Reading Critically, Writing Well: A Reader and Guide Twelfth Edition

eBook Description

Reading Critically, Writing Well: A Reader and Guide Twelfth Edition eBook PDF by 

Rise Axelrod, Charles Cooper, Ellen Carillo – ISBN-13: 978-1319194475

With more critical reading coverage than any other composition text, Reading Critically, Writing Well helps students read for meaning and read like a writer. A robust catalog of reading strategies complement assignment chapters that cover four expository genres, including autobiography/literacy narratives and reflection, and four argumentative genres, including evaluation and proposal. Each chapter starts with a guide to reading that challenges students to analyze the authors’ techniques, and concludes with a step-by-step guide to writing and revising that helps them apply these techniques to their own essays. The provocative readings throughout represent an array of topics and disciplines.

This new edition brings on noted reading scholar Ellen Carillo (University of Connecticut), and provides more opportunities for students to learn and practice complex reading and writing strategies, with a new emphasis on inquiry, curiosity, and habits of mind. Accessible instruction, engaging readings, and effective writing assignments make Reading Critically, Writing Well ideal for instructors who want to demonstrate critical analysis and the effective rhetorical choices that students can make in their own writing.

CONTENTS :

• Preface
• Brief Contents
• Contents
• Contents by Theme
• Contents by Discipline
• Chapter 1 Academic Habits of Mind: From Reading Critical 
• Chapter 2 A Catalog of Reading Strategies
• Chapter 3 Autobiography and Literacy Narratives
• Chapter 4 Observation
• Chapter 5 Reflection
• Chapter 6 Explaining Concepts
• Chapter 7 Evaluation
• Chapter 8 Arguing for a Position
• Chapter 9 Speculating about Causes or Effects 
• Chapter 10 Proposal to Solve a Problem
• Chapter 11 Multi-Genre Writing: Pulling It All Together 
• Chapter 12 Strategies for Research and Documentation
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index to Methods of Development 
• Index of Authors, Titles, and Terms