Reading Critically, Writing Well: a Reader and Guide

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Reading Critically, Writing Well

A Reader and Guide12th Edition ©2020

With more critical reading coverage than any other limerick text, Reading Critically, Writing Well helps students read for meaning and read like a writer. A robust catalog of reading strategies complement consignment chapters that comprehend four expository genres, including autobiograp...

With more critical reading coverage than whatever other composition text, Reading Critically, Writing Well helps students read for meaning and read like a writer. A robust itemize of reading strategies complement assignment chapters that cover 4 expository genres, including autobiography/literacy narratives and reflection, and four argumentative genres, including evaluation and proposal. Each chapter starts with a guide to reading that challenges students to clarify the authors' techniques, and concludes with a pace-past-step guide to writing and revising that helps them apply these techniques to their ain essays. The provocative readings throughout represent an assortment of topics and disciplines.

This new edition brings on noted reading scholar Ellen Carillo (University of Connecticut), and provides more opportunities for students to learn and exercise complex reading and writing strategies, with a new accent on research, curiosity, and habits of mind. Accessible instruction, engaging readings, and constructive writing assignments brand Reading Critically, Writing Well platonic for instructors who want to demonstrate critical analysis and the effective rhetorical choices that students can make in their own writing.

The most thorough support for the reading-writing connection.

With more disquisitional reading coverage than any other composition text, Reading Critically, Writing Well helps students read for meaning and read similar a writer. A robust catalog of reading strategies complement assignment chapters that cover four expository genres, including autobiography/literacy narratives and reflection, and four argumentative genres, including evaluation and proposal. Each chapter starts with a guide to reading that challenges students to analyze the authors' techniques, and concludes with a step-by-step guide to writing and revising that helps them employ these techniques to their own essays. The provocative readings throughout represent an array of topics and disciplines.

This new edition brings on noted reading scholar Ellen Carillo (University of Connecticut), and provides more opportunities for students to learn and practise complex reading and writing strategies, with a new emphasis on inquiry, curiosity, and habits of mind. Accessible instruction, engaging readings, and constructive writing assignments make Reading Critically, Writing Well ideal for instructors who want to demonstrate critical analysis and the constructive rhetorical choices that students tin make in their own writing.

50 professional person plus 8 student readings model the total range of writing that students will read and produce in college, including major rhetorical genres as well equally multigenre essays. Selections represent an array of disciplines and themes, from social sciences and humanities to food studies and neuroscience. Readings past classic and contemporary authors include Wesley Morris, Jacqueline Woodson, David Sedaris, and Stephen Rex.

An engaging and applied introduction to writing in Affiliate 1 introduces an inquiry-based arroyo and the essential academic habits of listen—curiosity, flexibility, metacognition, and more than-- that students demand to succeed in college.

Innovative, expert, and thorough coverage of the reading-writing connection provides detailed guidance for students in moving from disquisitional reading to successful writing and is found in each readings affiliate:

Step-past-footstep Guides to Reading walk students through a reading selection, asking them to develop their own interpretations while introducing them to the basic features of that chapter's genre of writing.
Step-by-footstep Guides to Writing accept students through the procedure of planning, drafting, and revising an essay for that chapter's genre of writing, supported by a combination of examples, advice on working with sources, and model judgement strategies.
A Catalog of Reading Strategies in Affiliate 2 includes xx useful strategies for critical reading, from annotating and mapping to analyzing and evaluating the logic of an statement. Combining Reading Strategies activities provide students with farther opportunities to deepen their understanding of a reading and provide direction for writing.

Activities for active learning accompany each reading and invite students to learn by doing. Tailored questions fix students to read and summarize each reading, then respond and analyze the writer'due south assumptions. Analyze & Write prompts aid students practice writing about each option. Annotated instance paragraphs and sentence strategy templates foreground the rhetorical moves students need to acquire to write finer in the classroom and across.

Alternative tables of contents by field of study and theme allow instructors the flexibility to chart their own path through the readings to come across their course goals.

New to This Edition

New coauthor Ellen C. Carillo (Academy of Connecticut) brings her expertise in the education of critical reading alongside writing in the composition classroom. Her research and scholarship explore the almost effective ways of incorporating attention to reading in writing classrooms and underscore the importance of teaching within a metacognitive framework so that students are positioned to transfer their learning to other courses and contexts beyond the classroom.

