Reading Context (with InfoTrac),9780155058170

Reading Context (with InfoTrac)

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780155058170
ISBN10: 0155058177
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-07-28
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary

READING CONTEXT features challenging essays from a broad spectrum of disciplines and will show you how to read closely, synthesize multiple perspectives, and produce effective academic prose.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction to College Writing
1(20)
Differences Between High School and College
2(1)
Roles of Teachers
3(2)
Differences in the Writing
5(7)
Argument
6(2)
Critical Analysis
8(1)
Disciplinarity
8(1)
Timing and Length
9(1)
Research
10(1)
Nonfiction Academic Reading
10(1)
Range of Topics
10(1)
Revision
11(1)
Workload
12(1)
A Sample Essay
12(5)
This Textbook's Plan
17(4)
Rhetorical Reading: Reading for Writing
21(46)
Difficulty
22(1)
Responsibility
23(1)
Intertextuality
23(1)
References to Other Texts
23(1)
References from One Essay to Another
23(1)
Working with Rhetorical Reading
24(7)
Genres
31(14)
Editorials
31(3)
Textbooks
34(4)
Literature
38(4)
Newsmagazines
42(3)
Reading Assignments, Reading Texts: An Example
45(19)
Conclusion
64(3)
Argument in College Writing
67(670)
People Shouldn't Argue . . . But Academics Do
67(4)
Writing the Argumentative, Source-Based College Paper
71(3)
Argument, Reasoning, and the Toulmin Model Analysis
74(6)
Thesis Versus Claims
80(6)
Evidence and Authority
86(6)
Working with Media and Visual Materials
92(6)
Evaluating News Sources
93(3)
Numbers Are Rhetorical
96(1)
Visuals Are Rhetorical, Too
97(1)
Writing with Evidence
98(3)
Connecting Claims and Evidence with Warrants
101(1)
Reading Sample Student Papers
102(11)
Kelly Allen, ``Legends of Fall River: Characterizations of Lizzie Borden and Angela Carter's Fictional Argument''
103(5)
Adam Fox, ``The Modern Biological Institution''
108(5)
The Readings
Gloria E. Anzaldua
113(34)
Entering Into the Serpent
115(13)
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
128(9)
The Journey: Path of Conocimiento
137(3)
Shifting Realities . . . Acting Out the Vision or Spiritual Activism
140(7)
Roland Barthes
147(6)
The Death of the Author
149(4)
John Berger
153(22)
from Ways of Seeing
155(20)
Angela Carter
175(16)
The Fall River Axe Murders
177(14)
James Clifford
191(32)
Paradise
193(30)
Hannah Crafts
223(16)
In Childhood
225(7)
The Bride and the Bridal Company
232(7)
Joan Didion
239(30)
Sentimental Journeys
241(28)
Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet
269(34)
Constructing Meaning, Constructing Selves: Snapshots of Language, Gender, and Class from Belten High
271(32)
Stanley E. Fish
303(12)
How to Recognize a Poem When You See One
305(10)
Michel Foucault
315(26)
Panopticism
318(23)
Stephen J. Greenblatt
341(20)
Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century
343(18)
Alan G. Gross
361(16)
Rhetorical Analysis
363(14)
Carl G. Herndl, Barbara A. Fennell, and Carolyn R. Miller
377(28)
Understanding Failures in Organizational Discourse: The Accident at Three Mile Island and the Shuttle Challenger Disaster
380(25)
Rosina Lippi-Green
405(24)
Teaching Children How to Discriminate: What We Learn from the Big Bad Wolf
408(21)
Martin Lister and Liz Wells
429(32)
Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing the Visual
431(30)
James W. Loewen
461(20)
Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-making
463(18)
Lisa Lowe
481(12)
Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism
483(10)
Martha L. Minow
493(30)
The Dilemma of Difference
496(27)
David D. Perlmutter
523(34)
Living-Room Wars
525(32)
Mark Poster
557(26)
Foucault and Databases: Participatory Surveillance
559(24)
Mary Louise Pratt
583(16)
Arts of the Contact Zone
585(14)
Anandi Ramamurthy
599(36)
Constructions of Illusion: Photography and Commodity Culture
601(34)
Sandra Silberstein
635(20)
From News to Entertainment: Eyewitness Accounts
637(18)
Ronald Takaki
655(16)
From a Different Shore: Their History Bursts with Telling
657(14)
Edward R. Tufte
671(34)
Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions
673(32)
Patricia J. Williams
705(20)
And We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings upon Legal Language and the Ideology of Style
707(18)
Hisaye Yamamoto
725(12)
Seventeen Syllables
728(9)
Credits 737(3)
Index 740

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