Writing in the Disciplines
A Reader and Rhetoric for Academic Writers
6th Edition
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For undergraduate-level courses in Composition, English, and Writing that focus on academic writing and writing from sources.
This combination rhetoric/anthology instructs college students how to read academic texts effectively and how to use them as sources for papers in a variety of disciplines.
In this 6th edition of Writing in the Disciplines, Mary Kennedy and William Kennedy have combined their expertise with more suggestions than ever before from students, instructors, and reviewers to retain the text's best qualities while now emphasizing academic writing as ongoing conversations in multiple genres. The rhetoric chapters teach critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing process, synthesizing, analyzing, researching, and developing arguments. The anthology balances journal articles with works by public intellectuals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, presenting issues and methods of inquiring in the disciplines and serving as idea banks for writing. Students learn how to work individually and collaboratively as they progress in writing from sources from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising academic essays.
This combination rhetoric/anthology instructs college students how to read academic texts effectively and how to use them as sources for papers in a variety of disciplines.
In this 6th edition of Writing in the Disciplines, Mary Kennedy and William Kennedy have combined their expertise with more suggestions than ever before from students, instructors, and reviewers to retain the text's best qualities while now emphasizing academic writing as ongoing conversations in multiple genres. The rhetoric chapters teach critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing process, synthesizing, analyzing, researching, and developing arguments. The anthology balances journal articles with works by public intellectuals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, presenting issues and methods of inquiring in the disciplines and serving as idea banks for writing. Students learn how to work individually and collaboratively as they progress in writing from sources from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising academic essays.
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BRlEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
P ART I: READlNG AND WRITING IN THE ACADEMIC DISCJPLINES
CHAPTER ONE
1 Preparing to Write: Active Critical Reading: Prereading and Close Reading
Academic Reading-Writing Process
Overview of the Academic Reading-Writing Process Conversation with the Texts
Active Critical Reading
Keep a Writer's Notebook
Prereading Close Reading
Reading for Content
Reading for Geme, Organization, and Stylistic Features
Reading for Rhetorical Context
CHAPTER Two
Preparing to Write: Active Critical Reading: Postreading
Personally Experience the Text
Convert Informal Response to Response Essay
Compose Paraphrases and Summaries and Record Quotations
Paraphrasing Procedures
Summarizing
Short Summary Abstract
Precis
Quoting
CHAPTER THREE
Sourcebook of Readings: An Academic Conversation about the "Mommy Wars"
Terms of the Argument Genres
Participants in the Conversation
MOTHERHOOD IDEOLOGIES AND MOTHERHOOD MYTHS? Deirdre D. Johnston and Debra H. Swanson Literature Review of research on popular images of working mothers.
THE LEAST WORSE CHOICE: WHY MOTHERS "OPT" OUT OF THE WORKFORCE Judith Stadtman Tucker
Synthesis: Source-based Argument of economic and cultural factors that affect women's choices.
MANY WOMEN AT ELITE COLLEGES SET CAREER PATH TO MOTHERHOOD Louise Story
WEASEL WORDS RIP MY FLESH! Jack Shafer
Rhetorical Analysis of Louise Story's verbal compromises that weaken her argument.
CRITIQUE OF 'MANY WOMEN AT ELITE COLLEGES SET CAREER PATH TO MOTHERHOOD" Tracey Meares
Critical Analysis of Louise Story's failure to take race and class into account for her report on elite women.
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES OF THE IVY LEAGUE? Katha Pollitt
Critical Analysis of Louise Story's misrepresentation of Yale women and the larger problems of working mothers.
HOMEWARD BOUND Linda. R. Hirshman
Argument that women from elite colleges with privileged backgrounds should serve as working moms for women with underprivileged backgrounds.
THE YEAR OF DOMESTICITY David Brooks
Critical Analysis of Hirshman's argument, advocating that women exert power in full-time motherhood.
