Connections Book

Contents in Brief.

Readings by Theme.

Preface for Instructors

A Note to Students.

SECTION I. ESTABLISHING THE CONNECTIONS

1. The Writing-Reading-Critical Thinking Connection.
Introducing the Connections.
The Writing Link.
The Reading Link.
Making the Writing-Reading Connection.
The Critical Thinking Link.
Making the Writing-Reading-Critical Thinking Connection.
Tools for Making Connections.
Taking Notes
Keeping a Notebook.
Making the Most Out of a Good Tutor.
Using a Computer
Using a Glossary and an Index
Understanding the Text.
An Overview of the Text.
Understanding the Assignments.
Understanding the Sentence Work
Summary of Chapter One.

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.
A Closer Look at the Parts.
The Introduction Powers the Essay.
The Thesis Guides the Essay.
The Body Paragraphs Carry the Evidence.
The Conclusion Signals Completion.
The Writer's Purpose and Audience.
Examining a Textbook Chapter.

Reading Assignment: Preparing for Marriage by Alex Thio.
A Closer Look at the Parts.
The Introduction and Thesis.
The Body Paragraphs.
The Conclusion.
The Writer's Purpose and Audience.
Understanding the Shape of Journalistic Writing.
Examining a Feature Story.

Reading Assignment: Modern Marriage by William R.Macklin.
A Closer Look at the Parts.
The Introduction is Called the Lead.
The Body Paragraphs are Shorter.
The Conclusion.
The Writer's Purpose and Audience.
Examining a Newspaper Column

Reading Assignment: Women Play the Roles Men Want to See by Maggie Bandur
A Closer Look at the Parts.
The Lead.
The Body Paragraphs.
The Conclusion.
The Writer's Purpose and Audience.
Learning to Summarize Essays and Textbook Chapters.
What is a Summary?
Points to Remember about Summaries.
A Sample Summary.
Summarizing Academic Writing.
Distinguishing between General and Specific Information.

Reading Assignment: Sexual Revolution, Cohabitation, and the Rise of Singles by William E.Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey.
Identifying The Main Points.
Drafting the Summary.
Revising the Summary.
Summarizing Journalistic Writing.
Distinguishing between General and Specific Information.

Reading Assignment: Sex Has Many Accents by Anastasia Toufexis.
Identifying the Main Points.
Drafting the Summary
Revising the Summary
Practicing Your Summary Skills.
Time to Reflect.
Summary of Chapter Two.
Understanding Verbs.

3. Examining the Reading Process.
The PARTS of an Effective Reading Process.
Preview.
Anticipate.
Reread.
Think Critically.
Summarize.
Engaging in the Reading Process.
One Reader's Preview and Anticipation.
One Reader's First Read.

Reading Assignment: The Struggle to be an All American Girl by Elizabeth Wong.
Reread, Think Critically, and Summarize.
Responding to Reading.
Building Your Vocabulary.
Using the Dictionary to Find Word Meanings.
Finding the Definitions in the Writing.
Recognizing Context Clues.
Keeping a Vocabulary Notebook.
Practicing the Reading Process.
Reading the Personal Narrative.

Reading Assignment: Navigating My Eerie Landscape Aloneby Jim Bobryk.
Reading Textbook Chapters.

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

Reading Assignment: Feminism: Struggle for Gender Equality by William E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey.
Reading Magazine and Newspaper Articles.

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

Reading Assignment: Not a Two bit Problem by Dave Murphy.
Time To Reflect.
Summary of Chapter Three.
Identifying Verbs.
More about Verbs.
Imposters.
Prepositional Phrases.
Manipulating Verb Tenses.

4. Examining the Writing Process.
The Stages of an Effective Writing Process.
Discuss and Engage.
Read, Discuss, Think Critically.
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Points to Remember about the Writing Process.
Developing an Effective Writing Process
Writing Assignment #1. Analyzing Advertisements.
Discuss and Engage.
Read, Discuss, Think Critically.

Reading Assignment: Selected Advertisements.
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Points to Remember about Revision.
Edit
Writing Assignment #2: Creating an Advertisement.
Discuss and Engage.
Read, Discuss, Think Critically.

Reading Assignment: When Advertising Offends: Another Look at Aunt Jemima by John Macionis
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Writing Assignment #3: The Most Evil Character.
Discuss and Engage.
Read, Discuss, Think Critically.

Reading Assignment: The Most Evil Character. (Author Unknown)
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Time to Reflect.
Summary of Chapter Four.
Subjects.
Subject-Verb Agreement-Keeping Your Clear.
Revisiting Those -ing Words.
Subjects and the There Sentence.

SECTION II: EMPLOYING THE CONNECTIONS.

