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To the Instructor | xi | |
Part I | Writing, Reading, and Research | 1 |
1 | Introduction to Writing, Reading, and Research | 3 |
Writing | 4 | |
Writing Habits and Strategies | 5 | |
Audience and Purpose | 8 | |
Prewriting | 15 | |
The First Draft | 20 | |
Peer Review | 27 | |
Rewriting | 28 | |
Editing and Proofreading | 30 | |
Discovering Your Own Writing Rules | 30 | |
Reading | 31 | |
Interpreting Reading | 31 | |
Responding to Reading | 34 | |
Reading Response Groups | 37 | |
Freewriting | 37 | |
Research | 44 | |
Reading Selection: "The Holly Pageant," | 46 | |
Freewriting | 50 | |
Group Work | 51 | |
Review Questions | 51 | |
Discussion Questions | 51 | |
Writing | 51 | |
About the Rest of This Book | 52 | |
2 | Strategies for Reading | 53 |
Interpretation | 53 | |
Context | 55 | |
Strategies for Understanding | 57 | |
Prereading Strategies | 58 | |
Sources of Information | 58 | |
Textual Clues | 62 | |
Transitions | 64 | |
Reading with a Pencil | 66 | |
Annotating and Underlining for Recall | 67 | |
Annotating to Stimulate Response | 72 | |
Keeping a Reading Journal | 77 | |
Reading Selection: "Buffaloed: Was the Native American Always Nature's Friend?" | 81 | |
Freewriting | 85 | |
Group Work | 85 | |
Review Questions | 86 | |
Discussion Questions | 86 | |
Writing | 86 | |
3 | Writing a Paraphrase | 87 |
Paraphrase as a Reading Strategy | 87 | |
Using Paraphrase in Writing | 89 | |
Paraphrasing for a Different Audience | 90 | |
Paraphrasing an Argument | 99 | |
Paraphrasing in Research Papers | 102 | |
Reading Selection: "On the Fringe," | 105 | |
Freewriting | 114 | |
Group Work | 114 | |
Review Questions | 114 | |
Discussion Questions | 114 | |
Writing | 114 | |
4 | Reading for the Main Idea | 117 |
General and Specific Statements | 117 | |
Deductive and Inductive Organization | 119 | |
Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences | 121 | |
Identifying Topic Sentences | 122 | |
Restating the Main Idea | 123 | |
Paragraphs with Implied Main Ideas | 124 | |
Discovering Implications | 127 | |
A Further Comment on Paragraphs | 129 | |
Reading Selection: "An Enduring Hoax: H. L. Menken's Fraudulent History of the White House Bathtub," | 131 | |
Freewriting | 138 | |
Group Work | 138 | |
Review Questions | 138 | |
Discussion Questions | 139 | |
Writing | 139 | |
5 | Writing a Summary | 141 |
Summary and Paraphrase | 142 | |
Writing Summaries | 144 | |
A Process for Summarizing Longer Passages | 144 | |
Uses of Summary | 149 | |
Summarizing an Argument | 150 | |
Summarizing in Research Papers | 151 | |
Reading Selection: "Class Struggle: Poor, Black, and Smart, an Inner-City Teen Tries to Survive at MIT" | 156 | |
Freewriting | 163 | |
Group Work | 164 | |
Review Questions | 164 | |
Discussion Questions | 164 | |
Writing | 164 | |
6 | Synthesizing Sources: Writing a Summary Report | 166 |
Writing a Brief Summary Report | 166 | |
Writing an Objective Report on Sources | 180 | |
Acknowledging Sources--The Obligation of Scholarship | 187 | |
The List of Works Cited | 188 | |
Parenthetical Notes | 191 | |
Reading Selections | ||
"Wipe Off That Milk Mustache" | 193 | |
"Ad Nauseum" | 194 | |
"School Daze: Today's Kids Not Only Take Advertising's Presence in Their Classrooms for Granted, They Actually Like It" | 196 | |
Freewriting | 198 | |
Group Work | 198 | |
Review Questions | 198 | |
Discussion Questions | 198 | |
Writing | 198 | |
7 | Analytical Reading and Writing | 199 |
Analyzing the Parts | 200 | |
Purpose | 201 | |
Audience | 204 | |
Main Idea | 210 | |
Development | 212 | |
Organization and Coherence | 216 | |
Writing a Brief Reading Analysis | 220 | |
Reading Selection: "Classroom Cheating a Serious Problem" | 226 | |
Freewriting | 227 | |
Group Work | 228 | |
Review Questions | 228 | |
Discussion Questions | 228 | |
Writing | 228 | |
8 | Beginning a Research Project | 230 |
The Research Paper | 230 | |
Primary and Secondary Research | 231 | |
Benefits of Doing Research | 232 | |
Learning an Essential Skill | 232 | |
Contributing to Scholarship | 233 | |
Gaining Personal Knowledge | 233 | |
The Research Process | 234 | |
A Research Assignment | 235 | |
The Finished Product | 237 | |
A Sample Standard Research Paper | 237 | |
A Sample Personal Research Paper | 247 | |
Your Research Schedule: Planning in Advance | 262 | |
The Benefits of Word Processing | 263 | |
A Research Notebook | 264 | |
Your Research Topic | 265 | |
Generating Ideas | 266 | |
Brainstorming | 266 | |
