Reading and Writing about the Disciplines: A Guided Process for Academic Research, 2E

Reading and Writing about the Disciplines focuses on developing first-year college students’ academic literacy, a set of reading, thinking, writing, and researching skills required of an expert or a professional, by introducing them to the conventions of academic writing in and beyond the discipline they wish to explore as their major. It aims to familiarize students with discourses in their future fields by teaching the skills of critical reading and thinking, analysis of the structure of a text, logical development of its standpoint, hypothesis, or argument; its use of evidence and language; and its purpose.