5. Writing About Heroes.
Focusing Your Writing.
Focusing the Paragraph.
Focusing the Essay.
Points to Remember about Focus.
Investigating Heroes.
Discuss and Engage.
Read, Discuss, Think Critically.

Reading Assignment: Move Over Barney by Dennis Denenberg.

Reading Assignment: Rosa Parks Joins Children's Wall of Heroes by Sandy Banks.

Reading Assignment: How One Woman Became the Voice of Her People by David Wallechinsky.

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

Reading Assignment: Florence Rena Sabin by Darlene R. Stille.
Writing Assignment #1. Defining Heroes.
Explore The Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Writing Assignment #2. Analyzing a Film, Hero
View, Discuss, Think Critically.
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Time to Reflect.
Summary of Chapter Five
Pronouns.
Using Outside Sources
Shaping Sentences

6. 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
One Approach to Organization.
Point to Remember about Organization.
Investigating Technology.
Discuss and Engage.
Writing Assignment #1. Discussing Technology in Our Lives.
Read, Discuss, Think Critically.

Reading Assignment: Stop the Clock by Amy Wu.

Reading Assignment: Resistance to the Internet Grows Weakby Peter King.
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Writing Assignment #2. Arguing About Internet Access in High School.
Read, Discuss, Think Critically.

Reading Assignment: Internet Access Puts Burden of Control on Schools by Abby Goodman.

Reading Assignment: On Web, New Threats to Young Are Seenby Seth Schiesel.

Reading Assignment: School District Organizes Itself Around Internet by Tina Kelly.

Reading Assignment: Class Acts. How Three Schools Use New Technology to Empower Students by Marie Faust Evitt and Joanne Cleaver.
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Writing Assignment #3. Internet Research vs. Traditional Research.
Read, Discuss, Think Critically

Reading Assignment: Reality Writes—Web is But a Tool by Susan Schwartz.

Reading Assignment: Quotation by Thiong'o.
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Time to Reflect.
Summary of Chapter Six.
Sentence Boundaries.
Transitions and Concessions.

7. Writing About Television.
Developing Your Writing.
Examining Developed Paragraphs.
Examining a Developed Essay.

Reading Assignment: Gener Role Images on Television by Nancy Signorielli
Developing the Focused Essay.
Points to Remember about Development.
Investigating the Effects of Television.
Read, Discuss, Think Critically.

Reading Assignment: The Trouble With Television by Marie Winn.
Writing Assignment #1. The Effects of Television.
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Writing Assignment #2. Television: Good, Bad, or Tolerable?
Read, Discuss, Think Critically.

Reading Assignment: How TV Influences Your Kids by Daniel R. Anderson.
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Writing Assignment #3. The TV Rating System and the V- Chip.
Read, Discuss, Think Critically.

Reading Assignment: V-Chip. Can It Protect Kids by Kathryn Dorè Perkins.

Reading Assignment: What Can You Do About Violent TV by Diana Griego Erwin.

Reading Assignment: V-Chip Will Add to Parental Chaos by Michael Killan.
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Time to Reflect.
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.
Points to Remember about Analyzing Lyrics and Poems.
Writing Assignment #1: Analyzing Music Lyrics.
Discuss and Engage.
Read, Discuss, Think Critically.

Reading Assignment: Time by Pink Floyd.

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.
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Writing Assignment # 2. Analyzing Poetry.
Discuss and Engage.
Read, Discus, Think Critically.
Reading Assignment: What I Saw on the Bus by Jessica Pratt.

Reading Assignment: Take Wing by Adria Conley.

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.
Explore the Writing Assignment.
Draft.
Revise.
Edit.
Summary of Chapter Eight.
Sentence Combining.
Coordinator and Subordinator Review.
End of Term Progress Journal.

SECTION III SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS

"Recipe for the '90s (Associated Press).

"Spare the Rod? Maybe " by Michael D. Leonick.

"Spare the Chores, Spoil the Child" by Jennifer Bojorquez.

"The Most Precious Gift" by Hank Whittemore.

"Look Past Rapper for Real Heroes" by Fahizah Alim

"It's a Rap the Young Don't Deserve" by Donna Britt.

"Who is Great?" by Michael Ryan.

"The Wrong Examples" by David L. Evans.

"Child's Play" by Calvin Trillin.

"Family Ties Put a Face on the Faceless Issue of Free Speech" by Eric Slater.

SECTION IV SKILL BUILDERS
Discovering Your Learning Style
Using the Dictionary
Building Your Vocabulary
Spelling Matters
Reading Aloud: A Trick of the Trade

SECTION V EASY REFERENCE RULES
Common Irregular Verbs
The Right Word
Capitalization
Using Outside Sources
Punctuation Rules
Grammar Rules

Glossary

Acknowledgments

Sources

Subject Index

Index of Authors and Titles