The World is a Text
The Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Culture and Its Contexts
2nd Edition
Published on 17. August 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
864 pages
978-0-13-193198-5 (ISBN)
Description
For courses in First Year Composition, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, and Semiotics.
The World is a Text is the most visual popular culture reader with the best coverage of writing.
When Jonathan Silverman and Dean Rader commuted together, they often discussed the possibilities and challenges of teaching popular culture and composition. Not only did they want their students to read diverse texts about popular culture, but also they wanted to equip them to engage with popular culture and with each other directly for the goal of better writing. The authors also envisioned more purposeful writing instruction in general in a popular culture reader. Out of those discussions and their own classroom practice came The World is a Text.
This cultural studies reader directly engages the process of reading and writing about the "texts" one sees in everyday life. The semiotic approach focuses on the relationship between reading traditional works--such as essays and poems--and other less-traditional ones--such as movies, technology, race, ethnicity, television and public space. More importantly, the book teaches students the usefulness of learning to read actively their surroundings. The new edition features a greatly expanded section on writing, editing, and making arguments.
The World is a Text is the most visual popular culture reader with the best coverage of writing.
When Jonathan Silverman and Dean Rader commuted together, they often discussed the possibilities and challenges of teaching popular culture and composition. Not only did they want their students to read diverse texts about popular culture, but also they wanted to equip them to engage with popular culture and with each other directly for the goal of better writing. The authors also envisioned more purposeful writing instruction in general in a popular culture reader. Out of those discussions and their own classroom practice came The World is a Text.
This cultural studies reader directly engages the process of reading and writing about the "texts" one sees in everyday life. The semiotic approach focuses on the relationship between reading traditional works--such as essays and poems--and other less-traditional ones--such as movies, technology, race, ethnicity, television and public space. More importantly, the book teaches students the usefulness of learning to read actively their surroundings. The new edition features a greatly expanded section on writing, editing, and making arguments.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-13-193198-5 (9780131931985)
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Content
Introduction.
Semiotics: The Study of Signs (and Texts). Systems of Reading: Making Sense of Cultural Texts. The "Semiotic Situation" (or the "Moving Text"). Texts, the World, You, and Your Papers. Learning to Read the World as a Text: Three Case Studies: Reading Public Space: Starbucks Reading a Poem: "The Red Wheelbarrow" Reading an Advertisement: Tommy Girls, Tommy Boys, and America. Reading This Text as a Text The World is a Text: Writing The World is a Text: Reading. So, the World Is a Text, What Can You Do with It?
The World Is a Text: Writing.
A Short Guide to The World is a Text: Writing. Part I: How Do I Write a Text for College? Making the Transition from High School Writing, by Patty Strong. Part II: How Do I Write About Popular Culture Texts? A Tour Through the Writing Process Understanding the Assignment Freewriting and Brainstorming Outlining Constructing a Good Thesis Building an Opening Paragraph: A Case Study Building Good Paragraphs Drafting the Whole Essay Editing and Revising, Editing and Revising, Editing and Revising Turning in the Finished ProductPart III: How Do I Argue About Popular Culture Texts? A Guide for Building Good Arguments Knowing Your Arguments Knowing Your Audience How to Make Arguments: Some Helpful TipsPart IV: How Do I Get Info on Songs? Researching Popular Culture Texts Researching Non-Traditional Texts: One Method Nuts and Bolts Research Guerilla ResearchPart V: How Do I Know What a Good Paper Looks Like? An Annotated Student EssayPart VI: How Do I Cite This Car? Guidelines for Citing Popular Culture Texts Using Parenthetical References Building the Works Cited Page Plagiarism Works Cited ExamplesPart V: How Am I a Text? On Writing Personal Essays
The World Is a Text: Reading.
1. Reading and Writing about Poetry.
Worksheet
Pablo Neruda, Ode to My Socks
Naomi Shihab Nye, Blood
James Tate, Goodtime Jesus
William Shakespeare, My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet 130)
Wanda Coleman, American Sonnet
Shel Silverstein, Bear in There.
