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READING CONTEXT features challenging essays from a broad spectrum of disciplines and will show you how to read closely, synthesize multiple perspectives, and produce effective academic prose.

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Author:   Gail Stygall (University of Washington)
Publisher:   Cengage Learning, Inc
Imprint:   Heinle & Heinle Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.931kg
ISBN:  

9780155058170

ISBN 10:   0155058177
Pages:   736
Publication Date:   28 July 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART I. 1. Introduction. 2. Reading for Writing. 3. Argument in College Writing. PART II. Gloria Anzaldua, Entering into the Serpent and How to Tame a Wild Tongue . Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author . John Berger, One . Angela Carter, The Fall River Ax Murders . Hannah Crafts, In Childhood and The Bride and the Bridal Company . Kimberle Crenshaw, Whose Story Is It, Anyway? Feminist and Antiracist Appropriations of Anita Hill . Joan Didion, Sentimental Journeys . Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet. Constructing Meaning, Constructing Selves: Snapshots of Language, Gender, and Class from Belten High . Stanley Fish, How to Recognize a Poem When You See One . Michel Foucault, Panopticism . Stephen J. Greenblatt, Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century . Alan G. Gross, Rhetorical Analysis . Carl G. Herndl, Barbara A. Fennell, and Carolyn R. Miller. Understanding Failures in Organizational Discourse: The Accident at Three Mile Island and the Shuttle Challenger Disaster . Rosina Lippi-Green, Teaching Children How to Discriminate: What We Learn from the Big Bad Wolf . Martin Lister and Liz Wells, Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing The Visual . James W. Loewen, Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-Making . Lisa Lowe, Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism . Martha Minow, The Dilemma of Difference. Chapter 1 of Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1990. 19-48. David D. Perlmutter, Living Room Wars . Mary Louise Pratt, Arts of the Contact Zone . Anandi Ramamurthy, Constructions of Illusion: Photography and Commodity Culture. Sandra Silberstein, From News to Entertainment: Eyewitness Accounts . Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, Viewers Make Meaning . Ronald Takaki, From a Different Shore: Their History Bursts with Telling . Edward R. Tufte, Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions . Patricia J. Williams, And We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings upon Legal Language and the Ideology of Style . Hisaye. Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables . Appendices. Appendix 1: Combinations of essays with brief descriptions of assignments. Appendix 2: Two complete student works, from early assignments to completed submissions.

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This book goes much more in-depth regarding the dynamics of college learning a and the bigger academic picture a than most other books.

This book goes much more in-depth regarding the dynamics of college learning - and the bigger academic picture - than most other books.

This book goes much more in-depth regarding the dynamics of college learning ? and the bigger academic picture ? than most other books.

"PART I. 1. Introduction. 2. Reading for Writing. 3. Argument in College Writing. PART II. Gloria Anzaldua, ""Entering into the Serpent"" and ""How to Tame a Wild Tongue"". Roland Barthes, ""The Death of the Author"". John Berger, ""One"". Angela Carter, ""The Fall River Ax Murders"". Hannah Crafts, ""In Childhood"" and ""The Bride and the Bridal Company"". Kimberle Crenshaw, ""Whose Story Is It, Anyway? Feminist and Antiracist Appropriations of Anita Hill"". Joan Didion, ""Sentimental Journeys"". Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet. ""Constructing Meaning, Constructing Selves: Snapshots of Language, Gender, and Class from Belten High"". Stanley Fish, ""How to Recognize a Poem When You See One"". Michel Foucault, ""Panopticism"". Stephen J. Greenblatt, ""Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century"". Alan G. Gross, ""Rhetorical Analysis"". Carl G. Herndl, Barbara A. Fennell, and Carolyn R. Miller. ""Understanding Failures in Organizational Discourse: The Accident at Three Mile Island and the Shuttle Challenger Disaster"". Rosina Lippi-Green, ""Teaching Children How to Discriminate: What We Learn from the Big Bad Wolf"". Martin Lister and Liz Wells, ""Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing The Visual"". James W. Loewen, ""Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-Making"". Lisa Lowe, ""Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism"". Martha Minow, ""The Dilemma of Difference."" Chapter 1 of Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1990. 19-48. David D. Perlmutter, ""Living Room Wars"". Mary Louise Pratt, ""Arts of the Contact Zone"". Anandi Ramamurthy, ""Constructions of Illusion: Photography and Commodity Culture."" Sandra Silberstein, ""From News to Entertainment: Eyewitness Accounts"". Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, ""Viewers Make Meaning"". Ronald Takaki, ""From a Different Shore: Their History Bursts with Telling"". Edward R. Tufte, ""Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions"". Patricia J. Williams, ""And We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings upon Legal Language and the Ideology of Style"". Hisaye. Yamamoto, ""Seventeen Syllables"". Appendices. Appendix 1: Combinations of essays with brief descriptions of assignments. Appendix 2: Two complete student works, from early assignments to completed submissions."

Author Information

Gail Stygall is a well-respected figure in the field of composition. She is the immediate past Director of Expository Writing at the University of Washington, serving for six years. During her two terms as Director, she significantly revised the writing curriculum and the training of instructors. She has served on the WPA executive Committee and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. She has written on writing program administration, basic writing, collaboration, discourse analysis and Toulmin argument.

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