A brief guide to writing from readings - Wilhoit, Stephen (Boston Allyn & Bacon, 1997)
Chapter 1 -- Definition and purpose -- Asking questions about what you read -- Questions to ask before you begin a close reading of a text -- Questions concerning the author -- Questions about the publication -- Questions concerning your own views of the topic -- Questions to ask while you read and reread material -- Questions concerning the audience of the piece -- Questions about purpose -- Questions about content -- Questions about the organization -- Questions about the Author's sources -- Questions about graphics -- Questions about your reactions and responses -- Marking texts -- Highlighting texts -- Annotating texts -- Marginal annotations -- End annotations -- Sample annotated reading: "Hard choices" /by Patrick Moore -- Note taking -- Before jotting down any notes, always write the source text's full bibliographic information -- In your notes, carefully distinguish between material you quote and material you paraphrase -- Carefully list page numbers -- Pay attention to the punctuation in the source text -- In your notes, clearly differentiate between the author's ideas and your own -- Be consistent with your system -- Additional reading: "Establishing the environmental priority" /by Walter A. Rosenbaum -- Summary chart-critical reading: Asking questions -- Summary chart-critical reading: Marking texts -- Summary chart-critical reading: note taking -- Chapter 2 -- Quotation -- Definition and purpose -- Guidelines on when to quote material -- Quote passages when the author has written something in a distinctive or especially insightful or interesting way -- Quote material that lends support to a position you are -- Advocating or who offer alternative explanations or contradictory data -- Guidelines on when not to quote material -- Do not quote passages just to fill space -- Do not quote passages as a substitute for thinking -- Do not quote passages because you do not understand the Authors ideas well enough to paraphrase them -- Integrating quotations into your writing -- two basic types of quotations -- Reading: "missing link" -- The block quotation -- APA guidelines -- CBE Guidelines -- MLA Guidelines -- The integrated quotation -- Introduce the quotation with a verb -- Introduce a quotation without a verb -- Run your sentence and the quotation together -- Pick out only certain words to quote in your sentence -- Altering quoted material and avoiding misquotations -- Leaving words out of a quotation -- Adding words to a quotation -- Nothing emphasis in a quotation -- Summary chart: guidelines on quotation -- Summary chart: integrating quotations into your writing -- Chapter 3 -- Definition and purpose -- Qualities of a good paraphrase -- Thorough -- Accurate -- Fiar -- Objective -- How to paraphrase material -- Changing words -- Changing sentence structure -- Combining sentences -- "Unpacking" sentences -- Documentation -- Summary chart: how to write a paraphrase -- Summary chart: qualities of a good paraphrase -- Chapter 4 -- Summary -- Definition and purpose -- Types of a Summaries -- Qualities of a good summary -- Comprehensive -- Brief -- Accurate -- Nuetral -- Independent -- How to summarize a text -- Read, reread, and annotate th source text -- Summarize each section of the source text -- Write your first draft -- Check the draft against the source text -- Rewrite the summary -- Documentation -- Sample summaries -- Reading: "AIDS and population 'Control'" /by Gerard Piel -- Sample informatove summary -- Sample explanatory summary -- Additional reading: "Population pressure" /by Marguerite Holloway -- Additional reading: "The solution to a global crisis" /by Gro Harlem Brundtland -- Summary chart -- Chapter 5 -- Response essays -- Definition and purposes -- Qualities of a good response essay -- Carefully read the material -- Explore your responses to the readings as you annotate the text -- How do you react emotionally to what the author has written? -- How do the ideas offered in the source match what others have had to say on the topic? -- Compose your rough draft -- Introduce the source text and give your thesis -- Summarize the source text -- State and explain your responses clearly and concisely -- Revise your rough draft -- Review your assertions -- Review your support and explanations -- Review your organization -- Review your language -- Chapter 6 -- Critique -- Definition and purpose -- the film review as critique -- Writing a critique -- Step 1-Carefully read and annotate the source text -- Note the author's thesis, primary assertions and primary means of support -- Note the author's use of graphics, headings, and subheadings -- Note the author's diction and word choice -- Note the author's tone -- Note the author's audience -- Note the author's purpose -- Summarize the piece -- Step 2-Analyze and evaluate the reading -- Analyzing and evaluating a reading's thesis and primary assertions or findings -- Analyzing and evaluating a reading's evidence and reasoning -- Analyzing and evaluating a reading's evaluation -- Analyzing and evaluating a reading's style -- Step 3 -- Write your thesis and decide which aspects of the reading you will focus on in your essay -- Positive thesis statement -- Negative thesis statement -- Mixed thesis statement -- Step 4 -- Write your rough draft -- Introductory section -- Body -- Conclusion -- Step 5 -- Rewrite your critique -- Check for accuracy -- Check the development pf your assertions -- Check the organization -- Check your Clarity -- Reading and sample critique: "Clear message to teens: Its OK to have sex" /by Joan Beck -- Additional reading: "Condom availability promotes health, saves lives" /by Margaret Pruiit Clark -- Additional reading: "Apply peer pressure, not latex, against casual sex" /by Edwin J. Delattre -- Summary Chart: Writing a critique -- Chapter 7 -- Synthesis -- Define and purpose -- Types of synthesis essays -- Reading: "The fool on the Hill" /by Brian D. Johnson -- Reading: "Forest gump" /by David Ansen -- Reading: "Forest gump" /by Peter Travers -- Informative synthesis -- Definition -- Writing and informative synthesis -- Analyze the assignment -- Review and annotate the readings -- Formulate a thesis and organizational plan -- Write your rough draft -- Revise your draft -- Argumentative synthesis -- Definition -- Writing an argumentative synthesis -- Analyze the assignment -- Annotate and critique the readings -- Formulate a thesis and organizational plan -- Write your rough draft -- Revise your draft -- Sample informative and argumentative synthesis -- Sample argumentative synthesis (focusing on the quality of the readings) -- Sample argumentative synthesis (focusing on the topic of readings) -- Sample argumentative synthesis (focusing on the topic of readings) -- Summary chart: Synthesis essays -- Chapter 8 -- Plagiarism -- Definition -- Forms of Plagiarism -- Purchasing a paper -- Turning in a paper someone else has written for you -- Turning in another student's work without that student's knowledge -- Improper collaboration -- Copying a paper from a source text without proper acknowledgement -- Coping material from a source text, supplying proper documentation but leaving out quotation marks -- Paraphrasing material from a reading without proper documentation -- How to avoid plagiarism -- Do your own work -- Take good notes -- Paraphrase properly -- Supply proper documentation -- Clarify collaboration guidelines -- Summary chart: Plagiarism -- Chapter 9 -- Documentation -- Definition and purpose -- Types of documentation -- Primary academic style manuals -- APA Guidelines -- In-text documentation -- Consolidating references -- The citation-sequence system -- Consolidating references -- Footnotes and endnotes -- Chapter 10 -- Reference lists and works cited entries -- Definition and purpose -- APA format -- Sample reference list entries -- Reference page -- Sample reference page: APA format -- CBE format -- Sample reference list entries -- Reference list guidelines -- Sample reference list: Citation-sequence format -- Sample reference list: Name-year format -- MLA format -- Sample works cited entries -- Works cited lists -- Sample works cited list: MLA format -- Chapter 11 -- Journals -- Definition -- Purpose -- Types of Entries -- Summaries -- Analyses -- Responses -- Reflections -- Questions -- Critiques -- Synthesis -- Applications -- Refutations -- Outlines -- Drafts -- Personal experience -- Self-reflections -- Creative writing -- Drawings -- Language and format -- Language -- Format -- Dual entry format -- Research log format -- Final considerations -- Appendix 1 -- Primary style manuals -- APA Style manual -- CBE style manual -- MLA style manual -- Apendix 2 -- Documentating electronic sources of information -- Types 0f electronic sources -- Portable sources -- Sample bibliographic entries for portable sources -- APA format -- CBE format -- MLA format -- Online databases -- Sample bibliographic entries for online databases -- APA format -- CBE formats -- MLA format -- E-mail -- Sample bibliographic entries for e-mail -- APA format -- CBE format -- MLA format -- Appendix 3 -- Revision checklists -- Quotation checklist -- Paraphrase checklist -- Summary checklist -- Response essay checklist -- Critique checklist -- Synthesis checklist -- Plagiarism checklist.
Includes index.
Keywords: English language -- Rhetoric -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Academic writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Interdisciplinary approach in education; College readers