Carolyn Forche, The Colonel
Langston Hughes, Harlem
Donald Rumsfeld, (and Hart Seely), the Unknown
Campbell McGrath, Capitalist Poem #5
Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Billy Collins, Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
Edward Hirsch, How to Read a Poem (from How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry)
James Longenbach, The Resistance to Poetry (from The Resistance to Poetry).
Student Essay: Ginny Zeppa, The Socks of Life
The "Is It Poetry?" Suite
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
2. Reading and Writing about Television
Worksheet
Ariel Gore, "TV Can Be a Good Parent"
Harry Waters, "Life According to TV"
Michelle Cottle, "How Soaps are Integrating TV"
Katherine Gantz, "Not That There's Anything Wrong with That": Reading the Queer in Seinfeld
Student essay: Archana Mehta, "Society's Need For A Queer Solution: The Media's Reinforcement of Homophobia Through Traditional Gender Roles"
Peter Parisi, "`Black Bart' Simpson: Appropriation and Revitalization in Commodity Culture"
The Reality TV Suite
Henry Goldblatt and Ken Tucker, "Reality TV Bites-Or Does it: The New Soap Opera or the End of Civilization. A Point-Counterpoint"
Justin T. P. Ryan, "Reality Dating"
Francine Prose, "Voting Democracy off the Island: Reality TV and the Republican Ethos"
Student Essay: Hillary West, Media Journal: The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
Media Journal
3. Reading and Writing about Public and Private Space
Worksheet
Daphne Spain, Spatial Segregation and Gender Stratification in the Workplace
Kenneth Meeks, "Shopping in a Mall While Black: A Coach's Story"
Robert Bednar, "Caught Looking: Problems with Taking Pictures of People Taking Pictures at an Exhibition"
David Chuenyann Lai, "The Visual Character of Chinatowns"
Student Essay: Matt King, "Reading the Nautical Star"
Space: The Suburban Suite
William L. Hamilton, "How Suburban Design is Failing Teenagers"
William Booth, "A White Migration North from Miami"
Sarah Boxer, "A Remedy for the Rootlessness of Modern Suburban Life"
Whitney Gould, "New Urbanism Needs to Keep Racial Issues in Mind"
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
The Common Element
4. Reading and Writing about Race and Ethnicity
Worksheet
Tamar Lewin, "Growing Up, Growing Apart"
Michael Omi, "In Living Color: Race and American Culture"
Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue"
Jim Mahfood, "True Tales of Amerikkkan History Part II: The True Thanksgiving"
Beverly Daniel Tatum, "Why Are All the Blacks Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"
Malcolm Gladwell, "The Sports Taboo"
Zebedee Nungak, "Qallunaat 101: Inuits Study White Folks in this New Academic Field"
Teja Arboleda, "Race is a Four-Letter Word"
Betty Shameih: Censoring Myself.
The Native American Mascot Suite
Ward Churchill, "Let's Spread the Fun Around"
C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood, "Imagined Indians Social Identities and Activism"
S. L, Price, "The Indian Wars."
A Suite of Cartoons
"Which One Is the Mascot?"
"But I'm Honoring You, Dude!"
"Pow Wow"
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
5. Reading and Writing about Movies
Roger Ebert, "Great Movies: The First 100"
Michael Parenti, "Class and Virtue."
bell hooks, "Mock Feminism"
Freya Johnson, "Holy Homosexuality Batman!: Camp and Corporate Capitalism in Batman Forever"
Louise Erdrich, "Dear John Wayne"
Sherman Alexie, "My Heroes Have Never Been Cowboys"
Jason Silverman, "Deciphering I: Robot- Random Thoughts from an Evolving Film Critic"
Student Essay: Whitney Black, Star Wars and America
The Passion of the Christ Suite.
