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CHAPTER 1: READING AND WRITING ARGUMENTS
Visuals (COLOR PLATES):
Edgar Degas Edmond and The;rèse Morbilli (painting)
John Singer Sargent The Siesta (painting)
Robert W. Gopher Leaving Crow County (painting)
Georgia O’Keefe The Lawrence Tree, 1929 (painting)
Mary Cassatt The Child’s Bath (painting)
Henry Ossawa Tanner The Banjo Lesson (painting)
Pepon Osorio El Chandelier (painting)
Lebadang 1965 (painting)
ANALYTICAL READING AS PREPARATION FOR ARGUMENT
READING PRINT TEXTS
Previewing the Text
Marking Up the Text
Thinking about the Text
READING VISUAL MATERIALS
Vocabulary
Getting an Overview of the Work of Art
Identifying the Key Elements
READING WEB SITES
TO SUM UP
ANALYTICAL WRITING AS ARGUMENT
CREDIBILITY
Developing Credible Ideas
Keeping an Open Mind
Presenting Ideas to Others
Tying Your Evidence to Your Ideas
WRITING ABOUT TEXTS AND IMAGES: THE WRITING PROCESS
Begin with Concrete Details
Creating a First Draft
Creating a Second Draft
Creating a Final Draft
USING THE TOOLS OF YOUR CRAFT
Accumulating Examples
Choosing Telling Details
Describing
Using Analogies
Using Metaphors
Quoting
Summarizing
Telling a Story
Providing Personal Testimony
Reporting Others’ Experience
Defining a Central Term or Concept
Establishing a Position through Tone
SAMPLE STUDENT PAPERS
Youseon Ham The Media’s Impact on Women’s Body Image
Celia Durkin Magritte’s ‘Clairvoyance (Self-Portrait)’
TO SUM UP
CHAPTER 2: DEFINING CULTURAL IDENTITY
Paintings (COLOR PLATES):
Stephen Scott Young Flip Flops and Lace
Jacob Lawrence Library
Carmen Lomas Garza Camas para Sueños (Beds for Dreams)
Henry Sugimoto Nisei Babies in Concentration Camp
Tomie Arai The Laundryman’s Daughter (mixed media)
Patricia Rodriguez, Irene Perez, Graciela Carillo Fantasy World for Children (mural)
Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States
Judy Chicago Rainbow Shabbat (stained glass window)
CULTURAL IDENTITY IN WORKS OF ART
ANALYZING THE PAINTINGS
ANALYSIS OF A PAINTING
CULTURAL IDENTITY IN ESSAYS
ANALYZING THE ESSAYS
ANALYSIS OF AN ESSAY
Essays:
Amy Tan The Language of Discretion
Richard Rodriguez Public and Private Language
Barbara Mellix From Outside, In
Caffilene Allen First They Changed My Name…
Itabari Njeri What’s in a Name?
Louise Erdrich The Names of Women
Lydia Minatoya Transformation
Haunani-Kay Trask From a Native Daughter
Barbara Wallraff What Global Language?
CONNECTING THE READINGS WITH THE WORKS OF ART
FINDING COMMON CAUSE IN CONTROVERSY: When African-Americans attempt to eradicate elements of Black English vernacular from their speech, are they practicing a form of self-hatred? Or are they exercising their right to social mobility?