THE RETURN OF THE MOMMY WARS Cathy Young
Analysis of Hirshman's argument, concluding that it is too harsh in questioning how women might exercise open choices.
FEMINISTS TO WOMEN: SHUT UP AND DO AS YOU'RE TOLD
Don Feder
Critical Analysis of Hirshman's argument which asserts that, by disparaging stay-at-home mothers, Hirshman becomes more of an antifeminist than a feminist for coercing women to conform to a single standard.
PARADISE LOST Terry Martin Hekker
Personal change of viewpoint recounting how her divorce left her unprepared for the modern workplace.
AT HOME WITH DAVID BROOKS Rebecca Traister
Comparative Analysis that argues why Brooks should read Terry Hekker's personal story.
MOTHER Y ALE Frances Rosenbluth
Causal Analysis why, among working mothers, change happens but is slow in coming.
CHAPTER FOUR
Critical Analysis
Part I: Critical Analysis
Focus of the Chapter
Adopting a Questioning Frame of Mind
Types of Analysis You Will Be Asked to Write Importance of Genre Knowledge
Approaches to Analysis
Purpose of Critical Analysis
Critical Analysis and the Academic Conversation
Examination of "The Return of the Mommy Wars," Cathy Young's Critical Analysis
of Linda Hirshman's "Homeward Bound"
Examination of "The Year of Domesticity," David Brooks' Critical Analysis of Linda
Hirshman's "Homeward Bound"
Part II: Writing a Critical Analysis: A Detailed Demonstration of the Reading-Writing Process
Critical Reading Planning Drafting
Planning Individual Paragraphs
Prepare Lists of References or Works Cited Revising the Preliminary Draft
Student's Critical Analysis Essay: Revision of Preliminary Draft
Revise Ideas
Revise Organization Revise Style
Conferences and Peer Review
Editing
Final Draft of Student's Critical Analysis Essay
CHAPTER FIVE
Rhetorical, Comparative, Literary, Process, and Causal Analysis, and the Classic Comparison and Contrast Essay
Rhetorical Analysis
Examination of "Weasel Words Rip My Flesh!" Jack Shafer's Rhetorical Analysis and Critique of Linda Story's "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood"
Process of Writing a Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Comparative Analysis
Examination of "At Home with David Brooks," Rebecca Traister's Comparative Analysis of David Brooks' "The Year of Domesticity" and Terry Martin Hekker's "Paradise Lost"
Process of Writing a Comparative Analysis Essay
Literary Analysis
Process of Writing a Literary Analysis Essay Student's Literary Analysis Essay
Short Table of Contents - Writing in the Disciplines
Process Analysis
Process of Writing a Process Analysis
Examination of Passages from Charles Krauthammer's "Crossing Lines"
Causal Analysis
Process of Writing a Causal Analysis
Examination of "Mother Yale," Frances Rosenbluth's Causal Analysis Classis Comparison and Contrast Essay
Process of Writing a Comparison and Contrast Essay Student's Comparison and Contrast Essay
Revision
CHAPTER SIX
Visual Analysis
Principles of Visual Analysis Portfolio of Photographs Overview of Visual Analysis
Writing Process a Visual Analysis Essay Previewing
Viewing for Content
Viewing for Genre, Organization, and Stylistic Features Viewing for Rhetorical Context
Sample Student Visual Analysis Essay
CHAPTER SEVEN
Synthesis
Analysis and Synthesis
Process of Writing Synthesis Essays Examine the Assignment
Determine Your Rhetorical Purpose; Purposes for Synthesizing Sources Ask Questions to Identify Relationships among the Sources
Formulate a Thesis and Review the Texts
Process of Writing an Explanatory Synthesis Essay Process of Writing a Literature Review
Examination of "Motherhood Ideologies and Motherhood Myths," Deidre D. Johnston and Debra H. Swanson's Literature Review Process of Writing a Thesis-Driven Synthesis
Examination of Student's Thesis-Driven Synthesis Essay
CHAPTER EIGHT
Argument
Nature of Academic Argument Developing Support for Arguments Joining the Academic Conversation
