Experiencing Reading and Writing
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Copyright: 2019
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Experiencing Reading and Writing integrates both diversity of material with sound theory using an inductive, cognitive/rhetorical model that links reading and writing in an informed way. This text singularly focuses upon the college reader and the writer. Its primary objective is to create lifelong learners who can understand without recrimination what their difficulties have been and how they can now read and write much more fluently than ever before.
Experiencing Reading and Writing will enable students to:
- Identify the main idea and supporting paragraphs in expository writing
- Perceive how our five senses contribute to the writing and reading of spatial description
- Distinguish the emotional response appropriate to narrative from the intellectual response appropriate to exposition
- Judge the validity of argument and ascertain the power of persuasion
- Understand how writing relates to reading
- And More!
Experiencing Reading and Writing features:
- Cognitive and affective learning strategies
- Dozens of culturally diverse readings across the disciplines
- Study questions, writing assignments and quizzes for each reading
- Films and eConnections related to each reading
- Clearly written introductions to each chapter and subtopic
- Graphic illustrations
- Collaborative projects to accompany each chapter
Preface
CHAPTER 1
How and Why
A Little History, Please
The “Scientific” Approach
The New Criticism—An Old Term for an Old Idea
Moving Forward: The Emergence of the Reader
The Triple-Entry Journal as a Way of Learning
How to Keep a Triple-Entry Journal
Freewriting
Note-taking and Homework
Reflection
Journal Do’s and Don’ts
You, Me, It
Collaborative Projects: Working Well with Others
CHAPTER 2
Breaking It Down and Putting It All Together
Efferent and Aesthetic Reading
Putting YOU in the Reading and Putting the Reading in YOU
Living Through the Text and Extracting the Text: Two Reading Selections
Guns WD Ehrhart
The Reading Experience: Questions for Study and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Politics, Religion, and War John P. McKay, Bennett D. Hill and John Buckler
The Reading Experience: Questions for Study and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Wishing Can Make It So
Reflexive Writing
Reading Reflexive Writing
Rednecks Martín Espada
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Go for the Gold
Extensive Writing
Where Does the Term Redneck Come From? N. L. West
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Six Types of Questions
A Woman on the Street from The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls
The Reading Experience: Questions for Study and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Messages of Intent
The Intent to Portray: Spatial Description
The Intent to Sense a Flow: Chronological Description
The Intent to Interest and Entertain: Narration
The Intent to Teach: Exposition
The Intent to Convince: Persuasion and Argument
Readerly Responses
Hearing and Listening
How to Listen to Messages of Intent
Readerly Response #1: To Envision
Readerly Response #2: To Live Through the Experience and Predict What’s Coming
Readerly Response #3: To Learn
Readerly Response #4: To Judge
Putting It All Together
Our Two-Sided Brain John Chaffee
The Writing/Reading Experience Sandra G. Brown
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Collaboration Sensation: Journal Jam—A Partner Project in Evaluating Student Journals
CHAPTER 3
Descriptive Voices
The Writer’s Intention to Portray
Spatial and Chronological Description
The Simplest Type of Discourse
Use Your Five Senses
Stars Sara Teasdale
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Map of the Middle East
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Figurative Language: Describing the Indescribable
Figurative Language in Everyday Life
Figurative Language as a Means of Analyzing Culture
Metaphors
Similes
Personification
Idioms
The Waning Moon Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Objective and Subjective Description
Writing Objective Description
Writing Subjective Description
How Objective and Subjective Description Affect Your Reading Stance
Dermatitis Samuel M. Bluefarb, M.D.
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Music, Thermometer, Lost Dog, Job Application
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Chronological Description
Recognizing Sequences
Checking Sequences
Remembering Sequences
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Origins of the English Language
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Recipe for Lemon Chicken
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
The Timetables of History Bernard Grun
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz 63
Collaboration Sensation: Horoscopes and the Zodiac—A Partner Project in Description
CHAPTER 4
Narrative Voices
The Writer’s Intention to Entertain
Fictional Narration
The Four Elements
How the Aesthetic Experience Happens
Aesthetic Reading and the PBRI Process
The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Elmira Richard Brautigan
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Factual Narration
The Writer’s Intention: To Report
Characteristics of Factual Narration
The Five Ws and an H: Literal, Inferential, and Applied Processes
Point of View
Efferent and Aesthetic Reading: A Delicate Balance
Easter Sunday Marian Anderson
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Chains: 1942 Fanny Tillman Trueherz and Sandra G. Brown
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Mao’s Last Dancer Li Cunxin
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
How a New England Legend Came to Be Alan Ferguson
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Death in the Orchard Edward Brown
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Collaboration Sensation: Three Writers Writing/Three Readers Reading: A Partner Project in Plot and Point of View
Part I: The Writing
Part II: The Reading
CHAPTER 5
Expository Voices: The Third Message of Intent—What Usually Happens?
The Writer’s Intention to Teach
How to Assay an Essay Carmen Collins
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Models of American Heroism Gerald A. Pomper and Marlene Michels Pomper
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Flight of the Bumblebee Mary Jones
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
The Only English King to be Beheaded Bruce Felton
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
The Weaker Sex Maggie Jones
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
The History of Surnames Sandra G. Brown
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for a Short Research Paper
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Collaboration Sensation: Mythical Figures—A Partner Project in Research
CHAPTER 6
Persuasive and Argumentative Voices: The Fourth Message of Intent—What Should Happen?
The Writer’s Intention to Convince
Language Can Change History
Reading the Language of Advertising
Induction and Deduction
Hearing the Language of Politics
The Importance of Critical Attention
Writing Persuasion and Argument
The Most Complex Mode of Discourse
Proposition, Issue, Solution
Reading Persuasion and Argument
The 30-Second Spot Quiz Hugh Rank
The Reading Experience: Questions for Study and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works Nick Bilton
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Study
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Hand, Eye, Brain: Some “Basics” in the Writing Process Janet Emig
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Study
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Papers
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Self-Reliance: 1847 Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Reading Experience: Questions for Reading and Discussion
The Writing Experience: Suggestions for Short Essays
Recommended Films and eConnections
Quiz
Collaboration Sensation: The Mock Election—A Partner Project in the Political Process
The Writer’s Handbook: Tools of the Trade: For Essay Writers
The Essay-Composing Process
“Get Ready”
“Get Set”
“Go!”
Composing an Introductory Paragraph for an Essay
Creating Initial Interest
The Thesis Statement
Composing an Essay’s Internal Paragraphs
Paragraph Patterns in an Essay
Transitions in an Essay
Composing an Essay’s Conclusion
Documenting Sources
Composing a Summary
Grammar Tips
Fragments
Active and Passive Voice
Subject-Verb Agreement
Subject and Object Pronouns
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Capitalization and Punctuation
Spelling
The Reader’s Handbook: Tools of the Trade: For Essay Readers
Finding the Main Idea
Annotating and Highlighting
SQ3R
Vocabulary Building
Skimming and Scanning
Literal, Inferential, and Applied Questions to Ask When Reading
How Reading Connects to the Cycle of Learning: What? So What? Now What?
Final Thoughts
Considering Extensive Writing, Efferent Reading, Reflexive Writing, Aesthetic Reading, and the Human Experience
About the Author