Critical Strategies for Academic Thinking and Writing

 Preface for Instructors
  Introduction for Students: Critical Strategies for Academic Situations
    
PART I. DEFINING: NEGOTIATING MEANINGS
  Defining across the Curriculum
    Opening Problem: Defining Intelligence
       Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
    Working Examples
       A Working Example Using the Word Model
       Working Examples from Political Science
    A Professional Application
       Daniel Goleman, From Emotional Intelligence: When Smart Is Dumb
    Assignments
       A Language Assignment
       A Word History Assignment
       A Personal Essay Assignment
       A Biology Assignment
       A Psychology Assignment
       A Genetics Assignment
       A History Assignment
       An Ecology Assignment
  Readings: Reconsidering Intelligence
       Douglas Harper, From Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop
       Deborah Franklin, The Shape of Life
       Mike Rose, From Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America
       Edward Hutchins, From "The Social Organization of Distributed Cognition"
       John Haugeland, From Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea
    Further Assignments
    
PART II. SUMMARIZING: SYNTHESIS AND JUDGMENT
  Summarizing across the Curriculum
    Opening Problem: Summarizing Trends in Child Poverty
       Jonathan Marshall, Child Poverty Is Abundant
    Working Examples
       A Working Example from Psychology
       A Working Example from Sociology
       A Working Example from Folklore
    A Professional Application
       Ellen Israel Rosen, The New International Division of Labor
    Assignments
       An Anthropology Assignment
       A Biology Assignment
       An Oral History Assignment
       An Anthropology Assignment
       An Economics Assignment
       A Literature Assignment
       A Composition Assignment
  Readings: The Dimensions of Child Poverty
       Arloc Sherman (for the Children's Defense Fund), From Wasting America's Future: The Children's Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty
       Duncan Lindsey, From The Welfare of Children
       Michael B. Katz, Poverty
       Melanie Scheller, On the Meaning of Plumbing and Poverty
       Lisbeth B. Schorr, The Lessons of Successful Programs
    Further Assignments
    
PART III. SERIALIZING: ESTABLISHING SEQUENCE
  Serializing across the Curriculum
    Opening Problem: Constructing a Serial Account
       Jim Fisher, The Lindbergh Case
    Working Examples
       A Working Example from Biology
       Working Examples from Literature
       Working Examples from History
    A Professional Application
       Patricia J. Williams, From The Alchemy of Race and Rights
    Assignments
       A Geography Assignment
       A Criminal Studies Assignment
       A Literature Assignment
       A Biology Assignment
       A History Assignment
       An Astronomy Assignment
       A Geology Assignment
  Readings: Crime Stories: Constructing Guilt and Innocence
       Mark Singer, Profile of Filmmaker Errol Morris
       Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, From All the President's Men
       Renee Loth, Woburn, Science, and the Law
       Helen Benedict, From Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes
       W. Lance Bennett and Martha S. Feldman, From Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom: Justice and Judgment in American Culture
    Further Assignments
    
PART IV. CLASSIFYING: CREATING AND EVALUATING CATEGORIES
  Classifying across the Curriculum
    Opening Problem: Classifying Characteristics of Immigration to the United States
       Tables and Charts on Immigration to the United States, 1820-1990
    Working Examples
       A Working Example from Sociology
       A Working Example from Public Health
    A Professional Application
       David Cole, Five Myths about Immigration
    Assignments
       A Psychology Assignment
       A Composition Assignment
       An Anthropology Assignment
       An Art Assignment
       A Biology Assignment
       A Sociology Assignment
       A Literature Assignment
       A Linguistics Assignment
  Readings: U.S. Immigration Patterns
       Reed Ueda, The Historical Context of Immigration
       Maldwyn Allen Jones, From American Immigration
       Eugene Boe, From Pioneers to Eternity: Norwegians on the Prairie
       Elizabeth Ewen, From Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side, 1890-1925
       George J. Sánchez, From Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
       Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut, From Immigrant America: A Portrait
    Further Assignments
    
PART V. COMPARING: ASSESSING SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
  Comparing across the Curriculum
    Opening Problem: Comparing Two Primatologists
       Francine Patterson, Conversations with a Gorilla
       Dian Fossey, More Years with Mountain Gorillas
    Working Examples
       A Working Example from the History of Science
       A Working Example from American History
    A Professional Application
       Bruce Bower, Probing Primate Thoughts
    Assignments
       A Literature Assignment
       An Anthropology Assignment
       An Education Assignment
       A History Assignment
       A Literature Assignment
       A Science Assignment
  Readings: Methods of Inquiry in Primate Research
       Herbert Terrace, How Nim Chimpsky Changed My Mind
       Roger Lewin, Look Who's Talking Now
       Deborah Blum, The Black Box
       Deborah Blum, Not a Nice Death
       Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth, From How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species
       John C. Mitani, From "Ethological Studies of Chimpanzee Vocal Behavior"
    Further Assignments