Reading Rhetorically

, by Bean, John C.; Chappell, Virginia A.; Gillam, Alice M.

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This aims-based rhetoric and reader teaches students analytical reading, academic writing, and inquiry as the keys to success in college. @BULLET = Part I, " Reading Rhetorically, " includes an in-depth discussion of analytical reading" and shows students how skilled academic readers construct the meaning of a text. @BULLET = Part II, " The Rhetorical Reader as Writers, " provides an overview of academic writing, the role of reading in research, and writing from sources: " summary, paraphrase, direct quotation, and citation practices. @BULLET = Parts II follows the evolution of a student writing project as the student moves from summary to rhetorical analysis to researched critique of a reading." Ideal for individuals in developing critical reading and writing skills.

Thematic Contents

xix

Preface

xxv

Part One: Reading Rhetorically

Your Life as a Reader

(10)

Exploring Your Reading Life

(1)

Taking Stock of Why You Read

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(2)

Summary

(1)

Scenes of Reading

(6)

A Brief Writing Project

Option 1: Memories

Option 2: Observations

Option 3: Interviews

(2)

The Writing Life

(1)

Gloria Naylor

Reading on the Fourth of July

(2)

Virginia Chappell

A Lawyer and His Reading

(1)

Melissa Martinie

The Special Demands of Academic Reading

(14)

Reading as Conversation

(2)

For Writing and Discussion

(1)

Challenges Presented by Academic Reading

(1)

Rhetorical Reading as an Academic Strategy

(1)

Questions That Rhetorical Readers Ask

(1)

Writers' Purposes Versus Readers' Purposes

(1)

A Further Look at Writers' Purposes

(5)

Expressing and Reflecting

(1)

Inquiring and Exploring

(1)

Informing and Explaining

(1)

Analyzing and Interpreting

(1)

Taking a Stand

(1)

Evaluating and Judging

(1)

Proposing Solutions

(1)

Seeking Common Ground

(1)

Summary

(1)

Strategies for Reading Rhetorically

(18)

Reading and Writing as Acts of Composing

(2)

The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently

(1)

Thomas Lux

For Writing and Discussion

(2)

Texts and Their Rhetorical Contexts

(1)

An Extended Example: Articles About Teenagers' Sleep Habits

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(2)

Learning From the Practices of Experienced Readers

(2)

Building a Context for Reading

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(3)

Matching Strategies with a Text's Genre

(1)

Matching Strategies with Purpose for Reading

(1)

Taking Stock of How You Read

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(1)

Summary

(5)

Sources of the Article Excerpts About Teenagers' Sleep Patterns

(4)

Part Two: Reading and Responding to Texts

Listening to a Text

(24)

Writing as You Read

(1)

Preparing to Read

(4)

Identifying Your Purpose

(1)

Recalling Background Knowledge

(1)

Reconstructing Rhetorical Context

(2)

Spot Reading

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(1)

Listening as You Read Initially

(4)

Noting Organizational Signals

(1)

Marking Unfamiliar Terms and References

(1)

Identifying Points of Difficulty

(1)

Annotating

(2)

For Writing and Discussion

(1)

Listening as You Reread

(3)

Mapping the Idea Structure

(2)

Descriptive Outlining

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(5)

Composing a Summary

(2)

Jenny's Process Notes for Writing a Summary

(1)

Jenny's Summary

(1)

Checklist for Evaluating Summaries

(1)

Writing a Rhetorical Precis

(1)

Structure of a Rhetorical Precis

(1)

Jenny's Rhetorical Precis

(1)

Summary

(1)

A Brief Writing Project

(5)

Who Cares If Johnny Can't Read?

(4)

Larissa MacFarquhar

Questioning a Text

(22)

What It Means to Question a Text

(1)

Strategies for Questioning a Text

(1)

Examining a Writer's Credibility

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(3)

Examining a Writer's Appeals to Reason

(1)

Claims

(1)

Reasons

(1)

Evidence

(1)

Assumptions

(1)

Examining a Writer's Strategies for Engaging Readers

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(2)

Examining a Writer's Language

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(3)

Examining a Text's Ideology

(2)

For Writing and Discussion

(1)

Exploring Your Responses to a Text

(1)

Before/ After Reflections

(1)

For Writing and Discussion

(2)

The Believing and Doubting Game

(1)

Jenny's Believing-Doubting Game Freewrite

(2)

Interviewing the Author

(1)

Jenny's Interview Questions

(1)

Applying Rhetorical Reading Strategies: An Example

(4)

Jenny's Assignment to Examine Rhetorical Strategies

(1)

Jenny's Paper: Who Cares If the Value of Books Is Overstated?

