Writing from Sources Book

To the Instructor To the Student Citations

PART I: MAKING SOURCES YOUR OWN

1. READING FOR UNDERSTANDING UNDERLINING ANNOTATING
     Reading: William Leach, from Land of Desire
     Exercise 1: Annotating a Passage
          *Katherine Ashenberg, from The Dirt on Clean
          *Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate ASKING QUESTIONS
     Reading: Blanche Blank, A Question of Degree 
     Exercise 2: Understanding What You Read
          *Jill McCorkle, Cuss Time QUESTIONING THE AUTHOR
     Reading: Rubén Martínez, The Kindness of Strangers
     Exercise 3: Examining Intention
          *Sally Satel, When Altruism Isn't Moral
 USING EVIDENCE AND REASONING
     Exercise 4: Citing Evidence
          *Dan Bilefsky, Children Left Behind Suffer the Strains of Migration INTERPRETING EVIDENCE   
     Exercise 5: Drawing Inferences
          *Libby Sander, For College Athletes, Recruiting is a Fair (but Flawed) Game USING LOGICAL REASONING Exercise 6: Analyzing an Author's Logic
 *Michael Mandelbaum, from Democracy's Good Name
 *Diana West, from The Death of the Grown-Up

PART II: PRESENTING SOURCES TO OTHERS

2. SUMMARIZING SOURCES SUMMARIZING A PARAGRAPH
     Exercise 7: Summarizing a Paragraph
          Margaret Mead, from Some Personal Views
          Michael Pollan, from An Animal's Place
          Steve Olsen, from Mapping Human History
          Sara Kershaw, Enough of the Hills and Woods, Can I Send Grandma an E-Card?
          Daniel Boorstin, from Americans: The National Experience
          Steven Pinker, from The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
          *Lawrence Rosen, What We Got Wrong SUMMARIZING AN ARTICLE
     Reading: Selwyn Raab, Holdup Man Tells Detectives How to Do It
     Exercise 8: Summarizing an Article
          *Jonathan Malesic, How Dumb Do They Think We Are?
SUMMARIZING A COMPLEX ESSAY
     Reading: Bertrand Russell, The Social Responsibility of Scientists
     Assignment 1: Summarizing an Essay
          *Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid?
          *Roger Scruton, from A Carnivore's Credo

3. QUOTING SOURCES REASONS FOR QUOTING USING QUOTATIONS
     Exercise 9: Quoting Correctly QUOTING ACCURATELY TAILORING QUOTATIONS TO FIT YOUR WRITING
     Exercise 10: Using Ellipses and Brackets in Quotations WRITING CITATIONS DECIDING WHAT TO QUOTE 
     Reading: Lizabeth Cohen, from A Consumer's Republic
     Exercise 11: Why Quote?
          *John De Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor, from Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
     Exercise 12: What to Quote  
          *Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic
          *Thomas G. Mortenson, from Where the Boys Were INTEGRATING QUOTATIONS INTO YOUR PARAGRAPHS
     Exercise 13: Integrating Quotations Into a Paragraph AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
     Exercise 14: Identifying Plagiarism

4. PARAPHRASING SOURCES USING PARAPHRASE IN YOUR ESSAYS
     Exercise 15: Identifying a Good Paraphrase
          Peter C. Whybrow, from Dangerously Addictive
     Exercise 16: Paraphrasing a Difficult Passage USING PARAPHRASE WITH QUOTATION AND SUMMARY
     Reading: Conor Cruise O'Brien, Violence-And Two Schools of Thought
     Exercise 17: Distinguishing Between Quotation, Paraphrase, Summary, and Commentary
          *David Leonhardt, Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All WRITING A PARAGRAPH THAT INCORPORATES PARAPHRASE AND QUOTATION: “JARHEAD”
     Reading: Anthony Swofford, Jarhead
     Exercise 18: Paraphrasing Without Plagiarism
     Exercise 19: Writing a Paragraph that Incorporates Paraphrase and Quotation
          *Ursula K. Le Guin, from Staying Awake: Notes on the Alleged Decline of Reading 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
     Assignment 2: Writing an Argument Based on a Single Source
          Carl Singleton, What Our Education System Needs is More Fs
          *Steven M. Wise, Why Animals Deserve Legal Rights
          *Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke, from Torture: When the Unthinkable is Morally Permissible     

STRATEGY TWO: DEVELOPING AN ESSAY BASED ON A SOURCE
     Assignment 3: Writing an Essay Based on a Single Source
          *Jenni Russell, The Selfish Generation
          *Christopher Caldwell, What a College Education Buys
          *Bobby Allyn, Among Privileged Classmates, I'm an Outsider

