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Inquiry : A Cross-Curricular Reader

by: Bloom, Lynn Z.; White, Edward M.

Inquiry : A Cross-Curricular Reader

by: Bloom, Lynn Z.; White, Edward M.

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9780134661377
ISBN 10:
0134661370
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/1993
Publisher: Pearson (Manual)
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For courses in Freshman Composition, Advanced Composition, and Writing Across the Curriculum. This cross-curricular composition reader emphasizes writing as thinking. Since good questions are at the heart of good writing, the book is organized around six perennially interesting questions. The reading selections in each chapter offer a variety of approaches to the chapter question, with representation from many disciplines and social perspectives.

Preface

Introduction

(6)

How Do I Know Who I Am?

(106)

Why Consider This Questions?

(5)

Rhetorical Issues: Writing for an Audience

(5)

Questions for Discovery and Discussion

(2)

What Is My Physical Self?

(38)

On Discovery

(2)

Maxine Hong Kingston

On Being Female, Black, and Free

(7)

Margaret Walker

The Men We Carry in Our Minds

(6)

Scott Russell Sanders

Learning and Brain Growth

(4)

Robert Ornstein

Richard F. Thompson

On Being a Cripple

(12)

Nancy Maris

At War with My Skin

(7)

John Updike

Who Am I in Relation to Others?

(20)

Meditation: Now this Bell Tolling Softly for Another, Says to Me: Thou Must Die

(2)

John Donne

Arriving at Moral Perfection

(3)

Benjamin Franklin

Resurrection

(6)

Frederick Douglass

``I Just Wanna Be Average''

(9)

Mike Rose

How Does My Writing Relate to My Self?

(33)

Why I Write: Making No Become Yes

(5)

Elie Wiesel

Literate Traditions

(11)

Shirley Brice Heath

Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood

(6)

Richard Rodriguez

The Need to Say It

(6)

Patricia Hampl

Being a Man

105

(5)

Paul Theroux

Questions for Reflection and Writing

110

(3)

How Do I Know What I Know?

113

(112)

Why Consider This Question?

113

(5)

Rhetorical Issues: Writing as a Means of Learning: The Writing Processes

118

(8)

Questions for Discovery and Discussion

126

(1)

How Can I Think About Thinking?

127

(20)

Signs and Symbols

127

(7)

Susanne K. Langer

The Allegory of the Cave

134

(4)

Plato

This Is a Photograph of Me

138

(2)

Margaret Atwood

Think About It

140

(7)

Frank Conroy

What Are Some Ways of Knowing?

147

(45)

The Route of Normal Science

147

(10)

Thomas Kuhn

Evolution as Fact and Theory

157

(8)

Stephen Jay Gould

``Just Knowing'': The Inner Expert

165

(4)

Mary Field Belenky

First Observations

169

(8)

Jane Goodall

A World of Difference

177

(15)

Evelyn Fox Keller

How Can I Understand What I Know?

192

(30)

America Revised

192

(8)

Frances FitzGerald

The Naked Source

200

(6)

Linda Simon

Understanding Paternity

206

(9)

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

University Days

215

(7)

James Thurber

Questions for Reflection and Writing

222

(3)

What Is Really Important?

225

(115)

Why Consider This Question?

225

(6)

Rhetorical Issues: Definition

231

(3)

Questions for Discovery and Discussion

234

(2)

How Do We Develop a Sense of Values?

236

(29)

You Can't Pray a Lie

236

(8)

Mark Twain

Lies for the Public Good

244

(10)

Sissela Bok

On Self-Respect

254

(5)

Joan Didion

The Boy Scout Handbook

259

(6)

Paul Fussell

What Does Nature Mean?

265

(36)

Our Picture of the Universe

265

(11)

Stephen Hawking

All at One Point

276

(5)

Italo Calvino

Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imgination

281

(16)

Leslie Marmon Silko

Poison Snakes

297

(4)

Sue Hubbell

How Do We Resolve Conflicts in Values?

