Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader and Rhetoric for Academic Writers - Softcover

Kennedy, Mary Lynch; Kennedy, William J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132319993 ISBN 13: 9780132319997

Publisher: Pearson, 2007

Synopsis

For undergraduate-level courses in Composition, English, and Writing that focus on academic writing and writing from sources.

 

This combination rhetoric/anthology instructs college students how to read academic texts effectively and how to use them as sources for papers in a variety of disciplines.

 

In this 6th edition of Writing in the Disciplines, Mary Kennedy and William Kennedy have combined their expertise with more suggestions than ever before from students, instructors, and reviewers to retain the text's best qualities while now emphasizing academic writing as ongoing conversations in multiple genres. The rhetoric chapters teach critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing process, synthesizing, analyzing, researching, and developing arguments. The anthology balances journal articles with works by public intellectuals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, presenting issues and methods of inquiring in the disciplines and serving as idea banks for writing. Students learn how to work individually and collaboratively as they progress in writing from sources from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising academic essays.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader for Writers, Fifth Edition, provides an anthology of readings that represents various rhetorical approaches across academic disciplines such as humanities, the natural sciences and technology, and the social sciences.

New to the Fifth Edition:

• New selections, featuring exciting and often controversial articles on topics ranging from cloning to saving endangered species to security in the wake of September 11th to the changing American family.
• All new suites of articles dedicated to current topics such as "Rethinking School" and "Religion and Identity."
• Many collaborative activities are offered to facilitate group work and strategies for learning through interaction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0132319993
• ISBN 13: 9780132319997
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 704