Veit, Richard : University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Gould, Christopher : University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Summary
Flexible and goal-oriented, this text integrates instruction in reading, writing, and research with topical,
interdisciplinary readings and concludes with a research handbook.
Writing, Reading, and Research thoroughly covers analytical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing--skills
essential for developing a research paper. Each stage of the process is illustrated with examples of student and
professional writing. Unlike comparable books, Writing, Reading, and Research leads off with two sample student
papers in the early chapters, giving students a clear idea of the final goal as they progress through each step
of the research and writing process.
Features :
Guided sequential approach to reading, writing and research helps students learn essential academic skills
that can be used across the curriculum and in a variety of research situations.
Three-in-one text blends the best features of a theoretically informed rhetoric, an interdisciplinary reading
anthology, and a research handbook.
More than a dozen professional readings throughout the book provide cross-disciplinary, multicultural, and
high-interest selections on which students can practice their skills.
Numerous activities accompany the end-of-chapter readings. These include: freewriting opportunities, group
work, review questions, discussion questions, and mini-Internet projects.
Complete student research papers in Chapters 1 and 8 illustrate the continuum of the research process--from
personal observation to more formal techniques of data correction.
Student responses to several assignments show the various stages of the writing; reading, and research process
and how each stage leads to a polished, finished product.
New To This Edition :
Eighteen additional readings now supplement the nine end-of-chapter readings; thematically-based, these readings
cover topics from the September 11th tragedy to great discoveries and inventions.
"Write, Read, and Research the Net" are mini-Internet research projects that follow end-of-chapter
readings in Chapters 1-7. Projects emphasize the "three-in-one" nature of the text and accommodate the
increased reliance on the Internet in all aspects of research.
The table of contents now clearly distinguishes readings written by students and professional authors.
Chapter 2, "Strategies for Reading,"now incorporates a more detailed discussion of critical reading,
with a particular focus on inference.
Chapter 9, "Tools for Finding Sources," expands and updates coverage of electronic sources; also
includes new screen shots of actual Web-based research sites.
Chapter 11, "Putting Your Sources to Work," offers a more detailed discussion of online plagiarism
and how to avoid it.
Chapter 14, "Argument: Reading, Writing, and Research," features expanded coverage of argument, discussing
such topics as emotional persuasion, structure, varieties of evidence, and types of appeals; a new sample student
paper helps illustrate these concepts.
Part II, "Research Paper Reference Handbook," includes the 2003 MLA Manual of Style, Sixth Edition
updates.
Table of Contents
* Denotes selections new to this edition.
All chapters conclude with "Freewriting," "Group Work," "Review Questions," "Discussion
Questions," "Writing," "Write, Read, and Research the Net," and "Additional Readings."
Preface to the Instructor.
I. WRITING, READING, AND RESEARCH.
1. Introduction to Writing, Reading, and Research.
Writing.
*Student Writing:
"Illiteracy: America's Secret" by Mark Craig.
Reading.
Practice Reading:
"A Short History of Love" by Lawrence Stone.
*Student Writing:
Free write, by Janet.
Free write, by Alex.
Free write, by Agnes.
Research.
Reading Selection:
* "Going with the Flow" by Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm.
Additional Readings:
*"The Best" by Stephen Fatsis.
*"Making Fairy Tales into Learning Tools" by Richard Rothstein.
*"Just Showing Off" by Millard K. Ives.
"The Holly Pageant" by Lavonne Adams.
About the Rest of the Book.
2. Strategies for Reading.
*Inferences.
Context.
Strategies for Understanding.
*Surveying a Text.
Student Writing:
*"My Turn" by Audrey Rock-Richardson.
Practice Readings:
*"Relationships with Maturing Children" by Diane E. Papalia, Sally Wendkos Olds, and Ruth Duskin Feldman.
*"Keeping Parents Off Campus" by Judith Shapiro.
*"Not a Drop to Drink" by Tim Egan.
Practice Reading:
*"Some Geography, Some History" by Wallace Stegner.
Reading Selections:
*"Learning How to Learn" by Glenn C. Altschuler.
*"Adapting to College Life in an Era of Heightened Stress" by Glenn C. Altschuler.
Additional Readings:.
*"The Challenge of First-Generation College Students" by Roland Merullo.
"Class Struggle" by Ron Suskind.
*"When a Dad Says Goodbye to His Daughter" by Roger H. Martin.
*"Take Your Parents to Work?" by Jeffrey Zaslow.
3. Paraphrasing.
Paraphrase as a Reading Strategy.
Using Paraphrase in Writing.
Practice Readings:
*"Postal System Input Buffer Device" by Roberson Osborne.
*"The Etiology and Treatment of Childhood" by Jordan W. Smoller.
Reading Selection:
*"Another Day, Another Indignity" by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Additional Readings:
*"Get a Job" by Jonathan Miles.
*"Before College, Start with a Side Order" by Lisa Black.
*"Revisiting the Lessons of Youth" by Peter H. King.
4. Reading for the Main Idea.
General and Specific Statements.
Deductive and Inductive Organization.
Practice Reading:
*"Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm" by James Wright.
Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences.
Identifying Topic Sentences.
Restating the Main Idea.
Paragraphs with Implied Main Ideas.
Detecting Implications.
A Further Comment on Paragraphs.
Reading Selection:
*"Girls Want to Be Mean" by Margaret Talbot.