Examination of "The Least Worst Choice: Why Mothers 'Opt' Out of the Workforce," Judith Stadtman Tucker's Argument Synthesis
Process of Writing an Argument Synthesis Essay
Sample Student's Argument Synthesis Essay Organizing Argumentative Essays
Sample Argument Essay
CHAPTER NINE
Writing Research Papers
The Research Paper: An Introduction
Identify a Research Topic: The Role of the Assignment Illustration of Student's Process of Writing a Research Paper Select a Research Topic
Develop a Research Strategy
Determine Your Rhetorical Purpose Set a Schedule
Decide on the Question Your Research Will Answer Brainstorm a Preliminary Search Vocabulary Determine How You Will Find the Sources
Locate Sources in an Academic Library How to Find Books
How to Find Articles
Conduct Research on the World Wide Web Advantages of the Web
Advantages of college libraries
Find Digital Resources
How to Evaluate Web sources
Collect Information on Your Own: Surveys and Interviews Modify Your Search Strategy
Evaluate Information Sources
Excerpt Information from Sources
Write a Working Thesis
Planning the Research Paper
Revising
Editing
Sample Student Research Paper
PART II: AN ANTHOLOGY OF READINGS
Natural Sciences and Technology
CHAPTER TEN
Cloning
JENNIFER AND RACHEL Lee Silver
Defends human cloning as a legitimate reproductive choice.
NARCISSUS CLONED John J. Conley
Maintains that cloning human embryos violates the sanctity of human life and human relationships.
CROSSING LINES - A SECULAR ARGUMENT AGAJNST RESEARCH CLONING Charles Krauthammer
Argues that therapeutic cloning should not be pursued.
THE BUSINESS OF BODIES
Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin
Discusses the utilitarian value of human body tissue in a biotechnological age.
THE MORAL IMPERATIVE FOR HUMAN CLONING Ian Wilmut
Argues that human cloning technology must not be banned because it could save thousands of lives.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Human/Machine Interaction
IN DEFENSE OF ROBOTS Carl Sagan
Argues that humans are guilty of "speciesism "in their attitudes toward machine intelligence.
LOVING TECHNOLOGY Sherry Turkle
Describes robot/human relations hips and focuses on? children's interaction with electronic ''pets."
LIVE FOREVER Raymond Kurzweil
Predicts the consequences of beings able to transfer the contents of a human mind into a computer.
ISOLATED BY THE INTERNET Clifford Stoll
Argues that technology severs us from contact with other humans.
WHY THE FUTURE DOESN'T NEED US Bill Joy
Agues that robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology are threatening to make us an endangered species.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Crime-Fighting Technology: Balancing Public Safety and Privacy
COMPUTER PROJECT SEEKS TO AVERT YOUTH VIOLENCE Francis X. Clines
Describes Mosaic-2000, a computer program which is designed to identify students who might be prone to commit violent acts.
ROOTING OUT THE BAD SEEDS? Kelly Patricia O'Meara
Highlights the dangers to civil liberties posed by Mosaic-2000, a computer program which is designed to identify students who might be prone to commit violent acts.
KYLLO V. UNITED STATES: TECHNOLOGY V. INDNIDUAL PRIVACY Thomas Colbridge
Discusses the implications of a recent Supreme Court decision regarding the use of thermal imaging technology to detect indoor marijuana growing operations.
DC'S VIRTUAL P ANOPTICON Christian Parenti
Describes the expansion of video surveillance in DC in the wake of Sept 11 th events and highlights the dangers of this technology.
TRADING LIBERTY FOR ILLUSIONS Wendy Kaminer
Argues that, in the wake of Sept. 11th, Americans should not surrender civil liberties in exchange for a false sense of security.
INVASION OF PRIVACY Joshua Quittner
Argues that the benefits of modern technological advances are worth the reduction of individual privacy that accompanies them.
