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Underscoring the essential skills of reading and writing in multiple fields of knowledge, Crosscurrents is a thematic reader that connects ideas and texts from across the disciplines. With its rich variety of readings that span the major college disciplines, Crosscurrents is a true writing across the curriculum reader. Three introductory chapters on critical reading, thinking, and research (Part 1) provide a broad, yet concise rhetoric that orients both students and instructors to disciplines that may be outside their comfort zone or areas of expertise. These chapters offer assistance in reading and comprehending material in each of the disciplines. Foundational, seminal readings foreground each of the eight thematic chapters in Part 2; additional, mainly contemporary, selections drawn from print and electronic books, journals, and general interest periodicals provide a wide range of source materials so that students can further understand each discipline and its intricacies.

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Author:   Eric Link ,  Steven Frye
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 1.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 1.00cm
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9780205784615

ISBN 10:   0205784615
Pages:   720
Publication Date:   02 October 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Cross-Check 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

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