{"product_id":"academic-reading-second-edition-reading-and-writing-across-the-disciplines-9781551113937","title":"Academic Reading, second edition: Reading and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis reader has been designed to accompany Giltrow’s \u003cem\u003eAcademic Writing\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the key principles of which is that there is a close connection between the processes of reading and of writing academic prose. Each reading is preceded by introductory commentary, questions, and suggestions for discussion, and the book also includes a brief general introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with Giltrow’s \u003cem\u003eAcademic Writing\u003c\/em\u003e, her \u003cem\u003eAcademic Reading\u003c\/em\u003e is a challenging text. At its core are examples of actual academic writing of the sort that students must learn to deal with daily, and to write themselves. As newcomers to the scholarly community, students can find that community’s ways of reading and writing mysterious, unpredictable and intimidating. \u003cem\u003eAcademic Reading\u003c\/em\u003e demystifies the scholarly genres, shedding light on their discursive conventions. Throughout, \u003cem\u003eAcademic Reading\u003c\/em\u003e respects the student writer; it engages the reader’s interest without ever condescending, and it avoids entirely the arbitrary and the dogmatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second edition is expanded to include twenty-one selections, nineteen of which come from scholarly publications, and more than half of which are new to this edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComments on the previous edition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An outstanding book, \u003cem\u003eAcademic Reading\u003c\/em\u003e offers accessible examples of real scholarly discourse. Indeed, this is the only ‘across the disciplines’ reader that I have seen that accomplishes this effectively.” — Brian Turner, University of Winnipeg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An excellent selection of provocative essays; I will certainly adopt this text for my junior level composition course.” — Kathleen Blumreich, Grand Valley State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eScience, Law, and the Search for Truth in the Courtroom: Lessons from Daubert v. Merrell Dow, Joan E. Bertin and Mary S. Henifin\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eEffects of Lawyers' Socio-political Attitudes on Their Judgments of Social Science in Legal Decision Making, \u003cem\u003eRichard E. Redding and N. Dickon Reppucci\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSome Experimental Influences of Lawyers' Complicated Questions on Eyewitness Confidence and Accuracy, \u003cem\u003eMark R. Kebbell and David C. Giles\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eChronicles and Annals, \u003cem\u003eElisabeth van Houts\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Masked Disease: Oral History, Memory, and the Influenza Pandemic, 1918-19, \u003cem\u003eLucy Taksa\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eRetelling Experiments: H.B.D. Kettlewell's Studies of Industrial Melanism in Peppered Moths, \u003cem\u003eJoel B. Hagen\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Master Potter and the Rejected Pots: Eugenic Legislation in Victoria, 1918-1939, \u003cem\u003eRoss L. Jones\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\"To Watch the Faces of the Poor\": Life Magazine and the Mythology of Rural Poverty in the Great Depression, \u003cem\u003eCharles Cunningham\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Power of Imagined Community: The Settlement of Undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States, \u003cem\u003eLeo R. Chavez\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Waltz of Sociability: Intimacy, Dislocation, and Friendship in a Quebec High School, \u003cem\u003eVered Amit-Talai\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSounding Gender(ed): Vocal Performances in English University Teaching Spaces, \u003cem\u003eTom Delph-Janiurek\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Structure of \"Revealed\" Preference: Race, Community, and Female Labour Supply in the London Clothing Industry, \u003cem\u003eNaila Kabeer\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSeparating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory, \u003cem\u003eCheshire Calhoun\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire \u0026amp; Rubber and the Radial Revolution, \u003cem\u003eDonald N. Sull\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Battles in Seattle, \u003cem\u003eMargaret Levi and David Olson\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Dance of Power: Ritual and Agency among Unionized American Health Care Workers, \u003cem\u003eE. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSimilarities in Anti-Racist and Racist Discourse: Duth Local Residents Talking About Ethnic Minorities, \u003cem\u003eMaykel Verkuten, Wiebe de Jong, and Kees Masson\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eConflict and Struggle: The Enemies or Preconditions of Basic Writing? \u003cem\u003eMin-Zhan Lu\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eConstruction of the Imaginary Indian, \u003cem\u003eMarcia Crosby\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAn Indian Remembers, \u003cem\u003eMary Englund\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAnnie Battiste: A Mi'kmaq Family History, \u003cem\u003eAnnie Battiste and Marie Battiste\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eSources\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041304412503,"sku":"9781551113937","price":54.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551113937.jpg?v=1750949738","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/academic-reading-second-edition-reading-and-writing-across-the-disciplines-9781551113937","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}