WIRE TRAP Richard A. Posner
Argues that the National Security Agency's program of electronic surveillance is permissible only if information it discovers is used for the sole purpose of national security
Social Sciences
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The Changing American Family
CHILDREN OF GAY FATHERS Robert L. Barret and Bryan E. Robinson
Investigates homosexual fatherhood and discusses the ramifications of gay parents for children's development.
WHAT IS FAMILY? Pauline Irit Erera
Traces the rise and fall of the traditional family and argues that we should embrace and celebrate the unique strengths of diverse, nontraditional families.
COHABITATION INSTEAD OF MARRIAGE James Q. Wilson
Argues against cohabitation, claiming that its advantages are illusory compared to the advantages of being married.
PROMOTING MARRIAGE AS A MEANS FOR PROMOTING FATHERHOOD Wade F. Horn
Argues for a revitalization of marriage as the chief means of strengthening father--child relationships.
UNMARRIED WITH CHILDREN Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
Demonstrates that unmarried mothers have not given up on marriage; they are simply waiting for the right situation and the right partner to make it work.
ABSENT FATHERS: WHY DON'T WE EVER TALK ABOUT THE UNMARRIED MEN? Rebecca M. Blank
Discusses the problems faced by poor, unmarried men and their effect on the poverty of single mothers and their children.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Social Class and Inequality
BORN POOR AND SMART Angela Locke
Gives a personal account of the experience of being born poor and smart.
THE WAR AGAINST THE POOR INSTEAD OF PROGRAMS TO END POVERTY Herbert Gans
Debunks the concept of "underclass" and similar stereotypes, and offers an intellectual and cultural defense of poor people.
Serving in Florida Barbara Ehrenreich
Describes Ehrenreich's experiences as a low-wage worker trying to survive on six to seven dollars an hour in Key West, Florida.
MIDDLE OF THE CLASS The Economist
Argues that in the United States, equality of opportunity is under threat.
WHEN SHELTER FEELS LIKE A PRISON Charmion Browne
Gives a personal account of life in homeless shelters.
WHITE STANDARD FOR POVERTY Dirk Johnson
Gives a glimpse of two faces of poverty in the Native American population, and warns against imposing white standards of poverty on Indians.
Humanities
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Rock Music and Cultural Values
TOWARD AN AESTHETIC OF POPULAR MUSIC Simon Frith
Asks, "How do we make value judgments about popular music?" Frith explains that we value music when it fulfills social functions of giving us an identity, enabling us to manage our feelings, and offering us a sense of time and place.
ROCK 'N' ROLL RISES AND THE OPPOSITION FORMS Linda Martin and Kerry Segrave
Traces rock and roll's development and adults' negative reactions to it.
ROCK AS ART Camille Paglia
Argues that we should treat rock like the other arts by funding rock musicians with grants and scholarships to prevent these artists from succumbing to record companies' pressure and cater to immature audiences' wishes.
ROMANTICIZING ROCK MUSIC Theodore A. Gracyk
Takes issue with Paglia's notion that rock musicians should be educated and treated like artists in the fine arts.
REDEEMING THE RAP EXPERIENCE Venise Berry
Explores three controversial issues - sex, violence, and racism - as she examines the relationship between rap music and black urban youths.
MALIGNING THE MUSIC Deena Weinstein
Discusses Heavy Metal as a sociocultural phenomenon.
MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY, AND GENERATION Y Martha Bayles
Discusses the value of having every type of music at our fingertips.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Stories of Ethnic Difference
A DIFFERENT MIRROR Ronald Takaki
Describes various patterns of Japanese immigration to America in the nineteenth century.
JASMINE Bharati Mukherjee
Narrates the jagged assimilation of an illegal immigrant from the West Indies into the academic community of Ann Arbor, Michigan
SNAPSHOTS Helena Maria Viramontes
Narrates a poignant account of a middle-aged Mexican-American widow's struggle to adjust to a life without her husband and children.
