Reading and Writing in the Academic Community

Synopsis

Reading and Writing in the Academic Communityis a comprehensive rhetoric with engaging, timely readings. The authors wrote their book to include more coverage of the writing process. This text provides explicit, step-by-step instruction in paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing essays in response to readings, composing synthesis essays, and using sources to compose comparison-and-contrast essays, argument essays, analysis essays, evaluation essays, and research papers.