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<b>1 A Writer Reads</b>

Previewing

Skimming

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Gary Steiner <i>Animal, Vegetable, Mineral</i>

</b>Highlighting, Underlining, Annotating

Summarizing

Critical Thinking: Analyzing the Text

Tone and Persona

<b>

Alexander Mauskop, Lawrence S. Lerner, L. David Peters, Lisa Dinhofer, Sandy Asirvatham, Alice Dosaulmiers <i>Letters Responding to Gary Steiner</i>

</b><b>&#20;<b>A Checklist: Analyzing Letters of Response</b></b><b>

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&#20; A CHECKLIST: READING, ANALYZING, AND EVALUATING AN ESSAY

Brent Staples <i>Black Men and Public Space

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<b>2 A Reader Writes</b>

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Incorporating Your Reading into Your Thinking: The Art and Science of Synthesis

</b>A Controversial Essay

C.S. Lewis <i>We Have No &quot;Right to Happiness&quot;

</i>

Responding to an Essay

The Writing Process

&#20;A CHECKLIST: GETTING STARTED

Getting Ready to Write a Draft

Draft of an Essay: On &quot;&#8216;We Have No &quot;Right to Happiness'&quot;

Revising and Editing a Draft

A Revised Draft: <i>Persuasive Strategies in C. S. Lewis's &quot;We Have No 'Right to Happiness&#8217;&quot; Rethinking the Thesis: Preliminary Notes

</i>The Final Version: <i>Style and Argument: An Examination of C. S. Lewis&#8216;s &#8220;We Have No &#8216;Right to Happiness&#8217; &quot;</i>

A Brief Overview of the Final Version

&#20;A CHECKLIST. ANALYZING YOUR ANALYSIS

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<b>3 Academic Writing</b>

Kinds of Prose

A Note on Writing a Summary

More about Critical Thinking: Analysis and Evaluation

&#20;A CHECKLIST. CRITICAL THINKING

Joining the Conversation: Writing about Differing Views

Interviewing

Using Quotations

Avoiding Plagiarism

&#20; A CHECKLIST: AVOIDING PLAGIARISM,

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How Much Do You Know about Citing Sources? A Quiz, with Answers

</b>&#20;A CHECKLIST. THIRTEEN QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF WHEN EDITING

A Student's Documented Essay

Jason Green <i>Did Dorothea Lange Pose Her Subject for &#8220;Migrant Mother&#8221;?

</i>

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<b>4 Writing an Argument</b>

The Aims of an Argumentative Essay

Negotiating Agreements: The Approach of Carl R. Rogers

&#20; A CHECKLIST: ROGERIAN ARGUMENT

Some Ways of Arguing: Appeals to Reason and Appeals to Emotions

Three Kinds of Evidence: Examples, Testimony,, Statistics

How Much Evidence Is Enough?

Avoiding Fallacies

Drafting an Argument

Organizing an Argument

Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs

&#20;A CHECKLIST: REVISING PARAGRAPHS

Persona and Style

An Overview: An Examination of an Argument

Richard Rhodes <i>Hollow Claims about Fantasy Violence

</i><b>

The Analysis Analyzed

An Argument about Phoning While Driving

Anonymous <i>Turn Car On; Turn Phone Off</i>

</b>A Debate for Analysis: Do Credit Companies Market Too Aggressively to Youths? Two Views

Travis B. Plunkett <i>Yes, Credit Companies Market Too Aggressively to Youths

</i>

Louis J. Freeh <i>No, Credit Companies Do Not Market Too Aggressively to Youths

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&#20; A CHECKLIST: REVISING DRAFTS OF ARGUMENTS

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5 Reading and Writing Arguments about Images

</b>The Language of Pictures

Writing about an Advertisement

<b>Looking Closely</b>

&#20;A CHECKLIST. ANALYZING ADVERTISEMENTS

Writing about a Political Cartoon

&#20; A CHECKLIST. ANALYZING POLITICAL CARTOONS

Lou Jacobs Jr. <i>What Qualities Does a Good Photograph Have?

</i>

Sample Analysis of a Photograph

A Sample Essay by a Student: Zoe Morales <i>Dancing at Durango

</i>

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<b>6 All in the Family</b>

ILLUSTRATIONS

Pablo Picasso <i>The Acrobat's Family with a Monkey

</i>

loanne Leonard <i>Sonia

</i>

SHORT VIEWS

Anonymous (William James?), Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy, Jessie Bernard, Jane Austen

Lewis Coser <i>The Family

</i>

Arlie Hochschild <i>The Second Shift: Employed Women Are Putting in Anotheer Day of Work at

Home

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Judy Brady <i>I Want a Wife

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Gabrielle Glaser <i>Scenes from an Intermarriage

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Andrew Sullivan <i>Why the &#8220;M&#8221; Word Matters to Me</i>