New readings on compelling topics that spark educatee interest. The more than twenty new selections in the 12th edition of Reading Critically, Writing Well include writers ranging from local activists to Pulitzer Prize winners, giving students both local and global models to refer to. Highlights include:

Inability activist Alice Wong'south "The Last Straw" questions bans on plastic straws and proposes means for establishments to cultivate attainable and hospitable environments.
Local announcer Isiah Holmes's "The Heroin and Opioid Crunch is Real" investigates the opioid crisis in Milwaukee and urges the metropolis to assistance those suffering from addiction.
Pulitzer prize-winning surgeon Atul Gawande's "The Heroism of Incremental Care" observes several doctors to improve empathise the importance of incremental healthcare models.

New coverage of Literacy Narratives in Chapter 3 at present includes a give-and-take of the rhetorical situation for literacy narratives and model sentence strategies to get students started. There'south also a new professional person essay past Molly Montgomery, "In Search of Dumplings and Dead Poets," and a new model student essay, Rhea Jameson's "Mrs. Maxon."

A new Chapter 11, "Multigenre Writing: Pulling Information technology All Together," shows students how authors combine genres to meet the needs of their specific rhetorical situations, and how they can exercise this in their ain writing every bit well, helping them to go more flexible and natural writers with skills that transfer beyond the writing classroom.

A robust Chapter 12, "Strategies for Research and Documentation," walks students through the process of conducting various kinds of research, provides helpful guidelines for researching and evaluating the reliability of sources, and offer instructions and models for MLA and APA mode.

New "Combining Reading Strategies" assignments in each chapter walk students through using multiple reading strategies to gain a deeper understanding of what they are reading, helping them to practice and develop the higher level reading skills necessary for higher level work.

"The volume contains a fantastic collection of readings. The diverse disciplines and interesting authors (some standard and familiar, others contemporary and edgy) evidence a thoughtful approach."

--Michael Trovato, Ohio Country University-Newark

"It is one of the all-time texts I've seen for teaching critical reading. The Catalog of Reading Skills section lone is worth the toll of the book."

--Peggy Lindsey, Georgia Southern University

"I think it is ane of the best books for education writing. It presents students clear, concise, practical communication about getting more out of their academic reading and writing. The model essays for each genre are particularly useful as are the tips on how to read, write and trouble-shoot essays."

--Deron Walker, California Baptist University

"It'southward a textbook that thinks securely and demonstrates well key approaches to critical, engaged reading practices, and that it makes clear the means in which such reading informs and feeds the writing process. I beloved the style it models and charts the reading and writing processes."

