Read, reason, write / Dorothy U. Seyler.

TABLE OF CONTENTDS

SECTION I: CRITICAL READING AND ANALYSIS

CHAPTER 1: WRITERS AND THEIR SOURCES

Abraham Lincoln, 'The Gettysburg Address'
Bruce Sterling, 'Learning to Love Obsolescence'

Rebecca J. Donatelle and Lorraine G. Davis, 'Child Sexual Abuse'


Aaron Dalton, 'The Ties That Unbind'

Bertrand Russell, From 'A Free Man's Worship'
Robert J. Samuelson, 'Century of Freedom'
William Raspberry, ''The real Pregnancy Prblem''
Bill Gates, 'Beyond Guttenberg' Writing Assignments

CHAPTER 2: RESPONDING CRITICALLY TO SOURCES

Examining the Context
Understanding Attitude
Analyzing Style

Dave Barry, 'Remote Control'
Writing about Style
Ellen Goodman, 'Choosing Families'
Recognizing Language Abuses
Combining Summary, Analysis, and Evaluation: The Review Annotated Review:
Analysing Two or More Sources
Sean O'Connell, 'Dinosaur' Stephen Hunter, 'Disney's Digital `Dinosaur': A Cretaceous Bambi';
*John Leo, 'Word Games We Play'
*Ronald R. Fraser, 'Let the Going Get Tough-We Have Our SUVs'
Writing Assignments

SECTION II: THE WORLD OF ARGUMENT

CHAPTER 3: THE BASICS OF ARGUMENT

Characteristics of Argument
The Shape of Argument: The Aristotelian Model
The Shape of Argument: The Toulmin Model
The Language of Claims and Support

Richard Morin, 'Paradise Lost'
More on Toulmin's Analysis of Argument
The Language of Argument
Marie Winn, 'A Commitment to Language'
Richard Leakey, 'Extinctions Past and Present'

CHAPTER 4: TYPES OF ARGUMENTS: CLASSICAL PATTERNS AND CURRENT APPROACHES

Induction
Deduction
''The Declaration of Independence'
Zbigniew Brzezinski, 'War and Football'
Pietro Nivola, 'Pumps and Pocketbooks''

Abigail Trafford, 'On the Streets of Philadelphia, Prescriptions of Progress'
The Uses of Authority and Statistics
Responding to Visual Arguments
Arguments That Do Not Work: Logical Fallacies

''Help those who help, not hurt themselves''
Letter C. ''Why Women are paid less than Men''


CHAPTER 5: PREPARING GOOD ARGUMENTS

Knowing Your Audience
Understanding Your Writing Purpose
Moving from Topic to Claim to Support
Drafting Your Argument
Revising Your Draft
Guidelines for Preparing Specific Kinds of Arguments

James Q. Wilson, 'A New Strategy for the War on Drugs'
David Sadker, 'Gender Games'
Robert H. Bork, 'Addicted to Health'

SECTION III: THE RESEARCH PROCESS

CHAPTER 6: GETTING STARTED AND LOCATING SOURCES (IN THE LIBRARY, ONLINE, IN THE FIELD)

Defining the Research Process
Stages in the Research Process
Finding a Workable Topic
Writing a Tentative Thesis or Research Proposal
Locating Sources
Preparing a Working Bibliography
Knowing Your Library
Using the Reference Collection
Using Indexes to Periodicals
Locating Government Documents and Related Publications
Searching the Internet
Doing Field Research
Exercises: Using the Library

CHAPTER 7: UNDERSTANDING SOURCES, SELECTING INFORMATION, AND DOCUMENTING (USING MLA)

Using Sources Effectively
Evaluating Sources
Documenting Sources to Avoid Plagiarism
Selecting and Noting Material from Sources
MLA In-Text (Parenthetical) Citations Preparing MLA Citations
Preparing MLA Citations for a Works Cited Page

CHAPTER 8: COMPLETING THE RESEARCH PROJECT

Organizing the Paper
The Formal Outline
Drafting the Paper
Revising the Paper: A Checklist
The Completed Paper
Sample Research Paper 1: A Current Problem

CHAPTER 9: OTHER STYLES OF DOCUMENTATION

Author/Year or APA Style
APA Style: Preparing a List of References
Sample Paper in APA Style
Footnote or Endnote Style
The Number System

SECTION IV: A COLLECTION OF READINGS

CHAPTER 10: THE MEDIA: IMAGE AND REALITY

The Media: Image and Reality

Brandon Centerwall, 'Television and Violent Crime'
Suzanne Braun Levine, 'Caution: Children Watching'
Michael Grebb, 'Feds vs. First Amendment'
Daphne White, 'It's Not Just a Toy, It's an Indoctrination'
Gloria Steinem, 'Lovely to Look Upon-or Else'