(3)

For Writing and Discussion

(1)

Summary

(4)

Part Three: The Rhetorical Reader as Writer

Writing About Reading: The Special Demands of Academic Writing

(18)

Overview of Part Three

(1)

Typical Reading-Based Writing Assignments Across the Curriculum

(5)

Writing to Understand Course Content More Fully

(1)

In-Class Freewriting

(1)

Reading or Learning Logs

(1)

Double-Entry Notebooks

(1)

One-Page Response Papers or Thought Pieces

(1)

Writing to Report Your Understanding of What a Text Says

(1)

Writing to Practice the Conventions of a Particular Type of Text

(1)

Writing to Make Claims About a Text

(1)

Writing to Extend the Conversation

(1)

Asserting Your Authority As a Reader and Writer

(1)

Seeing Writing As a Process of ``Putting in Your Oar''

(8)

Strategies for Getting Started

100

(1)

Strategies for Generating Ideas

101

(1)

Strategies for Writing a First Draft

102

(1)

Strategies for Evaluating Your Draft for Revision

103

(1)

Strategies for Peer Response and Revision

103

(1)

Tips for Offering Feedback to Others

104

(1)

Tips for Using Feedback to Revise

105

(1)

Strategies for Editing and Polishing Your Final Draft

105

(2)

Summary

107

(2)

Using Rhetorical Reading to Conduct Research

109

(14)

Choosing Readings

110

(7)

Jenny's Assignment to Extend the Conversation

111

(1)

Formulating Questions: Know What You're Looking For

111

(1)

Question Analysis

112

(1)

Clarifying Your Purpose

113

(1)

Prompts for Questions Analysis

113

(1)

Excerpts from Jenny's Research Log

114

(1)

Discerning Purpose in Potential Sources

115

(2)

For Writing and Discussion

117

(1)

Evaluating Potential Sources

117

(4)

Library Databases and Web Search Engines

117

(1)

Questions About Relevance

118

(1)

Questions About Currency and Scope

119

(1)

Questions About Authors and Experts

119

(1)

Questions About Publishers and Sponsors

120

(1)

More Excerpts from Jenny's Research Log

121

(1)

Summary

122

(1)

Making Knowledge: Incorporating Reading into Writing

123

(24)

Summary, Paraphrase, and Direct Quotation

124

(5)

Using Summary

124

(1)

Using Paraphrase

125

(2)

Using Direct Quotation

127

(2)

For Writing and Discussion

129

(1)

Avoiding Plagiarism

130

(2)

Attributive Tags

132

(2)

Citation Conventions

134

(6)

Formats for In-Text Citations

136

(1)

Placement Guidelines

136

(1)

Page Number Guidelines

137

(1)

Author and Title Guidelines

137

(3)

Summary

140

(1)

Incorporating Reading into Writing: An Example

140

(7)

Part Four: An Anthology of Readings

Expressing and Reflecting

147

(62)

Questions to Help You Read Expression and Reflection Rhetorically

149

(57)

In Case You Ever Want to Go Home Again

151

(1)

Barbara Kingsolver

``I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.''

151

(8)

Language

159

(10)

Kyoko Mori

``In Japanese, I don't have a voice for speaking my mind.''

Black Swans

169

(15)

Lauren Slater

``When I'm living in moments of clarity, have I transcended disease, or has disease transformed me, taught me how to live in secret niches?''

keeping close to home: class and education

184

(11)

bell hooks

``To a southern black girl from a working-class background who had never been on a city bus, who had never stepped on an escalator, who had never travelled by plane, leaving the comfortable confines of a small town Kentucky life to attend Stanford University was not just frightening; it was utterly painful.''

A Word with the Boy

195

(6)

David Updike

``The whole thing evolved so quietly, so peaceably, that I wasn't prepared to put a stop to it.''

Reflection as Knowledge

201

(5)

Heidi Steenburg

``I needed to find a way to tell the story, to tell what happened to the homeless people, to tell what happened to me.''

Writing to Express and Reflect

206

(3)

Reflecting on Experience

206

(1)

Examining Rhetorical Strategies

206

(1)

Extending the Conversation

206

(3)

Inquiring and Exploring

209

(46)

Questions to Help You Read Explorations Rhetorically

210

(43)

Singing with the Fundamentalists

212

(9)

Annie Dillard

``What are they singing?... I want to join them....I want to take my stand with them, for I am drawn to their very absurdity, their innocent indifference to what people think.''

