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PART I. MAKING SOURCES YOUR OWN
1. Reading for Understanding
Underlining
Annotating
Reading: William Leach, from Land of Desire
Exercise 1: Annotating a Passage
*Anne Hollander, from Sex and Suits
Asking Questions
Reading: Blanche Blank, A Question of Degree
Exercise 2: Understanding What You Read
*Jane Bernstein, A Victim of Circumstance
Questioning the Author
*Reading: Rubén Martínez: The Kindness of Strangers
Exercise 3: Examining Intention
*Martha C. Nussbaum, Cosmopolitan Emotions?
Analyzing the Author's Use of Evidence and Reading
Interpreting Evidence: Inference
Exercise 4: Drawing Inferences
*Marshall Poe, The Other Gender Gap
Logical Reasoning
Analyzing an Author's Logic
Exercise 5: Analyzing an Author'sLogic
*Walter Newell, from The Code of Man
PART II. PRESENTING SOURCES TO OTHERS
2. Summarizing Sources
Summarizing a Paragraph
Exercise 6: Summarizing a Paragraph
Andrew Sullivan, from The Love Bloat
Bradford W. Wright, from Comic Book Nation
*Gail Collins, from America's Women
Daniel Boorstin, from Americans: The National Experience
*Steven Pinker, from The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Summarizing an Article
Reading: Selwyn Raab, Holdup Man Tells Detectives How to Do It
Exercise 7: Summarizing an Article
*Eric Hoover, Crying Foul Over Fans' Boorish Behavior
Summarizing a Complex Essay
Reading: Bertrand Russell, The Social Responsibility of Scientists
Assignment 1: Summarizing an Essay
*Shannon E. French, When Teaching the Ethics of War Is Not Academic
*Neal Gabler, Our Celebrities, Ourselves
*John Taylor Gatto, Against School
3. Quoting Sources
Reasons for Quoting
Using Quotations
Exercise 8: Quoting Correctly
Quoting Accurately
Tailoring Quotations to Fit Your Writing
Exercise 9: Using Ellipses and Brackets in Quotations
Writing Citations
Deciding What to Quote
*Reading: Lizabeth Caten, Feminizing Public Space
Exercise 10: Why Quote?
*Gail Collins, from America's Women
Exercise 11: What to Quote
*Edward Tenner, from Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology
*Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy At Home and Abroad
Integrating Quotations into Your Paragraphs
Exercise 12: Integrating Quotations Into a Paragraph
Avoiding Plagiarism
Exercise 13: Identifying Plagiarism
4. Paraphrasing Sources
Using Paraphrase in Your Essays
Using Paraphrase as Preparation for Reading and Writing Essays
Writing a Good Paraphrase
Paraphrase and Summary
Writing an Accurate Paraphrase
Exercise 14: Identifying a Good Paraphrase
*David Barash, from Evolution, Males, and Violence
Paraphrasing a Difficult Text
Writing a Literal Paraphrase
Writing a Free Version of the Literal Paraphrase
Assignment 2: Paraphrasing a Difficult Passage
Using Paraphrase with Quotation and Summary
Reading: Conor Cruise O'Brien, Violence -- And Two Schools of Thought
Exercise 15: Distinguishing Between Quotation, Paraphrase, Summary, and Commentary
*Felicia R. Lee, Does Class Count in Today's Land of Opportunity?
Citing Your Paraphrased Sources
Writing a Paragraph that Incorporates Paraphrase and Quotation
*Reading: Anthony Swofford, Jarhead
Exercise 16: Writing a Paragraph That Incorporates Paraphrase and Quotation
Presenting Sources: A Summary of Preliminary Writing Skills
PART III. WRITING FROM SOURCES
5. The Single-Source Essay
Strategy One: Arguing Against Your Source
Reading: Roger Sipher, So That Nobody Has to Go to School If They Don't Want To
Presenting Your Source's Point of View
Presenting Your Point of View
An Argument Based On a Single Source
Reading: Leon Botstein, Let Teenagers Try Adulthood
Reading: Carl Singleton, What Our Education System Needs is More Fs
Reading: Jana Dunn, Fixing the American High School System
Assignment 3: Writing an Argument Based on a Single Source
*Reading: Billie Wright Dziech, Forcing Greek Organizations to Go Coeducational Won't Lead to Greater Diversity
*Reading: Jonathan Rauch, Now, For Tonight's Assignment...
