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Emerging

Contemporary Readings for Writers

Second Edition ©2013

ISBN-10: 1-4576-0197-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-4576-0197-2
Paper Text, 640 pages

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Introduction: Emerging as a Critical Thinker and Academic Writer

The Readings

Madeleine Albright, Faith and Diplomacy

Julia Alvarez, from Once Upon a Quinceanera

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Making Conversation and The Primacy of Practice

*Arwa Aburawa, Veiled Threat: The Guerrilla Graffiti of Princess Hijab

*Namit Arora, What Do We Deserve?

*Brian Christian, Authenticating

*Patricia Churchland, Networking: Genes, Brains, and Behavior

Dalai Lama, Ethics and the New Genetics 

e-Pages *Elizabeth Dickinson, The Future of Food [infographic]

e-Pages *Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad [multimedia essay]

Helen Epstein, AIDS, Inc. 

e-Pages *Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played With Fire [essay with images]

Thomas Friedman, The Dell Threory of Conflict Prevention  

Francis Fukuyama, Human Dignity

Daniel Gilbert, Reporting Live from Tomorrow

*Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change

*Hal Herzog, Animals Like Us

*Mara Hvistendahl, Missing: 163 Million Women

*Rachel Kadish, Who Is This Man, and Why Is He Screaming?

*Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs

*Andrew Marantz, My Summer at an Indian Call Center

*Steve Mumford, The Things They Carry

*Manuel Muoz, Leave Your Name at the Border

Rebekah Nathan, Community and Diversity 

Steve Olson, The End of Race: Hawaii and the Mixing of Peoples

Marshall Poe, The Hive

*Jayme Poisson, Parents Keep Childs Gender Secret

Michael Pollan, The Animals: Practicing Complexity 

e-Pages *Portfolio [Infographics]

     Drake Martinet, Stacy Green, Will You Marry Me?

     Buckfire & Buckfire, Student Bullying 

     carinsurancecomparison.org, The Real Effects of Drunken Driving

*Postsecret, Portfolio of Postcards

*Jennifer Pozner, Ghetto Bitches, China Dolls, and Cha Cha Divas

Richard Restak, Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era 

e-Pages *Alexandra Samuel, "Plug in Better": A Manifesto [essay]

*Dan Savage and Urvashi Vaid, It Gets Better and Action Makes it Better

Leslie Savan, What's Black, Then White, and Said All Over? 

*Peter Singer, Visible Man: Ethics in a World Without Secrets

James Surowiecki, Committees, Juries, and Teams: The Columbia Disaster and How Small Groups Can Be Made to Work

*Tom Vanderbilt, Shut Up, I Can't Hear You: Anonymity, Aggression, and the Problems of Communicating While Driving

*David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster

Bill Wasik, My Crowd Experiment: The Mob Project

e-Pages *Wired.com, Call of Duty: Afghanistan [video]

*Wesley Yang, Paper Tigers

Kenji Yoshino, Preface and The New Civil Rights 

Assignment Sequences

SEQUENCE 1 Identity: Rites/Rights of Passage

SEQUENCE 2 Cosmopolitanism: Ethical Conflict in a Global Economy

SEQUENCE 3 Ethics: Yes We Can, But Should We? The Politics of Science

SEQUENCE 4 Communication: The Talking Cure

SEQUENCE 5 Art: Revelations, Displays, and Cultures

SEQUENCE 6 Communities: Trouble with a Capital "C" 

SEQUENCE 7 Deep Impact: Technology and Our World

SEQUENCE 8 Assimilation: The Melting Not

SEQUENCE 9 Putting the "I" in Team: The Practices of Collaboration

 

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