knowledge | |
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The Research Process | |
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A Research Assignment | |
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The Finished Product | |
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A Sample Standard Research Paper | |
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Student Writing | |
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"The Great Digital Shift in Music" | |
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A Sample Personal Research Paper | |
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Student Writing | |
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"Human Papilloma Virus (HPV): The Most Common Sexually Transmitted Disease" | |
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Your Research Schedule: Planning in Advance | |
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A Research Notebook | |
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Your Research Topic | |
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Generating Ideas | |
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Brainstorming | |
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Developing an Idea: Clustering | |
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Tools for Finding Sources | |
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Beginning Your Research | |
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Your Campus Library | |
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Electronic Resources | |
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Networks | |
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Using Your Library's Research Tools | |
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Finding Books and Other Library Holdings | |
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Encyclopedias and Other General Reference Works | |
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Finding Articles: Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers | |
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Locating Periodicals | |
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Microforms | |
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Library Vandalism--A Crime Against Scholarship | |
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Using Electronic Databases | |
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A Sample Search for Periodical Sources | |
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Finding Government Documents | |
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Internet Resources | |
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Web Search Engines | |
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The Reference Librarian--The Most Resourceful Resource | |
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Finding Sources Outside the Library: Conducting Interviews and Writing Letters | |
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Interviewing Sources | |
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Arranging the Interview | |
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Conducting the Interview | |
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Writing for Information | |
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Still Other Sources | |
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Putting Your Sources to Work | |
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A Research Prospectus | |
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The Working Bibliography | |
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Using Your Sources | |
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Reading Your Sources | |
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Evaluating Your Sources | |
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Narrowing Your Paper's Focus | |
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Formulating and Refining a Plan | |
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Taking Notes on Note Cards | |
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Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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Guidelines: Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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Using Sources in Research Writing | |
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The Conventions of Reporting | |
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Options for Presenting Sources | |
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Acknowledging Sources | |
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Relying on Experts | |
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Paraphrasing Sources | |
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Quoting Sources | |
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Punctuating Quotations | |
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Altering Questions | |
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When to Quote and When to Paraphrase | |
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A Further Note on Plagiarism | |
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Practice with Using Sources | |
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Writing a Brief Objective Research Essay | |
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Writing a Brief Subjective Research Essay | |
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Writing and Revising the Research Paper | |
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Getting Organized | |
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Formulating a Thesis Statement | |
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Sorting Your Notes | |
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Updating Your Outline | |
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Writing the First Good Draft | |
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Guidelines: Research Writing | |
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Some Practical Writing Tips | |
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Getting Started | |
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Writing the Opening | |
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Writing the Conclusion | |
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Giving Your Paper a Title | |
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Editing and Revising | |
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Reworking Your Paper | |
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Checklist: Editing and Revising | |
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Getting Advice from Other Readers | |
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Typing and Proofreading Your Polished Draft | |
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Argument: Reading, Writing, and Research | |
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Emotional Persuasion | |
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Logical Argument | |
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The Structure of Logical Argument: Claims, Evidence and Values | |
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Varieties of Evidence | |
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Ethical and Emotional Appeals | |
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An Informal Analysis of an Argument | |
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Practice Reading | |
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"Abolish the Penny" | |
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A Critique of an Argument | |
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Guidelines: Writing a Critique of an Argument | |
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Practice Reading | |
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"Workplace Worrywarts" | |
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An Argumentative Research Essay | |
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Purpose | |
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Thesis | |
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Audience | |
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Persona | |
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Evidence | |
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Opposition | |
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Organization | |
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A Sample Argumentative Essay | |
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Student Writing | |
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"A Cure for World Hunger or 'Frankenfood'?: The Controversy over Genetically Modified Foods" | |
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Research Paper Reference Handbook | |
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List of Work Cited(MLA Format) | |
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Bibliographic Formats | |
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General Guidelines--MLA Format | |
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Citing Electronic Sources | |
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Model Entries--MLA Format | |
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Sources in Books | |
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Books | |
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Selections from Books | |
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Sources in Periodicals and Newspapers | |
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Other Sources | |
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Internet and Electronic Sources | |
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Parenthetical Notes (MLA Format) | |
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Types of Notes | |
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Parenthetical Notes | |
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Some Special Cases | |
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When Are Notes Needed? | |
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How Many Notes Are Enough? | |
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How Much Material Can One Note Cover? | |
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Information Footnotes | |
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Research Paper Format (MLA Style) | |
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Format for your Polished Draft | |
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A Formal Outline | |
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Standard Numbering System | |
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Paper Title | |
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Decimal System | |
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Topic and Sentence Outlines | |
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APA Format | |
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Formats Other Than MLA | |
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APA Style | |
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APA Bibliographic Citations (Reference List) | |
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Model Entries | |
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Books | |
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Selections from Books | |
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Periodicals and Newspapers | |
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Other Sources | |
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Internet and Electronic Sources | |
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Notes APA Style | |
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Sample Pages in APA Style | |
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Format Featuring Numbered References | |