PART 1: READING AND WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES

Chapter 1       Knowledge, Reading, and Writing across Disciplines

            Preparing a Foundation for Learning             

Understanding Genres

                        Sciences

                        Social Sciences

                        Humanities

                        Genres Used across Fields

            Linking Thinking, Reading, and Writing

            Learning in Disciplines

            Categorizing Academic Disciplines

                        Natural and Applied Sciences

                        Social Sciences

                        Business and Applied/Professional Studies

                        History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies

                        Humanities

                        Creative Arts

            Understanding Genre Expectations in the Disciplines

            Researching in the Disciplines

            Reasoning

                        Cross-Check

Chapter 2       Reading across Disciplines: Reading for Learning, for Analysis, and for Argument

            Reading for Learning

                        Strategies for Reading

            Reading the Author’s Logic: Logical Fallacies

            Reading Visual Aids

            Reading Internet Sites and Determining Credibility

            Reading for Analysis

                        Strategies for Analytic Reading

            Analyzing Arguments

            Argumentation in the Disciplines

                        Cross-Check 

Chapter 3       Writing and Researching: Genres, Practices, and Processes

            Writing Conventions

                        Rules

                        Guidelines

                        Strategies

            Writing as a Cyclical Process

                        Planning and Invention

                        Analyzing your Audiences

                        Writing Arguments

                        Developing a Thesis Statement

            Researching

                        Types of Research

                        Starting Your Research

                        Narrowing Your Topic

                        Taking Notes

            Synthesizing and Incorporating Borrowed Material without

  Plagiarizing

                        Organizing Ideas

                        Working with Visual Aids

                        Revising, Editing, and Proofreading

            Documenting Sources

                        MLA Documentation

                                    Annotated Student Paper

                        APA Documentation                          

                        Cross-Check

PART 2: ANTHOLOGY OF READINGS

Chapter 4       Nature, Genetics, and the Philosophy of Science

Introduction

Emily Martin, et. al. “Scientific Literacy, What It Is, Why It’s Important, and Why Scientists Think We Don’t Have It”

Foundations in the Philosophy of Science

Thomas Kuhn “The Historical Structure of Scientific Discovery”

Paul Feyerabend, from Against Method

The Tools of Science: A World Too Small to See (images)

Genetics and Human Identity

Barry Commoner “Unraveling the DNA Myth”

Francis Fukuyama “Why We Should Worry” from Our Posthuman Future

Visions of the Posthuman (images)

Michael J. Sandel “The Case Against Perfection”

Olivia Judson “The Selfless Gene”

Robert Lanza “A New Theory of the Universe”

Natalie Angier “My God Problem—And Theirs”

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 5       Business and Economics

Introduction

Barbara Ehrenreich, “Maid to Order”

Foundations: Free Enterprise and Social Responsibility

Milton Friedman, “Economic Freedom and Political Freedom” (from Capitalism and Freedom)

John Maynard Keynes, “The End of Laissez-Faire”

Doing Business in America (images)

Barbara Kellerman, “Leadership: Warts and All”

Nature and the Economic Realm: Causes and Conflicts

Paul Krugman, “Irrational Exuberance” (from The Great Unraveling)

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, “Information Asymmetry” (from Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything)

Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan, “Laughing All the Way to the Darwinian Bank” (from Mean Genes,)

At Work in America: The Triumph and Trials of an Economic System (images)

Steve Denning, “Why Amazon Can’t Make a Kindle in the USA”

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 6       Government, Political Science, and Public Policy

Introduction

David Mamet, “Political Civility”

Foundations: The Individual and the State

Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence”

Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”

Mahatma Gandhi, “The Non-Violent Society”

Governments and their Symbols (images)

Activism, Social Change, and its Discontents

Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Caitlin Flanagan, “How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement”

Activism and Social Change (images)

Jane Mayer, “The Black Sites”

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 7       Education and Society

Introduction

Shelby Steele, “The New Sovereignty”

Foundations: Theorizing Education

John Dewey, “My Pedagogic Creed”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”

The Classroom: Then and Now (images)

Education in the Modern Age

Jay P. Greene, “The Myth of Helplessness” (from Education Myths)

Christina Hoff Sommers “The War Against Boys”

Diane Ravitch, “What I Learned About School Reform” (from The Death and the Life of the American School)

Alissa Quart, “The Baby Genius Edutainment Complex”

Emily Bernard, “Teaching the N-Word”

Jeff Sharlet, “Straight Man’s Burden”

Guns in America: Two Views (images)

Dan Baum, “Happiness is a Worn Gun”

Malcolm Gladwell, “The 10,000 Hour Rule” (from Outliers: The Story of Success)

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 8       Communication and Pop Culture

Introduction

Foundations: Theories of Communication and Culture

Marshall McLuhan from Understanding Media

Dick Hebdige, “Subculture and Style”

Comics and the Graphic Novel

Scott McCloud “Setting the Record Straight”

Douglas Wolk from Reading Comics

Lynda Barry, from The Greatest of Marlys

Noel Murray and Scott Tobias, “How Has the Culture of TV (and TV-Watching) Changed?

Susan Willis “Disney World” (from Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World)

Susan Linn “Marketing, Media, and the First Amendment” (from Consuming Kids)

Using Advertising to Raise Awareness: Animal Rights (images)

William Deresiewicz, “Faux Friendship”

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 9       Philosophy and Psychology

Introduction

Foundations: Examining the Self

William James “The Will to Believe”

Plato “The Apology”

Understanding Human Emotions (images)

V. S. Ramachandran, “Neuroscience: The New Philosophy” (from A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness)

Thinking Beyond the Human: Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism

A. M. Turing “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”

Ray Kurzweil, “The Law of Accelerating Returns”

Proving the Existence of God

Three Arguments for the Existence of God

            William Paley from Natural Theology

            St. Thomas Aquinas from Summa Theologica

            St. Anselm from Proslogium

Theology and Cartoons (images)

Kwasi Wiredu from Cultural Universals and Particulars: An African Perspective

Robert Orsi “When 2 + 2 = 5”

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 10     History and Culture

Introduction

Jacques Barzun, “The Coming Age” (from From Dawn to Decadence 1500 to Present: 50 Years of Western Cultural Life)

Foundations: Historical Process and Human Agency

Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address” and “The Second Inaugural Address”

W. E. B. Dubois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” (from The Souls of Black Folk)

Images of the American Civil War (images)

Richard Rodriguez, “In the Brown Study” (from Brown)

Bruce Catton, “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts”

Illegal Immigration in America: Political Cartoons (images)

Immigration: Pathways and Promises

Judith Ortiz Cofer, “Rituals: A Prayer, a Candle, and a Notebook”

Belle Yang, “The Language of Dreams”

Margaret Regan, “Prologue” (from The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands)

Andrea Elliot, “A Muslim Leader in Brooklyn, Reconciling 2 Worlds”

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 11     Literature, Language, and Art

Introduction

Barbara Wallraff, “What Global Language?”

Foundations: What Makes it Literature?

Oscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Virginia Woolf, “Shakespeare's Sister” (from A Room of One’s Own)

Architecture as Art (images)

The Interdisciplinary Imagination

Bharati Mukherjee, “The Management of Grief”

James Tiptree, Jr. “The Last Flight of Doctor Ain”

Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street”

Art and Medicine Through the Ages (8-page, 4-color insert)

The Art of Love, the Passion of Art

Kate Chopin, “The Storm”

James Joyce, “Araby”

Terry Eagleton, “The Rise of English” (from Literary Theory: An Introduction)

Thinking Crosscurrently

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