This topically arranged reader offers 32 challenging selections that show the exchange of ideas between academic and nonacademic communities. This is not a writing across the curriculum text; it is instead a reader that introduces students to academic and public discourse and that acknowledges the interdisciplinary aspect of most academic and cultural inquiry.
To the Instructor
To the Student
Alternate Contents by Academic Genre
Alternate Thematic Contents
1. FINDING YOUR PLACE IN THE CONVERSATION: BECOMING AN ACADEMIC READER
The Reading-Writing Relationship / Why Do We Read? / The Reader’s Role in the Reading Process / Understanding Rhetorical Context / Reading for the Intended Meaning / Using Genre Conventions To Construct Meaning / Using the Rules of Argument To Interpret Texts / Some Final Thoughts about Academic Reading and Writing /
2. THE CAMPUS AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY
Mike Rose, Entering the Conversation / Chester E. Finn, Jr., and Bruno V. Manno, Behind the Curtain / Phillip E. Johnson, The Creationist and the Sociobiologist: Two Stories about Illiberal Education / Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge, Introduction to the World of Women’s Studies / J. Wade Gilley, The Distributed University / George D. Kuh, et al, Some Good News about Campus Life / David M. Hummon, College Slang Revisited: Language, Culture, and Undergraduate Life /
3. WORK AND PLAY
Reg Theriault, Old Blue Collars, Young Blue Collars, and That Little Place You’re Going To Get in the Country / Herbert Applebaum, Work—Past, Present, and Future / Juliet B. Schor, Time Squeeze: The Extra Month at Work / Stanton Wheeler, Double Lives / Joan Ryan, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes / Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Telecommuting: The New Workplace Trend / Lotte Bailyn, Two Women at Work: Balancing Work and Family / Susan Willis for The Project on Disney, Public Use/Private State /
4. MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY, AND LITERACY
Neil Postman, The Medium Is the Metaphor / Deborah Brandt, Accumulating Literacy: Writing and Learning to Write in the Twentieth Century / Susan B. Neuman, Television and Reading in the Lives of Young Children / Michael C. Berthold, Jeopardy!, Cultural Literacy and the Discourse of Trivia / Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard, Steal this TV: How Media Literacy Can Change the World / Lana K. Rakow and Vija Navarro, Remote Mothering and the Parallel Shift: Women Meet the Cellular Telephone / Pamela E. Kramer and Shelia Lehman, Mismeasuring Women: A Critique of Research on Computer Ability and Avoidance / Charles McGrath, The Internet’s Arrested Development /
5. ETHICS, LAW, AND JUSTICE
Benjamin Sells, What Does the Law Want? / Leon Kass, Am I My Brother’s Keeper? Reflections on Compassion and Justice / Albert W. Alschuler, Our Faltering Jury / Craig Horowitz, Law and Disorder: How the Juvenile Justice System Is Letting Kids Get Away with Murder / Mark Hansen, Final Justice: Limiting Death Row Appeals / Lynn Hecht Schafran, Is the Law Male? / Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, The Right to Privacy: High-Tech Monitoring in the Workplace / Hadley Arkes, Moral Obtuseness in America / Richard Weisberg, From Jefferson to the Gulf War: How Lawyers Have Lost Their Golden Tongue / In each chapter: Chapter Introduction / Questions for Discussion / Questions for Research and Writing / Crosscurrents: Questions for Connecting the Readings /
Appendix A Voices from Our Past: Conversations in American Cultural History
Appendix B Research and Knowledge: A Short Guide to
Gathering and Using Outside Sources
Index
