Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Brief Edition, 3/E
Laurence Behrens, University of California, Santa Barbara
Leonard J. Rosen, Bentley College

ISBN-10: 0205622291
ISBN-13: 9780205622290

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 544 pp
Published: 09/11/2008

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This brief version of the best-selling cross-curricular classic retains its hallmark coverage of source-based writing skills combined with five popular readings chapters.

 

This portable version represents a carefully chosen selection from the comprehensive version of the text, with five of seven readings chapters included in their entirety. The abbreviated rhetoric section covers the skills of summary, critique, analysis, and synthesis, taking students step-by-step through the process of writing papers based on source material. Students then put these skills to practice on thematically-linked essays on provocative topics in the readings chapters. A stronger focus on argumentation addresses the trend found in today's composition classrooms.

 

·Part I presents concise yet complete discussions of the skills of summary, synthesis, analysis, and critique to help students write source-based papers across the disciplines.

·Discussions of argument in Chapters 2 and 3 introduce and adapt the Toulmin approach to the kinds of readings that students will encounter in Part II.

·Boxes on reading critically appear throughout, as well as brief exercises for students to practice reading and writing critically in a controlled environment.

·Chapter 6, “Obedience to Authority,” explores Stanley Milgram's landmark psychology experiment and today’s “uncivil disobedience”.

·Chapter 7, “What’s Happening at the Mall,” examines the history of American shopping malls and their role in contemporary American culture.

·A completely new unit on marriage and family in America (Sociology, Chapter 5) with readings by well-known writers like Stephanie Coontz, Andrew Sullivan, Wiliam Bennett, and Alix Kates Shulman explores the changing roles (and expectations) of women as “wives”, gay marriage, and the radical idea” of marrying for love.

·A completely new unit on sleep (Biology, Chapter 8) focus on the science of sleep, why adolescents and college students are chronically shortchanged, and why school should start later, including a new study from the National Sleep Foundation. 

·New readings in Chapter 7, What’s Happening at the Mall?,examine the history of American shopping malls and their role in contemporary American culture, and a new reading the widely admired unit on Obedience toAuthority (Ch. 6) looks at today’s “uncivil disobedience.”

·New models and examples in Chapters 1 — 4 offer enhanced guidance on academic writing.

·And a new appendix “A Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism,” available in many Longman revisions, helps you understand how to use source material appropriately in your college writing.

Preface

A Note to the Student

I. HOW TO WRITE SUMMARIES, CRITIQUES, SYNTHESES, AND ANALYSES

1. Summary

What is a Summary?

Can a Summary Be Objective?

Using the Summary

The Reading Process

How to Write Summaries

Demonstration:  Summary

Avoiding Plagiarism

2. Critical Reading and Critique

Critical Reading

Critique

Demonstration: Critique

Practice Critique

3. Synthesis

What Is a Synthesis?

Purpose

Using Your Sources

Types of Syntheses: Argument and Explanatory

How to Write Syntheses

The Argument Synthesis

Demonstration: Developing a Source-Based Argument Synthesis

Developing and Organizing Support for Your Arguments

The Comparison-and-Contrast Synthesis

The Explanatory Synthesis

Summary

4. Analysis

What Is an Analysis?

Demonstration of Analysis

How to Write Analyses

Analysis: A Tool for Understanding

 

II. An Anthology of Readings

SOCIOLOGY 

5.Marriage and Family in America

The Satisfactions of Housewifery and Motherhood/ Paradise Lost, Terry Martin Hekker

The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love, Stephanie Coontz

The State of Our Unions, David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

Debunking Myths about Marriage and Families, Mary Ann Schwartz and Barbara Marliene Scott

A Debate on Gay Marriage, Andrew Sullivan / William Bennett

Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path—to Motherhood, Louise Story

What Yale Women Want, and Why It Is Misguided, Karen Stabiner

A Marriage Agreement, Alix Kates Shulman

The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be.  How It Was, Hope Edelman

My Problem with Her Anger, Eric Bartels

 

PSYCHOLOGY.

6. Obedience to Authority.

Opinions and Social Pressure, Solomon E. Asch.

The Perils of Obedience, Stanley Milgram.

Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience, Diana Baumrind.

The Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip G. Zimbardo.

Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem, Erich Fromm.

Uncivil Disobedience: Violating the Rules for Breaking the Law, James L. Lopach and Jean A. Luckowski

 

AMERICAN STUDIES

7. What's Happening at the Mall?

Shopping for American Culture, James J. Farrell.

A Brief History of Malls. Kenneth T. Jackson

The Mall as Civic/Cultural Center, Victor Gruen and Larry Smith

The Mall as Disneyland, Richard Francaviglia.

The Mall as Prison, David Guterson.

The Mall as Sacred Space, John Pahl

The Mall as Setting for Authentic Life, Virginia Postrel

The Mall as Refuge, George Lewis.

The Mall as Threat to Democratic Values,  Lizabeth Cohen.

Mallaise: How to Know If You Have It, William Kowinski

 

BIOLOGY 

8. To Sleep

A Third of Life, Paul Martin

Improving Sleep, Lawrence Epstein, MD, Editor

America’s Sleep-Deprived Teens Nodding off at School, Behind the Wheel, National Sleep Foundation

When Worlds Collide: Adolescent Need for Sleep vs. Societal Demands, Mary A. Carskadon

Sleep Debt and the Mortgaged Mind, William C. Dement and Christopher Vaughan

The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, D.J. Buysse

How Sleep Debt Hurts College Students, June J. Pilcher and Amy S. Walters

Starting Time and School Life, Patricia K. Kubow, Kyla L. Wahlstrom, and Amy Bemis

 

BUSINESS/ COMMUNICATIONS

9. New and Improved: Six Decades of Advertising.

Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals, Jib Fowles.

Making the Pitch in Print Advertising, Courtland L. Bovée, John V. Thill, George P. Dovel, and Marian Burk Wood.

Elements of Effective Layout, Dorothy Cohen.

A Portfolio of Advertisements: 1945-2003.

 

A Quick Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism

    This brief version of the best-selling cross-curricular classic retains its hallmark coverage of source-based writing skills combined with five popular readings chapters.

     

    This portable version represents a carefully chosen selection from the comprehensive version of the text, with five of seven readings chapters included in their entirety. The abbreviated rhetoric section covers the skills of summary, critique, analysis, and synthesis, taking students step-by-step through the process of writing papers based on source material. Students then put these skills to practice on thematically-linked essays on provocative topics in the readings chapters. A stronger focus on argumentation addresses the trend found in today's composition classrooms.
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WRITING AND READING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
BRIEF EDITION
Third Edition
Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen

This brief version of the best-selling cross-curricular classic retains its hallmark coverage of source-based writing skills, accompanied by five popular readings chapters. An essential text for student writers in any academic discipline, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Brief Edition, teaches students of all majors and interests to communicate more effectively.

In this third edition, you will find compelling new units, including:

  • A new chapter on marriage and family in America that explores the changing roles (and expectations) of women as “wives,” gay marriage, and “the radical idea” of marrying for love.
  • A new chapter on sleep that focuses on the science of sleep and why adolescents and college students are chronically shortchanged.
  • A new appendix from Longman, Avoiding Plagiarism, that helps you understand how to use source material appropriately in your college writing.

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