BETWEEN THE POOL AND THE GARDENIAS Edwidge Danticat
Narrates a harrowing account of a Haitian woman's identity crisis after her husband leaves her.
BIRTHMATES Gish Jen
Narrates the interactions among a divorced middle-aged Chinese-American male with men and women from different ethnic groups.
BOHEMIANS George Saunders
Narrates an offbeat account of a young boy's awakening to the diversity of immigrant experience in his ethnic neighborhood.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Three Visual Portfolios
IMAGES OF FAMILIES
Represents a variety of family groups and alternative lifestyles. IMAGES OF INEQUALITY
Represents a clash between Haves and Have Nots.
IMAGES OF ETHNIC DIVERSITY
Represents a diversity of immigrant and ethnic experiences in the United States.
Appendix: Documenting Sources Works Cited
Index
P ART I: READlNG AND WRITING IN THE ACADEMIC DISCJPLINES
CHAPTER ONE
1 Preparing to Write: Active Critical Reading: Prereading and Close Reading
Academic Reading-Writing Process
Overview of the Academic Reading-Writing Process Conversation with the Texts
Active Critical Reading
Keep a Writer's Notebook
Prereading Close Reading
Reading for Content
Reading for Geme, Organization, and Stylistic Features
Reading for Rhetorical Context
CHAPTER Two
Preparing to Write: Active Critical Reading: Postreading
Personally Experience the Text
Convert Informal Response to Response Essay
Compose Paraphrases and Summaries and Record Quotations
Paraphrasing Procedures
Summarizing
Short Summary Abstract
Precis
Quoting
CHAPTER THREE
Sourcebook of Readings: An Academic Conversation about the "Mommy Wars"
Terms of the Argument Genres
Participants in the Conversation
MOTHERHOOD IDEOLOGIES AND MOTHERHOOD MYTHS? Deirdre D. Johnston and Debra H. Swanson Literature Review of research on popular images of working mothers.
THE LEAST WORSE CHOICE: WHY MOTHERS "OPT" OUT OF THE WORKFORCE Judith Stadtman Tucker
Synthesis: Source-based Argument of economic and cultural factors that affect women's choices.
MANY WOMEN AT ELITE COLLEGES SET CAREER PATH TO MOTHERHOOD Louise Story
WEASEL WORDS RIP MY FLESH! Jack Shafer
Rhetorical Analysis of Louise Story's verbal compromises that weaken her argument.
CRITIQUE OF 'MANY WOMEN AT ELITE COLLEGES SET CAREER PATH TO MOTHERHOOD" Tracey Meares
Critical Analysis of Louise Story's failure to take race and class into account for her report on elite women.
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES OF THE IVY LEAGUE? Katha Pollitt
Critical Analysis of Louise Story's misrepresentation of Yale women and the larger problems of working mothers.
HOMEWARD BOUND Linda. R. Hirshman
Argument that women from elite colleges with privileged backgrounds should serve as working moms for women with underprivileged backgrounds.
THE YEAR OF DOMESTICITY David Brooks
Critical Analysis of Hirshman's argument, advocating that women exert power in full-time motherhood.
THE RETURN OF THE MOMMY WARS Cathy Young
Analysis of Hirshman's argument, concluding that it is too harsh in questioning how women might exercise open choices.
FEMINISTS TO WOMEN: SHUT UP AND DO AS YOU'RE TOLD
Don Feder
Critical Analysis of Hirshman's argument which asserts that, by disparaging stay-at-home mothers, Hirshman becomes more of an antifeminist than a feminist for coercing women to conform to a single standard.
PARADISE LOST Terry Martin Hekker
Personal change of viewpoint recounting how her divorce left her unprepared for the modern workplace.
AT HOME WITH DAVID BROOKS Rebecca Traister
Comparative Analysis that argues why Brooks should read Terry Hekker's personal story.
MOTHER Y ALE Frances Rosenbluth
Causal Analysis why, among working mothers, change happens but is slow in coming.
