TY - BOOK AU - Rosenwasser,David AU - Babington,Doug AU - Stephen,Jill TI - Writing Analytically with Readings SN - 9780176504465 PY - 2013/// CY - Toronto PB - Nelson Education Ltd KW - English language KW - Rhetoric KW - Academic writing KW - Critical thinking N1 - Accompanied by access code card affixed to cover; Includes bibliographical references and index; CONTENTS ; Part I: Making Meaning: Essential Skills ; Chapter 1 Powers of Observation ; A. Notice and Focus (Ranking) ; B. Five-Step Analysis ; Making Observation Systematic and Habitual ; Looking for Pattern ; Anomaly ; Using Five-Step Analysis: An Example ; C. Thinking Recursively ; D. The Observational Bottom Line ; Chapter 2 Habitual Thinking ; A. Banking ; B. Generalizing ; C. Judging ; D. Debate-Style Argument ; E. Either/Or Thinking (Binaries) ; F. Opinions (Versus Ideas) ; G. Ideas Across the Curriculum ; H. Creative Analysis ; Chapter 3 Interpreting Your Data ; A. Prompts: "Interesting" and "Strange" ; B. Pushing Observations to Conclusions: Asking "So What?" ; Moving from Description to Interpretation: An Example ; C. The Making of Meaning ; The Limits on Interpretation ; Multiple Meanings and Interpretive Contexts ; What About the Writer's Intentions? ; "Hidden" Meanings: What "Reading Between the Lines" Really Means ; The Fortune-Cookie School of Interpretation versus The Anything-Goes School ; Implication and Inference: Hidden or Not? ; Seems to Be About X but ; Chapter 4 Reader's Writing ; A. How to Read: Words Matter ; Becoming Conversant Versus Reading for the Gist ; Paraphrase x 3 ; Summary ; Strategies for Making Summaries More Analytical ; Passage-Based Focused Freewriting ; B. What to Do with the Reading: Avoiding the Matching Exercise ; Applying a Reader as a Lens ; Comparing and Contrasting One Reading with Another ; Uncovering the Assumptions in a Reading ; Procedure for Uncovering Assumptions ; A. Sample Essay: Having Ideas by Uncovering Assumptions ; C. Personalizing (Locating the "I") ; D. The Ultimate Try This ; Readings ; The Scavenger of Highway #3 ; My Life as a High School Dropout ; What Sort of People Did This? ; Julian Assange: The End of Secrets? ; A Matter of Will ; Image World ; Part II: Writing the Thesis-Driven Paper ; Chapter 5 Linking Evidence and Claims: 1 on 10 versus 10 on 1 ; A. Developing a Thesis Is More Than Repeating an Idea ("1 on 10") ; What's Wrong with Five-Paragraph Form? ; An Alternative to Five-Paragraph Form: The All-Purpose Organizational Scheme ; B. Linking Evidence and Claims ; Unsubstantiated Claims ; Pointless Evidence ; C. Analyzing Evidence in Depth: "10 on 1" ; Pan, Track, and Zoom: The Film Analogy ; Demonstrating the Representativeness of Your Example ; 10 on 1 and Disciplinary Conventions ; A Template for Using 10 on 1 ; Chapter 6 The Evolving Thesis ; A. Re-Creating the Chain of Thought ; The Reciprocal Relationship Between Thesis and Evidence: The Thesis as a Camera Lens ; Moving Through a Series of Complications ; B. Locating the Evolving Thesis in the Final Draft ; The Evolving Thesis and Common Thought ; Patterns: Deduction and Induction ; The Evolving Thesis as Hypothesis and Conclusion in the Natural and Social Sciences ; The Evolving Thesis and Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs ; C. Putting It All Together ; Description to Analysis: The Exploratory Draft ; Interpretive Leaps and Complicating Evidence ; Revising the Exploratory Draft ; Testing the Adequacy of the Thesis ; D. The Thesis-Builder's Bottom Line ; Chapter 7 Recognizing and Fixing Weak Thesis Statements ; A. Five Kinds of Weak Thesis and How to Fix Them ; Weak Thesis Type 1: The Thesis Makes No Claim ; Weak Thesis Type 2: The Thesis Is Obviously True or Is a Statement of Fact ; Weak Thesis Type 3: The Thesis Restates Conventional Wisdom ; Weak Thesis Type 4: The Thesis Offers Personal Conviction as the Basis for the Claim ; Weak Thesis Type 5: The Thesis Makes an Overly Broad Claim ; B. How to Rephrase Thesis Statements: Specify and Subordinate ; Can a Thesis Be a Question? ; C. Common Logical Errors in Constructing a Thesis ; Chapter 8 Writing the Researched Paper ; A. Source Anxiety and What to Do About It ; The Conversation Analogy ; B. Six Strategies for Analyzing Sources ; Strategy 1: Make Your Sources Speak ; Strategy 2: Use Your Sources to Ask Questions, Not