Connections: Writing, Reading, and Critical Thinking Book

Readings by Theme.

Preface for Instructors.

A Note to Students.

I. ESTABLISHING THE CONNECTIONS.

1. The Writing-Reading-Critical Thinking Connection.

Introducing the Connections.

Tools for Making Connections.

Understanding the Text.

Summary of Chapter One.

Introduction to Verbs.

Identifying Specific Kinds of Verbs.

2. The Structure of Writing and How to Summarize Texts.

Understanding the Structure of Academic Writing.

Examining an Essay.

Reading Assignment: Romantic Love by Frank Cox.

Examining a Textbook Chapter.

Reading Assignment: Preparing for Marriage by Alex Thio.

Learning to Summarize Essays and Textbook Chapters.

Writing the Academic Summary.

Understanding the Structure of Journalistic Writing.

Examining a Feature Story.

Reading Assignment: Modern Marriage by William R. Macklin.

Examining a Newspaper Column.

Reading Assignment: Women Play the Roles Men Want to See by Maggie Bandur.

Writing the Journalistic Summary.

Practicing Summary Skills.

Time to Reflect.

Summary of Chapter Two.

Verb Tense.

Verb Imposters and Prepositional Phrases.

3. Examining the Reading Process.

The PARTS of an Effective Reading Process.

Preview.

Anticipate.

Read and Reread.

Think Critically.

Summarize.

Engaging in the Reading Process.

Reading Assignment: The Struggle to be an All American Girl by Elizabeth Wong.

Building Your Vocabulary.

Practicing the Reading Process.

Reading the Personal Narrative.

Reading Assignment: <I.>Navigating My Eerie Landscape Alone by Jim Bobryk.

Reading Textbook Chapters.

Reading Assignment: Seventeenth Century Roles for Puritan Men, Women, and Children by James Kirby Martin, et al.

Reading Magazine and Newspaper Articles.

Reading Assignment: In India, Men Challenge Matrilineal Society by Kavita Menon.

Summary of Chapter Three.

Introduction to Subjects.

The Hard-To-Find Subjects.

4. Examining the Writing Process.

The Stages of an Effective Writing Process.

Writing Assignment #1. Analyzing Advertisements.

Writing Assignment #2: Creating an Advertisement.

Reading Assignment: When Advertising Offends: Another Look at Aunt Jemima by John Macionis.

Writing Assignment #3: The Most Evil Character.

Reading Assignment: The Most Evil Character (Author Unknown).

Summary of Chapter Four.

Clauses and Phrases.

II. EMPLOYING THE CONNECTIONS.

5. Writing About Heroes.

Focusing Your Writing.

Focusing the Paragraph.

Focusing the Essay.

Points to Remember about Focus.

Investigating Heroes.

Writing Assignment #1: Paying Tribute to a Personal Hero.

Reading Assignment: A Hero in my Family by Megan Burroughs.

Writing Assignment #2: Honoring Our Public Heroes.

Reading Assignment: “Move Over, Barney: Make Way for Some Real Heroes” by Dennis Denenberg.

Reading Assignment: “Rosa Parks Joins Childrens Wall of Heroes” by Sandy Banks.

Writing Assignment #3. Analyzing a Film, Hero.

Summary of Chapter Five.

Pronouns.

Parallelism.

6. Writing About Television.

Developing Your Writing.

Examining Developed Paragraphs.

Examining a Developed Essay.

Reading Assignment: “Gender Role Images on Television” by Nancy Signorielli.

Investigating the Effects of Television.

Writing Assignment #1: The Effects of Television.

Reading Assignment: “The Trouble with Television” by Marie Winn.

Writing Assignment #2: Television: Good, Bad, or Tolerable?

Reading Assignment: “How TV Influences Your Kids” by Daniel R. Anderson.

Summary of Chapter 6.

Subordination, Concessions, and Transitions.

Chapter 7. Writing About Technology.

Organizing Your Writing.

Organizing the Paragraph.

Organizing the Essay.

Reading Assignment: Modernization and Women: A Report from, Rural Bangladesh by John J. Macionis.

Investigating Technology.

Writing Assignment #1. Discussing Technology in Our Lives.

Reading Assignment: Stop the Clock by Amy Wu.

Writing Assignment #2. The Advantages and Disadvantages of High-Tech Surveillance.

Reading Assignment: Big Brother Logs On by Ivan Amato.

Summary of Chapter Seven.

Creating Expressive Sentences.

8. Writing About Music and Poetry.

Analysis and Inference in your Writing.

Analyzing and Inferring in Your Essays.

Analyzing and Inferring in Your Paragraphs.

Analyzing Music Lyrics and Poetry.

Reading Assignment: “Evenin Air Blues” by Langston Hughes.

Writing Assignment #1: Analyzing Music Lyrics.

Reading Assignment: Imagine by John Lennon.

Reading Assignment: Old 8X10 by Randy Travis.

Reading Assignment: Tangled and Dark by Bonnie Rait.

Reading Assignment: Perfect by Alanis Morissette.

Reading Assignment: Silent Legacy by Melissa Etheridge.

Writing Assignment # 2. Analyzing Poetry.

Reading Assignment: Incident by Countee Cullen.

Reading Assignment: Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson.

Reading Assignment: Refugee Ship by Lorna Dee Cervantes.

Reading Assignment: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.

Reading Assignment: A Work of Artifice by Marge Piercy.

Summary of Chapter Eight.

Combining Sentences with Coordinators and Subordinators.

End of Term Progress Journal.

III. SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS.

“The Most Precious Gift” by Hank Whittemore.

“Sexual Revolution, Cohabitation, and the Rise of Singles” by William E.Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey.

“Sex Has Many Accents” by Anastasia Toufexis.

“Feminism: Struggle for Gender Equality” by William E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey.

“In India, Men Challenge Matrilineal Society” by Kavita Menon.

“How One Woman Became the Voice of Her People” by David Wallechinsky.

“Who is Great?” by Michael Ryan.

“Civil Rights Movement Was the Sum of Many People” by Paul Rogat Loeb.

“The Wrong Examples” by David L. Evans.

“Guilt Free TV” by Daniel McGinn.

“Why We Tuned Out” by Karen Springen.

“The Great Unwatched” by William Safire.

“Reality Writes—Web is But a Tool” by Susan Schwartz.

Excerpt from 1984 by George Orwell.

“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe.

“I Want to Write” by Margaret Walker.

IV. SKILL BUILDERS.

Discovering Your Learning Style.

Using the Dictionary.

Building Your Vocabulary.

Spelling Matters.

Reading Aloud: A Trick of the Trade.

Using Outside Sources.

Writing in Class/Writing the Argument.

V. UNDERSTANDING, CORRECTING AND AVOIDING SENTENCE ERRORS.

Understanding, Correcting, and Avoiding Verb Form Errors.

Understanding, Correcting, and Avoiding Verb Tense Errors.

Understanding, Correcting, and Avoiding Subject-Verb Agreement Errors.

Understanding, Correcting, and Avoiding Fragments.

Understanding, Correcting, and Avoiding Run-Ons.

Understanding, Correcting, and Avoiding Comma Splices.

VI. EASY REFERENCE RULES.

The Right Word.

Capitalization.

Punctuation Rules.

Glossary.

Sources.

Subject Index.

Index of Authors and Titles.