</b><b>Laurie Essig and Lynne Owens <i>What If Marriage Is Bad for Us?</i>

</b>Sam Schulman <i>Letting Go

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Anonymous <i>Confessions of an Erstwhile Child

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<b>Mary Eberstadt <i>Eminem Is Right</i>

</b>Celia E. Rothenberg <i>Child of Divorce

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Black Elk <i>High Horse's Courting

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Jamaica Kincaid <i>Girl </i>(story)

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Theodore Roethke <i>My Papa&#8217;s Waltz </i>(poem)

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7 Identities

</b>ILLUSTRATIONS

Dorothea Lange <i>Grandfather and Grandchildren Awaiting Evacuation Bus, Hayward, California

</i>

Marion Post Wolcott <i>Behind the Bar, Birney, Montana

</i>

SHORT VIEWS

Margaret Mead, Simone de Beauvoir, Israel Zangwill, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm

Rogelio R. Gomez <i>Foul Shots

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Nancy Mairs <i>On Being a Cripple</i>

</b>Zora Neale Hurston <i>How It Feels to Be Colored Me

</i>

Gloria Naylor <i>A Question of Language

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Stephen Jay Gould <i>Women's Brains

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Paul Theroux <i>The Male Myth

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Katha Pollitt <i>Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls

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Langston Hughes <i>Salvation</i>

</b>Amy Tan <i>Snapshot: Lost Lives of Women

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A Casebook on Race

</b>Columbia Encyclopedia <i>Race

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Armand Marie Leroi <i>A Family Tree in Every Gene

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David Fitch, Herbert J. Gans, Mary T. Bassett, Lynn M. Morgan, Martin E. Fuller, John Waldman <i>Letters Responding to Armand Marie Leroi

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Shelby Steele <i>Hailing While Black

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Countee Cullen <i>Incident </i>(poem)

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<b>8 Teaching and Learning</b>

ILLUSTRATIONS

Winslow Homer <i>Blackboard

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Gary Trudeau <i>Doonesbury</i>

</b>SHORT VIEWS

Francis Bacon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Emma Goldman, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, D. H. Lawrence, Prince Kropotkin, John Ruskin, Confucius, Joseph Wood Krutch,

Plato <i>The Myth of the Cave

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Two Debates (Four Arguments) for Analysis:

1. &nbsp;Do Video Games Significantly Enhance Literacy?

James Paul Gee <i>Pro

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Howard Gardner <i>Con

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2. &nbsp; Should Laptops Be Banned from the Classroom?

Andrew Goldstein (student) <i>Keep Online Poker Out of the Classroom: Why Professors Should Ban Laptops

</i>Elena Choy <i>Laptops in the Classroom? No Problem</i>

</b><b>Frederick Douglass <i>Learning to Read and Write</i>

</b>Richard Rodriguez <i>Public and Private Language

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Maya Angelou <i>Graduation

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<b>Walter Kirn <i>Class Dismissed</i></b><i>

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Fan Shen <i>The Classroom and the Wider Culture

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<b>David Brooks, &quot;The Other Education</b>&quot;

David Gelernter <i>Unplugged

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A Casebook on Testing and Grading

</b>Paul Goodman <i>A Proposal to Abolish Grading

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Diane Ravitch I<i>n Defense of Testing

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Joy Alonso <i>Two Cheers for Examinations

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<b>A Casebook: College Advice from People Who Have Been There Awhile</b>

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<i>Brief Advice to First-year Students, Offered by Old-timers</i>

Stanley Fish <i>The Hunt for a Good Teacher</i>

Gerald Graff <i>An Argument Worth Having</i>

Gary Wills <i>Play Politics</i>

Martha Nusbaum <i>Go the Wrong Way</i>

</b>Langston Hughes <i>Theme for English B </i>(poem)

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<b>9 Work and Play</b>

ILLUSTRATIONS

Dorothea Lange <i>Lettuce Cutters, Salinas Valley

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Helen Levitt <i>Children

</i>

SHORT VIEWS

Mark Twain, Duke of Wellington, Barbara Ehrenreich, Smohalla, Lost Star, John Ruskin, Vince Lombardi, George Orwell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walt Whitman, Ken Burns, Bion

Bertrand Russell <i>Work

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Mike Rose <i>Brains as Well as Brawn

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<b>Matthew Crawford <i>The Case for Working with Your Hands</i></b><i>

</i><b>

Gabriel Thompson, &quot;A Gringo in the Lettuce Fields&quot;

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Zev Chafetz <i>Let Steroids Into the Hall of Fame</i>

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Marge Piercy, &#8220;To Be of Use&#8221;