Testing the Limits of Tolerance as Cultures Mix

221

(4)

Barbara Crossette

``How do democratic, pluralistic societies like the United States, based on religious and cultural tolerance, respond to customs and rituals that may be repellent to the majority?''

Witness to Rage

225

(11)

Robert McGuire

``We know little about what happens to children who witness domestic violence. In fact, we know more about the effects violent television shows have on children.''

Bitch

236

(9)

Beverly Gross

``What is the male equivalent of the word bitch, I asked the class. `Boss,' said Sabrina Sims.''

Mommy, What Does ``Nigger'' Mean?

245

(4)

Gloria Naylor

``And building from the meanings of what we hear, we order reality.''

Seeking Answers to the Question of Divorce

249

(4)

Joshua D. McColough

``I sink into the couch in our family room. Aunt Peggy and Uncle Max are separated. What about our traditional fondue dinner on New Year's Eve? The weekends up at the lake?''

Writing to Inquire and Explore

253

(2)

Exploring a Question That Puzzles You

253

(1)

Examining Rhetorical Strategies

253

(1)

Extending the Conversation

253

(2)

Informing and Explaining

255

(82)

Questions to Help You Read Informative and Explanatory Texts Rhetorically

258

(97)

How Come?

259

(4)

Kathy Wollard

Mirage Isn't a Figment of Your Imagination

``Soon you realize you can chase that patch of water down the highway all day and never catch it.''

That Funny and Embarrasing Hiccup May Actually Be Helpful for Your Body

``...if they go on too long, hiccups are no fun. Which is why there are so many hiccup `cures' floating around.''

