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Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum ThiRTeenTh ediTion This page intentionally left blank Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum ThiRTeenTh ediTion Laurence Behrens University of California Santa Barbara Leonard J. Rosen Bentley University Boston Columbus Hoboken Indianapolis New York San Francisco Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montréal Toronto Delhi Mexico City São Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Senior Acquisitions Editor: Brad Potthoff Program Manager: Anne Shure Product Marketing Manager: Ali Arnold Field Marketing Manager: Mark Robinson Senior Media Producer: Stefanie Snajder Content Specialist: Erin Reilly Jenkins Project Manager: Shannon Kobran Project Coordination, Text Design, and Electronic Page Makeup: Integra Cover Designer: Barbara Atkinson Cover Illustration: vanias/Shutterstock Senior Manufacturing Buyer: Roy L. Pickering, Jr. Printer/Binder: Edwards Brothers Malloy Cover Printer: Lehigh-Phoenix Color–Hagerstown Acknowledgments of third-party content appear on the appropriate page within text and on pages 611–617 which constitute an extension of this copyright page. PEARSON, ALWAYS LEARNING, and MYWRITINGLAB are exclusive trademarks, in the United States and/or other countries, of Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. Unless otherwise indicated herein, any third-party trademarks that may appear in this work are the property of their respective owners and any references to third-party trademarks, logos, or other trade dress are for demonstrative or descriptive purposes only. Such references are not intended to imply any sponsorship, endorsement, authorization, or promotion of Pearson’s products by the owners of such marks, or any relationship between the owner and Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates, authors, licensees, or distributors. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Behrens, Laurence, author. Writing and reading across the curriculum/Laurence Behrens; Leonard J. Rosen.—Thirteenth Edition. pages cm ISBN 978-0-13-399901-3—ISBN 0-13-399901-7 1. College readers. 2. Interdisciplinary approach in education—Problems, exercises, etc. 3. English language—Rhetoric—Problems, exercises, etc. 4. Academic writing—Problems, exercises, etc. I. Rosen, Leonard J., author. II. Title. PE1417.B396 2015 808'.0427—dc23 2014039841 Copyright © 2016, 2013, 2011 by Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by copy- right, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise. For information regarding permissions, request forms and the appropriate contacts within the Pearson Education Global Rights & Permissions Department, please visit www.pearsoned.com/permissions/. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10—EBM—18 17 16 15 Student Edition ISBN-10: 0-133-99901-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-133-99901-3 À la Carte Edition ISBN-10: 0-133-99962-9 www.pearsonhighered.com ISBN-13: 978-0-133-99962-4 T o t h e m e m o r y o f P h i l R o d k i n ( 1 9 6 8 – 2 0 1 4 ) This page intentionally left blank B r i e f C o n t e n t s Part I Structures and Strategies 1 Chapter 1 Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation 3 Chapter 2 Critical Reading and Critique 51 Chapter 3 Thesis, introduction, and Conclusion 78 Chapter 4 explanatory Synthesis 96 Chapter 5 Argument Synthesis 130 Chapter 6 Analysis 174 Chapter 7 Locating, Mining, and Citing Sources 196 Part II Brief Takes 239 Chapter 8 “Stormy Weather” and the Art of the Musical Cover 241 Chapter 9 ethical dilemmas in everyday Life 264 Chapter 10 The Roar of the Tiger Mom 302 Part III An Anthology of Readings 331 Chapter 11 First impressions: The Art and Craft of Storytelling 333 Chapter 12 The Changing Landscape of Work in the Twenty-First Century 429 Chapter 13 have You heard This? The Latest on Rumor 477 Chapter 14 happiness and its discontents 523 Chapter 15 obedience to Authority 572 Credits 611 Index 619 Checklists for Writing Summaries, Critiques, Syntheses, and Analyses 634 vii This page intentionally left blank d e t a i l e d C o n t e n t s Preface for Instructors xxix A Note to the Student xxxv Part I Structures and Strategies 1 Chapter 1 Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation 3 What Is a Summary? 3 Can a Summary Be Objective? 4 BOX: Where Do We Find Written Summaries? 4 Using the Summary 5 The Reading Process 5 BOX: Critical Reading for Summary 6 How to Write Summaries 7 BOX: Guidelines for Writing Summaries 7 Demonstration: Summary 8 The BaBy in The Well: The Case againsT empaThy—Paul Bloom 9 Read, Reread, Highlight 15 Divide into Stages of Thought 16 Write a Brief Summary of Each Stage of Thought 17 Write a Thesis: A Brief Summary of the Entire Passage 18 Write the First Draft of the Summary 20 Summary 1: Combine Thesis Sentence with Brief Section Summaries 21 The Strategy of the Shorter Summary 21 Summary 2: Combine Thesis Sentence, Section Summaries, and Carefully Chosen Details 22 The Strategy of the Longer Summary 24 How Long Should a Summary Be? 24 EXERCISE 1.1: Individual and Collaborative Summary Practice 25 Summarizing Graphs, Charts, and Tables 25 Bar Graphs 27 EXERCISE 1.2: Summarizing Graphs 29 ix
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