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The Reading/Writing Connection
Cynthia Burbank Earle, St. Petersberg Junior College
Christine Zimmermann, Southern New Hampshire University

ISBN-10: 0321089502
ISBN-13: 9780321089502

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2003
Format: Paper; 288 pp
Published: 07/30/2002

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The Reading/Writing Connection teaches the essentials of effective essay writing, emphasizing the connection between effective reading and successful writing.

Designed to assist students in acquiring the basic reading and writing skills essential for success in college and beyond, The Reading/Writing Connection leads students through the five levels of reading—the literal, the interpretive, the analytical, the critical, and the creative—and parallels these levels with the writing process. Exercises throughout the text allow students to solidify comprehension of key topics and give them writing practice. A grammar section helps students review the most frequent grammatical errors. By acquiring the skills taught in this text, students will grow to meet the expectations of the academic community as well as those of future employers.

  • Focus on academic reading and writing helps students fine-tune the skills necessary for success in college.
  • Reading and writing assignments and exercises bridge the two processes to promote comprehension and mastery of text reading and college writing.
  • Grammar exercises that use the student's own work review the most common grammar errors seen in college writing—form and function of parts of speech; sentence patterns; and pronoun, punctuation, and sentence problems.
  • Student essays and professionally written models provide varied and high-interest selections for instruction and practice in the reading and writing of short essays.
  • Study skills integrated throughout the text help students take the skills learned in the course and apply them successfully to their college studies.
  • A selection of multicultural authors allows students of different backgrounds to relate to the readings in the text.
  • Glossary of unfamiliar terms and a list of homonyms and other commonly confused words help make the reading and writing process more familiar to students.



Preface.


Introduction—General Purpose and Audience for Text.


1. Introduction to the Combined Reading/Writing Process.

Rationale.

Common Features of Reading and Writing.

Two Successful Essays.

Reading: David Nyhan, Turn off the TV Before it Ruins Us.

Our future is rotting, one channel at a time.

Responses. Danielle.

Nyhan's Marked-Up Essay.

Danielle's Outline.

Danielle's First Draft.

Danielle's Final Essay.

Responses: Cliff.

Cliff's First Draft.

Cliff's Final Draft.

Review.

Conclusion.

I. THE ACT OF READING.

2. Reading Defined.

Definition.

Components.

Literal Level.

Identifying the Topic.

Confessions of a Former Smoker.

The Fashionable Body.

Identifying the Main Idea.

Women and Men.

Role Models, Bogus & Real.

Rationality About the Mentally Ill.

Street Smart.

Jeff Jacoby, Kennedy's Destructive Hate Crimes Bill.

George Orwell, Poverty.

Identifying the Major Support.

Unmacho Father.

The Case of Philip Becker.

Equal Before the Law.

Locating the Minor Details.

The Three New Yorks.

Interpretive Level.

Purpose.

75 Years of Understanding Calvin Coolidge.

Self-Serving Society.

Save the Cape from Overdevelopment.

Hard Times.

Bob Greene, It Took This Night to Make Us Know.

Ellen Goodman, Flying into Air Rage.

Michael Golden, Don't Rewrite the Bible.

Judy Brady, I Want a Wife.

Analytical Level.

Critical Level.

Creative Level.

3. Reading Improved and Reading Acquired.

Reading Improved.

Reading Acquired.

Malcolm X, Learning to Read.

Thomas H. Kean, The Crisis Coming to Campus.

4. Responding to Reading.

The Socratic Method.

Analytical and Critical Reading Practice.

Facts, Logic, and Emotion.

Facts.

Logic.

Emotion.

Separating Fact and Opinion.

Robert J. Samuelson, Can America Assimilate?

Barbara Ehrenreich, “In Defense of Splitting Up.”

II. THE ACT OF WRITING.

5. Writing Defined.

Definition.

Student Essay, Alcohol Abuse.

The Speaking/Writing Connection.

Private vs. Public Writing.

6. Introduction to the Writing Process.

7. Prewriting.

Considerations.

Purposes.

Audience.

Techniques.

Active Reading.

Brent Staples, Role Models, Bogus and Real.

Brainstorming.

Freewriting.

Clustering or Mapping.

Outlining.

Journals.

8. Writing Paragraphs.

Definition and Examples.

Introductory Paragraphs.

Developing Body Paragraphs.

Concluding Paragraphs.

9. Narration, Description, Exemplification.

Narration.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Martin Gansburg, 38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police.

Leigh Montville, Requiem for a Super Featherweight.

John Updike, The Movie House.

Description.

The Potwell Inn.

Toshio Mori, The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts.

Nelson George, Rare Jordan.

William Least Heat Moon, Arizona 87.

Gilbert Highet, The Subway Station.

Exemplification.

The Woodstock Wars.

James Gorman, What the Nose Knows.

Ellen Goodman, In the New Wave of Chick Flicks, a New Kind of Man.

Tara Parker-Pope, Custom Made.

10. Process, Comparison/Contrast, Classification/Division.

Process.

Carin C. Quinn, The Jeaning of America.

Comparison and Contrast.

Men, Women and Conversations.

What if JFK Had Survived?

Student Essay, Bob and Warren.

Andrew Lam, They Shut My Grandmother's Door.

Leanita McClain, The Middle-Class Black's Burden.

Classification and Division.

How to Mark a Book.

From Cakewalks to Concert Halls.

Judith Viorst, Friends, Good Friends, and Such Good Friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Three Types of Resistance to Oppression.

11. Cause and Effect, Definition, Argument, Persuasion.

Cause and Effect.

Rosa Parks.

Why East Junk Food?

Anna Quindlen, The Old Block.

David Nyhan, The Prison Population Is Rising.

Definition.

Love.

Prejudice.

Gloria Naylor, The Meanings of a Word.

Randall Williams, Daddy Tucked the Blanket.

Argument.

Restoration of a Terrestrial Environment.

People of the Ruined Hills.

John Fleeger, Why Isn't Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame?

Anne Bookman, Family Leave Act, Five Years Later.

Mariah Burton Nelson, Who Wins? Who Cares?

Persuasion

Gore Vidal, Drugs.

Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream.

12. Responding to Text.

Summary.

Barbara Mikulski, A Polish American Speaks Up: The Myth of the Melting Pot.

Paraphrase.

Role Models, Bogus and Real.

The Fashionable Body.

Quotation.

The Sea Around Us.

Analysis.

The Voyage Continues.

Arthur Tennies, In Defense of Deer Hunting and Killing.

Formula for Writing a Successful Analysis.

Phil Mushnick, The Hall Is Now Ready for Rose.

13. Revising and Editing.

Revision.

Unity.

Coherence.

Diction.

Editing and Proofreading.

III. GRAMMAR.

Preface.

14. Form and Function

Parts of Speech.

Summary.

Exercises.

15. Sentence Patterns.

Simple Sentences.

Compound Sentences.

Coordinating Conjunctions.

Complex Sentences.

Subordinating Conjunctions.

Conjunctive Adverbs.

Compound-Complex Sentences.

Summary.

Exercises.

16. Pronoun Problems.

Agreement.

Reference.

Case.

Exercises.

17. Punctuation.

Commas.

Exercises.

Apostrophes.

Exercises.

Quotation Marks.

Exercises.

18. Sentence Problems.

Fragments.

Spliced and Fused Sentences.

Exercises.

19. Homonyms and Other Commonly Confused Words.

20. Editing Checklist.

21. Some Notes For ESL Writers (many of which are appropriate for non-ESL writers as well!).

Glossary of Terms.

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