--Julie Chocolate-brown, Virginia Military Institute

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Contents by Theme
Contents by Discipline
ane Academic Habits of Mind: From Reading Critically to Writing Well
Joining the Academic Chat
*Ben Greenman, The Online Marvel Killer
From Reading Critically to Writing Well
The Writing Procedure
2 A Itemize OF READING STRATEGIES
Annotating
Martin Luther King Jr., An Annotated Sample from "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Taking Inventory
Outlining
Summarizing
Paraphrasing
Skimming
Synthesizing
Analyzing Assumptions
Contextualizing
Exploring the Significance of Figurative Language
Analyzing Visuals
Looking for Patterns of Opposition
Reflecting on Challenges to Your Behavior and Values
Comparing and Contrasting Related Readings
Lewis H. Van Dusen Jr., Legitimate Pressures and Illegitimate Results
Evaluating the Logic of an Argument
Recognizing Logical Fallacies
Recognizing Emotional Manipulation
Judging the Writer's Credibility
Reading Similar A Writer
3 AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND LITERACY NARRATIVES
Rhetorical Situations for Autobiographies and Literacy Narratives
A GUIDE TO READING AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND LITERACY NARRATIVES
Annie Dillard, An American Childhood (Annotated Essay)
READINGS
David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Mean solar day
*Molly Montgomery, In Search of Dumplings and Expressionless Poets
Saira Shah, Longing to Belong
Jenée Desmond-Harris, Tupac and My Non-Thug Life
*Rhea Jameson, Mrs. Maxon (Educatee Essay)
A GUIDE TO WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND LITERACY NARRATIVES
Writing Your Typhoon
Reviewing and Improving the Draft
4 Ascertainment
Rhetorical Situations for Observations
A GUIDE TO READING OBSERVATIONS
The New Yorker, Soup
READINGS
John T. Edge, I'm Non Leaving Until I Eat This Affair
Gabriel Thompson, A Gringo in the Lettuce Fields
Amanda Coyne, The Long Good-Goodbye: Mother's Day in Federal Prison
*Robin Wall Kimmerer, Asters and Goldenrods
*Linda Fine, Bringing Ingenuity Back
A GUIDE TO WRITING OBSERVATIONAL ESSAYS
Writing Your Draft
Reviewing and Improving the Draft
5 REFLECTION
Rhetorical Situations for Reflections
A GUIDE TO READING REFLECTIVE ESSAYS
Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space (Annotated Essay)
READINGS
Dana Jennings, Our Scars Tell the Stories of Our Lives (Annotated Essay)
Jacqueline Woodson, The Pain of the Watermelon Joke
Manuel Muñoz, Leave Your Name at the Edge
*Maya Rupert, I, Wonder: Imagining a Black Wonder Adult female
*Samantha Wright, Starving for Command (Student Essay)
A GUIDE TO WRITING REFLECTIVE ESSAYS
Writing Your Draft 00
Reviewing and Improving the Draft
6 EXPLAINING CONCEPTS
Rhetorical Situations for Concept Explanations
A GUIDE TO READING CONCEPT EXPLANATIONS
Susan Cain, Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic? (Annotated Essay)
READINGS
John Tierney, Do You Suffer from Determination Fatigue?
*Jeff Howe, The Rise of Crowdsourcing
Melanie Tannenbaum, The Trouble When Sexism Only Sounds So Darn Friendly
Michael Pollan, Altered State: Why "Natural" Doesn't Mean Anything
*William Tucker, The Fine art and Creativity of Terminate-Move (Student Essay)
A GUIDE TO WRITING ESSAYS EXPLAINING CONCEPTS
Writing Your Typhoon
Reviewing and Improving the Typhoon
7 EVALUATION
Rhetorical Situations for Evaluations
A GUIDE TO READING EVALUATIONS
Amitai Etzioni, Working at McDonald'southward (Annotated Essay)
READINGS
*Mathew Hertogs, Typing vs. Handwriting Notes: An Evaluation of the Effects of Transcription Method on Student Learning
*Ian Bogost, Brands are Not Our Friends
Malcolm Gladwell, What Higher Rankings Actually Tell Us
Christine Rosen, The Myth of Multitasking
Christine Romano, Jessica Statsky'due south "Children Need to Play, Not Compete": An Evaluation (Student Essay)
A GUIDE TO WRITING EVALUATIONS
Writing Your Draft
Reviewing and Improving the Typhoon
8 ARGUING FOR A POSITION
Rhetorical Situations for Position Arguments
A GUIDE TO READING ESSAYS ARGUING FOR A POSITION
*Christie Aschwanden, There'south No Such Affair equally 'Sound Science' (Annotated Essay)
READINGS
*Isiah Holmes, The Heroin and Opioid Crunch is Real
Sherry Turkle, The Flight from Conversation
Daniel J. Solove, Why Privacy Matters Fifty-fifty If Yous Have "Goose egg to Hide"
Miya Tokumitsu, In the Name of Beloved
Jessica Statsky, Children Need to Play, Not Compete (Educatee Essay)
A GUIDE TO WRITING POSITION ARGUMENTS
Writing Your Draft
Reviewing and Improving the Draft
9 SPECULATING Nearly CAUSES OR EFFECTS
Rhetorical Situations for Speculating near Causes or Furnishings
A GUIDE TO READING ESSAYS SPECULATING Nearly CAUSES OR Furnishings
Stephen Rex, Why We Crave Horror Movies (Annotated Essay)
READINGS
*Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Patterns Of Death In The South Nevertheless Show The Outlines Of Slavery
*C Thi Nguyen, Escape the Echo Bedchamber
Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Sendhil Mullainathan, The Mental Strain of Making Do with Less
Clayton Pangelinan, #socialnetworking: Why It'southward Really So Pop (Student Essay)
A GUIDE TO WRITING ESSAYS SPECULATING Near CAUSES OR Furnishings
Writing Your Draft
Reviewing and Improving the Draft
10 PROPOSAL TO SOLVE A Problem
Rhetorical Situations for Proposals
A GUIDE TO READING PROPOSALS
*Alice Wong, The Final Harbinger (Annotated Essay)
READINGS
Harold Meyerson, How to Raise Americans' Wages
*Maryanne Wolf, Skim Reading is the New Normal
William F. Shughart II, Why Not a Football game Caste?
Kelly D. Brownell and Thomas R. Frieden, Ounces of Prevention — The Public Policy Case for Taxes on Sugared Beverages
*James Benge, Adapting to the Disappearance of Honeybees (Pupil Essay)
A GUIDE TO WRITING PROPOSALS
Writing Your Typhoon
Reviewing and Improving the Draft
11 Multi-Genre Writing: Pulling information technology all together
Rhetorical Situations for Multi-Genre Writing
A GUIDE TO READING MULTI-GENRE ESSAYS
*Atul Gawande, The Heroism of Incremental Care
READINGS
*Wesley Morris, Who Gets to Make up one's mind What Belongs in the Canon
*Phil Christman, On Beingness Midwestern: The Burden of Normality
*Tajja Isen, How Can We Expand the Style We Write About Our Identities
*Jonathan Jones, Leonardo v Rembrandt: Who's the Greatest
*Aru Terbor, A Deeper Look at Empathetic and Donating Beliefs (Educatee Essay)
A GUIDE TO WRITING multi-genre essays
Writing Your Draft
Reviewing and Improving the Draft
12 STRATEGIES FOR RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION
PLANNING A Enquiry Project
Analyzing Your Rhetorical State of affairs and Setting a Schedule
Choosing a Topic and Getting an Overview
Focusing Your Topic and Drafting Inquiry Questions
Establishing a Research Log
Creating a Working Bibliography
Annotating Your Working Bibliography
Taking Notes on Your Sources
FINDING SOURCES
Searching Library Catalogs and Databases
Searching for Government Documents and Statistical Information
Searching for Websites and Interactive Sources
CONDUCTING FIELD RESEARCH
Conducting Observational Studies
Conducting Interviews
Conducting Surveys
EVALUATING SOURCES
Choosing Relevant Sources
Choosing Reliable Sources
USING SOURCES TO Back up YOUR IDEAS
Synthesizing Sources
Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
Using Data from Sources to Back up Your Claims
CITING AND DOCUMENTING SOURCES IN MLA Style
Using In-Text Citations
Creating a Listing of Works Cited
CITING AND DOCUMENTING SOURCES IN APA Mode
Using In-Text Citations
Creating a List of References