Once a Novelty, Now-Essential Credit Card Turns 50

Marcy Gordon

```Children, dogs, cats and moose are getting credit cards,' Federal Reserve Chariman Alan Greenspan recently told the Senate Banking Committee.''

263

(5)

UC Berkeley Wellness Letter, Why Do Those #*@! ``Experts'' Keep Changing Their Minds?

``Science is a process, not a product, a work in progress rather than a book of rules.''

268

(7)

Sleep Schedules and Daytime Functioning in Adolescents

275

(24)

Amy R. Wolfson

Mary A. Carskadon

``Students with short school-night sleep reported increased levels of depressed mood, daytime sleepiness, and problematic sleep behaviors in comparison to longer sleepers.''

When a Wet Vac Counts More Than a Ph.D.

299

(3)

Paul Irgang

``Those of us who work in academe inhabit an unofficial, yet undeniable, caste system.''

Body in Trouble

302

(6)

Nancy Mairs

``Disability is at once a metaphorical and a material state, evocative of other conditions in time and space---childhood and imprisonment come to mind---yet `like' nothing but itself.''

Helping and Hating the Homeless

308

(14)

Peter Marin

``The point is to try to illuminate some of the darker corners of homelessness, those we ordinarily ignore, and those in which the keys to much that is now going on may be hidden.''

America's Love Affair with Pizza: A Guilty Pleasure No More

322

(4)

Thomas Roepsch

``Every pizza lover knows the guilt associated with devouring a greasy pizza straight out of the box...''

Consent (Fiction)

326

(29)

C.J. Hribal

``This kid, though, nobody knows what happened to this kid. But edging over the ravine, conscious of where his feet meet the ravine's crumbling muddy edge and conscious, too, of the child's drowned body a few feet behind him, Porter can guess.''

Writing to Inform and Explain

355

Explaining What You Know

335

(1)

Examining Rhetorical Strategies

335

(1)

Extending the Conversation

336

(1)

Analyzing and Interpreting

337

(54)

Questions to Help You Read Analysis and Interpretation Rhetorically

339

(50)

The Past in the Present: The Life of Memorials

340

(9)

Kirk Savage

``Why lavish time and money on monuments, especially if `true' memory indeed resides elsewhere?''

I Shop, Ergo I Am: The Mall as Society's Mirror

349

(5)

Sarah Boxer

``In certain academic circles, `shop till you drop' is considered a civic act.''

Toys

354

(3)

Roland Barthes

``Current toys are made of a graceless material, the product of chemistry, not of nature.''

The Lesson (Fiction)

357

(7)

Toni Cade Bambara

``Back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right, this lady moved on our block with nappy hair and proper speech and no makeup.''

Waste Is Good

364

(11)

Geoffrey Miller

``Why would evolution produce a species of anthropoid ape that feels it simply must have the Sennheisers, when the Vivancos would stimulate its ears just as well?''

Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin

375

(10)

Natalie Angier

``[H]ard-core evolutionary psychologists have got a lot about women wrong.''

Rebellion Through Music

385

(4)

Heather Wendtland

``Why did we love entertainers and songs we knew we should hate?''

Writing to Analyze and Interpret

389

(2)

Offering an Interpretation

389

(1)

Examining Rhetorical Strategies

389

(1)

Extending the Conversation

390

(1)

Taking a Stand

391

(58)

Argument and Public Life

392

(1)

Why Should You Agree? Claim, Reason, Evidence, and Assumption

393

(3)

What's Really at Issue?

396

(4)

What Kind of Question Is at Issue? Using Stasis Categories for Argument Analysis

397

(3)

Questions to Help You Read Arguments Rhetorically

400

(46)

Web Pages for the Million Mom March and Second Amendment Sisters Rally, May 2000, Marching For and Against Guns and Gun Controls

401

(4)

About Face

405

(1)

Kathleen Parker

For Starters, We Can Require Trigger Locks

405

(1)

``Any adult who leaves a weapon around for a young child to take to school is negligent, no yes-buts.''

Revisiting the Issue of Trigger Locks

406

(3)

``Quick, somebody sell me a bridge over the Sahara before I grow a brain.''

Is There Other Intelligent Life in the Universe? An Exchange of Letters

409

(7)

Arnold Wolfendale

Seth Shostak

``No,'' says Wolfendale, a British physicist and former Astronomer Royal. ``Yes,'' says Shostak, who works for the SETI Institute in California

Statement by Alabama Clergymen and Letter from Birmingham Jail

416

(1)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Statement

416

(2)

Alabama Clergymen

``We are convinced that these demonstrations are unwise and untimely.''

Letter from Birmingham Jail

418

(13)

``You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations.''

Let Gays Marry

431

(3)

Andrew Sullivan

``People ask us why we want the right to marry, but the answer is obvious. It's the same reason anyone wants the right to marry.''

Should a Boy Be Expelled for Thought Crimes?

434

(4)

Sallie Tisdale

``Why would anyone, especially an educator, be surprised to find out that an American high school boy thinks about murder?''

A Hanging (Fiction)

438

(5)

George Orwell

``In some of [the cells] brown, silent men were squating at the inner bars, with their blankets draped round them. These were the condemned men, due to be hanged within the next week or two.''

Good Intentions in the Anti-Sweatshop Movement

443

(3)

Sofia Collins

``Much of the denim and khaki I wear was probably sewn by outsourced workers in developing countries under conditions that violate most U.S. health and safety standards.''

Writing to Take a Stand

446

(3)

Taking a Stand of Your Own

446

(1)

Examining Rhetorical Strategies

446

(1)

Extending the Conversation

447

(2)

Evaluating and Judging

449

(42)

Questions to Help You Read Evaluative Texts Rhetorically

453

(36)

Invention Is the Mother of Necessity

454

(5)

Jared Diamond

``[F]orget those stories about genius inventors who perceived a need of society, solved it single-handedly and transformed the world.''

A Perfect Set of Teeth

459

(3)

Alison Lurie

``The zipper is probably the only clothes fastener to have been the star of a Broadway song.''

Words Go Right to the Brain, but Can They Stir the Heart?

462

(5)

Laurence Zuckerman

``Powerpoint is so popular that in many offices it has entered the lexicon as a synonym for a presentation, as in `Did you send me the Powerpoint'.''

The Morality and Metaphysics of Email

467

(3)

Michael Kinsley

``Historians looking back on our time, I suspect, will have no doubt that the arrival of email was a good thing.''

Web Sites Dedicated to Being Simple Without Giving Up Affluence

470

(3)

Joe Queenan

``Simplicity has evolved into a secular religion for affluent Americans in recent years.''

The Addictive Spectacle of Maternal Reality

473

(4)

Joyce Millman

```A Baby Story'... is like childbirth porn---complete with unflattering lighting, sometimes muddy sound, and decidedly nonprofessional stars.''

En Garde, Princess!

477

(6)

M. G. Lord

``If I were Barbie, the 11-and-a-half-inch princess who has dominated the doll world since 1959, I would keep an eye on the newly formed SWAT team of action figures known as Get Real Girls...[And] I would watch my bony little back.''

