Features Contemporary issues engage the students, while the thematically grouped readings provide rich material for both in-class discussion and writing topics. Eighty-six essays focus on individual, national, and global issues and provide students with an array of perspectives from a range of disciplines and professions. A variety of writing assignments represents the kinds of writing students will be required to do in courses across the college curriculum. These assignments encourage critical thinking by asking students ...
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Features Contemporary issues engage the students, while the thematically grouped readings provide rich material for both in-class discussion and writing topics. Eighty-six essays focus on individual, national, and global issues and provide students with an array of perspectives from a range of disciplines and professions. A variety of writing assignments represents the kinds of writing students will be required to do in courses across the college curriculum. These assignments encourage critical thinking by asking students to go well beyond simple recall of the readings, and to use higher-order skills such as integration, synthesis, or analysis of what they have read. Seven introductory chapters teach students skills they will need throughout their college career, including critical reading, summarizing, critiquing, synthesizing, using in-text citations, paraphraising, quoting, and writing a research paper. New to the Third Edition Half of the readings are new: forty-three new essays focus on current topics such as school shootings, human cloning, globalization, and terrorism. Part 1, "Writing Critically and Conducting Research, " has been reorganized to make it easier for students to use. Two chapters from the the previous edition on music and film and popular culture have now been combined into one, "Music, Film, and Media Studies" (Chapter 9). A Free four-month Access Card for infoTrac(R) College Edition will be bundled with every new copy of the text, providing students with 24-hour-a-day access to more than 3800 scholarly and popular sources that they can use to find additional material about the issues presented in the text. CONTENT *Denotes new tothis edition Part 1. Writing Critically and Conducting Research 1. Reading Critically Organizing and Developing Ideas Illustrations: Reading Critically The Hollow Curriculum, Robert N. Sollod Discussion of The Hollow Curriculum Burned Out and Bored, Roald Dahl 2. Writing a Summary Writing a Summary Illustration: Making Marginal Notes The Making of a Generation, Arthur Levine Summary of Arthur Levine's "The Making of a Generation" *Lessons in Democracy, Martha W. Barnett 3. Writing a Critique The Connection between Reading Critically and Writing a Critique Writing a Critique Illustration: Critique of Robert N. Sollod's The Hollow Curriculum *Who Needs College?, Linda Lee 4. Writing a Synthesis Writing a Synthesis Illustration: Synthesis 5. In-Text Citations, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Documenting Sources: In-Text Citations Using MLA Style Paraphrasing Quoting Integrating Source Material into Your Paper Using Ellipsis Points, Brackets, Single Quotation Marks and "Qtd. in" Documenting Sources in a Collection of Essays 6. Writing a Research Paper Using MLA Style Defining Your Purpose Asking Questions and Discovering a Topic Developing a Working Bibliography Using the Library Using Electronic Sources Finding History on the Net, Mark Horowitz Creating a Preliminary Bibliography Evaluating Sources Taking Notes Avoiding Plagiarism Illustration: Plagiarism, Inaccurate Documentation, and Correct Handling of Source Material Documenting Sources Citing Sources in the Text and Creating a Works Cited Page Illustration: Student Research Papers
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