Essay:
Ken Parish Perkins The Dilemma of Black English
EMPHASIZING WITH DIFFRENT POINTS OF VIEW
ADDING MORE INFORMATION
SEEKING COMMON CAUSE
DEBATE ESSAY
WRITING PROJECTS
WRITING A SHORT ESSAY
WRITING AN EXTENDED ARGUMENT
DESIGNING THE EXTENDED WRITING PROJECT
USING WEB RESOURCES
CHAPTER THREE: CONSTRUCTING GENDER
Advertisements (COLOR PLATES):
You grow about 15% Taller… (in Newsweek, America’s Dairy Farmers and Milk Processors)
Tennis Whites (in Essence, America’s Dairy Farmers and Milk Processors)
Shop and not drop (in YM, America’s Dairy Farmers and Milk Processors)
Unlike women, it will always go home with you. (in Maxim, Toyota)
born again. (in Glamour, Toyota)
Dior (in Vogue)
Cesare Paciotti (in Esquire)
Allstate (in Road and Track)
GENDER IN ADVERTISEMENTS
ANALYZING THE ADVERTISEMENTS
ANALYSIS OF AN ADVERTISEMENT
GENDER IN ESSAYS
ANALYZING THE ESSAYS
ANALYSIS OF AN ESSAY
Essays:
Don Sabo The Myth of the Sexual Athlete
Brent Staples Just Walk on By
David Brooks The Return of the Pig
Lance Strate Beer Commercials: A Manual on Masculinity
Cindy Jackson Best of Times, Worst of Times
Mira Jacob My Brown Face
Jean Kilbourne ‘The More You Subtract, the More You Add’: Cutting Girls Down to Size
Susan Bordo The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies
Danae Clark Dividing the Consumer Pie
CONNECTING THE READINGS WITH THE ADVERTISEMENTS
FINDING COMMON CAUSE IN CONTROVERSY: Should same sex marriage be legalized?
Essays:
Andrew Sullivan Why the M Word Matters to Me
Stanley Kurtz Death Blow to Marriage
EMPHASIZING WITH DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW
ADDING MORE INFORMATION
SEEKING COMMON CAUSE
DEBATE ESSAY
WRITING PROJECTS
WRITING A SHORT ESSAY
WRITING AN EXTENDED ARGUMENT
DESIGNING THE EXTENDED WRITING PROJECT
USING WEB RESOURCES
CHAPTER FOUR: IMAGES OF EDUCATION
Architecture (COLOR PLATES):
University High School, Los Angeles, California (2 photographs)
Diamond Ranch High School, Diamond Bar, California, architect: Thom Mayne (2 photographs)
Engineering Building, Utah State University (photograph)
The Brown Center, Maryland Institute of Art (photograph)
Dormitory, Illinois Institute of Technology (photograph)
Annenberg Hall, Harvard College (photograph)
Winslow Homer School Time (painting)
Alan Bauer Schoolhouse (photograph)
IMAGES OF EDUCATION IN ARCHITECTURE
ANALYZING THE ARCHITECTURE
ANALYSIS OF AN ENGINEERING BUILDING (PHOTOGRAPH)
IMAGES OF EDUCATION IN ESSAYS
ANALYZING THE ESSAYS
ANALYSIS OF AN ESSAY
Essays:
David Tyack School: The Story of American Public Education
Jon Spayde Learning in the Key of Life
Jonathan Kozol Savage Inequalities
David Brooks The Merits of Meritocracy
Robert Barr Who is This Child?
John Dewey The School and the Life of the Child
Howard Gardner Human Intelligence Isn’t What We Think It Is
Mike Rose Epilogue: Lilia
Michael J. Lewis Forget Classrooms: How Big is the Atrium to the New Student Center?
CONNECTING THE READINGS TO THE ARCHITECTURE
FINDING COMMON CAUSE IN CONTROVERSY: Who becomes Valedictorian? A Question of Merit.