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10 Messages

</b>ILLUSTRATIONS

Jill Posener <i>Born Kicking, Graffiti on Billboard, London

</i>

Anonymous <i>Sapolio

</i>

SHORT VIEWS

Voltaire, Marianne Moore, Derek Walcott, Jane Wagner, Emily Dickinson, Anonymous, Rosalie Maggio, Alan Jacobs

Abraham Lincoln <i>Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery

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Gilbert Highet <i>The Gettysburg Address

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Robin Lakoff <i>You Are What You Say

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Edward T. Hall <i>Proxemics in the Arab World

</i>

James B. Twitchell <i>The Marlboro Man: The Perfect Campaign

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Eric Schlosser <i>Kid Kustomers

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<b>Julia Bird, 14: a txt msg pom (poem)</b>

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<b>11 Social Networking</b>

ILLUSTRATIONS

<b>Peer Steiner </b><i><b>On the Internet, nobody knows you&#8217;re a dog</b>

</i><b>Time Magazine </b><i><b>Person of the Year</b>

</i><b>Three Cartoons</b>

<b>Terri Libenson </b><i><b>The Frazzled Mom&#8217;s Default Facebook</b>

</i><b>Bliss </b><i><b>No, Mother, I&#8217;ve been busy</b>

</i><b>Scott Stantis <i>The newspaper says </i>. . .</b>

SHORT VIEWS

Henry David Thoreau, Paul Saffo, Marshall McLuhan, Anonynous, Anonymous

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Christine Rosen <i>Virtual Friendship

</i>Jeff Howe <i>Tomorrow&#8217;s Crowd

</i>Clay Shirky <i>Everyone Is a Media Outlet</i>

</b><b>A Casebook on Virtual Worlds

</b>Brent Staples <i>What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace

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Jeremy Rifkin Virtual Companionship

Kay S. Hymowitz Big Mother Is Watching

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A Casebook on Twitter: Two Essays and Two Cartoons

</b><b>David Carr <i>Why Twitter Will Endure

</i>Maureen Dowd <i>To Tweet or Not to Tweet

</i>Roz Chast <i>Meet Mr. Twitters

</i>Alex Gregory <i>Hey, fans

</i>Norman Silver txt commandment

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12 Law and Disorder

</b>ILLUSTRATIONS

Bernie Boston <i>Flower Power

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Norman Rockwell <i>The Problem We All Live With

</i>

SHORT VIEWS

African Proverb, Niccolo&quot; Machiavelli, Andrew Fletcher, Samuel Johnson, William Blake, Anatole France, H. L. Mencken, Mae West

Thomas Jefferson <i>The Declaration of Independence

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Martin Luther King Jr. <i>Nonviolent Resistance

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Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail

Michael Levin <i>The Case for Torture

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A Casebook on Bullying

</b><b>Natalie Angier <i>The Sandbox: Bully for You--Why Push Comes to Shove

</i>Andrew Keen <i>Douse the Online Flames

</i>Dan Wasserman <i>School Officials Take a Test</i>

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13 CONSUMER CULTURE

</b>ILLUSTRATIONS

Grant Wood American Gothic

Richard Hamilton just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?

SHORT VIEWS

Chinese Proverb,William Blake, Anonymous, George Bernard Shaw, G. C. Lichtenberg, Anonymous, Alison Lurie, Rudi Gernreich, Kenneth Clark, Le Corbusier, Epictetus

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Henry David Thoreau, <i>Where I LIIed, and What I Lived For</i>

</b><b>Michael Pollan <i>Eat Food: Food Defined</i>

</b>Michael Ableman <i>Feeding Our Future

</i><b>

David Gerard Hogan <i>Fast Food</i>

</b>Donna Maurer <i>Vegetarianism

</i><b>

Jonathan Safran Foer <i>Against Meat (Or at Least Percent of It)</i>

</b>Paul Goldberger <i>Quick! Before It Crumbles!

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Peter Singer and Jim Mason <i>Wal-Mart: Everyday Low Prices At What Cost?

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Sheldon Richman The Chutzpah of Wal-Mart's Critics

Jonathan Swift <i>A Modest Proposal

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James Wright <i>Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota </i>(poem)

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14 Our Environment: Present and Future

</b>ILLUSTRATIONS<b>

The 2010 BP oil spill

</b>SHORT VIEWS

Henry David Thoreau, Theodore Roosevelt, Prince Charles, John McCain, Rush Limbaugh, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Native American proverb

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Edward Abbey <i>Eco-Defense</i>

</b><b>Daniel Goleman and Gregory Norris <i>How Green Was My Bottle</i>

</b><b>Al Gore <i>We Can't Wish Away Climate Change</i></b><i>

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Simon Noble and Generoso Pope <i>Letters of Responding to Al Gore</i>

</b><b>Nicolette Hahn Niman <i>The Carnivore's Dilemma</i>

</b>Robert Frost <i>Fire and Ice </i>(poem)

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Appendix: A Writer&#8217;s Glossary