Alphabetize to Methods of Evolution
Index of Authors, Titles, and Terms

Rise B. Axelrod

Rise B. Axelrod is McSweeney Professor of Rhetoric and Teaching Excellence, Emeritus, at the University of California, Riverside, where she was also managing director of English Composition. She has previously been professor of English at California Country University, San Bernardino; managing director of the College Expository Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder; and assistant managing director of the 3rd College (now Thurgood Marshall College) Limerick Program at the University of California, San Diego. She is the co-writer, with Charles R. Cooper, of the best-selling textbooks The St. Martin's Guide to Writing and The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing, as well as Reading Critically, Writing Well.

Charles R. Cooper

Charles R. Cooper an emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego served as coordinator of the 3rd College (now Thurgood Marshall College) Composition Programme at the University of California, San Diego, and co-director of the San Diego Writing Project, one of the National Writing Project Centers. He brash the National Assessment of Educational Progress writing study and coordinated the development of California's first statewide writing assessment. He taught at the Academy of California, Riverside; the State Academy of New York at Buffalo; and the University of California, San Diego. Co-editor, with Lee Odell, of Evaluating Writing and Inquiry on Composing: Points of Deviation, and he was co-writer, with Ascension Axelrod, of the best-selling textbooks The St. Martin'south Guide to Writing and The Curtailed St. Martin's Guide to Writing, too every bit Reading Critically, Writing Well.

Ellen Carillo

Ellen C. Carillo is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the writing programme coordinator at its Waterbury Campus. She teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, as well equally literature. Her scholarship has appeared in dozens of edited collections and journals, and she has authored the books Securing a Place for Reading in Composition: The Importance of Didactics for Transfer, A Writer's Guide to Mindful Reading, Educational activity Readers in Postal service-Truth America and The MLA Guide to Digital Literacy.

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Reading Critically, Writing Well: a Reader and Guide

Reading Critically, Writing Well

A Reader and Guide12th Edition ©2020

The most thorough support for the reading-writing connection.

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Rise B. Axelrod

Charles R. Cooper

Ellen Carillo

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