PART 1: READING AND WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES

Chapter 1 Knowledge, Reading, and Writing across Disciplines

Preparing a Foundation for Learning

Understanding Genres

Sciences

Social Sciences

Humanities

Genres Used across Fields

Linking Thinking, Reading, and Writing

Learning in Disciplines

Categorizing Academic Disciplines

Natural and Applied Sciences

Social Sciences

Business and Applied/Professional Studies

History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies

Humanities

Creative Arts

Understanding Genre Expectations in the Disciplines

Researching in the Disciplines

Reasoning

Cross-Check

Chapter 2 Reading across Disciplines: Reading for Learning, for Analysis, and for Argument

Reading for Learning

Strategies for Reading

Reading the Author’s Logic: Logical Fallacies

Reading Visual Aids

Reading Internet Sites and Determining Credibility

Reading for Analysis

Strategies for Analytic Reading

Analyzing Arguments

Argumentation in the Disciplines

Cross-Check

Chapter 3 Writing and Researching: Genres, Practices, and Processes

Writing Conventions

Rules

Guidelines

Strategies

Writing as a Cyclical Process

Planning and Invention

Analyzing your Audiences

Writing Arguments

Developing a Thesis Statement

Researching

Types of Research

Starting Your Research

Narrowing Your Topic

Taking Notes

Synthesizing and Incorporating Borrowed Material without

Plagiarizing

Organizing Ideas

Working with Visual Aids

Revising, Editing, and Proofreading

Documenting Sources

MLA Documentation

Annotated Student Paper

APA Documentation

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PART 2: ANTHOLOGY OF READINGS

Chapter 4 Nature, Genetics, and the Philosophy of Science

Introduction

Emily Martin, et. al. “Scientific Literacy, What It Is, Why It’s Important, and Why Scientists Think We Don’t Have It”

Foundations in the Philosophy of Science

Thomas Kuhn “The Historical Structure of Scientific Discovery”

Paul Feyerabend, from Against Method

The Tools of Science: A World Too Small to See (images)

Genetics and Human Identity

Barry Commoner “Unraveling the DNA Myth”

Francis Fukuyama “Why We Should Worry” from Our Posthuman Future

Visions of the Posthuman (images)

Michael J. Sandel “The Case Against Perfection”

Olivia Judson “The Selfless Gene”

Robert Lanza “A New Theory of the Universe”

Natalie Angier “My God Problem—And Theirs”

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 5 Business and Economics

Introduction

Barbara Ehrenreich, “Maid to Order”

Foundations: Free Enterprise and Social Responsibility

Milton Friedman, “Economic Freedom and Political Freedom” (from Capitalism and Freedom)

John Maynard Keynes, “The End of Laissez-Faire”

Doing Business in America (images)

Barbara Kellerman, “Leadership: Warts and All”

Nature and the Economic Realm: Causes and Conflicts

Paul Krugman, “Irrational Exuberance” (from The Great Unraveling)

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, “Information Asymmetry” (from Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything)

Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan, “Laughing All the Way to the Darwinian Bank” (from Mean Genes,)

At Work in America: The Triumph and Trials of an Economic System (images)

Steve Denning, “Why Amazon Can’t Make a Kindle in the USA”

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 6 Government, Political Science, and Public Policy

Introduction

David Mamet, “Political Civility”

Foundations: The Individual and the State

Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence”

Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”

Mahatma Gandhi, “The Non-Violent Society”

Governments and their Symbols (images)

Activism, Social Change, and its Discontents

Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Caitlin Flanagan, “How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement”

Activism and Social Change (images)

Jane Mayer, “The Black Sites”

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 7 Education and Society

Introduction

Shelby Steele, “The New Sovereignty”

Foundations: Theorizing Education

John Dewey, “My Pedagogic Creed”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”

The Classroom: Then and Now (images)

Education in the Modern Age

Jay P. Greene, “The Myth of Helplessness” (from Education Myths)

Christina Hoff Sommers “The War Against Boys”

Diane Ravitch, “What I Learned About School Reform” (from The Death and the Life of the American School)

Alissa Quart, “The Baby Genius Edutainment Complex”

Emily Bernard, “Teaching the N-Word”

Jeff Sharlet, “Straight Man’s Burden”

Guns in America: Two Views (images)

Dan Baum, “Happiness is a Worn Gun”

Malcolm Gladwell, “The 10,000 Hour Rule” (from Outliers: The Story of Success)

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 8 Communication and Pop Culture

Introduction

Foundations: Theories of Communication and Culture

Marshall McLuhan from Understanding Media

Dick Hebdige, “Subculture and Style”

Comics and the Graphic Novel

Scott McCloud “Setting the Record Straight”

Douglas Wolk from Reading Comics

Lynda Barry, from The Greatest of Marlys

Noel Murray and Scott Tobias, “How Has the Culture of TV (and TV-Watching) Changed?

Susan Willis “Disney World” (from Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World)

Susan Linn “Marketing, Media, and the First Amendment” (from Consuming Kids)

Using Advertising to Raise Awareness: Animal Rights (images)

William Deresiewicz, “Faux Friendship”

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 9 Philosophy and Psychology

Introduction

Foundations: Examining the Self

William James “The Will to Believe”

Plato “The Apology”

Understanding Human Emotions (images)

V. S. Ramachandran, “Neuroscience: The New Philosophy” (from A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness)

Thinking Beyond the Human: Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism

A. M. Turing “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”

Ray Kurzweil, “The Law of Accelerating Returns”

Proving the Existence of God

Three Arguments for the Existence of God

William Paley from Natural Theology

St. Thomas Aquinas from Summa Theologica

St. Anselm from Proslogium

Theology and Cartoons (images)

Kwasi Wiredu from Cultural Universals and Particulars: An African Perspective

Robert Orsi “When 2 + 2 = 5”

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 10 History and Culture

Introduction

Jacques Barzun, “The Coming Age” (from From Dawn to Decadence 1500 to Present: 50 Years of Western Cultural Life)

Foundations: Historical Process and Human Agency

Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address” and “The Second Inaugural Address”

W. E. B. Dubois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” (from The Souls of Black Folk)

Images of the American Civil War (images)

Richard Rodriguez, “In the Brown Study” (from Brown)

Bruce Catton, “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts”

Illegal Immigration in America: Political Cartoons (images)

Immigration: Pathways and Promises

Judith Ortiz Cofer, “Rituals: A Prayer, a Candle, and a Notebook”

Belle Yang, “The Language of Dreams”

Margaret Regan, “Prologue” (from The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands)

Andrea Elliot, “A Muslim Leader in Brooklyn, Reconciling 2 Worlds”

Thinking Crosscurrently

Chapter 11 Literature, Language, and Art

Introduction

Barbara Wallraff, “What Global Language?”

Foundations: What Makes it Literature?

Oscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Virginia Woolf, “Shakespeare's Sister” (from A Room of One’s Own)

Architecture as Art (images)

The Interdisciplinary Imagination

Bharati Mukherjee, “The Management of Grief”

James Tiptree, Jr. “The Last Flight of Doctor Ain”

Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street”

Art and Medicine Through the Ages (8-page, 4-color insert)

The Art of Love, the Passion of Art

Kate Chopin, “The Storm”

James Joyce, “Araby”

Terry Eagleton, “The Rise of English” (from Literary Theory: An Introduction)

Thinking Crosscurrently

Appendix Breaking Down Assignments: A Guide for Students

Crosscurrents: Readings in the Disciplines, 1st edition

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