301

(37)

Doing Science in Secret

301

(10)

Rita Levi-Montalcini

The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank

311

(12)

Bruno Bettelheim

Distancing the Homeless

323

(12)

Jonathan Kozol

Sex Without Love

335

(3)

Sharon Olds

Questions for Reflection and Writing

338

(2)

What Is a Good Idea?

340

(95)

Why Consider This Question?

340

(5)

Rhetorical Issues: Argument and Evidence

345

(5)

Questions for Discovery and Discussion

350

(1)

What Is A Good Political Idea?

351

(19)

Declaration of Independence

351

(4)

Thomas Jefferson

Declaration of Sentiments

355

(3)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Gettysburg Address

358

(2)

Abraham Lincoln

Ain't I a Woman?

360

(2)

Sojourner Truth

The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?

362

(8)

Alice Walker

What Is a Good Scientific Idea?

370

(43)

Those Crazy Ideas

370

(10)

Isaac Asimov

Understanding Natural Selection

380

(7)

Charles Darwin

Science's Restive Public

387

(12)

Barbara J. Cullition

A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

399

(4)

James D. Watson

Francis H. C. Crick

The ``Cosmic Mystery''

403

(6)

Arthur Koestler

Letter from the Astronomers

409

(4)

Siv Cedering

How Can We Recognize and Encourage Creativity?

413

(20)

Hearing Voices

413

(4)

Linda Hogan

The Reach of Imagination

417

(8)

Jacob Bronowski

Life at Close Range

425

(4)

Gretel Ehrlich

Angels on a Pin

429

(4)

Alexnader Calandra

Questions for Reflection and Writing

433

(2)

What Can We Learn from the Past?

435

(132)

Why Consider This Question?

435

(5)

Rhetorical Issues: Sources

440

(6)

Questions for Discovery and Disscussion

446

(1)

What Does Family History Mean?

447

(32)

Searching for Ancestors

447

(9)

Barry Lopez

The Inheritance of Values

456

(6)

Pauli Murray

Listening

462

(9)

Eudora Welty

The Inheritance of Tools

471

(8)

Scott Russell Sanders

What Have We Done to the Earth?

479

(39)

The Obligation to Endure

479

(7)

Rachel Carson

The Islands of Chesapeake Bay

486

(10)

William W. Warner

Los Angeles Against the Mountains

496

(10)

John McPHee

Africa Daze Montana Kingiths

506

(12)

Margaret Knox

How Does an Idea Evolve?

518

(47)

Civil disobedience

518

(20)

Henry David Thoreau

I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman

538

(3)

Susan Griffin

Letter from Birmingham Jail

541

(16)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Disobedience: Destroyer of Democracy

557

(8)

Lewis H. Van Dusen Jr.

Questions for Reflection and Writing

565

(2)

What Will the Future Be Like?

567

(126)

Why Consider This Question?

567

(5)

Rhetorical Issues: Discourse Communities

572

(3)

Questions for Discvoery and Discussion

575

(2)

What Is the Future of the Family?

577

(50)

Issues for Working Parents

577

(13)

T. Berry Brazelton

Why Mothers Should Stay Home

590

(9)

Deborah Fallows

Marriage as Partnership

599

(13)

Robert N. Weiss

Successful Aging

612

(11)

Robert N. Butler

The Family That Stretches (Together)

623

(4)

Ellen Goodman

Will War Shape the Future?

627

(30)

Warfare Is Only an Invention---Not a Biological Necessity

627

(7)

Margaret Mead

American Ignorance of War

634

(4)

Czeslaw Milosz

The Nuclear Winter

638

(8)

Carl Sagan

Coping with Victory

646

(11)

John Lewis Gaddis

How Can We Think and Speak About the Future?

657

(29)

Corporation and Nation

657

(12)

Robert B. Reich

Learning the Language

669

(4)

Perri Klass

How Computers Get Common Sense

673

(6)

Gina Kolata

Artificial Intelligence

679

(2)

Adrienne Rich

My Speech to the Graduates

681

(5)

Woody Allen

Questions for Reflection and Writing

686

(7)

Index by Field of Inquiry

693

(4)

Rhetorical Index

697

(10)

Index of Authors and Titles

707

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