TABLE OF

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii

1i Intercultural Communication
A Writer’s Technique: Main Ideas and Supporting Details
2

CORE READING 1 American Values and Assumptions Gary Althen 4

CORE READING 2 Where Do We Stand? Lisa Davis 18
CORE READING 3 Time Talks, with an Accent Robert Levine 26
MAKING CONNECTIONS 35
ADDITIONAL READING 1 Polite but Thirsty Yaping Tang 36
ADDITIONAL READING 2 Friends and Strangers Margaret K. (Omar) Nydell 40
ADDITIONAL READING 3 A Coward Premchand 44
ADDITIONAL READING 4 The Blind Men and the Elephant John Godfrey Saxe 51
ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor 53
ESSAY TOPICS 55

2 Education
A Writer’s Technique: Purpose and Audience
56

CORE READING 1 School Is Bad for Children John Holt 58

CORE READING 2 How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students’ 67
Research Papers David Rothenberg
An Opposing View Richard Cummins 71
CORE READING 3 Multiple Intelligences and Emotional Intelligence 76
David Miller Sadker & Myra Pollack Sadker
MAKING CONNECTIONS 87
ADDITIONAL READING 1 The Teacher Who Changed My Life Nicholas Gage 88
ADDITIONAL READING 2 Let’s Tell the Story of All America’s Cultures 92
Ji-Yeon Mary Yuhfill
ADDITIONAL READING 3 Coyote and the Crying Song Harold Courlander 95
ADDITIONAL READING 4 First Grade – Standing in the Hall Cheryl Savageau 98
ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor 99
ESSAY TOPICS 101

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 The Essentials of Writing 102

PART ONE The Structure of an Essay 104

1 The Introduction 104
2 Body Paragraphs 107
3 The Conclusion 109
PART TWO The Writing Process 111
1 Assessing the Writing Situation 112
2 Exploring and Planning 113
3 Drafting 118
4 Revising 119
5 Editing and Proofreading 122
PART THREE Writing with Sources 124
1 Types of Sources 124
2 Locating Sources 125
3 Evaluating Sources 126
4 Taking Notes from Sources 126
5 Documenting Sources 128

3 Mass Media and Technology

A Writer’s Technique: Figures of Speech
134

CORE READING 1 Computers and the Pursuit of Happiness David Gelernter 136
An Opposing View Winn. F. Martin 143
CORE READING 2 We’ve Got Mail – Always Andrew Leonard 148
CORE READING 3 Propaganda Techniques in Today’s Advertising Ann McClintock 157
MAKING CONNECTIONS 170
ADDITIONAL READING 1 Students Shall Not Download. Yeah, Sure. Kate Zernike 171
ADDITIONAL READING 2 Don’t Touch That Dial Madeline Drexler 175
ADDITIONAL READING 3 Conceptual Fruit Thaisa Frank 178
ADDITIONAL READING 4 All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace 181
Richard Brautigan
ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor 183
ESSAY TOPICS 185

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 4 Gender Roles
A Writer’s Technique: Summarizing and Paraphrasing
186

CORE READING 1 Sex Roles Hamilton McCubbin & Barbara Blum Dahl 188
CORE READING 2 Boys Will Be Boys Barbara Kantrowitz & Claudia Kalb 200
CORE READING 3 Sex, Sighs, and Conversation Deborah Tannen 210
MAKING CONNECTIONS 218
ADDITIONAL READING 1 Women Have What It Takes Carol Barkalow 219
An Opposing View Bill Norton 222
ADDITIONAL READING 2 The Androgynous Male Noel Perrin 223
ADDITIONAL READING 3 The Princess and the Admiral Charlotte Pomerantz 227
ADDITIONAL READING 4 The Greater God Rakesh Ratti 233
ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor 235
ESSAY TOPICS 237

5 Work
A Writer’s Technique: Tone
238

CORE READING 1 The New American Dreamers Ruth Sidel 240

CORE READING 2 Someone Is Stealing Your Life Michael Ventura 250
CORE READING 3 Our Schedules, Our Selves Jay Walljasper 259
MAKING CONNECTIONS 268
ADDITIONAL READING 1 The Rage to Know Horace Freeland Judson 269
ADDITIONAL READING 2 Los Pobres Richard Rodriguez 274
ADDITIONAL READING 3 Action Will Be Taken Heinrich Böll 278
ADDITIONAL READING 4 To Be of Use Marge Piercy 282
ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor 284
ESSAY TOPICS 286

CREDITS 288
INDEX 292

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