CHAPTER FOUR
Critical Analysis
Part I: Critical Analysis
Focus of the Chapter
Adopting a Questioning Frame of Mind
Types of Analysis You Will Be Asked to Write Importance of Genre Knowledge
Approaches to Analysis
Purpose of Critical Analysis
Critical Analysis and the Academic Conversation
Examination of "The Return of the Mommy Wars," Cathy Young's Critical Analysis
of Linda Hirshman's "Homeward Bound"
Examination of "The Year of Domesticity," David Brooks' Critical Analysis of Linda
Hirshman's "Homeward Bound"
Part II: Writing a Critical Analysis: A Detailed Demonstration of the Reading-Writing Process
Critical Reading Planning Drafting
Planning Individual Paragraphs
Prepare Lists of References or Works Cited Revising the Preliminary Draft
Student's Critical Analysis Essay: Revision of Preliminary Draft
Revise Ideas
Revise Organization Revise Style
Conferences and Peer Review
Editing
Final Draft of Student's Critical Analysis Essay
CHAPTER FIVE
Rhetorical, Comparative, Literary, Process, and Causal Analysis, and the Classic Comparison and Contrast Essay
Rhetorical Analysis
Examination of "Weasel Words Rip My Flesh!" Jack Shafer's Rhetorical Analysis and Critique of Linda Story's "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood"
Process of Writing a Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Comparative Analysis
Examination of "At Home with David Brooks," Rebecca Traister's Comparative Analysis of David Brooks' "The Year of Domesticity" and Terry Martin Hekker's "Paradise Lost"
Process of Writing a Comparative Analysis Essay
Literary Analysis
Process of Writing a Literary Analysis Essay Student's Literary Analysis Essay
Short Table of Contents - Writing in the Disciplines
Process Analysis
Process of Writing a Process Analysis
Examination of Passages from Charles Krauthammer's "Crossing Lines"
Causal Analysis
Process of Writing a Causal Analysis
Examination of "Mother Yale," Frances Rosenbluth's Causal Analysis Classis Comparison and Contrast Essay
Process of Writing a Comparison and Contrast Essay Student's Comparison and Contrast Essay
Revision
CHAPTER SIX
Visual Analysis
Principles of Visual Analysis Portfolio of Photographs Overview of Visual Analysis
Writing Process a Visual Analysis Essay Previewing
Viewing for Content
Viewing for Genre, Organization, and Stylistic Features Viewing for Rhetorical Context
Sample Student Visual Analysis Essay
CHAPTER SEVEN
Synthesis
Analysis and Synthesis
Process of Writing Synthesis Essays Examine the Assignment
Determine Your Rhetorical Purpose; Purposes for Synthesizing Sources Ask Questions to Identify Relationships among the Sources
Formulate a Thesis and Review the Texts
Process of Writing an Explanatory Synthesis Essay Process of Writing a Literature Review
Examination of "Motherhood Ideologies and Motherhood Myths," Deidre D. Johnston and Debra H. Swanson's Literature Review Process of Writing a Thesis-Driven Synthesis
Examination of Student's Thesis-Driven Synthesis Essay
CHAPTER EIGHT
Argument
Nature of Academic Argument Developing Support for Arguments Joining the Academic Conversation
Examination of "The Least Worst Choice: Why Mothers 'Opt' Out of the Workforce," Judith Stadtman Tucker's Argument Synthesis
Process of Writing an Argument Synthesis Essay
Sample Student's Argument Synthesis Essay Organizing Argumentative Essays
Sample Argument Essay
CHAPTER NINE
Writing Research Papers
The Research Paper: An Introduction
Identify a Research Topic: The Role of the Assignment Illustration of Student's Process of Writing a Research Paper Select a Research Topic
Develop a Research Strategy
Determine Your Rhetorical Purpose Set a Schedule
Decide on the Question Your Research Will Answer Brainstorm a Preliminary Search Vocabulary Determine How You Will Find the Sources
Locate Sources in an Academic Library How to Find Books
How to Find Articles
Conduct Research on the World Wide Web Advantages of the Web
Advantages of college libraries
Find Digital Resources
How to Evaluate Web sources
Collect Information on Your Own: Surveys and Interviews Modify Your Search Strategy
Evaluate Information Sources
Excerpt Information from Sources
Write a Working Thesis
Planning the Research Paper
Revising
Editing
Sample Student Research Paper
PART II: AN ANTHOLOGY OF READINGS
Natural Sciences and Technology
CHAPTER TEN
Cloning
JENNIFER AND RACHEL Lee Silver
Defends human cloning as a legitimate reproductive choice.