Barbie-Q (Fiction)

483

(3)

Sandra Cisneros

``Every time the same story. Your Barbie is roommates with my Barbie, and my Barbie's boyfriend comes over and your Barbie steals him, okay? Kiss Kiss Kiss.''

Through the Looking Glass

486

(3)

Rhonda Downey

``[T]hroughout America's history the media has often misconstrued the cultural images of its minorities, particularly African Americans.''

Writing to Evaluate and Judge

489

(2)

Making an Evaluation

489

(1)

Examining Rhetorical Strategies

489

(1)

Extending the Conversation

489

(2)

Proposing Solutions

491

(40)

Questions to Help You Read Proposals Rhetorically

493

(36)

The Need for Environmental Ethics

495

(4)

Anthony Weston

``We are beginning to struggle with the intimation that something is seriously wrong with our relation to the natural world. It is a little like suspecting cancer but not wanting to know.''

Why a Prime Model for Saving Rain Forests Is a Failure

499

(5)

John F Oates

``In the last 20 years, the size of tropical rain forests---and the number of animals in them---has declined drastically although money for conserving those forests has become more plentiful.''

The Singer Solution to Wrold Poverty

504

(6)

Peter Singer

``I'm saying that you shouldn't buy that new car, take that cruise, redecorate the house or get that pricey new suit. After all, a 1,000 suit could save five children's lives.''

Clinical Research---What Should the Public Believe?

510

(6)

Marcia Angell

Jerome P Kassirer

``Health-conscious Americans increasingly find themselves beset by contradictory advice.''

The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales

516

(6)

Janet Radcliffe-Richards

``When the practice of buying kidneys from live vendors first came to light some years ago, it aroused such horror that all professional associations denounced it, and nearly all countries have now made it illegal.''

Binge Drinking as a Substitute for a ``Community of Learning''

522

(4)

Kenneth Bruffee

``To stem the tide of binge drinking, colleges have tried closing fraternities and sororities, punishing heavy drinkers, enlisting the help of liquor-store owners, and banning alcohol on their campuses. So far, those efforts have largely failed.''

Consider the Study of Peace

526

(3)

Kathryn Sipiorski

``Peace is a passive force achieved only by active minds.''

Writing to Propose a Solution

529

(2)

Proposing a Solution

529

(1)

Examining Rhetorical Strategies

529

(1)

Extending the Conversation

529

(2)

Seeking Common Ground

531

(48)

Questions to Help You Read Rhetorically About Common Ground

533

(43)

The Triumph of the Yell

534

(4)

Deborah Tannen

``I put the question...: `Why do you need to make others wrong for you to be right?' Her response: `It's an argument!' That's the problem.''

Fight Fierce but Fair: And Practice at Home

538

(4)

Sydney Callahan

``Let's keep the home fires burning for the greater good of the body politic.''

From Conflict to Congruence

542

(8)

Aida A. Michlowski

``As it continues to grow in acceptance, conflict resolution may yet become `the fourth R' in basic education.''

The Anthropology of Abortion Activism

550

(5)

Faye Ginsburg

``I felt that the abortion debate needed the kind of research that anthropologists and other qualitative social scientists undertake: studies that try to understand people as part of a community, getting to know them over time and in context....''

What Should Be Learned Through Service Learning?

555

(6)

Michael X. Delli Carpini

Scott Keeter

``At first blush, the learning of political facts would seem far removed from the goals and approaches most centrally identified with either the service learning movement or current thinking about effective classroom instruction.''

Open Letter from Mel White to Jerry Falwell

561

(5)

Mel White

``Has it ever crossed your mind that you might be just as wrong about homosexuality as you were about segregation?''

Aaron the ``Wiggah''

566

(4)

Salim Muwakkil

``Aaron wasn't my first white student to display hip hop leanings....''

Public Libraries and Internet Filters: Protection Versus Access

570

(6)

Jenny Trinitapoli

``At the heart of this controversy are serious values issues about decency, safety, and freedom of information---and the role of government in guaranteeing all of the above to its citizens.''

Writing to Seek Common Ground

576

(3)

Moving Toward Common Ground

576

(1)

Examining Rhetorical Strategies

576

(1)

Extending the Conversation

577

(2)

Appendix: Building a Citation

579

(18)

Basic Guidelines for Works Cited Lists

579

(1)

Citation Formats for Books

580

(4)

Citation Formats for Articles in Periodicals

584

(5)

Citation Formats for World Wide Web Sources

589

(3)

Citation Formats for Other Materials and Media

592

(5)

Credits

597

(6)

Index

603

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Reading Rhetorically

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