Read, Reason, Write - Softcover

SEYLER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072415606 ISBN 13: 9780072415605

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2001

Synopsis

"Read, Reason, Write" is a rhetoric with readings that helps students develop into better writers of the kinds of papers they are most often required to write - summaries, analyses, reports, and documented papers. The text presents clear instruction in critical reading and analysis, argument, and research techniques, along with a collection of current and incisive readings appropriate for practicing these techniques.

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From the Publisher

PowerSite: McGraw-Hill's PowerSite is an Internet-based resource of research tutorials, exercises, and activities. PowerSite is free to students with each new copy of Read, Reason, Write and access includes Northern Light, a powerful search engine that offers over 7,000 premium research sites, all evaluated by experts for credibility.
Expanded Coverage of Argument: Section 2, The World of Argument, moves from defining arguments to the characteristics of arguments and the rhetorical analysis of arguments and on to preparing specific types of arguments. The coverage of Toulmin, Aristotole, Rogerian and conciliatory argument, and responding to visual arguments has been revised and expanded in chapters 3 and 4.
Strong Coverage of Critical Reading and Analyzing Sources. Section 1, Critical Reading, now consists of 2 chapters, Writers and Their Sources and Responding Critically to Sources, reinforcing the book's strong emphasis on moving from reading to writing.
A Comprehensive Guide to the Research Process: An entire section on research (Section 3) provides students with step-by-step guidance in locating, evaluating, and documenting sources to support their arguments, with particular attention to evaluating online sources. Coverage of MLA and APA formats is included, as well as support for preparing a research paper, with sample student papers.
70 Readings on 14 Topics: Sixty-six of the seventy reading selections are new, as are five of the fourteen themes; the selections presented have been chosen to provide students with a variety of viewpoints on each of fourteen topics, and each thematic unit begins with a brief overview of the topic and relevant websites for further exploration.

About the Author

Dorothy U. Seyler is professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College of William and Mary, Dr. Seyler holds advanced degrees from Columbia University and the State University of New York at Albany. She taught at Ohio State University, the University of Kentucky, and Nassau Community College before moving with her family to Northern Virginia. She has coauthored Introduction to Literature and Language Power, both in second editions, and is the author of The Writer's Stance, Patterns of Reflection, in its third edition, The Reading Context, Steps to College Reading, Understanding Argument, and Read, Reason, Write, currently in its fifth edition and Doing Research, currently in its second edition. In addition, Professor Seyler has published articles in professional journals and popular magazines. She enjoys tennis, golf, and traveling, as well as writing about all three.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072415606
• ISBN 13: 9780072415605
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 688