The Contemporary Reader
9th Edition
Published on 23. November 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
640 pages
978-0-205-56822-2 (ISBN)
Description
A best-selling popular culture reader, The Contemporary Reader offers more than 70 readings taken from today's headlines to inspire the reader to write on topics that really matter to them.
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Edition
9th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 232 mm
Width: 162 mm
Weight
801 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-56822-2 (9780205568222)
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Content
Preface xxv
Introduction: How to Read and Write Critically
What Is Critical Thinking?
Why Read Critically?
How to Read Critically
Now Cut that Out! John Leo
Keep a Journal on What You Read
Annotate What You Read
Outline What You Read
Summarize What You Read
Question What You Read
Analyze What You Read
What Is Critical Thinking?
Developing Ideas
Brainstorming
Narrowing the Topic
Identifying Your Audience
Developing a Thesis
Understanding Your Paper's Objective
Researching
Selecting Sources for Your Paper
Documenting Sources
Organizing Your Paper
Drafting Your Essay
Writing Your Introduction
Developing Paragraphs and Making Transitions
Concluding Well
Editing and Revising
Using Active Voice
Grammar and Punctuation
Proofreading Effectively
Approaching Visuals Critically
Images and Advertising
Altoids Ad
Deciphering Editorial Cartoons
Cloning Cartoon
Chapter 1: Fashion and Flesh: The Images We Project
The Media Assault on Male Body Image, Brandon Keim
Never Too Buff, John Cloud
Culture Shock: Mr. Universe
Culture Shock: Superheroes
What I Think About the Fashion World, Liz Jones
Culture Shock: Get Real Ad
The Natural Beauty Myth, Garance Franke-Ruta
Weighing In, Sandra Hurtes
My Hips, My Caderas, Alisa Valdes
Reading the Blog: Eating Disorders: The Numbers
Weight of the World, Niranjana Iyer
A Man's Guide to Slimming Couture, Scott McKeen
Culture Shock: Norbit
Why Do We Get to Laugh at Fat Guys? Catherine Lawson
Chapter: 2 Consumer Nation: Wanting It, Selling It
Shop `til We Drop? Robert J. Samuelson
Targeting a New World, Joseph Turow
What's Wrong with Cinderella? Peggy Orenstein
Lunchbox Hegemony, Dan Cook
Which One of These Sneakers Is Me? Douglas Rushkoff
Culture Shock: Cartoon
Branded World: The Success of the Nike Logo, Michael Levine
Culture Shock: A Portfolio of Advertisements
Gap
Skechers
M&M's
Kenneth Cole
Kia
Apple IPod Nano
Honda
Absolute on Ice
Lux Populi, James B. Twitchell
With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything, William Lutz
The Language of Advertising, Charles A. O'Neill
Chapter: 3 It's All Relative: The American Family in Flux
Family: Idea, Institution, and Controversy, Betty G. Farrell
Numbers Drop for the Married-with-Children, BlaineHarden
The Decline of Marriage, James Q. Wilson
Culture Shock: Marriage Trends in the United States
For Better, For Worse, Stephanie Coontz
The Cultural Devaluation of Child Rearing, David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
Did I Miss Something? LowellPutnam
A New Generation Is Leading the Way, Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Culture Shock: God-Ordained Marriage
Why the "M" Word Matters to Me, Andrew Sullivan
Culture Shock: Cartoon
The Case Against Same Sex Marriage, Margaret A. Somerville
Reading the Blog: A Really, Really, Really Long Post about Gay Marriage . . .
