Product Description: 0133940020 / 9780133940022 Reading and Writing in the Academic Community  & The Successful Writer's Handbook Package   Package consists of:    0205689469 / 9780205689460 Reading and Writing in the Academic Community 0321972619 / 9780321972613 The Successful Writer's Handbook...read more

Product Description: Reading and Writing in the Academic Community is a comprehensive rhetoric with engaging, timely readings.  The authors wrote their book to include more coverage of the writing process.   This text  provides explicit, step-by-step instruction in paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing essays in response to readings, composing synthesis essays, and using sources to compose comparison-and-contrast essays, argument essays, analysis essays, evaluation essays, and research papers...read more

This combination rhetoric/anthology guides readers through the entire process of writing from sources: planning and engaging in preparatory activities prior to reading; doing a close reading of texts, taking notes, and organizing the ideas; and finally, drafting, revising, and editing essays. The anthology offers engaging reading selections that introduce readers to the issues and the methods of study in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and that can serve as idea banks for writing. Extensive coverage of critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing essays responding to sources; comparison essays, synthesis essays, analytic and evaluative essays, argument essays, and research papers. Up-to-date, user-friendly information on computerized information retrieval systems. A guide to documentation and the comparison of the MLA and APA styles. Model essays -- based on selections in the anthology. More than 60 essays, articles, short stories, and poems -- all focused on provocative issues in the natural and technological sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Works by prominent writers -- including many women and ethnic writers. Carefully sequenced writing activities that build in complexity throughout. For anyone wanting instruction or a refresher in the academic writing process. (view table of contents)