Part I Reading ,Writing,and Keeping a Journal 1
What is a Reading/Writing Journal? 1
What to Keep in the Journal? 1
Sample Student Journal Entries 2
Reading Guidance 3
Sample Readings 4
Zen and the Art of Burglary 4
What True Education Should Do 5
Responding to the Reading 7
Writing Skills 7
Responding to Zen and the Art of Burglary 8
Summarizing Skills 10
Writing a Book Report 18
Sample Readings 18
Around the World in Eighty Days 18
The Broken Wings 20
Part II Writing from Experience:Expressing a Personal Viewpoint 22
Reading Guidance 22
Sample Readings 24
Barriers 24
The Rewards of Living a Salitary Life 29
Writing Skills 31
Freewriting 31
Developing a Focal Point 32
Writing a Trail Draft 32
Self-Evaluation 32
Peer Reviewing 33
Guidelines for Peer Reviewing 34
Revising 35
Completing the Essay 35
Unity 36
Peer Review Form 36
Coherence 41
Sample Student Writings 44
Learning to Say I love you 44
Love of Father 47
Part III Writing from Course Readings: Relating Reading to Experience 51
Reading Guidance 52
Sample Readings 53
Friends,Good Friends--and Sun Good Friends 53
On Friendship 59
Intercultural Communication Stumbling Blocks 65
Social Time: The Heartbeat of Culture 77
Writing Skills 86
Defining Your Audience 86
Finding and Developing a Topic 86
Organizing the Essay 87
Writing a Draft to Present for Review 93
Peer Reviewing 94
Revising 95
Completing the Essay 95
Paraphrasing 96
Quoting 99
Sample Student Writings 102
Facing a Different Culture 102
Part IV Writing an Argumentative Essay 106
Reading Guidance 106
Sample Readings 108
The Commencement Speech You ll Never Hear 108
The Business World as a Hunting Ground 111
College Pressures 116
We Should Cherish Our Children s Freedom to Think 127
We Should Abolish Anonymous Evaluations to Teachers by Their Students 130
Strategies of Analysing an Argumentative Essay 135
Writing Skills 135
Guidelines for Fulfilling Essay Assignment 146
Sample Student Writings 147
College:An All-forgiving World? 147
Are Men Really the Slaves of Women 149
Part V Writing from Qutside Sources: Researching a Controversy 154
Writing a research Paper 155
Kinds of Researches 155
Differences between Research Papers and Reports 157
The Features of a Research Paper 159
The Features of a Non-research Paper 160
The Importance of a Research Paper 162
Strategies of Writing a Research Paper 163
Sample Student Reading 166
Asian-American Students:Why Is Their Success Becoming a Hindrance? 166
Writing Skills 172
Thesis Statement 172
What a Thesis Statement Is Not 174
Outlines 177
Forms of Outlines 178
Citing and Documenting Sources 180
References 206