Essay:
Hans Allhoff She’s Almost Too Good to be True, and to Prove It, She’s Going to Sue…
EMPHASIZING WITH DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW
ADDING MORE INFORMATION
SEEKING COMMON CAUSE
DEBATE ESSAY
WRITING PROJECTS
WRITING A SHORT ARGUMENT
WRITING AN EXTENDED ARGUMENT
DESIGNING THE EXTENDED WRITING PROJECT
USING WEB RESOURCES
CHAPTER FIVE: THE WORK WORLD
Works of Art(COLORPLATES):
Jack Levine The Trial (painting)
Edward Hopper New York Office (painting)
Maggi Hambling Dorothy Hodgkin (painting)
Florine Stettheimer Spring Sale at Bendel’s (painting)
Gordon Parks American Gothic, Washington, D.C., 1942 (photograph)
Grant Wood American Gothic (painting)
John Sloan Sun and Wind on the Roof (painting)
Diego Rivera Mural in the Great Hall of the Detroit Institute of Arts
Daniel DeSiga Campesino (painting)
THE WORK WORLD IN WORKS OF ART
ANALYZING THE WORKS OF ART
ANALYSIS OF A PAINTING
THE WORK WORLD IN ESSAYS
ANALYZING THE ESSAYS
ANALYSIS OF AN ESSAY
Essays:
Malcolm Gladwell Physical Genius
Mike Rose The Working Life of a Waitress
bell hooks Work Makes Life Sweet
Daniel Levine Take This Job and Love It
Gary Soto Black Hair
David Sedaris Santaland Diaries
Barbara Ehrenreich from Nickel and Dimed
Voices from the Workplace:
Mural Painter (from Martin Sprouse, Sabotage in the American WorkPlace: Anecdotes of Dissatisfaction, Mischief and Revenge)
Journalist (Claudia Luher)
Psychiatrist
CONNECTING THE READINGS TO THE ARTWORK
FINDING COMMON CAUSE IN CONTROVERSY: Should The Family Time Flexibility Act be supported?
Essays:
Deborah Perry Piscione Motherhood and Comp Time
The National Organization for Women Background: ‘The Family Time Flexibility Act’
EMPHASIZING WITH DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW
ADDING MORE INFORMATION
SEEKING COMMON CAUSE
DEBATE ESSAY
ADDITIONAL DEBATE QUESTION
WRITING PROJECTS
WRITING A SHORT ESSAY
WRITING AN EXTENDED ARGUMENT
DESIGNING THE EXTENDED WRITING PROJECT
USING WEB RESOURCES
CHAPTER SIX: CONNECTING TO NATURE
Works of Art (COLOR PLATES):
Gutzon Borglum Mount Rushmore National Monument, South Dakota (photograph)
Korczak Ziolkowski model for Crazy Horse Memorial (photograph)
Alexander Hogue Crucified Land (painting)
Dorothy Lange Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas (photograph)
Ogden Pleissner Morning Mass, 1928 (painting)
Asher B. Durand Kindred Spirits (painting)
Frederic Edwin Church The Icebergs (painting)
David Hockney A Bigger Grand Canyon (painting)
NASA The Blue Marble Earth, Western Hemisphere (photograph)
THE NATURAL WORLD IN WORKS OF ART
ANALYZING WORKS OF ART
ANALYSIS OF A PAINTING
THE NATURAL WORLD IN ESSAYS
ANALYZING THE ESSAYS
ANALYSIS OF AN ESSAY
Essays:
Aldo Leopold Wilderness as a Form of Land Use
Jared Diamond The Last Americans
Wendell Berry An Entrance to the Woods
Annie Dillard Work and Play: The Values We Live by
Barry Lopez Ice and Light
Jane Goodall from In the Shadow of Man
Ian Frazier Terminal Ice
Lewis Thomas The World’s Biggest Membrane
CONNECTING THE READINGS TO THE WORKS OF ART
FINDING COMMON CAUSE IN CONTROVERSY: Does the federal government have the right to prevent states from developing land while Congress decides whether to preserve this land as wilderness?
Essay:
Elizabeth Shogren The Nation: Tussle over a Western Jewel
EMPHASIZING WITH DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW
ADDING MORE INFORMATION
SEEKING COMMON CAUSE
DEBATE ESSAY
WRITING PROJECTS
WRITING A SHORT ESSAY
WRITING AN EXTENDED ARGUMENT
DESIGNING THE EXTENDED WRITING PROJECT
USING WEB RESOURCES
CHAPTER SEVEN: EXPLORING CYBERCULTURE
Websites (COLOR PLATES):
The Farnsworth Art Museum Web Site
Home Page
Exhibitions Page
The Guerilla Girls Web Site
Home Page
Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?