Roger Ebert, "The Passion of the Christ"
David Denby, "Nailed"
Charity Dell, "An African-American Christian's View of Passion"
David Edelstein, "Jesus H. Christ: The Passion, Mel Gibson's Bloody Mess"
Interchapter: Reading and Writing about Images
America, Cowboys, The West, and Race
Two Images of Gender
The Semiotics of Architecture
Flags
Laundry
Neighborhoods
Cars
Signs
Two Photos by Diane Arbus
Private Symbol/Public Space: The Virgin of Guadalupe
Two Murals by Rigo
Diners
Postcards from Texas
The American Signs on Route 66 Suite
Worksheet
6. Reading and Writing about Gender
Worksheet
Deborah Tannen, "Marked Women, Unmarked Men"
Holly Devor, "Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes"
Paul Theroux, "Being a Man"
Alfonsina Storni, "You Would Have Me White"
Alice Rutkowski, "Why Chicks Dig Vampires: Sex, Blood and Buffy"
Student Essay: Elizabeth Greenwood, "Unreal City: Gender and War"
The Myths of Gender Suite
Jill Birnie Henke, Diane Zimmerman Umble, and Nancy J. Smith, "Construction of the Female Self: Feminist Reading and Writing about of the Disney Heroine"
Jane Yolen, "America's Cinderella"
Maxine Kingston, "No Name Woman"
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
7. Reading and Writing about Art
Worksheet
John Berger, "Ways of Seeing"
Alan Pratt, "Andy Warhol: The Most Controversial Artist of the Century?"
"Which Art Will Top the Chartes?: Four Curators Share Their Top 10 Picks and Reasoning behind the Most Influential Visual Artworks of the Past 1,000 Years"
E. G. Chrichton, "Is the NAMES Quilt Art?"
Scott McCloud, "Sequential Art"
Diana Mack, "It Isn't Pretty But Is It Art?"
Student essay: Anne Darby, "#27: Reading and Writing about Cindy Sherman and Gender"
The Censorship Suite
Andres Serrano, Piss Christ
Dread Scott, What Is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?
Avalus, Hock and Sisco, Welcome to America's Finest Tourist Plantation
Serrano, Klanswoman
Grany Fury, Kissing Doesn't Kill
Andres Andy Cox, Citybank posters
Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin
Alma Lopez, Our Lady
Renee Cox, Yo Mama's last supper
"A Boondocks Cartoon"
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
8. Reading and Writing about Advertising, Journalism, and the Media
Worksheet
Malcolm Gladwell, "The Coolhunt"
Clint C. Wilson and Felix Gutierrez, "Advertising and People of Color"
David McGowan, "The America the Media Don't Want You to See"
Student Essay: Brittany Gray, "Hanes Her Way"
William Lutz, "Weasel Words"
Student Essay: Arianne Galino, "Sister Act: A Destructive Form of Writing"
The Baylor University Journalism Suite.
The Baylor Question
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
Assignment: The Rhetorical Analysis
9. Reading and Writing about Relationships
Worksheet
Margaret Atwood, "Happy Endings"
Philip Levine, "You Can Have It"
David Sedaris, "To Make a Friend, Be A Friend"
Tracy Seeley, "My Mother's Hands"
The College Relationship Suite
Student Essay: Emily Littlewood, "Can You Handle the Commitment?: Three Types of College Relationships"
Libby Copeland, "Boy Friend; Between those Two Words, A Guy Can Get Crushed"
Laura Kipnis, "Off Limits: Should Students Be Allowed to Hook Up with Professors?"
Kathleen Dean More and Lani Roberts, "Case Study: Harmful Hug?"
Deni Elliot and Paul Martin Lester, "When Is It OK to Invite a Student to Dinner?"
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
10. Reading and Writing about Music.
Worksheet
Kevin J.H. Dettmar and William Richey, "Musical Cheese: The Appropriation of Seventies Music in Nineties Movies"
Student Essay:Fouzia Baber, "Is Tupac Really Dead?"
Student Essay:Sarah Hawkins, "Right on Target: Revisiting Elvis Costello's My Aim is True."