Additional Readings:
*"Listening to Boys' Voices" by William Pollack.
*"Vengeance Destroys Faces, and Souls, in Cambodia" by Seth Mydans.
*"Murder of Teen Resembles Case that Became Movie Boys Don't Cry" by Yomi S. Wronge and Putsata Reang.
5. Summarizing.
Summary and Paraphrase.
Writing Summaries.
Practice Readings:
*"Stereotyping: Homogenizing People" by J. Dan Rothwell.
*"The King of Cool Celebrates a Century" by James Bone.
Uses of Summary.
Reading Selection:
*"America's Secret Culture" by Roland Merullo.
Additional Readings:
*"Elements of Tragedy" by Colson Whitehead, Richard Powers, Robert Stone, James Traub, Stephen King,
Jennifer Egan, Roger Lowenstein, and Judith Shulevitz.
*"America, `God Save the Queen' and Postmodernity" by Robert James Branham and Stephen J. Hartnett.
6. Synthesizing.
A Brief Summary Report.
Practice Readings:
*"The Anglophile Angle" by Terry Lefton.
*"Brand Builders: Open for Business" by Gerry Khermouch.
*"Endangered Species" by Leigh Gallagher.
*"Corporate Ties Squeeze the Life out of Sports" by Joe Cappo.
An Objective Report on Sources.
Practice Readings:
"Scout's Honour" by E. V. Kontorovitch.
"Bigoted Scouts of America" by Barbara Dority.
Acknowledging Sources: An Obligation.
A List of Works Cited.
Parenthetical Notes.
Reading Selection:
*"The Great Mosquito Crusade" by Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio.
Additional Readings:
*"Midgley: Saint or Serpent?" by George F. Kauffman.
*"History of Air Conditioning and How It Changed American Life and Culture" by Doug Fabrizio.
7. Analyzing Texts.
Analyzing the Parts.
Purpose.
Practice Readings:
*"Dept. of Commitment" by Rebecca Mead.
*"Control and Choice" by Leo Mullen.
Audience.
Practice Reading:
*" A Common Syndrome" by Jane E. Brody.
Main Idea.
Practice Reading:
*"Who Cares, As Long as It's Natural" by Daniel Akit.
Development.
Practice Readings:
*"In Good Company" by Kostya Kennedy.
*"In the Dough" by Rebecca Gray.
Organization and Coherence.
Practice Readings:
*"The Financial Page, The Talking Cure" by James Gurowiecki.
*"Retailers Swan Song" by Elizabeth Razzu.
Writing a Brief Reading Analysis.
Practice Reading:
*"Ernie's Nuns" by Molly Ivinis.
Reading Selection:
*"Opening Ourselves to Unconditional Love in Our Relationships with Students" by Sara Hopkins-Powell.
Additional Readings:
*"Crossing the Fine Line Between Teacher and Therapist" by M. Garrett Bauman.
*"Hollywood Goes to School" by Adam Farhi.
8. Beginning a Research Project.
The Research Paper.
Primary and Secondary Research.
Benefits of Doing Research.
The Research Process.
A Research Assignment.
The Finished Product.
A Sample Standard Research Paper.
Student Writing:
*"Fast Food at a High Price for Workers" by Emily Gould.
A Sample Personal Research Paper.
Student Writing:
*"Becoming a Pharmacist" by Justin Stafford.
Your Research Schedule: Planning in Advance.
The Benefits of Word Processing.
A Research Notebook.
Your Research Topic.
Generating Ideas.
9. Tools for Finding Sources.
Beginning Your Research.
Your Campus Library.
Electronic Resources.
Using Electronic Databases.
Internet Resources.
The Reference Librarian: The Most Resourceful Resource.
10. Finding Sources Outside the Library: Conducting Interviews and Writing Letters.
Interviewing Sources.
Arranging the Interview.
Conducting the Interview.
Writing for Information.
Still Other Sources.
11. Putting Your Sources to Work.
A Research Prospectus.
The Working Bibliography.
Using Your Written Sources.
Avoiding Plagiarism.
12. Reporting on Sources: Paraphrase and Quotation.
The Conventions of Reporting.
Options for Presenting Sources.
Acknowledging Sources.
Relying on Experts.
Paraphrasing Sources.
Quoting Sources.
13. Writing and Revising the Research Paper.
Getting Organized.
Writing the First Good Draft.
Editing and Revising.
Typing and Proofreading Your Polished Draft.
14. Argument: Reading, Writing, and Research.
Emotional Persuasion.
Logical Argument.
Practice Reading:
*"The Financial Page, The Talking Cure" by James Surowiecki.
Informal Analysis of Argument.
Practice Reading:
*"The Price of Democracy" by Roger Bowen.
Critique of an Argument.
Practice Readings:
*"A Threat to Our Coherent Human Feature" by Bill McKibben.
"Workplace Worrywarts" by Michelle Cottle.
*"Why Not Allow Human Cloning" by Michael Shermer.
An Argumentative Research Essay.
*Student Writing:
"Title IX: Leveling the Playing Field" by Ellie Stephens.
II. RESEARCH PAPER REFERENCE HANDBOOK.
A. List of Works Cited (MLA Format).
Bibliographic Formats.
General Guidelines--MLA Format.
B. Parenthetical Notes (MLA Format).
Types of Notes.
Parenthetical Notes.
Information Footnotes.
