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About Writing and Reading Across the...
About the Book
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The original, best selling interdisciplinary composition text, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, 8/e, teaches students of all majors and interests to communicate more effectively.
Hallmarks of the text include its sound writing instruction-focusing on summary, synthesis, and critique-combined with engaging, thematic readings that provide depth of coverage in each discipline-specific chapter. Expanded coverage of argumentation and writing online address issues of today's classrooms. Updated, streamlined pedagogy and class-tested new thematic chapters keep this classic exciting and current.
Features
- PART ONE: Chapters 1–6 present the practical "summary, synthesis, and critique" approach to writing source-based papers across the disciplines in a step by step process.
- Chapter 2 Critical Reading and Critique, prepares students to evaluate the merits of various arguments and include related links to online discussions as well as sample student critique.
- TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE: Chapter 5 (Research) includes the most current information on the MLA and APA guidelines, conducting Web research, and related research topics.
- PART TWO: The anthology of readings includes a series of high interest essays drawn from both academic and professional disciplines. These readings are chosen for students who are actually taking courses concurrently in the humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
- Perennial favorites include Cinderella, Obedience to Authority, Law.
New to this Edition
- While 80% of the readings are new, the authors have retained the guiding principle: to place student writers squarely in the middle of ethically complex issues of the sort they might encounter in the workplace.
- NEW! 4 New Thematic Sections
- TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE: Chapter 7, "Cyberspace and Identity: The E-Mail Revolution," gathers readings that explore the way e-mail enhances and distracts us from our daily work.
- Chapter 9, "Business Ethics," back by popular demand and fully updated, this chapter exposes students to the realities of the types of ethical dilemmas they will be faced with in the workplace.
- Chapter 10, "Weight Debate," presents readings on what experts term an "epidemic" of obesity in America. Readings explore the scientific, medical, and cultural aspects of obesity.
- Chapter 13, "Good Take, Sweet Prince: Hamlet on Film," presents an in-depth look at four adaptations of the play: by Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda. Beyond general introductions to Hamlet and Shakespeare on film, the chapter includes for each adaptation a cinematic outline, a statement by the director, and a review.
- NEW! Coverage of synthesis has been split into 2 separate chapters: 4—Explanatory Synthesis and 5—Argument Synthesis.
- NEW! Boxes on reading critically appear throughout, preparing students for these types of writing assignments.
- NEW! Brief exercises for students to practice reading and writing critically in a controlled environment, with carefully chosen selections, are included.
- NEW! Chapter 1 has new readings (on marriage) to demonstrate the preparation of summaries-including summaries of narratives, figures and tables.
- NEW! Chapter 4 includes new readings on computer-mediated communication (e.g., online dating) as the basis for the example Explanatory Synthesis.
- UPDATED! TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE: The updated chapter on Research includes the current MLA and APA citation information. MLA and APA sample references are now separated into two sections for ease of reference
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