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Discover your passion for writing with VIEWPOINTS. This thematically organized reader offers diverse perspectives on various themes and issues, including social concerns, media, human behavior, cultural differences, and human rights. In addition, you'll find helpful guidance for navigating the writing process including pre-reading techniques, methods for evaluating an essay, and advice on choosing strong essay topics.
Contents
Preface. Part Ion Reading Essays. Keeping a Reading Journal. Reading Essays. The Structure of an Essay. Thesis. Supporting Evidence. Order of Support. Before Going On. Understanding the Content. Separating Main Ideas from Supporting Details. Separating Fact from Opinion. Drawing Inferences. Before Going On. Marking as You Read. "The Wet Drug" by Pete Hamill. Writing Summaries. Writing Reflections. Collecting Words to Learn. Before Going On. 2. Viewpoints on Writing Essays. Getting Started: Finding a Working Thesis (Stage 1). Discovering Ideas in Your Reading Journal. Brainstorming. Freewriting. Before Going On. Getting It on Paper: Supporting Your Thesis (Stage 2). Refining Your Thesis.Grouping Your Ideas. Outlining Your Support. Writing an Argumentative Essay. Nutshell Statements. Patterning Your Paragraphs: The Beginning. Patterning Your Paragraphs: The Middle. Patterning Your Paragraphs: The Ending. First Draft. Before Going On. Getting It Right: Revising and Editing (Stage 3). Revising. Editing. Proofreading. Before Going On. Revising and Editing Checklists: Brief Versions. Part II: READINGS WORTH THINKING AND WRITING ABOUT. 3. Viewpoints on Acquiring Knowledge."Superman and Me" by Sherman Alexie. "To Err Is Wrong" by Roger von Oech. "In Praise of the F Word" by Mary Sherry. "Zero" by Paul Logan. "Your Kid's Going to Pay for Cheating-Eventually" by Leonard Pitts, Jr. "How Dumb Are We?" by Andrew Romano."Cutting N-Word from Twain Is Not Censorship" by Boyce Watkins. "Take the N-Word Out of 'Huck Finn'? It's an Insult to Mark Twain and to American History" by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. 4. Viewpoints on Human Behavior. "Call Me Crazy, But I Have to Be Myself" by Mary Seymour. "Night Walker" by Brent Staples. "Human Resources: The Seven Classic Types of Workplace Behavior" by Francie Dalton. "The Partying Habit that Can Put You in Danger" by Michele Bender. "Social Experiment: Know Thy Neighbor" by Peter Lovenheim. "The Tire Iron and the Tamale" by Justin Horner. "The Ghetto Made Me Do It" by Francis Flaherty. "Seeking the Roots of Violence" by Anastasia Toufexis. 5. Viewpoints on Cultural Differences. "Veiled Intentions: Don't Judge a Muslim Girl by Her Covering" by Maysan Haydar. "Difference in Cross-Cultural Communication" by John W. Adams. "Where I come from Is Like This" by Paula Gunn Allen. "Forget the Melting Pot: Make Mine a Salad Bowl" by Hannibal B. Johnson. "Cultural Differences Among Patients" by Geri-Ann Galanti. "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan. "After Two Years in the Melting Pot" by Liu Zongren. 6. Viewpoints on Social Concerns. "Your Mirror Image?" by Francine Russo. "Memories of a Sweet, Lethal, Smoke-Filled Home" by Dean P. Johnson. "Shut Up About My Truck" by Ace Atkins. "Evil Weed or Useful Drug?" by Judy Foreman. "Bottomless Drinking Ban on College Campuses" by Lis Wiehl. "Ethics for Sale" by Carl Elliott and Trudo Lemmens. "Animal Testing Necessary in Medical Research" by Lauren Myers. "Of Cures and Creatures Great and Small" by Claire Andre and Manual Valasquez. 7. Viewpoints on Family and Marital Relationships. "The Estrangement" by Jamaica Kincaid. "The Perfect Family" by Alice Hoffman. "Why I Love My Strict Chinese Mom" by Sophia Chua-Rubenfield. "Black Unlike Me" by Jana Wolff. "Boys Mow Lawns, Girls Wash Dishes" by Sue Shellenbarger. "'I Don't': The Case Against Marriage" by Jessica Bennett and Jesse Ellison. "Speaking Out: Why Gay Marriages Would Be Harmful" by Robert Benne and Gerald McDermott. "Who Care if Gays Marry?" by Gregory Blair. 8. Viewpoints on Work. "The Power Mom Backlash" by Danielle Friedman. "The Company Man" by Ellen Goodman. "Less Is More" by Jeff Yeager. "A Father's Character, Not His Success, Shapes Kids' Careers" by Hal Lancaster. "Two Cheers for Sweatshops" by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn. "How Outsourcing Can Benefit Your Business" as found at www.productivitytools.com. "Outsourcing Jobs Leaves the American White-Collar Worker Behind" by Susan Gawlowicz. 9. Viewpoints on the Media and Technology. "Do Newspapers Have a Future?" by Michael Kinsley. "The Issue Isn't Sex, It's Violence" by Caryl Rivers. "The Mash of Civilization" by Niall Ferguson. "The Dumbing of America" by Susan Jacoby. "Society Is Dead: We Have Retreated into the iWorld" by Andrew Sullivan."Televising Humiliation" by Adam Cohen. "The Future of the Web" by Joseph F. Coates. "The Information Revolution Will Not Be a Panacea" by the Editors of The Economist. 10. Viewpoints on the Environment. "Global Warming" by James Haley. "The Big Business of Conservation" by Johann Hari. "Facts Show That Global Warming Is Real" by Ben Bova. "Is a Green World a Safer World?" by David J. Rothkopf. "Nuclear Energy is Cheap and Reliable" by Lamar Alexander. "New Nuclear Reactors Would Be Too Risky" by Dennis Kucinich. Appendix. Acknowledgments. Index.
