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CHAPTER 10
Critiquing an Argument 201 CHAPTER 12
What Is a Critique? 201
Appealing for Action 257
Why Write to Critique an Argument? 202 What Is Persuasion? 257
How Do Writers Critique Arguments? 202 Why Write to Persuade? 258
THE ASSIGNMENT 207 How Do Writers Persuade? 258
What Can I Write About? 207 THE ASSIGNMENT 265
How Do I Write a Critique? Questioning the What Can I Write About? 265
Rhetorical Situation 207 How Do I Appeal for Action? Questioning the
How Do I Write a Critique? Engaging the Rhetorical Situation 266
Writing Process 209 How Do I Write Persuasively? Engaging the
SAMPLE READINGS FOR CRITIQUE 224 Writing Process 267
RE A D I N G S REA D INGS
Why Sherry Turkle Is So Wrong by Tom Where Sweatshops Are a Dream by Nicholas
Stafford 203 D. Kristof 259
Open Your Ears to Biased Professors by David The Factories of Lost Children by Katharine
Fryman 210 Weber 262
PART III
Researching Writing 319
CHAPTER 15 CHAPTER 17
Planning a Research Project 320 Evaluating Sources 350
When Is Research Necessary? 320 How Do I Decide If a Source Is
What Kinds of Sources Do College Useful? 350
Researchers Use? 321 How Do I Decide If a Source Is
How Do I Plan a Research Project? 325 Reliable? 351
How Do I Choose and Narrow a Topic? 328 How Do I Evaluate a Website? 353
How Do I Turn a Topic into a Research
Question? 329
How Do I Manage the Sources I Find? 330 CHAPTER 18
Incorporating Source
Materials 357
CHAPTER 16
What Does It Mean to Enter the
Finding Sources 336 Conversation? 357
How Do I Conduct a Keyword Search? 336 How Does Informal Writing Engage Me in the
What Resources Can I Find through My Conversation? 358
College Library? 338 How Do I Draw Connections between
How Do I Find Reference Works through My Sources? 361
College Library? 339 What Roles Can Sources Play in My
How Do I Use a Library Catalog to Find Books Writing? 363
and Other Resources? 341 What Are My Options for Bringing in Source
How Do I Use Library Databases to Find Material? 364
Periodicals? 343 How Do I Acknowledge, Integrate, and Cite
How Do I Use the Web to Find Reliable My Source Materials? 369
Websites and Online Journals? 344 What Are the Options for Acknowledging
How Do I Find Interactive Online Sources? 371
Sources? 347 How Can I Integrate Source Material into My
How Do I Generate My Own Information? 347 Writing? 372
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CHAPTER 19 CHAPTER 21
Using Sources Responsibly 379 Documenting Your Sources: APA 411
What Is Plagiarism? 379
How Do I Make In-Text Citations Using APA
When Do I Need to Cite My Style? 411
Sources? 380
How Do I Make Entries in a Reference List
How Can I Avoid Plagiarizing? 383 Using APA Style? 416
CHAPTER 22 CHAPTER 24
Choosing Strategies of Writing Portfolios 488
Development 435 What Is a Writing Portfolio? 488
What Are the Strategies? 435 Why Create a Writing Portfolio? 490
How Do Writers Choose Strategies? 439 How Do Writers Prepare Portfolios? 491
What Do the Strategies Look Like in Detail? 440 THE ASSIGNMENT 492
How Can I Develop a Repertoire of How Do I Reflect? Questioning the Rhetorical
Strategies? 460 Situation 492
R E A D I N G Is Climate Disaster Inevitable?
