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From the Book - Regular Print - Fourth edition.
Preface to the fourth edition -- Preface: Demystifying academic conversation -- Introduction: Entering the conversation -- Part 1. "They say". "They say" : starting with what others are saying ; "Her point is" : the art of summarizing ; "As he himself puts it" : the art of quoting -- Part 2. "I say". "Yes / no / okay, but" : three ways to respond ; "And yet" : distinguishing what you say from what they say ; "Skeptics may object" : planting a naysayer in your text ; "So what? Who cares?" : saying why it matters -- Part 3. Tying it all together. "As a result" : connecting the parts ; "You mean I can just say it that way?" : academic writing doesn't mean setting aside your own voice ; "But don't get me wrong" : the art of metacommentary ; "He says contends" : using the templates to revise -- Part 4. In specific academic contexts. "I take your point" : entering class discussions ; Don't make them scroll up : entering online conversations ; What's motivating this writer? : reading for the conversation ; "Analyze this" : writing in the social sciences --
Readings. How can we bridge the differences that divide us? The "other side" is not dumb / Sean Blanda ; Why America is self-segregating / Danah Boyd ; The new Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander ; Hillbilly elegy / J. D. Vance ; Minority student clubs : segregation or integration? / Gabriela Moro ; Why rural America voted for Trump / Robert Leonard ; A tax system stacked against the 99 percent / Joseph E. Stiglitz ; Howard University commencement speech / Barack Obama
Is college the best option? Should everyone go to college? / Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill ; The new liberal arts / Sanford J. Ungar ; Are too many people going to college? / Charles Murray ; Two years are better than four / Liz Addison ; Hidden intellectualism / Gerald Graff ; Blue-collar brilliance / Mike Rose ; Shut up about Harvard / Ben Casselman ; On the front lines of a new culture war / Steve Kolowich
Are we in a race against the machine? Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr ; Smarter than you think : how technology is changing our minds for the better / Clive Thompson ; Does texting affect writing? / Michaela Cullington ; How I learned to love Snapchat / Jenna Wortham ; Google, democracy, and the truth about Internet search / Carole Cadwalladr ; Go ahead : waste time on the Internet / Kenneth Goldsmith ; No need to call / Sherry Turkle ; Does a protest's size matter? / Zeynep Tufekci
What's gender got to do with it? Why women still can't have it all / Anne-marie Slaughter ; Why men still can't have it all / Richard Dorment ; I'm gay and African American. As a dad, I still have it easier than working moms / Raynard Kington ; From he to she in first grade / Laurie Frankel ; Teaching men to be emotionally honest / Andrew Reiner ; What about gender roles in same-sex relationships? / Stephen Mays ; Artificial intelligence's white guy problem / Kate Crawford ; Men without work / Nicholas Eberstadt
What's there to eat? Escape from the western diet / Michael Pollan ; Why don't convenience stores sell better food? / Olga Khazan ; Food as thought : resisting the moralization of eating / Mary Maxfield ; Don't blame the eater / David Zinczenko ; What you eat is your business / Radley Balko ; The extraordinary science of addictive ]unk food / Michael Moss ; How junk food can end obesity / David H. Freedman ; Expanding the national school lunch program to higher education / Sara Goldrick-Rab, Katharine Broton, Emily Brunjes Colo.
From the Book - Regular Print
Preface to the fifth edition
Preface : Demystifying academic conversation
Introduction : Entering the conversation
pt. 1. "They say". "They say": starting with what others are saying ; "Her point is" : the art of summarizing ; "As he himself puts it" : the art of quoting
pt. 2. "I say". "Yes / no / OK, but" : three ways to respond ; "And yet" : distinguishing what you say from what they say ; "Skeptics may object" : planting a naysayer in your text ; "So what? Who cares?" : saying why it matters
pt. 3. Tying it all together. "As a result" : connecting the parts ; "You mean I can just say it that way?" : academic writing doesn't mean setting aside your own voice ; "But don't get me wrong" : the art of metacommentary ; "What I really want to say is" : revising substantially
; pt. 4. In specific academic contexts. "I take your point" : entering class discussions ; Don't make them scroll up : entering online conversations ; What's motivating this writer? Reading for the conversation ; "But as several sources suggest" : research as conversation ; "On closer examination" : entering conversations about literature ; "The data suggest" : writing in the sciences ; "Analyze this" : writing in the social sciences
Readings. Why care about the planet? "We are the wildfire" : h ow to fight the climate crisis / Naomi Klein ; It's time for conservatives to own the climate-change issue / Dan Crenshaw ; Should we be more optimistic about fighting climate change? / Acice Chen and Vivek Murthy ; Banning plastic bags is great for the world, right? Not so fast / Ben Adler ; Choking the oceans with plastic / Charles J. Moore ; Mauna Kea : the fight to preserve culture / Sandis Edward Waialae Wightman ; Elevated blood lead levels in children associated with the Flint drinking water crisis / Mona Hanna-Attisha, et al. ; Delivering fresh water : critical infrastructure, environmental justice, and Flint, Michigan / Michael R. Greenberg ; How can we bridge the differences that divide us? The "other side" is not dumb / Sean Blanda ; Why America is self-segregating / Danah Boyd ; All words matter : the manipulation behind "All Lives Matter" / Kelly Coryell ; The new Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander ; Could Black English mean a prison sentence? / John McWhorter ; Hillbilly elegy / J. D. Vance ; What hillbilly elegy reveals about race in Twenty-First-Century America / Lisa R. Pruitt ; Jobs, crime, and culture : the threats that aren't / Suketu Mehta ; How much immigration is too much? The wrong debate / David Frum ; What's college for? Should everyone go to college? / Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill ; Are too many people going to college? / Charles Murray ; Two years are better than four / Liz Addison ; Why we need to keep the "community" in community college / Anna Clark ; Minority student clubs : segregation or integration? / Gabriela Moro ; Hidden intellectualism / Gerald Graff ; Generation stress : the mental health crisis on campus / Sylvia Mathews Burwell ; The student loan trap : when debt delays life / Charles Fain Lehman ; How is technology changing us? Go ahead : waste time on the internet / Kenneth Goldsmith ; Has coronavirus made the internet better? / Jenna Wortham ; It turns out our tech gadgets aren't as isolating as experts say / Nicholas Brody ; How smartphones hijack our minds / Nicholas Carr ; Social media : the screen, the brain, and human nature / Justin Vinh ; Stop Googling. Let's talk. / Sherry Turkle ; Google, democracy, and the truth about internet search / Carole Cadwalladr ; Are we really as awful as we act online? / Agustín Fuentes ; What's gender got to do with it? From he to she in first grade / Laurie Frankel ; It's time for "they" / Farhad Manjoo ; Liberals' astonishingly radical shift on gender / Damon Linker ; Why women still can't have it all / Anne-Marie Slaughter ; Why men still can't have it all / Richard Dorment ; The coronavirus is a disaster for feminism / Helen Lewis ; An end to sexism in gaming communities / Sanjana Ramanathan ; Why we need Title IX now more than ever / Monica Wright.
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