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Tables of Contents for Asking Questions
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to Students
ix
A Note to Instructors
xiii
Challenging Commonplaces
1
30
Intellectual Life
3
1
The Culture of Cliches
4
4
Outrun Civilization
6
2
Assumptions and the University
8
3
``Theme for English B''
9
1
Langston Hughes
Essay Option 1A
10
1
Understanding Intellectual Life as a Qec Pattern of Thinking
11
1
Qec and Academic Thinking and Writing
12
1
From the Personal to the Public: Extending Qec to Qec:CS
13
2
Qec and College Writing
15
1
Using Detail, Pointing to Specifics
16
1
Essay Option 1B
17
1
Rhetorical Diagramming
17
3
``In the Male Direction''
18
2
Ellen Goodman
Considering Thesis Statements and the Effort to Challenge Commonplaces
20
1
A Checklist
21
1
The Essay Options: Getting Started
22
5
Moving from QEC to CS
24
2
Essay Option 1C
26
1
Essay Option 1D
26
1
Essay Option 1E
27
1
Essay Option 1F
27
1
Sample Student Essay, Option 1B
27
4
Listening to Others: Reading and Summarizing What You Read
31
42
College Reading and Contemporary Culture
33
1
Learning to Ask Questions, Learning (Again) to Read
33
1
Using QEC:CS to Ask Questions About What You're Reading
34
4
``Intimacy and Independence''
36
2
Deborah Tannen
The Problem of New Vocabulary
38
2
Ancient Forests of the Pacific Northwest
38
1
Elliot A. Norse
``Inquiry as a Tool of Critical Thinking''
39
1
Alison King
Using Triac to Make Sense of What You Read
40
5
Biology
41
1
Helena Curtis
N. Sue Barnes
``Passion at Yale''
42
3
David Denby
College Reading: Observations and Advice
45
5
Skimming and Close Reading
50
1
Summarizing What You Read
51
2
Summarizing in College Classes
53
1
Reading to Summarize
53
3
Essay Options 2A and 2B
56
5
Essay Option 2A
56
1
Essay Option 2B
56
1
``Claiming an Education''
57
4
Adrienne Rich
The Essay Options: Getting Started
61
6
Consider the Logic of Connection
61
2
Start Drafting
63
1
Consider the Organization of Your Summary
64
1
Get Responses to Drafts of Your Summary
65
1
Use Quotations
65
1
Consider Length---Adding Detail or Explanation, Combining Points
66
1
Essay Option 2C
67
1
Essay Option 2D
67
1
Sample Student Essay, Option 2C
67
6
``In Praise of `Best Friends': The Revival of a Fine Old Institution''
69
4
Barbara Ehrenreich
Reading between the Lines
73
40
The Experience of Reading Literature
73
1
Reading as a Process
74
3
``She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways''
75
2
William Wordsworth
Images and Ideas
77
4
``The Boat at Kelly's Lake''
79
1
Lex Runciman
Get in Touch with Your Masculine Side
80
1
The Condensation of Meaning
81
2
How Prose can be Like Poetry, Too
83
8
``The Night Gardener''
83
8
Marjorie Sandor
Point of View
91
1
Tone to Voice
92
2
Filling in the Gaps
94
1
``Final Exam: American Renaissance''
94
1
William Stafford
Essay Option 3A
94
1
Literature and Life
95
2
Essay Option 3B
96
1
Reading Literature as Training For Reading Other Kind of Writing
97
2
Interpreting Thesis-Driven Prose
99
4
Essay Option 3C
102
1
The Essay Options: Getting Started
103
7
``Learning How to Lose''
104
1
William Stafford
Discovering and Sharpening a Thesis Statement
105
1
A Suggestion for Writing a Rough Draft and Revising It
106
1
Jargon and Style
107
2
Essay Option 3D
109
1
Essay Option 3E
109
1
Essay Option 3F
109
1
Sample Student Essay, Option 3B
110
3
Linking Causes and Effects
113
30
Predicting the Future
113
2
Explaining the Past
115
2
Cause and Effect as Process Analysis
117
1
Co-Relation and Causation
118
1
An Example of Co-Relation and Causation: ``Do Women Benefit from Study at All-Female Schools?''
119
2
Using QEC:CS in Linking Causes and Effects
121
3
``Good News for Poor Spellers''
122
2
Marilyn vos Savant
Causes, Effects, Research, and the Scientific Method
124
2
Multiple Cause, Multiple Effects
126
1
Essay Option 4A
126
1
Multiple Effects, Multiple Responses, Multiple Views
127
1
The Case Study: Constructing a Whole Narrative
128
5
``Amy''
128
4
Mary Pipher
Essay Option 4B
132
1
The Essay Options: Getting Started
133
6
Generate Research Questions
133
1
Researching: Interviewing Live Sources by Using the Journalist's Questions
133
1
Researching: Investigating On-Line and Print Sources
134
2
Anticipate Your Need to Quote Accurately and to Document Sources
136
1
Consider What You're Learning in Terms of Causes and Effects
136
1
Consider Your Claims and Supports
137
1
Summarize Carefully, Quote Accurately, and Account for Your Sources
138
1
Essay Option 4C
139
1
Essay Option 4D
139
1
Sample Student Essay, Option 4C
139
4
Analyzing and Making Arguments
143
34
Media Persuasion
144
2
Persuasion and Believability
146
1
Reading Prose Arguments: Recognizing Inductive Arguments
147
1
Essay Option 5A
148
1
Arguing From Statistical Data
148
1
Induction: Validity and Persuasiveness
149
1
Inductive Fallacies
150
1
Recognizing Deductive Arguments
151
3
Considering and Questioning Assumptions
154
4
``Majoring in Sex''
155
3
Mona Charen
Essay Option 5B
158
1
Considering Advocacy and Audience
158
1
Arguing From Analogy
159
2
Arguing From Authority
161
4
Essay Option 5C
162
1
``No Books, Please; We're Students''
162
2
John Leo
Essay Option 5D
164
1
The Essay Options: Getting Started
165
3
Consider Your Essay's Methods
165
1
Consult Your Own Experience
165
1
Consult Sources Outside Your Experience
166
1
Write a First Draft
167
1
Get Response to Your Draft; Give Your Response to Others
167
1
Consider Audience
168
1
Speaking Advocacy: Making Oral Arguments
168
4
Making Planned Presentations
168
2
Consider Making Overhead Transparencies or Handouts
170
1
Recognize Important Similarities and Differences between Papers and Speeches
171
1
Practice and Time Yourself
172
1
Sample Student Essay, Option 5C
172
5
Understanding Comparisons, Embracing Contraries
177
33
Comparisons and Science
179
1
Comparison and Metaphor
179
1
Comparison and Difference
180
1
Either-or Propositioning
181
2
Embracing Contraries
183
17
``Embracing Contraries in the Teaching Process''
184
15
Peter Elbow
Essay Option 6A
199
1
More on the Example of the Environmental Debate
200
2
Intellectual Maturity
202
2
Essay Option 6B
204
1
The Essay Options: Getting Started
204
6
Invention and Imitation
205
2
Academic Style
207
1
Returning to the Preface
208
2
Essay Option 6C
210
1
Essay Option 6D
210
1
Sample Student Essay, Option 6A
210