NARCISSUS CLONED John J. Conley
Maintains that cloning human embryos violates the sanctity of human life and human relationships.
CROSSING LINES - A SECULAR ARGUMENT AGAJNST RESEARCH CLONING Charles Krauthammer
Argues that therapeutic cloning should not be pursued.
THE BUSINESS OF BODIES
Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin
Discusses the utilitarian value of human body tissue in a biotechnological age.
THE MORAL IMPERATIVE FOR HUMAN CLONING Ian Wilmut
Argues that human cloning technology must not be banned because it could save thousands of lives.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Human/Machine Interaction
IN DEFENSE OF ROBOTS Carl Sagan
Argues that humans are guilty of "speciesism "in their attitudes toward machine intelligence.
LOVING TECHNOLOGY Sherry Turkle
Describes robot/human relations hips and focuses on? children's interaction with electronic ''pets."
LIVE FOREVER Raymond Kurzweil
Predicts the consequences of beings able to transfer the contents of a human mind into a computer.
ISOLATED BY THE INTERNET Clifford Stoll
Argues that technology severs us from contact with other humans.
WHY THE FUTURE DOESN'T NEED US Bill Joy
Agues that robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology are threatening to make us an endangered species.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Crime-Fighting Technology: Balancing Public Safety and Privacy
COMPUTER PROJECT SEEKS TO AVERT YOUTH VIOLENCE Francis X. Clines
Describes Mosaic-2000, a computer program which is designed to identify students who might be prone to commit violent acts.
ROOTING OUT THE BAD SEEDS? Kelly Patricia O'Meara
Highlights the dangers to civil liberties posed by Mosaic-2000, a computer program which is designed to identify students who might be prone to commit violent acts.
KYLLO V. UNITED STATES: TECHNOLOGY V. INDNIDUAL PRIVACY Thomas Colbridge
Discusses the implications of a recent Supreme Court decision regarding the use of thermal imaging technology to detect indoor marijuana growing operations.
DC'S VIRTUAL P ANOPTICON Christian Parenti
Describes the expansion of video surveillance in DC in the wake of Sept 11 th events and highlights the dangers of this technology.
TRADING LIBERTY FOR ILLUSIONS Wendy Kaminer
Argues that, in the wake of Sept. 11th, Americans should not surrender civil liberties in exchange for a false sense of security.
INVASION OF PRIVACY Joshua Quittner
Argues that the benefits of modern technological advances are worth the reduction of individual privacy that accompanies them.
WIRE TRAP Richard A. Posner
Argues that the National Security Agency's program of electronic surveillance is permissible only if information it discovers is used for the sole purpose of national security
Social Sciences
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The Changing American Family
CHILDREN OF GAY FATHERS Robert L. Barret and Bryan E. Robinson
Investigates homosexual fatherhood and discusses the ramifications of gay parents for children's development.
WHAT IS FAMILY? Pauline Irit Erera
Traces the rise and fall of the traditional family and argues that we should embrace and celebrate the unique strengths of diverse, nontraditional families.
COHABITATION INSTEAD OF MARRIAGE James Q. Wilson
Argues against cohabitation, claiming that its advantages are illusory compared to the advantages of being married.