The Song Suite
Dave Marsh, "Johnny B. Goode," by Chuck Berry
Robert Shelton, "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan
Michael Azerrad, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana
Student Essay: Matt Compton, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Alessandro Portelli, "Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn"
Christopher Sieving, "Cop Out? The Media, 'Cop Killer,' and the Deracialization of Black Rage (Constructing [Mis]Representations) by Ice-T
Reading Between the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
11. Reading and Writing about Technology
Worksheet
Donald A. Norman, "Infuriating By Design: Everyday Things Need Not Wreak Havoc On Our Lives"
Steven Johnson, "How the Computer Changed My Writing"
Heidi Pollock, "Confessions of an Online Journalist"
John Leo, "Kill-for-Kicks Video Games Desensitizing Our Children"
Student Essay: Dan Walsh, "Hungry for a Scapegoat: A Rebuttal to John Leo's `Kill-for-Kicks Video Games Desensitizing our Children"
Lisa Nakamura, "Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality"
Technology and Communication Suite
Deborah Tannen, "Connections"
Camille Sweeny, "In A Chat Room you can be NE1" in "In a Chat Room, You Can Be NE1: Constructing a Teenage Life On Line"
Student Essay:Virginia Colwell, "Mail-Order Brides: The Content of Internet Courtship"
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
Credits
Index
Semiotics: The Study of Signs (and Texts). Systems of Reading: Making Sense of Cultural Texts. The "Semiotic Situation" (or the "Moving Text"). Texts, the World, You, and Your Papers. Learning to Read the World as a Text: Three Case Studies: Reading Public Space: Starbucks Reading a Poem: "The Red Wheelbarrow" Reading an Advertisement: Tommy Girls, Tommy Boys, and America. Reading This Text as a Text The World is a Text: Writing The World is a Text: Reading. So, the World Is a Text, What Can You Do with It?
The World Is a Text: Writing.
A Short Guide to The World is a Text: Writing. Part I: How Do I Write a Text for College? Making the Transition from High School Writing, by Patty Strong. Part II: How Do I Write About Popular Culture Texts? A Tour Through the Writing Process Understanding the Assignment Freewriting and Brainstorming Outlining Constructing a Good Thesis Building an Opening Paragraph: A Case Study Building Good Paragraphs Drafting the Whole Essay Editing and Revising, Editing and Revising, Editing and Revising Turning in the Finished ProductPart III: How Do I Argue About Popular Culture Texts? A Guide for Building Good Arguments Knowing Your Arguments Knowing Your Audience How to Make Arguments: Some Helpful TipsPart IV: How Do I Get Info on Songs? Researching Popular Culture Texts Researching Non-Traditional Texts: One Method Nuts and Bolts Research Guerilla ResearchPart V: How Do I Know What a Good Paper Looks Like? An Annotated Student EssayPart VI: How Do I Cite This Car? Guidelines for Citing Popular Culture Texts Using Parenthetical References Building the Works Cited Page Plagiarism Works Cited ExamplesPart V: How Am I a Text? On Writing Personal Essays
The World Is a Text: Reading.
1. Reading and Writing about Poetry.
Worksheet
Pablo Neruda, Ode to My Socks
Naomi Shihab Nye, Blood
James Tate, Goodtime Jesus
William Shakespeare, My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet 130)
Wanda Coleman, American Sonnet
Shel Silverstein, Bear in There.
Carolyn Forche, The Colonel
Langston Hughes, Harlem
Donald Rumsfeld, (and Hart Seely), the Unknown
Campbell McGrath, Capitalist Poem #5
Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Billy Collins, Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
Edward Hirsch, How to Read a Poem (from How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry)
James Longenbach, The Resistance to Poetry (from The Resistance to Poetry).
