Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (with MyCompLab), 9/E
Laurence Behrens, University of California, Santa Barbara
Leonard J. Rosen, Bentley College

ISBN-10: 0321343530
ISBN-13: 9780321343536

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper Bound with PIN; 880 pp
Published: 12/08/2004

Suggested retail price: $69.33
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The original, best-selling interdisciplinary composition text, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Ninth Edition, teaches students of all majors and interests to communicate effectively.  

 

This text provides students with the opportunity to practice the essential college-level writing skills of summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis. An exciting new chapter on advertising supports the current need for skills in analyzing visual arguments.    


  • PART I:   Chapters 1-7 present the practical summary, synthesis, critique, analysis approach to writing source-based papers across the disciplines in a step-by-step process.
  • PART II:   The anthology of readings includes a series of high-interest essays drawn from both academic and professional disciplines.   
  • Continued focus on argumentation—the basis for most writing—guides students to more effective writing.
  • Continued emphasis on on-line research provides students with everything they need to know about current research methods.
  • Thoughtful pedagogical apparatus helps students understand the four-part approach to writing: summary, synthesis, critique and analysis.  

  • A new Chapter 6, "Analysis," adds this critical skill to the skills traditionally covered in the text-summary, synthesis and critique.   This new chapter defines analysis as a type of thinking and writing that students will be called upon to demonstrate throughout their academic careers.   New pedagogical activities throughout Part II provide opportunities for practice with analysis.   
  • Two new thematic sections in PART II:
    • Chapter 10, "What's Happening at the Mall?," explores the role that shopping centers have assumed in American culture.
    • Chapter 13, "New and Improved: Six Decades of Advertising," includes a portfolio of 41 ads and helps students understand the appeals of argument in advertising and the need to "read" visuals as critically as text.
  • New readings in every chapter, including readings about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq , Web blogs and instant messaging make the text current and relevant. 

    • ** mark new chapters or readings.

     

    I.   SUMMARY, SYNTHESIS, CRITIQUE, AND ANALYSIS.

    1. Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation.

     

    What is Summary?

    Can a Summary Be Objective?

    Using the Summary.

    The Reading Process.

    How to Write Summaries.

    Demonstration:   Summary.

    Summarizing a Narrative or Personal Essay.

    Summarizing Figures and Tables.

    Paraphrase.

    Quotations.

    Avoiding Plagiarism.

     

    2. Critical Reading and Critique.

     

    Critical Reading.

    Critique.

    Demonstration: Critique.

     

    3. Writing as Process.

     

    Introductions, Theses, and Conclusions.

    Writing Introductions.

    Writing a Thesis.

    Writing Conclusions.

     

    4. Explanatory Synthesis.

     

    What Is a Synthesis?

    Purpose.

    Using Your Sources.

    Types of Synthesis: Explanatory and Argument.

    How to Write Syntheses.

    The Explanatory Synthesis.

    Demonstration: Explanatory Synthesis: Computers, Communication, and Relationships.

     

    5. Argument Synthesis.

     

    What is an Argument Synthesis?

    Demonstration: Developing an Argument Synthesis: Volunteering in America.

    Developing and Organizing Support for Your Arguments.

    The Comparison-Contrast Synthesis.

    Summary of Synthesis.

     

    6. **Analysis.

     

    What Is an Analysis?

    Demonstration of Analysis.

    How to Write Analyses.

    Writing Assignment: Analysis.

    Analysis: A Tool for Understanding.

     

    7. Locating, Mining, and Citing Sources.

     

    Source-Based Papers.

    The Research Question.

    Locating Sources.

    Mining Sources.

    Citing Sources.

    Writing Assignment: Short Source-Based Paper.

     II. An Anthology of Readings .

     

    Technology/Communication.

     8. Cyberspace and Identity.

     

    We’ve Got Mail—Always , Andrew Leonard.

    Journey of an E-Mail, John Dyson.

    **The End of History , Fred Kaplan.

    **I Think, Therefore IM, Jennifer Lee.

    **The Blog Phenomenon , John C. Dvorak.

    **The Intimacy of Blogs , Michael Snider.

    A Shared Sadness, Russ Parsons.

    Virtual Love , Meghan Daum.

    Cyberspace and Identity , Sherry Turkle.

    Boy, You Fight Like a Girl , Alex Pham.

    Faking It:   The 15 Year-Old Legal Whiz, Michael Lewis.

     Psychology.

     9. Obedience to Authority.

     

    **Abu Ghraib.

    Opinions and Social Pressure, Solomon E. Asch.