by Adam Frank 436 CHAPTER 25
Mastering Essay Exams 498
CHAPTER 23 What Are Essay Exams? 498
Designing Documents Why Do Instructors Assign Essay Exams? 498
and Using Graphics 461 How Do Writers Approach Essay Exam
What Are Document Design Questions? 499
and Graphics? 461 How Should I Prepare for an Essay Exam? 501
Why Consider Document Design What Are Some Good Strategies for Taking an
and Graphics? 462 Essay Exam? 503
How Does Document Design Work? 462 What Is the Value of Essay Exams? 508
How Do Graphics Work? 467
What Are the Common Model
Documents? 472
CHAPTER 26
What Matters Most in Document Design
Giving Oral Presentations 509
and Using Graphics? 486 What Are Oral Presentations? 509
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What Can I Write About? 566 What Are the Steps in Writing a Prospectus? 582
How Do I Prepare to Write a Proposal? 567 E X A M P L E Prospectus for “Multitasking: A
What Are the Steps in Writing a Poor Study Habit” by Noelle Alberto 580
Proposal? 568
E X A M P L E Proposal to Enact a “Smoke-
Free Campus” Policy for Santa Clara
CHAPTER 37
University 560 How Do I Write a Lab Report? 584
What Is a Lab Report? 584
CHAPTER 34 Why Write a Lab Report? 585
How Do I Prepare to Write a Lab Report? 588
How Do I Write a Research
Proposal? 570 What Are the Steps in Writing a Lab Report? 589
Teaching Students—An
Inquiry-Based Approach
The Engaging Questions SmartBook
is an adaptive reading experience that
enhances the inquiry-based approach of
the text. SmartBook questions students on
their current knowledge and adapts con-
stantly to what they know and don’t know,
assisting students in long-term knowledge
retention and preparing them for active
in-class participation. SmartBook identifies and highlights content students have not yet
mastered.
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SmartBook adapts based on what students know and what they do not know, focusing study time on critical material.
Power of Process is a learning technology that pushes students to become active readers and writers by
guiding students through the critical reading and writing process and having them ask and answer ques-
tions throughout the entire assignment.
With Power of Process students move through a step-by-step approach designed to improve reading com-
prehension; students highlight, annotate, respond, and directly engage with the material. Instructors using
Engaging Questions can utilize the easy-to-read Power of Process breakdown report to see exactly where
students understood or struggled with the material and provide individualized feedback where appropriate.
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Power of Process transforms the readings from Engaging Questions into highly engaging assignments that
help students read and annotate texts strategically and critically. The second edition of Engaging Questions
offers the following readings as part of the rich library of works enhanced by Power of Process:
“Apparently, Facts No Longer Mean What They Once Did” by Leonard Pitts
“Notes of an Alien Son: Immigration Paradoxes” by Andrei Codrescu
“Where My Writing Came from and Where It Went” by student Allison Griffin
“The Disappearing Neighborhoods” by student Julie Ross
“A Dark, Skinny Stranger in Cleveland Park” by Stephen L. Carter
“Writing with the Master” by Joel Achenbach
“We’re Losing the Raw Human Part of Being with Each Other” by Catherine de Lange
“Major Survey Challenges Western Perceptions of Islam” by Agence France-Presse
“What Is Civility?” by P. M. Forni
“Open Your Ears to Biased Professors” by David Fryman
“Building a Better Life through Greenways and Trails” by Trails and Greenways Clearinghouse
“The Case against Grades” by Alfie Kohn
“2011 Motor Trend Car of the Year: Chevrolet Volt, A Car of the Future You Can Drive Today” by
Angus Mackenzie
“Review of Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen
“Is Climate Disaster Inevitable?” by Adam Frank
“The Wonder of Ordinary Places” by Julian Hoffman
“New Hampshire Professor Pushes for Return to Slow Reading” by Holly Ramer
“The Benefits of Slow Reading Lost on Our Fast-Paced Culture,” sample research paper by student
Kyle van Buskirk
“A Proposal to Enact a ‘Smoke-Free Campus’ Policy” by Santa Clara University
“Popularity’s Downside: Valuing Quality over Quantity in Friendship” by student Audra Ames
“Driving Away” by student Katherine Krueger-Land
“The Monday Omelette” by student Molly Tilton
“Tomorrow, I Love Ya!” by Eric Hoover
“The Supreme Chutzpah” by Jack Achiezer Guggenheim
“Being Nice Is Good Business” by student Amie Hazama
“The Human Cost of Animal Suffering” by Mark Bittman
“Eating Well vs. Being Good” by David Katz
“The Ethics of Eating Meat” by Paul Schwennesen
“Reciprocity: A Foundation for Balance” by Clara Sue Kidwell, Homer Noley, and George E.