Developing an Idea: Clustering | 271 | |
9 | Tools for Finding Sources | 275 |
Beginning Your Research | 275 | |
Your Campus Library | 276 | |
Electronic Resources | 276 | |
Networks | 277 | |
Using Your Library's Research Tools | 278 | |
Finding Books and Other Library Holdings | 279 | |
Encyclopedias and Other General Reference Works | 283 | |
Finding Articles: Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers | 284 | |
Locating Periodicals | 284 | |
Microforms | 285 | |
Library Vandalism--A Crime against Scholarship | 285 | |
Using Electronic Databases | 285 | |
A Sample Search for Periodical Sources | 286 | |
Finding Government Documents | 293 | |
Internet Resources | 295 | |
Web Search Engines | 295 | |
The Reference Librarian--The Most Resourceful Resource | 297 | |
10 | Finding Sources Outside the Library: Conducting Interviews and Writing Letters | 298 |
Interviewing Sources | 298 | |
Arranging the Interview | 299 | |
Conducting the Interview | 300 | |
Writing for Information | 302 | |
Still Other Sources | 303 | |
11 | Putting Your Sources to Work | 305 |
A Research Prospectus | 305 | |
The Working Bibliography | 309 | |
Using Your Written Sources | 310 | |
Reading Your Source | 311 | |
Evaluating Your Sources | 312 | |
Narrowing Your Paper's Focus | 314 | |
Formulating and Refining a Plan | 315 | |
Taking Notes on Note Cards | 317 | |
Avoiding Plagiarism | 320 | |
12 | Reporting on Sources: Paraphrase and Quotation | 325 |
The Conventions of Reporting | 326 | |
Options for Presenting Sources | 326 | |
Acknowledging Sources | 328 | |
Relying on Experts | 330 | |
Paraphrasing Sources | 331 | |
Quoting Sources | 333 | |
Punctuating Quotations | 333 | |
Altering Quotations | 340 | |
When to Quote and When to Paraphrase | 345 | |
A Further Note on Plagiarism | 350 | |
Practice with Using Sources | 351 | |
Writing a Brief Objective Research Essay | 351 | |
Writing a Brief Subjective Research Essay | 357 | |
13 | Writing and Revising the Research Paper | 359 |
Getting Organized | 359 | |
Formulating a Thesis Statement | 359 | |
Sorting Your Note Cards | 361 | |
Updating Your Outline | 363 | |
Writing the First Good Draft | 363 | |
Research Writing: General Guidelines | 363 | |
Some Practical Writing Tips | 366 | |
Getting Started | 367 | |
Writing the Opening | 368 | |
Writing the Conclusion | 371 | |
Giving Your Paper a Title | 372 | |
Editing and Revising | 372 | |
Reworking Your Paper | 373 | |
Checklist for Editing and Revising | 373 | |
Getting Advice from Other Readers | 376 | |
Typing and Proofreading Your Polished Draft | 394 | |
14 | Argument: Reading, Writing, and Research | 396 |
Emotional Appeal | 396 | |
Logical Argument | 398 | |
Balanced, Credible Argument | 402 | |
Informal Analysis of Arguments | 403 | |
Writing a Critique of an Argument | 409 | |
Procedure for Writing a Critique | 409 | |
Writing an Argumentative Research Essay | 423 | |
Purpose | 423 | |
Thesis | 424 | |
Audience | 424 | |
Persona | 425 | |
Evidence | 425 | |
Opposition | 426 | |
Organization | 426 | |
A Sample Argumentative Research Paper | 427 | |
Part II | Research Paper Reference Handbook | 439 |
A | List of Works Cited (MLA Format) | 441 |
Bibliographic Formats | 441 | |
General Guidelines--MLA Format | 442 | |
Citing Electronic Sources | 443 | |
Model Entries--MLA Format | 444 | |
Sources in Books | 444 | |
Sources in Periodicals and Newspapers | 451 | |
Other Sources | 456 | |
B | Parenthetical Notes (MLA Format) | 461 |
Types of Notes | 461 | |
Parenthetical Notes | 463 | |
Some Special Cases | 464 | |
When Are Notes Needed? | 470 | |
How Many Notes Are Enough? | 472 | |
How Much Material Can One Note Cover? | 474 | |
Information Footnotes | 475 | |
C | Research Paper Format (MLA Style) | 477 |
Format for Your Polished Draft | 477 | |
Format for Computer-Printed or Typed Papers | 478 | |
Format for Handwritten Papers | 486 | |
A Formal Outline | 488 | |
Standard Numbering System | 491 | |
Decimal System | 492 | |
Topic and Sentence Outlines | 494 | |
D | Footnotes and Endnotes | 495 |
Sample Footnotes and Endnotes | 495 | |
Sources in Books | 495 | |
Sources in Periodicals and Newspapers | 502 | |
Other Sources | 505 | |
E | APA Format | 507 |
Formats Other Than MLA | 507 | |
APA Style | 507 | |
APA Bibliographic Citations (Reference List) | 508 | |
Model Entries | 508 | |
Notes in APA Style | 513 | |
Sample Pages in APA style | 514 | |
F | Format Featuring Numbered References | 517 |
Index | 521 |
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