The Sundance Reader
by Connelly, MarkEdition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-03
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary
THE SUNDANCE READER, 5e, contains over eighty readings drawn from a range of academic disciplines and professions. This exceptional collection of essays and articles includes both classic and contemporary authors' writings that pertain to topics as varied as the environment, culture, social issues, the media, and business. The diversity of topics in THE SUNDANCE READER appeals to students of all backgrounds and interests and emphasizes critical thinking, careful analysis, and effective writing to help you master essential composition skills you can apply in other courses and throughout your career. Students receive the most up-to-date information on MLA documentation with the enclosed tri-fold card providing NEW 2009 MLA Handbook formats.
Table of Contents
| The Writing Context | |
| How We Write | |
| The Writer | |
| The Writer''s Purpose | |
| The Writer''s Role | |
| The Reader | |
| Individual Readers | |
| Extended Readerships | |
| The Perceptual World | |
| The Discipline | |
| Writing Contexts | |
| The Writing Process | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Avoiding Errors in Critical Thinking | |
| Strategies for Enhancing Critical Thinking | |
| Prewriting | |
| Moving from Topic to Thesis | |
| Elements of a Thesis Statement | |
| Supporting the Thesis | |
| Developing Outlines | |
| How to Write an Essay | |
| Strategies for Creating a Composing Style | |
| Writing the Whole Composition | |
| Prewriting | |
| Planning | |
| First Draft with Revision Notes | |
| Revised Draft with Instructor''s Annotations | |
| Final Draft | |
| Writing on a Computer | |
| Strategies for Writing on a Computer | |
| Collaborative Writing | |
| Strategies for Collaborative Writing | |
| Writer''s Block | |
| Strategies for Overcoming Writer''s Block | |
| Critical Reading | |
| Reading Critically | |
| Strategies for Critical Reading | |
| Cornel West, Black Political Leadership (annotated essay) | |
| Using The Sundance Reader | |
| Analyzing Visual Images | |
| Photographs, Film, and Video | |
| Perspective and Contrast Context | |
| Visual Connotations | |
| Timing and Duplication Manipulating Images | |
| Gender and Cultural Issues | |
| Perception and Analysis | |
| Strategies for Analyzing Visual Images | |
| Narration: Relating Events | |
| What Is Narration? The Writer''s Purpose | |
| Focus | |
| Chronology | |
| Strategies for Reading Narration | |
| Understanding Meaning | |
| Evaluating Strategy | |
| Appreciating Language | |
| Samuel Scudder, Take This Fish and Look at It (annotated essay) | |
| James Dillard, A Doctor''s Dilemma | |
| Maya Angelou, Champion of the World | |
| Ramon "Tianguis" Pe rez, The Fender-Bender | |
| Martin Gansberg, Thirty-Eight Who Saw a Murder and Didn''t Call the Police | |
| Richard Preston, Ebola River | |
| Ayann Hirsi Ali, The Arrangement | |
| Blending the Modes | |
| George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant | |
| Writing Beyond the Classroom | |
| Federal Bureau of Investigation, Interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald | |
| Walter Lord, The Reconstructed Logbook of the Titanic | |
| Responding to Images: New Orleans Following Hurricane Katrina, September | |
| Strategies for Writing Narration | |
| Suggested Topics for Writing Narration | |
| Student Paper, Spare Change | |
| Narration Checklist | |
| Description: Presenting Impressions | |
| What Is Description? Objective and Subjective Description | |
| The Language of Description | |
| Strategies for Reading Descriptions | |
| Understanding Meaning | |
| Evaluating Strategy | |
| Appreciating Language | |
| Letter from Ground Zero (annotated essay) | |
| The Bomb. | |
| Out There. | |
| Border Story. | |
| JosT Antonio Burciaga, My Ecumenical Father | |
| Unforgettable Miss Bessie. N. | |
| The Way to Rainy Mountain. | |
| American Islam. | |
| Blending the Modes | |
| Once More to the Lake. | |
| Writing Beyond the Classroom | |
| Hard Rock CafT Want Ad | |
| The Resume of Monica Ramos. | |
| Responding to Images: Seattle Street Kids with Gun, 1983 | |
| Strategies for Writing Description | |
| Suggested Topics for Descriptive Writing | |
| Student Paper, My Bug | |
| Description Checklist | |
| Definition: Establishing Meaning | |
| What Is Definition? Methods of Definition | |
| The Purpose of Definition | |
| Definition in Context | |
| Strategies for Reading Definitions | |
| Understanding Meaning | |
| Evaluating Strategy | |
| Appreciating Language | |
| Dyslexia (annotated essay). | |
| Janice Castro, Dan Cook, and Cristina Garcia, Spanglish | |
| The Company Man. | |
| The Hoax. | |
| Thomas Sowell, Needs | |
| He Talk Like A White Boy. | |
| TV Addiction. | |
| Blending the Modes | |
| The Economist, What Is Terrorism? Writing Beyond the Classroom: Two Definitions of Depression | |
| The Encyclopedia of Psychology, Depression | |
| Don D | |
| Rosenberg, What Is Depression? Responding to Images: Anti-Gay Marriage Protest in Boston, 2004 | |
| Strategies for Writing Definitions | |
| Suggested Topics for Writing Definitions | |
| Student Paper, Disneyland Dads | |
| Definition Checklist | |
| Comparison And Contrast: Indicating Similarities And Differences | |
| What Is Co | |
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