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Covers genres that play a major role in writing courses and are frequently assigned in courses in various disciplines: response to a text, summary, abstract, pr?cis, critical analysis, rhetorical analysis, comparative analysis, literary analysis, process analysis, casual analysis, comparison and contrast, critique of visual argument, explanatory synthesis, literature review, thesis-driven synthesis, argument-synthesis, and research paper.
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Fully embraces the Outcomes recommended by the Council of Writing Program Administrators
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Provides an anthology of readings in the humanities, the natural sciences and technology, and the social sciences, with articles representing various rhetorical approaches across academic disciplines. The selections include both scholarly/documented and popular sources
- Teaches students how to use reading sources as idea banks for college papers.
Offers extensive coverage of critical reading and the fundamental writing strategies of planning, organizing, drafting, revising, and editing.
Helps develop students' abilities to think critically and reason cogently as they read, compose, and revise.
Activities and questions that accompany each reading encourage students to approach academic writing as a process:
![Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader and Rhetoric Academic for Writers [Paperback]](/itemImage/2/6/6/8/2_6999270.jpg "Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader and Rhetoric Academic for Writers [Paperback]")