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An anthology of readings that represent various rhetorical approaches across academic disciplines, such as the humanities, the natural sciences and technology, and the social sciences. The point is to help student gain the ability to think critically and reason cogently as the learn the conventions of the different disciplines. Revised from the 1996 edition (first in 1987) with new and sometimes controversial selections on current topics such as rock music, cultural values, and cloning. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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This combination rhetoric/anthology shows readers how to read academic volumes effectively and how to use them as sources for papers in a variety of disciplines. Throughout, readers learn how to work individually and collaboratively as they move through the entire process of writing from sources?from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising essays. The rhetoric section teaches readers the fundamental strategies for all phases of academic writing?critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, organizing, drafting, revising, editing, synthesizing, analyzing, researching, and developing arguments. The anthology section offers engaging reading selections that introduce readers to the issues and the methods of study in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and that serve as idea banks for their writing assignments. For individuals interested in a comprehensive treatment of academic writing.
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