6. THE MULTIPLE-SOURCE ESSAY ANALYZING MULTIPLE SOURCES
     Exercise 20: Analyzing Shades of Meaning in Multiple Sources
     Assignment 4: Writing a Definition Essay from Multiple Sources SYNTHESIZING MULTIPLE SOURCES: “LOTTERY”
     Exercise 21: Identifying Common Ideas ORGANIZING MULTIPLE SOURCES: “STUDENT PROMOTION”
     Reading: Gene I. Maeroff, from Rule Tying Pupil Promotion to Reading Skill Stirs Worry EVALUATING SOURCES WRITING A SYNTHESIS ESSAY
     Exercise 22: Analyzing a Paragraph Based on a Synthesis of Sources
          Alan Wolfe, Moral Freedom: Till Circumstances Do Us Part
     Assignment 5: Writing an Essay Synthesizing Multiple Sources
          *Laurie Fendrich, The B-Minus Reigns Supreme
     Assignment 6: Writing an Argument from Multiple Sources
          *Jennifer Medina, Can Students Be Paid to Excel?
WHEN NOT TO SYNTHESIZE SYNTHESIZING SOURCES IN ACADEMIC ESSAYS
     Reading: Jeffrey Rosen, from The Naked Crowd
     Exercise 23: Integrating Three Academic Sources
          *Andrew Keen, from The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture
          *Lee Siegel, from Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
          *William Deresiewicz, from The End of Solitude
     Assignment 7: Synthesizing Academic Sources
          *Steven Johnson, from Everything Bad is Good for You
          *Christine Rosen, from People of the Screen

PART IV: WRITING THE RESEARCH ESSAY

7. FINDING SOURCES TOPIC NARROWING   
     Exercise 24: Narrowing a Topic
     Exercise 25: Proposing a Topic LOCATING SOURCES INTERVIEWING AND FIELD RESEARCH
     Assignment 8: Writing an Essay Based on Interviews or Field Research SAVING AND RECORDING INFORMATION FOR YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHY
     Exercise 26: Compiling a Working Bibliography
     Exercise 27: Finding and Selecting Sources
     Assignment 9: Preparing a Topic Proposal for a Research Essay
 
8. EVALUATING SOURCES EVALUATING PRINT SOURCES EVALUATING WEB SOURCES EVALUATING WEB SOURCES ABOUT ANIMAL RIGHTS INTEGRATING SOURCES
     Exercise 28: Evaluating Internet Sources
     Exercise 29: Choosing Internet Sources
     Exercise 30: Evaluating Sources
          *Britannica Online, from Wikipedia
          *Andrew Lih, from The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
          *Jonathan Zittrain, from The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It
          *Andrew Keen, from The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture
          *Amit Ray and Erhardt Graeff, from Reviewing the Author-Function in the Age of Wikipedia
          *Darren Crovitz and W. Scott Smoot, from Wikipedia: Friend, Not Foe
          *Jakob Voss, from Measuring Wikipedia
          *Roy Rosenzweig, from Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past
          *Noam Cohen, from A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia As a Research Source
          *Adam Tornes, from Wikipedia: Encyclopedia or Karma Sutra?
      Exercise 31: 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 32: Taking Notes on Two Topics
     Exercise 33: Taking Notes on Three Topics
          *Janet M. Davis, from The Circus Age: Culture and Society Under the American Big Top 
DEVELOPING A LIST OF TOPICS PLANNING A STRATEGY ARRANGING THE ORDER OF TOPICS: OUTLINING COMPLETING YOUR OUTLINE WRITING INTEGRATED PARAGRAPHS ACCOMMODATING ARGUMENT IN YOUR PARAGRAPHS PRESENTING ARGUMENTS FAIRLY INTEGRATING YOUR SOURCES: RECRUITING IN COLLEGE ATHLETICS WRITING AN INTRODUCTION USING VISUALS AS SOURCES
     Assignment 10: Organizing and Writing the Research Essay

10. ACKNOWLEDGING SOURCES WHEN TO DOCUMENT INFORMATION PLAGIARISM: STEALING IDEAS PLAGIARISM: STEALING WORDS
     Exercise 34: Understanding When to Document Information
     Exercise 35: Understanding Plagiarism
     Exercise 36: Identifying Plagiarism USING DOCUMENTATION
     Exercise 37: Acknowledging Sources MANAGING DOCUMENTATION
     Exercise 38: Documenting Sources Correctly PREPARING THE FINAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
     Exercise 39: Preparing the Bibliography PRESENTING YOUR ESSAY

11. TWO RESEARCH ESSAYS Readings:
          Bethany Dettmore, Looking at Horror Films
          David Morgan, Explaining the Tunguskan Phenomenon

12. 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
 
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