PROMOTING MARRIAGE AS A MEANS FOR PROMOTING FATHERHOOD Wade F. Horn
Argues for a revitalization of marriage as the chief means of strengthening father--child relationships.
UNMARRIED WITH CHILDREN Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
Demonstrates that unmarried mothers have not given up on marriage; they are simply waiting for the right situation and the right partner to make it work.
ABSENT FATHERS: WHY DON'T WE EVER TALK ABOUT THE UNMARRIED MEN? Rebecca M. Blank
Discusses the problems faced by poor, unmarried men and their effect on the poverty of single mothers and their children.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Social Class and Inequality
BORN POOR AND SMART Angela Locke
Gives a personal account of the experience of being born poor and smart.
THE WAR AGAINST THE POOR INSTEAD OF PROGRAMS TO END POVERTY Herbert Gans
Debunks the concept of "underclass" and similar stereotypes, and offers an intellectual and cultural defense of poor people.
Serving in Florida Barbara Ehrenreich
Describes Ehrenreich's experiences as a low-wage worker trying to survive on six to seven dollars an hour in Key West, Florida.
MIDDLE OF THE CLASS The Economist
Argues that in the United States, equality of opportunity is under threat.
WHEN SHELTER FEELS LIKE A PRISON Charmion Browne
Gives a personal account of life in homeless shelters.
WHITE STANDARD FOR POVERTY Dirk Johnson
Gives a glimpse of two faces of poverty in the Native American population, and warns against imposing white standards of poverty on Indians.
Humanities
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Rock Music and Cultural Values
TOWARD AN AESTHETIC OF POPULAR MUSIC Simon Frith
Asks, "How do we make value judgments about popular music?" Frith explains that we value music when it fulfills social functions of giving us an identity, enabling us to manage our feelings, and offering us a sense of time and place.
ROCK 'N' ROLL RISES AND THE OPPOSITION FORMS Linda Martin and Kerry Segrave
Traces rock and roll's development and adults' negative reactions to it.
ROCK AS ART Camille Paglia
Argues that we should treat rock like the other arts by funding rock musicians with grants and scholarships to prevent these artists from succumbing to record companies' pressure and cater to immature audiences' wishes.
ROMANTICIZING ROCK MUSIC Theodore A. Gracyk
Takes issue with Paglia's notion that rock musicians should be educated and treated like artists in the fine arts.
REDEEMING THE RAP EXPERIENCE Venise Berry
Explores three controversial issues - sex, violence, and racism - as she examines the relationship between rap music and black urban youths.
MALIGNING THE MUSIC Deena Weinstein
Discusses Heavy Metal as a sociocultural phenomenon.
MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY, AND GENERATION Y Martha Bayles
Discusses the value of having every type of music at our fingertips.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Stories of Ethnic Difference
A DIFFERENT MIRROR Ronald Takaki
Describes various patterns of Japanese immigration to America in the nineteenth century.
JASMINE Bharati Mukherjee
Narrates the jagged assimilation of an illegal immigrant from the West Indies into the academic community of Ann Arbor, Michigan
SNAPSHOTS Helena Maria Viramontes
Narrates a poignant account of a middle-aged Mexican-American widow's struggle to adjust to a life without her husband and children.
BETWEEN THE POOL AND THE GARDENIAS Edwidge Danticat
Narrates a harrowing account of a Haitian woman's identity crisis after her husband leaves her.
BIRTHMATES Gish Jen
Narrates the interactions among a divorced middle-aged Chinese-American male with men and women from different ethnic groups.
BOHEMIANS George Saunders
Narrates an offbeat account of a young boy's awakening to the diversity of immigrant experience in his ethnic neighborhood.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Three Visual Portfolios
IMAGES OF FAMILIES
Represents a variety of family groups and alternative lifestyles. IMAGES OF INEQUALITY
Represents a clash between Haves and Have Nots.
IMAGES OF ETHNIC DIVERSITY
Represents a diversity of immigrant and ethnic experiences in the United States.
Appendix: Documenting Sources Works Cited
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