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By Mary Lynch Kennedy (editor)

Hardcover:

9780313299278 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 30, 1998, cover price $75.00

Paperback:

9781593112783 | Information Age Pub Inc, June 30, 2006, cover price $45.99

This innovative rhetoric/reader provides an introduction to—and extensive practice with—the purposes, forms, and processes of academic reading and writing across the curriculum. It illustrates in detail all the steps in the entire reading-writing process—from reading the original source to revising the final draft—for a variety of essay types. Chapter topics include reading academic sources; learning the basic conventions: summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting; responding to sources; comparing and contrasting sources; composing other types of multiple-source essays; drawing on sources for the argument essay; analysis and evaluation; and writing research papers. The anthology of readings contains a selection of high-interest, easily read thematic sources which treat both sides of timely issues and provocative topics. For students who want to master the basic conventions of academic writing, and effortlessly execute the processes involved.

Paperback:

9780130452948, titled "Reading and Writing in the Academic Community" | 2 edition (Prentice Hall, October 1, 2003), cover price $59.00 | About this edition: This innovative rhetoric/reader provides an introduction to—and extensive practice with—the purposes, forms, and processes of academic reading and writing across the curriculum.
9780130304643, titled "Reading and Writing in the Academic Community" | Subsequent edition (Prentice Hall, November 1, 2000), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: This innovative rhetoric/reader provides an introduction to--and extensive practice with the purposes, forms, and processes of academic reading and writing across the curriculum.
9780130998033, titled "Reading and Writing in the Academic Community" | Pck edition (Prentice Hall, June 1, 1999), cover price $42.20 | About this edition: Reading and Writing in the Academic Community is a comprehensive rhetoric with engaging, timely readings.
9780130996534 | Prentice Hall, February 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This innovative rhetoric/reader provides an introduction to--and extensive practice with the purposes, forms, and processes of academic reading and writing across the curriculum.
9780130079725, titled "Reading and Writing in the Academic Community" | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1994, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: This innovative rhetoric/reader provides an introduction to--and extensive practice with the purposes, forms, and processes of academic reading and writing across the curriculum.
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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)

Paperback:

9780131823822 | 5 sub edition (Prentice Hall, June 1, 2003), cover price $67.00
9780130484758 | 4th edition (Prentice Hall, July 1, 2002), cover price $53.00 | About this edition: 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.
9780130210272 | 4 sub edition (Prentice Hall, July 1, 1999), cover price $46.67
9780131414006 | 3rd edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1996), cover price $34.00
9780139708725 | 2 sub edition (Prentice Hall, March 1, 1990), cover price $24.67

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Product Description: This reader provides a firm grounding in academic writing, showing students how to read academic texts and use them as sources for college papers. Offering a broad and comprehensive selection of readings to help students develop their abilities to think critically and reason cogently, it shows them 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...read more

Paperback:

9780130966360 | 3rd edition (Prentice Hall, June 1, 1998), cover price $39.45 | About this edition: This reader provides a firm grounding in academic writing, showing students how to read academic texts and use them as sources for college papers.

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