Jean Auguste-Dominique Ingres La Grand Odalisque (painting)
The Web Site for the Museum of Web Art (MOWA)
Visitor Center Page
Visitor Tours
The Jacob Lawrence Exploring Stories Web Pages
Home Page
Resources
CYBERCULTURE IN WEB SITES
ANALYZING THE WEB SITES
ANALYSIS OF A WEB SITE
CYBERCULTURE IN ESSAYS
ANALYSIS OF AN ESSAY
Essays:
Michael Lewis Pyramids and Pancakes
David Weinberger from Small Pieces, Loosely Joined
Rebecca Mead You’ve Got Blog: How to Put Your Business, Your Boyfriend, and Your Life Online
Howard Rheingold How to Recognize the Future When it Lands on You
Peter Drucker Beyond the Information Revolution
Nicholas Negroponte Creating a Culture of Ideas
Andy Carvin Mind the Gap: The Digital Divide as the Civil Rights Issue of the New Millennium
Jennifer Lee Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teachers
Dave Barry Selected Web Sites
CONNECTING THE READINGS WITH THE WEB PAGES
FINDING COMMON CAUSE IN CONTROVERSY: Should it be legal for individuals to download music from filesharing web sites (e.g., Gnutella, KaZaA, Blubster, Grokster)?
Essay:
Alex Pham and P.J. Huffstutter Piracy Gets Mixed Reviews in Industry
EMPHASIZING WITH DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW
ADDING MORE INFORMATION
SEEKING COMMON CAUSE
DEBATE ESSAY
WRITING PROJECTS
WRITING A SHORT ESSAY
WRITING AN EXTENDED ARGUMENT
DESIGNING THE EXTENDED WRITING PROJECT
USING WEB RESOURCES
CHAPTER EIGHT: EXPLORING THE ARTS
Works of Art:
Annie Leibovitz, Darci Kistler and Robert La Fasse New York City, 1990 (photograph)
Barbara Morgan Martha Graham in Letter to the World (photograph)
Alvin Langdon Coburn Ezra Pound (photograph)
Vittorio Storaro Still from Tucker (photograph)
(COLORPLATES)
Marc Chagall The Sources of Music (mural)
Romare Bearden Showtime (collage)
Pablo Picasso Three Musicians (painting)
Archibald Motley Blues (painting)
Louise Nez Reservation Scene (rug)
Faith Ringgold Dancing at the Louvre (quilt)
Laura Knight Self-Portrait (painting)
Virginia Stroud Dreamer’s Holiday (painting)
EXPLORING THE “ART” IN WORKS OF ART
ANALYZING THE WORKS OF ART
ANALYSIS OF A PAINTING
EXPLORING THE ARTS IN ESSAYS
ANALYZING AN ESSAY
Essays:
John Berger Ways of Seeing
Wanda M. Corn Ways of Seeing
Susan Sontag On Photography (the short course)
Mitchell Stephens ‘By Means of the Visible’: A Picture’s Worth
Jon Boorstin The Hollywood Eye
Joan Morgan When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as Hip-Hop Feminist
Robert Santelli A Century of the Blues
Rosanne Cash The Ties that Bind
Martha Graham Blood Memory
CONNECTING THE READING TO THE WORKS OF ART
FINDING COMMON CAUSE IN CONTROVERSY: As a documentary filmmaker, how much license does one have to edit, juxtapose, and otherwise reconstruct events to entertain and impact one’s viewers?
Essay:
David T. Hardy Bowling for Columbine: Documentary or Fiction?
EMPHASIZING WITH THE VIEW THAT MOORE OVERSTEPS THE LINE OF WHAT CONSTITUTES A DOCUMENTARY
EMPHASIZING WITH THE VIEW THAT MOORE HAS PRODUCED A WORTHY DOCUMENTARY
ADDING MORE INFORMATION
SEEKING COMMON CAUSE
DEBATE ESSAY
WRITING PROJECTS
WRITING A SHORT ESSAY
WRITING AN EXTENDED ARGUMENT
DESIGNING THE EXTENDED WRITING PROJECT
USING WEB RESOURCES
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
College readers.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Critical thinking -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Report writing -- Problems, exercises, etc.