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Writers Reference 9e by
Ballenger, Bruce P. The Curious Researcher: A Guide to Writing Research Papers. 8th ed. New York: Pearson, 2014. Print.
Pursuing Happiness. Matthew Parfitt and Dawn Skorczewski. Bedford St. Martins.
Dina Bozicas uses this book in her CWII sections. It has pre-selected readings on happiness studies, including peer-reviewed scholarly sources that work for first-year students. It’s not too expensive (about $22). More information, including a table of contents, is available on the publisher’s webpage here. There are also readers on other topics (gender, money, sustainability, food). You can see the whole list here.
An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing. Susan Miller-Cochran, Roy Stamper, Stacey Cochran.Bedford St. Martins, 2019. This book includes chapters that take students step-by-step through reading and writing for the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences, and applied fields. It has interviews with researchers in various fields, and helpful assignments to break academic articles down for students. You can order the rhetoric and reader, or just the “brief rhetoric,” if you want to use your own readings (and save your students some money).
Primary Research and Writing: People, Places, and Spaces. Lynee Lewis Gaillet and Michelle F. Eble. Routledge.
This book focuses specifically on ethnographic and archival research. If you have your students do interviews or work on community-based projects, this book can work well for you. It has step-by-step assignments for developing a research question, designing a survey, conducting an interview, and working in an archive. Melissa Juchniewicz has used it in previous semesters, and liked it. More information, including the full table of contents, is available on the publisher’s website here.
Academic Writing, Real World Topics fills a void in the writing-across-the-curriculum textbook market. It draws together articles and essays of actual academic prose as opposed to journalism; it arranges material by topic instead of by discipline or academic division; and it approaches topics from multiple disciplinary and critical perspectives.With extensive
introductions, rhetorical instruction, and suggested additional resources accompanying each chapter, Academic Writing, Real World Topics introduces students to the kinds of research and writing that they will be expected to undertake throughout their college careers and beyond. This concise edition provides all the features of the complete edition in a more compact and affordable format.
They Say/I Say: the Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. Norton.This is the best-selling book on academic writing in the US. It’s brief, cheap, and easy to use. The authors set out the “moves” of academic writing in a series of stem sentences, so that students can begin to practice with the syntax of academic conversation. For example, they take a sentence from Carol Gilligan and leave out all the specifics, so that students can use the template: “If group X is right that ________,as I think they are, then we need to reassess the popular assumption that __________________”(59). Experimenting with templates like this helps students analyze their evidence deeply and develop their own ideas in relation to what they’ve read.
