Writing in the Disciplines

Thisrhetoric/anthologyinstructs collegestudents in how to read academic texts with understanding and how to use them as sources for papers in a variety of disciplines. In Writing in the Disciplines, Mary Kennedy andWilliam Kennedy emphasize academic writing asongoingconversations in multiple genres, and do so in the context of WPA Outcomes. The rhetoric chapters teach critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting,writing process,synthesizing, analyzing, researching, and developing arguments. The anthologybalances journal articleswith works by public intellectualsin the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.