Student Essay: Ginny Zeppa, The Socks of Life
The "Is It Poetry?" Suite
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
2. Reading and Writing about Television
Worksheet
Ariel Gore, "TV Can Be a Good Parent"
Harry Waters, "Life According to TV"
Michelle Cottle, "How Soaps are Integrating TV"
Katherine Gantz, "Not That There's Anything Wrong with That": Reading the Queer in Seinfeld
Student essay: Archana Mehta, "Society's Need For A Queer Solution: The Media's Reinforcement of Homophobia Through Traditional Gender Roles"
Peter Parisi, "`Black Bart' Simpson: Appropriation and Revitalization in Commodity Culture"
The Reality TV Suite
Henry Goldblatt and Ken Tucker, "Reality TV Bites-Or Does it: The New Soap Opera or the End of Civilization. A Point-Counterpoint"
Justin T. P. Ryan, "Reality Dating"
Francine Prose, "Voting Democracy off the Island: Reality TV and the Republican Ethos"
Student Essay: Hillary West, Media Journal: The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
Media Journal
3. Reading and Writing about Public and Private Space
Worksheet
Daphne Spain, Spatial Segregation and Gender Stratification in the Workplace
Kenneth Meeks, "Shopping in a Mall While Black: A Coach's Story"
Robert Bednar, "Caught Looking: Problems with Taking Pictures of People Taking Pictures at an Exhibition"
David Chuenyann Lai, "The Visual Character of Chinatowns"
Student Essay: Matt King, "Reading the Nautical Star"
Space: The Suburban Suite
William L. Hamilton, "How Suburban Design is Failing Teenagers"
William Booth, "A White Migration North from Miami"
Sarah Boxer, "A Remedy for the Rootlessness of Modern Suburban Life"
Whitney Gould, "New Urbanism Needs to Keep Racial Issues in Mind"
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
The Common Element
4. Reading and Writing about Race and Ethnicity
Worksheet
Tamar Lewin, "Growing Up, Growing Apart"
Michael Omi, "In Living Color: Race and American Culture"
Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue"
Jim Mahfood, "True Tales of Amerikkkan History Part II: The True Thanksgiving"
Beverly Daniel Tatum, "Why Are All the Blacks Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"
Malcolm Gladwell, "The Sports Taboo"
Zebedee Nungak, "Qallunaat 101: Inuits Study White Folks in this New Academic Field"
Teja Arboleda, "Race is a Four-Letter Word"
Betty Shameih: Censoring Myself.
The Native American Mascot Suite
Ward Churchill, "Let's Spread the Fun Around"
C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood, "Imagined Indians Social Identities and Activism"
S. L, Price, "The Indian Wars."
A Suite of Cartoons
"Which One Is the Mascot?"
"But I'm Honoring You, Dude!"
"Pow Wow"
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
5. Reading and Writing about Movies
Roger Ebert, "Great Movies: The First 100"
Michael Parenti, "Class and Virtue."
bell hooks, "Mock Feminism"
Freya Johnson, "Holy Homosexuality Batman!: Camp and Corporate Capitalism in Batman Forever"
Louise Erdrich, "Dear John Wayne"
Sherman Alexie, "My Heroes Have Never Been Cowboys"
Jason Silverman, "Deciphering I: Robot- Random Thoughts from an Evolving Film Critic"
Student Essay: Whitney Black, Star Wars and America
The Passion of the Christ Suite.
Roger Ebert, "The Passion of the Christ"
David Denby, "Nailed"
Charity Dell, "An African-American Christian's View of Passion"
David Edelstein, "Jesus H. Christ: The Passion, Mel Gibson's Bloody Mess"
Interchapter: Reading and Writing about Images
America, Cowboys, The West, and Race
Two Images of Gender
The Semiotics of Architecture
Flags
Laundry
Neighborhoods
Cars
Signs
Two Photos by Diane Arbus
Private Symbol/Public Space: The Virgin of Guadalupe
Two Murals by Rigo
Diners
Postcards from Texas
The American Signs on Route 66 Suite
Worksheet
6. Reading and Writing about Gender
Worksheet
Deborah Tannen, "Marked Women, Unmarked Men"
Holly Devor, "Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes"
Paul Theroux, "Being a Man"
Alfonsina Storni, "You Would Have Me White"
Alice Rutkowski, "Why Chicks Dig Vampires: Sex, Blood and Buffy"
Student Essay: Elizabeth Greenwood, "Unreal City: Gender and War"
The Myths of Gender Suite
Jill Birnie Henke, Diane Zimmerman Umble, and Nancy J. Smith, "Construction of the Female Self: Feminist Reading and Writing about of the Disney Heroine"
Jane Yolen, "America's Cinderella"
Maxine Kingston, "No Name Woman"
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
7. Reading and Writing about Art
Worksheet
John Berger, "Ways of Seeing"
Alan Pratt, "Andy Warhol: The Most Controversial Artist of the Century?"