“Tink” Tinker
“Why Sherry Turkle Is So Wrong” by Tom Stafford
“‘Precious’ Mettle” by Ann Hornaday
“Rhetorical Analysis of the Section on the Church in ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’” by Ginny
Norton
“Exploring the Concept of Gender” by student Jamie Cummins
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Outcomes-Based Assessment
of Writing
Writing assignments with Outcomes-Based
Assessment provide a way for any instructor to grade
a writing assignment using a rubric of outcomes
and proficiency levels. The Council of Writing
Program Administrators (CWPA) outcomes are
preloaded; however, instructors may adapt any of
these outcomes with other instructors or the whole
department. Writing assignments with Outcomes-
Based Assessment offer a range of clear, simple
reports that allow instructors or course administrators
to view progress and achievement in a variety of ways.
These reports may also satisfy department or college-
level requests for data relating to program goals or for
accreditation purposes.
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■ Assignment Statistics Report—provides quick data on each assignment, including mean score as well as high
and low scores.
■ Student Performance Report—focuses on a specific student’s progress across all assignments.
■ Learning Outcomes Assessment Report—for instructors who use the Outcomes-Based Assessment tool to
grade a writing assignment, this report provides data on student performance for specific outcomes.
■ At-Risk Report—provides instructors a dashboard of information that can help identify at-risk students on the
basis of low engagement levels.
■ LearnSmart Achieve Reports—focus on student usage, progress, and mastery of the modules contained within
LearnSmart Achieve.
CHANGES TO THE
SECOND EDITION
The second edition of Engaging Questions offers the same meaningful guidance as the first edition, in
addition to the following updates:
■ Fifteen new readings represent a range of genres
■ All forty-three readings available in a Connect eReader and Power of Process
■ Expanded discussions of voice and style
■ A more consistent approach to writing assignments
■ Assignment chapters reorganized to reflect the steps in the writing process and include a new section
focusing on the moves a writer can make
■ An enriched adaptive ebook experience through SmartBook emphasizes critical thinking skills and
provides remediation for all answer choices
■ A streamlined design allows for easier navigation of chapter headings and better aligns with the adap-
tive reading experience
■ A refreshed feature program
■ A revised and updated treatment of blogging and writing for the Web
Engaging Questions offers a useful, efficient text that promotes writing based on questioning and thinking,
a writing guide that is responsive to contemporary students, instructors, and current writing programs. We
welcome your suggestions for making it better.
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A child should be happy; he must, in every way, be made happy;
everything ought to be done to conduce to his happiness, to give him
joy, gladness, and pleasure. Happy he should be, as happy as the day
is long. Kindness should be lavished upon him. Make a child
understand that you love him; prove it in your actions—these are
better than words; look after his little pleasures—join in his little
sports; let him never hear a morose word—it would rankle in his
breast, take deep root, and in due time bring forth bitter fruit. Love!
let love be his pole-star; let it be the guide and the rule of all you do
and all you say unto him. Let your face, as well as your tongue, speak
love. Let your hands be ever ready to minister to his pleasures and to
his play. “Blessed be the hand that prepares a pleasure for a child, for
there is no saying when and where it may again bloom forth. Does
not almost everybody remember some kind-hearted man who
showed him a kindness in the dulcet days of childhood? The writer of
this recollects himself, at this moment, a bare-footed lad, standing at
the wooden fence of a poor little garden in his native village, while,
with longing eyes, he gazed on the flowers which were blooming
there quietly in the brightness of the Sabbath morning. The
possessor came from his little cottage. He was a woodcutter by trade,
and spent the whole week at work in the woods. He had come into
the garden to gather flowers to stick in his coat when he went to
church. He saw the boy, and breaking off the most beautiful of his
carnations (it was streaked with red and white), he gave it to him.
Neither the giver nor the receiver spoke a word, and with bounding
steps the boy ran home. And now, here, at a vast distance from that
home, after so many events of so many years, the feeling of gratitude
which agitated the breast of that boy, expressed itself on paper. The
carnation has long since faded, but it now bloometh afresh.”[201]
The hearty ringing laugh of a child is sweet music to the ear. There
are three most joyous sounds in nature—the hum of a bee, the purr
of a cat, and the laugh of a child. They tell of peace, of happiness, and
of contentment, and make one for awhile forget that there is so much
misery in the world.
A man who dislikes children is unnatural; he has no “milk of
human kindness” in him; he should be shunned. Give me, for a
friend, a man—
“Who takes the children on his knee,
And winds their curls about his hand.”[202]
Or if he is impatient,
Perhaps from time to time
A simple hymn may suit the best,
In short and easy rhyme.
EXERCISE.
AMUSEMENTS.
EDUCATION.
SLEEP.