    The Perils of Obedience, Stanley Milgram.

    Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience, Diana Baumrind.

    Obedience, Ian Parker.

    The Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip K. Zimbardo.

    Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem, Erich Fromm.

    **Just Do What the Pilot Tells You, Theodore Dalrymple.

    SOCIOLOGY.

    **Chapter 10.   What's Happening at the Mall?

     

    Shopping for American Culture , James Farrell.

    A Social History of Shopping, Laura Paquet.

    Main Street Revisited, Richard Francaviglia.

    Shopping Towns USA, Victor Gruen and Larry Smith.

    Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: One Week at the Mall of America, David Guterson.

    The Shopping Mall as Sacred Space , Ira Zepp, Jr.

    From Town Center to Shopping Center, Lizabeth Cohen.

    Community Through Exclusion and Illusion, George Lewis.

    Mallaise: How to Know If You Have It, William Kowinski.

    NUTRITION/ HEALTH SCIENCES.

    11. The Weight Debate.

     

      **Rethinking Weight, Amanda Spake.

    Caloric Imbalance and Public Health Policy , Jeffrey P. Koplan and William H. Dietz.

    Prevalence of Obesity Among U.S. Adults, by Characteristics and by State , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    Too Much of a Good Thing, Greg Crister.

    NAAFA Policy on Dieting and the Diet Industry , National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.

    Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance , Mary Ray Worley.

    Too “Close to the Bone”: The Historical Context for Women’s Obsession with Slenderness , Roberta Seid.

    Fat and Happy? , Hillel Schwartz.

    **The Ironic Politics of Obesity, Marion Nestle.

    The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Eating, Atul Gawande.

    LITERATURE/ FOLKLORE.

    12. Fairy Tales: A Closer Look at “Cinderella”.

     

    Universality of the Folktale , Stith Thompson.

    **Fairy Tales and a Dose of Reality , Catherine Orenstein.

    Nine Variants of   “Cinderella” .

    Cinderella , Charles Perrault.

    Ashputtle , Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm.

    When the Clock Strikes , Tanith Lee.

    A Chinese “Cinderella” , Tuan Ch’êng-shih.

    The Maiden, the Frog, and the Chief’s Son (An African “Cinderella”) .

    Oochigeaskw—The Rough-Faced Girl (A Native American “Cinderella”) .

    Walt Disney’s “Cinderella” , Adapted by Campbell Grant.

    Cinderella , Anne Sexton.

    Gudgekin the Thistle Girl , John Gardner.

    “Cinderella”: A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts , Bruno Bettelheim.

    **I Am Cinderella's Stepmother and I Know My Rights , Judith Rossner.

    “Cinderella” and the Loss of Father-Love , Jacqueline M. Schectman.

    **"Cinderella": Not So Morally Superior, Elisabeth Panttaja.

    BUSINESS/ MARKETING.

    **13. New and Improved: Six Decades of Advertising.

     Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals , Jib Fowles.

    Making the Pitch in Print Advertising , Courtland Bovée, John V. Thill, George P. Dovel, Marian Burk Wood.

    The Picture That’s Worth a Thousand Words , Dorothy Cohen.

    The Indictments against Advertising , Courtland Bovée, William F. Arens.

    A Portfolio of Advertisements: 1945-2003.

    LAW.

     14. You, the Jury.

     

    The Maiden and the Pot of Gold: A Case of Emotional Distress .

    The American Legal System , David Hricik.

    **IRAC: How to Write About Legal Cases , Leonard Tourney, Gina Genova.

    The Ridiculed Employee: An Additional Case of Emotional Distress .

    Assault and Battery on the Gridiron: A Case of Reckless Disregard of Safety .

    Who Gets the Kids? Some Cases of Child Custody .

    **Hot Coffee Spills.

    The Felled Stop Signs: Some Cases of Homicide .

    Drag Racing and Death: Some Cases of Manslaughter .

     Legal Glossary.

     

      Celebrating its 25th year of helping students of all majors and interests learn to write effectively for college, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Tenth Edition, remains the best-selling interdisciplinary composition text. 

       

      This rhetoric and reader guides students through the essential college-level writing skills of summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis, and offers a focused opportunity for practicing these skills in a new chapter, Ch. 7, “Practicing Academic Writing.”  Part II provides a wide range of carefully-selected, cross-disciplinary readings, including a chapter on advertising that emphasizes the need to “read” visual texts in an increasingly visual age, and two new chapters on sleep and marriage.

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      Behrens & Rosen
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