*Reading: Pat Hagan, Falling on Deaf Ears
Strategy Two: Developing an Essay Based on a Source
Finding and Narrowing a Topic
Taking Notes and Writing a Thesis
Deciding on a Strategy
Structuring Your Essay
Writing the Essay
Revising the Essay
Assignment 4: Writing an Essay Based on a Single Source
*Christopher Clausen, An Army of One
*Diana Schaub, The Pillars of the Temple of Liberty
*Leon Kass, The End of Courtship
6. The Multiple-Source Essay
Selecting Information for a Multiple-Source Essay
Exercise 17: Selecting and Presenting Information
Assignment 5: Writing an Essay from Factual Information
Generalizing from Examples
Analyzing Multiple Sources
Exercise 18: Analyzing Shades of Meaning in Multiple Sources
Assignment 6: Writing a Definition Essay from Multiple Sources
Synthesizing Multiple Sources
Exercise 19: Identifying Common Ideas
Organizing Multiple Sources
Reading: Gene I. Maeroff, from Rule Tying Pupil Promotion to Reading Skill Stirs Worry
How the Three Steps Work
Evaluating Sources
Writing a Synthesis Essay
Exercise 20: Analyzing a Paragraph Based on a Synthesis of Sources
Citing Sources for Synthesis
*Reading: Alan Wolfe, Moral Freedom: Till Circumstances Do Us Part
Assignment 7: Writing an Essay Synthesizing Multiple Sources
Todd Gitlin, Disappearing Ink
Assignment 8: Writing an Argument from Multiple Sources
*Sandeep Jauhar, When Doctors Slam the Door
When Not to Synthesize
Synthesizing Sources in Academic Essays
Reading: Jeffrey Rosen, from The Naked Crowd
Exercise 21: Integrating Three Academic Sources
*Fendrich, Lippit, and Malamud, In This Year's Fashion Jungle, Beastly Patterns Are the Sincerest Form of Fakery
Assignment 9: Synthesizing Academic Sources
*Bill Coplin, Lost in the Life of the Mind
*Marshall Gregory, A Liberal Education Is Not a Luxury
PART IV. WRITING THE RESEARCH ESSAY
7. Finding Sources
Topic Narrowing
Exercise 22: Narrowing a Topic
Exercise 23: Proposing a Topic
Locating Sources
Interviewing And Field Research
Exercise 24: Writing About an Issue from Multiple Sources
Saving and Recording Information for Your Bibliography
Exercise 25: Compiling a Working Bibliography
Assignment 10: Preparing a Topic Proposal for a Research Essay
8. Evaluating Sources
Learning More about Your Sources
Evaluating Print Sources
Evaluating Web Sources
Evaluating Web Sources About Animal Rights
Integrating Sources
Exercise 26: Evaluating Web Sites
Exercise 27: Evaluating Internet Sources
Exercise 28: Choosing Internet Sources
Exercise 29: Evaluating Sources
*Walter Berns, from Making Patriots
*Robert Goldstein, Burning the Flag: The Great 1989-1990 American Flag Desecration
*Stephen Nathanson, from Patriotism, Morality, and Peace
*Cecelia O'Leary, from To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism
*Michael Welch, from Flag Burning: Moral Panic and the Criminalization of Protest
*Wilbur Zelinsky, from Nation Into State: The Shifting Symbolic Foundations of American Nationalism
*The Flag Protection Act of 1989 (Joint Resolution of Congress)
*Celestine Bohlen, O Say Can You See What That Flag Means?
*Norm R. Allen Jr., True Patriotism
*Flag Burning and Other Acts Deemed Disrespectful of American Symbols (web site)
*The Flag Burning Page (web site)
Exercise 30: Comparing Sources
300 Killed By Fire (The New York Times)
Catastrophe: Boston's Worst (Time Magazine)
Bernard Devoto, The Easy Chair
9. Writing the Research Essay
Saving Information
Taking Notes
Exercise 31: Taking Notes on Two Topics
Exercise 32: Taking Notes on Three Topics
*Stephanie Coontz, from The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Developing a List of Topics
Planning a Strategy
Arranging the Order of Topics
Completing Your Outline
Exercise 33: Writing an Outline with Cross-Referencing
Writing Integrated Paragraphs
Accommodating Argument in Your Paragraphs
Presenting Arguments Fairly
Integrating Your Sources: An Example
Writing an Introduction
Using Visuals as Sources
Assignment 11: Organizing and Writing the Research Essay
10. Acknowledging Sources
Documenting Information
Documenting Ideas Found in Your Source
Plagiarism: Stealing Ideas
Plagiarism: Stealing Words
Exercise 34: Understanding When to Document Information
Exercise 35: Understanding Plagiarism
*Comparing Notes (The New York Times)
Exercise 36: Identifying Plagiarism
Using Documentation
Exercise 37: Acknowledging Sources
Exercise 38: Documenting Sources Correctly
Signaling the Transitions Between Sources
Using Explanatory Notes
Avoiding Excessive Documentation
Using Umbrella Notes
The Final Bibliography
Preparing The Annotated Bibliography
Exercise 39: Preparing the Bibliography
Presenting Your Essay
11. Some Basic Forms For Documentation: MLA, APA, and Endnotes
MLA Style
APA Style
Numbered Bibliography
Endnote/Footnote Documentation
Notes Plus Page Numbers In The Text
12. Three Research Essays
Bethany Dettmore, Looking at Horror Films
Lee Myers, Is Eating People Really Wrong?
David Morgan, Explaining the Tunguskan Phenomenon
*Appendix A: Writing Essay Examinations
Reading the Question
Planning and Developing the Essay
Analyzing an Essay and an Essay Question
Reading: George Stade, Football -- The Game of Aggression
Answering the Question
Introducing Your Topic
Presenting Your Essay to the Reader
*Appendix B: Readings for a Research Essay
Periodicals
*Essays from The Nation, 7/15/91
*Debating How Best to Love Your Country (The New York Times, 7/1/00)
*John Lukacs, When Democracy Goes Wrong (Harper's, 4/05)
Academic Books
*Alexis de Tocqueville, from Democracy in America
*Leo Tolstoi, Patriotism, or Peace?
*Michael Walzer, Civility and Civic Virtue in Contemporary America
*Irving Kristol, Urban Civilization and Its Discontents
*Sidney Axinn, Honor, Patriotism, and Ultimate Loyalty
*Stephen Nathanson, Military Service and Unjust Wars
*Maurizio Viroli, Patriotism and Nationalism
*Scott McLean, The War on Terrorism and The New Patriotism
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