Just to Provide Answers ; Strategy 3: Put Your Sources into Conversation with One Another ; Strategy 4: Find Your Own Role in the Conversation ; Strategy 5: Analyze Sources Along the Way (Don't Wait Until the End) ; Strategy 6: Watch Your Language When You Paraphrase or Quote ; C. Making the Research Paper More Analytical: A Sample Essay ; D. Strategies for Writing and Revising Research Papers ; E. A Canadian Research Paper: Assessing the Conversation ; Writing the Researched Paper: A Final Checklist of Strategies for Success ; Chapter 9 Finding and Citing Sources ; A. Getting Started ; B. Selecting the Most Reliable and Helpful Sources ; A Closer Look at Indexes ; Keyword Searches ; Searching the Internet ; Web Page Evaluation ; C. Plagiarism and the Logic of Citation ; Why Does Plagiarism Matter? ; Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Plagiarism ; How to Cite Sources ; How to Integrate Quotations into Your Paper ; D. How to Prepare an Abstract ; E. The Ultimate Try This ; F. The Final Step in the Sequence: Synthesis ; Readings ; Japan's Long Nuclear Disaster Film ; Karla Homolka Has a Right to Study at Queen's ; The Mirror Stage: Infinite Reflections on the Public Good ; Idols of the Tribe ; Gendering Risk at What Cost: Negotiations of Gender and Risk in Canadian Women's Prisons ; Memory in Canadian Courts of Law ; Part III Organization and Style ; Chapter 10 Everything in Order ; A. Harmonized Paragraphs ; The Shaping Force of Transitions ; B. Prescribed Formats ; The Two Functions of Formats: Product and Process ; The Relation Between Writing and Genre ; Using Formats Heuristically: An Example ; C. Introductions and Conclusions ; D. The Function of Introductions ; Putting an Issue or Question in Context ; Using Procedural Openings ; E. How Much to Introduce Up Front ; Typical Problems That Are Symptoms of Doing Too Much ; Opening Gambits: Five Good Ways to Begin ; Gambit 1: Challenge a Commonly Held View ; Gambit 2: Begin with a Definition ; Gambit 3: Offer a Working Hypothesis ; Gambit 4: Lead with Your Second-Best Example ; Gambit 5: Exemplify the Topic with a Narrative ; G. The Function of Conclusions ; Ways of Concluding ; Three Strategies for Writing Effective Conclusions ; H. Solving Typical Problems in Conclusions ; Redundancy ; Raising a Totally New Point ; Overstatement ; Anticlimax ; I. Scientific Format: Introductions and Conclusions ; Introductions of Reports in the Sciences ; Discussion Sections of Reports in the Sciences ; Assignment: Inferring the Format of a Published Article ; Ch.11 The Language of Clarity ; A. Selecting and Arranging Words ; B. Attitude and Pace ; C. Levels of Style: How Formal is Too Formal? ; Managing Personal Pronouns ; D. Shades of Meaning: Choosing the Best Word ; What's Bad About "Good" and "Bad" (and Other Broad, Judgmental Terms) ; Controlling Verbal Cotton Wool ; Latinate Diction ; The Politics of Language ; Assignment: Style Analysis ; Chapter 12: Shaping Up Your Sentences ; A. The Essential Ingredients of Effective Sentences ; B. Coordination, Subordination, and Emphasis ; Coordination ; Reversing the Order of Coordinate Clauses ; Subordination ; Reversing Main and Subordinate Clauses ; Parallel Structure ; C. Periodic and Cumulative Sentences ; The Periodic Sentence: Snapping Shut ; The Cumulative Sentence: Starting Fast ; D. Cutting the Fat ; Expletive Constructions ; Static (Intransitive) Versus Active (Transitive) Verbs: "To Be" or "Not to Be" ; Active and Passive Voices: Doing and Being Done To ; E. Experiment! ; Assignments: Stylistic and Grammatical Analysis ; Chapter 13: Nine Basic Writing Errors and How to Fix Them ; A. How Much Does "Correctness" Matter? ; B. The Concept of Basic Writing Errors (BWEs) ; What Punctuation Marks Signify: A Short Guide ; Nine Basic Writing Errors and How to Fix Them ; C. The Ultimate Try This ; D. Glossary of Grammatical Terms ; E. Revising for Correctness: The Bottom Line ; Assignment: Grammar and Style Quiz ; Chapter 13 Appendix: Answer Key (with Discussion); Grammar and Style Quiz Answers ; Readings ; The Wrong Incentive ; MSN Spoken Here ; Female Eavesdropping on Male Song Contests in Songbirds ; "What Colour Is Your English?" ; The Grief Industry UR - https://www.cengage.ca/c/writing-analytically-with-readings-2e-rosenwasser-stephen-babington/9780176504465/ ER -