Academic Writing: Working with Sources Across the Curriculum

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Kennedy, Mary Lynch

Smith, Hadley M.

Words, Language & Grammar

Pearson

Reading and Writing in the Academic Community is a comprehensive rhetoric with engaging, timely readings. The authors wrote their book to include more coverage of the writing process. This text provides explicit, step-by-step instruction in paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing essays in response to readings, composing synthesis essays, and using sources to compose comparison-and-contrast essays, argument essays, analysis essays, evaluation essays, and research papers.

Reading and Writing in the Academic Community

Pearson College Div

This combination rhetoric/anthology guides readers through the entire process of writing from sources: planning and engaging in preparatory activities prior to reading; doing a close reading of texts, taking notes, and organizing the ideas; and finally, drafting, revising, and editing essays. The anthology offers engaging reading selections that introduce readers to the issues and the methods of study in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and that can serve as idea banks for writing. Extensive coverage of critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing essays responding to sources; comparison essays, synthesis essays, analytic and evaluative essays, argument essays, and research papers. Up-to-date, user-friendly information on computerized information retrieval systems. A guide to documentation and the comparison of the MLA and APA styles. Model essays -- based on selections in the anthology. More than 60 essays, articles, short stories, and poems -- all focused on provocative issues in the natural and technological sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Works by prominent writers -- including many women and ethnic writers. Carefully sequenced writing activities that build in complexity throughout. For anyone wanting instruction or a refresher in the academic writing process.

Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader for Writers, Fourth Edition

Kennedy, WIlliam J.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

This innovative rhetoric/reader provides an introduction to--and extensive practice with the purposes, forms, and processes of academic reading and writing across the curriculum. It illustrates in detail all the steps in the entire reading-writing process from reading the original source to revising the final draft--for a variety of essay types.

This innovative rhetoric/reader provides an introduction to—and extensive practice with—the purposes, forms, and processes of academic reading and writing across the curriculum. It illustrates in detail all the steps in the entire reading-writing process—from reading the original source to revising the final draft—for a variety of essay types. Chapter topics include reading academic sources; learning the basic conventions: summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting; responding to sources; comparing and contrasting sources; composing other types of multiple-source essays; drawing on sources for the argument essay; analysis and evaluation; and writing research papers. The anthology of readings contains a selection of high-interest, easily read thematic sources which treat both sides of timely issues and provocative topics. For students who want to master the basic conventions of academic writing, and effortlessly execute the processes involved.

Reading and Writing in the Academic Community with 2001 APA Guidelines (2nd Edition)

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

This combination rhetoric/anthology guides readers through the entire process of writing from sources: planning and engaging in preparatory activities prior to reading; doing a close reading of texts, taking notes, and organizing the ideas; and finally, drafting, revising, and editing essays. The anthology offers engaging reading selections that introduce readers to the issues and the methods of study in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and that can serve as idea banks for writing. Extensive coverage of critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing essays responding to sources; comparison essays, synthesis essays, analytic and evaluative essays, argument essays, and research papers. Up-to-date, user-friendly information on computerized information retrieval systems. A guide to documentation and the comparison of the MLA and APA styles. Model essays -- based on selections in the anthology. More than 60 essays, articles, short stories, and poems -- all focused on provocative issues in the natural and technological sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Works by prominent writers -- including many women and ethnic writers. Carefully sequenced writing activities that build in complexity throughout. For anyone wanting instruction or a refresher in the academic writing process.

Writing in the Disciplines with APA Guidelines (4th Edition)

This reader provides a firm grounding in academic writing, showing students how to read academic texts and use them as sources for college papers. Offering a broad and comprehensive selection of readings to help students develop their abilities to think critically and reason cogently, it shows them how to work individually and collaboratively as they move through the entire process of writing from sources-from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising essays.

Writing In the Disciplines (1998 MLA Update Edition)

Prentice Hall College Div.

Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader for Writers

Prentice-Hall.Inc.

This combination rhetoric/anthology shows readers how to read academic volumes effectively and how to use them as sources for papers in a variety of disciplines. Throughout, readers learn how to work individually and collaboratively as they move through the entire process of writing from sources?from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising essays. The rhetoric section teaches readers the fundamental strategies for all phases of academic writing?critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, organizing, drafting, revising, editing, synthesizing, analyzing, researching, and developing arguments. The anthology section offers engaging reading selections that introduce readers to the issues and the methods of study in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and that serve as idea banks for their writing assignments. For individuals interested in a comprehensive treatment of academic writing.

Reading and Writing in the Academic Community is a comprehensive rhetoric with engaging, timely readings. The authors wrote their book to include more coverage of the writing process to better meet the needs of students than other books in this market. The text presents the major types of academic writing students encounter as undergraduates while giving full consideration to the writing process and the basics of rhetoric. This text makes few assumptions about students' prior academic experience and provides explicit, step-by-step instruction in paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing essays in response to readings, composing synthesis essays, and using sources to compose comparison-and-contrast essays, argument essays, analysis essays, evaluation essays, and research papers.

Reading And Writing In The Academic Community

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Academic Writing: Working with Sources Across the Curriculum

Reading and Writing in the Academic Community

Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader for Writers, Fourth Edition

Reading and Writing in the Academic Community

Reading and Writing in the Academic Community with 2001 APA Guidelines (2nd Edition)

Writing in the Disciplines with APA Guidelines (4th Edition)

Writing In the Disciplines (1998 MLA Update Edition)

Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader for Writers

Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader for Writers

Reading And Writing In The Academic Community