This book's contributors explore key issues in the current state of their disciplines in light of crucial moments in each discipline's recent or longer-term history.

This reader provides a firm grounding in academic writing, showing students how to read academic texts and use them as sources for college papers. Offering a broad and comprehensive selection of readings to help students develop their abilities to think critically and reason cogently, it shows them how to work individually and collaboratively as they move through the entire process of writing from sources from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising essays.

More so than ever before, in this 6th edition of Writing in the DisciplinesMary Kennedy, William Kennedy, and Hadley Smith have taken the opportunity to combine all of their own knowledge and experience with the very best source of feedback available - the users of their own text. The authors have created a text with suggestions from students, instructors, and reviewers that uses the very best qualities of its previous editions while striving to break new ground. The rhetoric teaches students the fundamental strategies for all phases of academic writing - critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, organizing, drafting, revising, editing, synthesizing, analyzing, researching, and developing arguments. The anthology offers engaging reading selections that introduce students to the issues and the methods of study in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and that serve as idea banks for their writing assignments. Throughout, students learn how to work individually and collaboratively as they move through the entire process of writing from sources - from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising essays.

This book offers abundant exercises to help the student develop techniques for working productively at each stage of the scholarly writing process, mastering and summarizing difficult scholarly sources, planning, and revising to create good working conditions for the reader.

This book provides you with all the tools you need to write an excellent academic article and get it published.