Publisher's Synopsis
This combined rhetoric and thematic reader aims to provide everything needed for a freshman composition class orientated towards research writing. The initial section focuses on developing writing skills and critical thinking by concentrating on specific methods of textual analysis. The subsequent section is devoted to the research paper, which includes a sample paper. Finally, the third part is an anthology of over 50 essays, organized around specific themes, which provide sources for researched papers.;The text is divided into three parts 10 writing skills and critical thinking, 2) the research paper and 3) an anthology of 50 essays that provide all freshman composition professors need who focus on the research paper.;It covers summarizing, quoting, synthesizing and critiquing within the first part on the writing cycle, integrating critical thinking skills from the start and preparing students for writing research papers.;Included are case studies ranging from animal rights to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, exercises, and chapter summaries and a set of writing assignments for each chapter, more than 80 different assignments in all. Assignments appear throughout the book, the more complex ones in Part II.