"Which Art Will Top the Chartes?: Four Curators Share Their Top 10 Picks and Reasoning behind the Most Influential Visual Artworks of the Past 1,000 Years"
E. G. Chrichton, "Is the NAMES Quilt Art?"
Scott McCloud, "Sequential Art"
Diana Mack, "It Isn't Pretty But Is It Art?"
Student essay: Anne Darby, "#27: Reading and Writing about Cindy Sherman and Gender"
The Censorship Suite
Andres Serrano, Piss Christ
Dread Scott, What Is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?
Avalus, Hock and Sisco, Welcome to America's Finest Tourist Plantation
Serrano, Klanswoman
Grany Fury, Kissing Doesn't Kill
Andres Andy Cox, Citybank posters
Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin
Alma Lopez, Our Lady
Renee Cox, Yo Mama's last supper
"A Boondocks Cartoon"
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
8. Reading and Writing about Advertising, Journalism, and the Media
Worksheet
Malcolm Gladwell, "The Coolhunt"
Clint C. Wilson and Felix Gutierrez, "Advertising and People of Color"
David McGowan, "The America the Media Don't Want You to See"
Student Essay: Brittany Gray, "Hanes Her Way"
William Lutz, "Weasel Words"
Student Essay: Arianne Galino, "Sister Act: A Destructive Form of Writing"
The Baylor University Journalism Suite.
The Baylor Question
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
Assignment: The Rhetorical Analysis
9. Reading and Writing about Relationships
Worksheet
Margaret Atwood, "Happy Endings"
Philip Levine, "You Can Have It"
David Sedaris, "To Make a Friend, Be A Friend"
Tracy Seeley, "My Mother's Hands"
The College Relationship Suite
Student Essay: Emily Littlewood, "Can You Handle the Commitment?: Three Types of College Relationships"
Libby Copeland, "Boy Friend; Between those Two Words, A Guy Can Get Crushed"
Laura Kipnis, "Off Limits: Should Students Be Allowed to Hook Up with Professors?"
Kathleen Dean More and Lani Roberts, "Case Study: Harmful Hug?"
Deni Elliot and Paul Martin Lester, "When Is It OK to Invite a Student to Dinner?"
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
10. Reading and Writing about Music.
Worksheet
Kevin J.H. Dettmar and William Richey, "Musical Cheese: The Appropriation of Seventies Music in Nineties Movies"
Student Essay:Fouzia Baber, "Is Tupac Really Dead?"
Student Essay:Sarah Hawkins, "Right on Target: Revisiting Elvis Costello's My Aim is True."
The Song Suite
Dave Marsh, "Johnny B. Goode," by Chuck Berry
Robert Shelton, "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan
Michael Azerrad, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana
Student Essay: Matt Compton, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Alessandro Portelli, "Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn"
Christopher Sieving, "Cop Out? The Media, 'Cop Killer,' and the Deracialization of Black Rage (Constructing [Mis]Representations) by Ice-T
Reading Between the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
11. Reading and Writing about Technology
Worksheet
Donald A. Norman, "Infuriating By Design: Everyday Things Need Not Wreak Havoc On Our Lives"
Steven Johnson, "How the Computer Changed My Writing"
Heidi Pollock, "Confessions of an Online Journalist"
John Leo, "Kill-for-Kicks Video Games Desensitizing Our Children"
Student Essay: Dan Walsh, "Hungry for a Scapegoat: A Rebuttal to John Leo's `Kill-for-Kicks Video Games Desensitizing our Children"
Lisa Nakamura, "Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality"
Technology and Communication Suite
Deborah Tannen, "Connections"
Camille Sweeny, "In A Chat Room you can be NE1" in "In a Chat Room, You Can Be NE1: Constructing a Teenage Life On Line"
Student Essay:Virginia Colwell, "Mail-Order Brides: The Content of Internet Courtship"
Reading Outside the Lines
Classroom Activities
Essay Ideas
Credits
Index