Chapter 4: Remote Control: Television's Influence
Can TV Improve Us?Jane Rosenzweig
Television Addiction is No Mere Metaphor, Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Overexposure of Violence in Our Society, David Mullens
Culture Shock: Turn Off Your TV Week
The Myth of Media Violence, Andrew O'Hehir
TV's War of Words, Deborah Tannen
Born Again, Rebecca Raber
The Great TV Debate, Jason Kelly
Three Cheers for Reality TV, Heather Havrilesky
The Collapse of Big Media: The Young and The Restless, David T. Z. Mindich
AAP Discourages Television for Very Young Children, AmericanAcademyof Pediatrics
TV Can Be a Good Parent, Ariel Gore
Chapter 5: Climate Control? The Global Warming Debate
Global Warming: Who Loses-and Who Wins? Gregg Easterbrook
Global Warming is an Immediate Crisis, Al Gore
Culture Shock: An Inconvenient Truth
Don't Believe the Hype, Richard S. Lindzen
Reading the Blog: Please Stop Talking About the Global Warming Consensus
Global Warming Heats Up, Jeffrey Kluger
Culture Shock: Earth's Before and After Pics
Global Warming: A Divide on Causes and Solutions, PewResearch Centerfor the People and the Press
No Change in Political Climate, Ellen Goodman
On Comparing Global Warming Denial to Holocaust Denial, Dennis Prager
Chapter: 6 Sexual Politics: Diving into the Gender Gap
My Most Attractive Adversary, Madeleine Begun Kane
Male Bashing on TV, Michael Abernethy
Culture Shock: Men's Fault Magazine
The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Scott Russell Sanders
Girls, We Really Are Our Own Worst Enemies, Lyz Baranowski
In Search of Notorious PhDs, Lindsay Johns
Culture Shock: 50 Cent
The End of Herstory, Kay S. Hymowitz
Reading the Blog: A Thursday Musing on Anti-Feminist Young Women
The Science of Difference, Steven Pinker
Culture Shock: Annika Sorenstam Has Another Remarkable Year For A Lady
An Identity Reduced to a Burka, Semeen Issa and Laila Al-Marayati
Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood, Louise Story
Homeward Bound, Linda Hirshman
The Year of Domesticity, David Brooks
Chapter 7: The University System: Are We Making the Grade?
How to Get a College Education, Jeffrey Hart
A's for Everyone! Alicia C. Shepard
Culture Shock: Cartoon
Would Shakespeare Get into Swarthmore? John Katzman, Andy Lutz, and Erik Olson
America's Top University, Stanley N. Katz
College Makeover, S. Georgia Nugent
Who Should Get into College? John H. McWhorter
What's Wrong with Vocational School? Charles Murray
Higher Ed, Inc., James B. Twitchell
A Real Education, Christina Asquith
Reading the Blog: Does College Matter?
Regulating Racist Speech on Campus, Charles R. Lawrence III
Muzzling Free Speech, Harvey A. Silverglate
Chapter 8: Race and Racism: Can We Be Color-Blind?
Inequality, Race, and Remedy, Alan Jenkins
People Like Us, David Brooks
Culture Shock: Class and Race in America: The Legacy of Hurricane Katrina
Are You a Terrorist, or Do You Play One on TV? Laura Fokkena
Racial Profiling Goes Beyond Black and White, Sasha Polakow-Suransky
In Defense of 24, Emilio Karim Dabul
Please Ask Me "Who," Not "What," I Am, Jordan Lite
Getting Under My Skin, Don Terry
Why I'm Black, Not African American, John H. McWhorter
You Have the Right to Remain a Target of Racial Profiling, Eugene Robinson
The Racial Profiling Myth Lives On, Steve Chapman
Chapter 9: The Immigration Debate: No More Melting Pot?
Forging a New Vision of America's Melting Pot, Gregory Rodriguez
Do We Want Mexifornia? Victor Davis Hanson
Culture Shock: Immigrant Children
Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants? David M. Kennedy
Reading the Blog: Immigration Issue Explodes
Culture Shock: Anti-Immigration Rally
Educating Illegal Immigrants, Todd Rosenbaum
Immigration Quotas vs. Individual Rights: The Moral and Practical Case for Open Immigration? Harry Binswanger
Culture Shock: U.S. Census Map
The Next Americans, Tomas R. Jimenez
A Nation Divided by One Language, James Crawford
My Spanish Standoff, Gabriella Kuntz
Credits
Index
Rhetorical Contents
Introduction: How to Read and Write Critically
What Is Critical Thinking?
Why Read Critically?
How to Read Critically
Now Cut that Out! John Leo
Keep a Journal on What You Read
Annotate What You Read
Outline What You Read
Summarize What You Read
Question What You Read
Analyze What You Read
What Is Critical Thinking?
Developing Ideas
Brainstorming
Narrowing the Topic
Identifying Your Audience
Developing a Thesis
Understanding Your Paper's Objective
Researching
Selecting Sources for Your Paper
Documenting Sources
Organizing Your Paper
Drafting Your Essay
Writing Your Introduction
Developing Paragraphs and Making Transitions
Concluding Well
Editing and Revising
Using Active Voice
Grammar and Punctuation
Proofreading Effectively
Approaching Visuals Critically
Images and Advertising
Altoids Ad
Deciphering Editorial Cartoons
Cloning Cartoon
Chapter 1: Fashion and Flesh: The Images We Project
The Media Assault on Male Body Image, Brandon Keim
Never Too Buff, John Cloud
Culture Shock: Mr. Universe
Culture Shock: Superheroes
What I Think About the Fashion World, Liz Jones
Culture Shock: Get Real Ad
The Natural Beauty Myth, Garance Franke-Ruta
Weighing In, Sandra Hurtes
My Hips, My Caderas, Alisa Valdes
Reading the Blog: Eating Disorders: The Numbers
Weight of the World, Niranjana Iyer
A Man's Guide to Slimming Couture, Scott McKeen
Culture Shock: Norbit
Why Do We Get to Laugh at Fat Guys? Catherine Lawson
Chapter: 2 Consumer Nation: Wanting It, Selling It
Shop `til We Drop? Robert J. Samuelson
Targeting a New World, Joseph Turow
What's Wrong with Cinderella? Peggy Orenstein
Lunchbox Hegemony, Dan Cook
Which One of These Sneakers Is Me? Douglas Rushkoff
Culture Shock: Cartoon
Branded World: The Success of the Nike Logo, Michael Levine
Culture Shock: A Portfolio of Advertisements
Gap
Skechers
M&M's
Kenneth Cole
Kia
Apple IPod Nano
Honda
Absolute on Ice
Lux Populi, James B. Twitchell
With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything, William Lutz
The Language of Advertising, Charles A. O'Neill
Chapter: 3 It's All Relative: The American Family in Flux
Family: Idea, Institution, and Controversy, Betty G. Farrell
Numbers Drop for the Married-with-Children, BlaineHarden
The Decline of Marriage, James Q. Wilson
Culture Shock: Marriage Trends in the United States
For Better, For Worse, Stephanie Coontz
The Cultural Devaluation of Child Rearing, David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
Did I Miss Something? LowellPutnam
A New Generation Is Leading the Way, Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Culture Shock: God-Ordained Marriage
Why the "M" Word Matters to Me, Andrew Sullivan
Culture Shock: Cartoon
The Case Against Same Sex Marriage, Margaret A. Somerville
Reading the Blog: A Really, Really, Really Long Post about Gay Marriage . . .
Chapter 4: Remote Control: Television's Influence
Can TV Improve Us?Jane Rosenzweig
Television Addiction is No Mere Metaphor, Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Overexposure of Violence in Our Society, David Mullens
Culture Shock: Turn Off Your TV Week
The Myth of Media Violence, Andrew O'Hehir
TV's War of Words, Deborah Tannen
Born Again, Rebecca Raber
The Great TV Debate, Jason Kelly
Three Cheers for Reality TV, Heather Havrilesky
The Collapse of Big Media: The Young and The Restless, David T. Z. Mindich
AAP Discourages Television for Very Young Children, AmericanAcademyof Pediatrics
TV Can Be a Good Parent, Ariel Gore
Chapter 5: Climate Control? The Global Warming Debate
Global Warming: Who Loses-and Who Wins? Gregg Easterbrook
Global Warming is an Immediate Crisis, Al Gore
Culture Shock: An Inconvenient Truth
Don't Believe the Hype, Richard S. Lindzen
Reading the Blog: Please Stop Talking About the Global Warming Consensus
Global Warming Heats Up, Jeffrey Kluger
Culture Shock: Earth's Before and After Pics
Global Warming: A Divide on Causes and Solutions, PewResearch Centerfor the People and the Press
No Change in Political Climate, Ellen Goodman
On Comparing Global Warming Denial to Holocaust Denial, Dennis Prager
Chapter: 6 Sexual Politics: Diving into the Gender Gap
My Most Attractive Adversary, Madeleine Begun Kane
Male Bashing on TV, Michael Abernethy
Culture Shock: Men's Fault Magazine
The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Scott Russell Sanders
Girls, We Really Are Our Own Worst Enemies, Lyz Baranowski
In Search of Notorious PhDs, Lindsay Johns
Culture Shock: 50 Cent
The End of Herstory, Kay S. Hymowitz
Reading the Blog: A Thursday Musing on Anti-Feminist Young Women
The Science of Difference, Steven Pinker
Culture Shock: Annika Sorenstam Has Another Remarkable Year For A Lady
An Identity Reduced to a Burka, Semeen Issa and Laila Al-Marayati
Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood, Louise Story
Homeward Bound, Linda Hirshman
The Year of Domesticity, David Brooks
Chapter 7: The University System: Are We Making the Grade?
How to Get a College Education, Jeffrey Hart
A's for Everyone! Alicia C. Shepard
Culture Shock: Cartoon
Would Shakespeare Get into Swarthmore? John Katzman, Andy Lutz, and Erik Olson
America's Top University, Stanley N. Katz
College Makeover, S. Georgia Nugent
Who Should Get into College? John H. McWhorter
What's Wrong with Vocational School? Charles Murray
Higher Ed, Inc., James B. Twitchell
A Real Education, Christina Asquith
Reading the Blog: Does College Matter?
Regulating Racist Speech on Campus, Charles R. Lawrence III
Muzzling Free Speech, Harvey A. Silverglate
Chapter 8: Race and Racism: Can We Be Color-Blind?
Inequality, Race, and Remedy, Alan Jenkins
People Like Us, David Brooks
Culture Shock: Class and Race in America: The Legacy of Hurricane Katrina
Are You a Terrorist, or Do You Play One on TV? Laura Fokkena
Racial Profiling Goes Beyond Black and White, Sasha Polakow-Suransky
In Defense of 24, Emilio Karim Dabul
Please Ask Me "Who," Not "What," I Am, Jordan Lite
Getting Under My Skin, Don Terry
Why I'm Black, Not African American, John H. McWhorter
You Have the Right to Remain a Target of Racial Profiling, Eugene Robinson
The Racial Profiling Myth Lives On, Steve Chapman
Chapter 9: The Immigration Debate: No More Melting Pot?
Forging a New Vision of America's Melting Pot, Gregory Rodriguez
Do We Want Mexifornia? Victor Davis Hanson
Culture Shock: Immigrant Children
Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants? David M. Kennedy
Reading the Blog: Immigration Issue Explodes
Culture Shock: Anti-Immigration Rally
Educating Illegal Immigrants, Todd Rosenbaum
Immigration Quotas vs. Individual Rights: The Moral and Practical Case for Open Immigration? Harry Binswanger
Culture Shock: U.S. Census Map
The Next Americans, Tomas R. Jimenez
A Nation Divided by One Language, James Crawford
My Spanish Standoff, Gabriella Kuntz
Credits
Index
Rhetorical Contents