CHAPTER 11: EUTHANASIA
Peter A. Singer and Mark Siegler, 'Euthanasia-A Critique' Sidney Hook, 'In Defense of Voluntary Euthanasia' Rosalyn Carter, 'A Quality End of Life'
Peter Singer, 'Rethinking Life and Death'

CHAPTER 12: GUNS AND SOCIETY
Richard Harwood, 'America's Unchecked Epidemic'
Sarah Brady, 'Gun Registration: It's Common Sense' Tanya K. Metaksa, 'Sliding Down the Slippery Slope'
Osha Gray Davidson, 'All Fired Up: The NRA Makes a Lot of Noise, but That Doesn't Help the Gun Owners of America'

CHAPTER 13: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Ernest van den Haag, 'The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense' Hugo Adam Bedau, 'Death Is Different'
George Will, 'Innocent on Death Row'
Eugene H. Methvin, 'Death Penalty Is Fairer Than Ever'

CHAPTER 14: CENSORSHIP, PORNOGRAPHY, AND THE ARTS
Nat Hentoff, 'Expelling Huck Finn'
Mark Mathabane, 'If You Assign My Book, Don't Censor It'
Robyn Blumner, 'Freedom's Fair-Weather Friends' Julia Wilkins, 'Protecting Our Children from Internet Smut: Moral Duty or Moral Panic?'

CHAPTER 15: INTERNET ISSUES: PRIVACY, OWNERSHIP, ENTRAPMENT
Peter McGrath, 'If All the World's a Computer'
Lawrence Lessig, 'Technology Will Solve Web Privacy Problems'
Micahel Schrage, 'E-Mail or E-Sting? Your Boss Knows, but He's Not Telling'
Paul Kedrosky, 'Napster Should Be Playing Jailhouse Rock'
Jenny Toomey, 'Hear Me Play, but Respect My Rights'
David Gelertner, 'Will We Have Any Privacy Left?' *

CHAPTER 16: THE ANIMAL RIGHTS DEBATE
Jane Goodall, 'Chimpanzees-Bridging the Gap'
Daniel W. McShea, 'On the Rights of an Ape' Richard A. Epstein, 'The Next Rights Rveolution?'
Joseph Bernstein, 'Animal Rights vs. Animal Research: A Modest Proposal'
Timothy Sprigge, 'A Reply to Joseph Bernstein'

CHAPTER 17: IMMIGRATION AND IMMIGRANTS
Leslie Marmon Silko, 'The Border Patrol State' William Norman Grigg, 'Revolution in America'
Charles Krauthammer, 'Saved by Immigrants'
George J. Borjas, 'Illegal Aliens'

CHAPTER 18: ISSUES IN EDUCATION
Alan B. Krueger, 'But Does It Work?'
Diane Ravitch, 'Put Teachers to the Test'
Thomas Sowell, 'The Dumbing Down of Education Is Becoming an International Trend'
Jackson Toby, 'Cakewalk to College'
Katha Pollitt, 'Affirmative Action for Men?'
Michele Tolela Myers, `'Cyber U: What's Missing?''

CHAPTER 19 : RACE, GENDER, AND IDENTITY
Charles R. Lawrence III and Mari J. Matsuda, 'Extending the Reach of Affirmative Action'
Gregory Rodriguez and Ronald Takaki, 'California's Big Squeeze' *Shelby Steele, 'X-Percent Plans'
Anna Quindlen, 'The Problem of the Color Line' *Cecelie Berry, 'It's Time We Rejected the Racial Litmus Test'
John Shelby Spong, 'The Scouts Take Their Stereotypes to Court' Lisa Mundy,'The Dissension of Species'

CHAPTER 20: EXAMINING MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
Patricia Dalton, 'Daughters of the Revolution'
Barbara Ehrenreich, 'Will Women Still Need Men?'
John Cloud, 'Will Gay Marriage Be Legal?'
Lisa Schiffren, 'Gay Marriage, an Oxymoron' Betty Carter and Joan K. Peters, 'Remaking Marriage and Family'
Linda J. Waite, 'Social Science Finds: `Marriage Matters'' Roger Rosenblatt, 'How to End the Abortion War'


CHAPTER 21: GLOBAL ISSUES: THE ENVIRONMENT, POVERTY, AND THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY
S. George Philander, 'The Uncertain Science of Global Warming'
Mark Hertsgoard, 'A Global Green Deal'
Chris Taylor, 'Why Mother Nature Should Love Cyberspace'
Greg Easterbrook, 'Who's Afraid of Globalization?'


CHAPTER 22: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LIVING: WHERE ARE WE HEADED? WHERE DO WE WANT TO GO? *

Nancy Ann Jeffrey, 'A Rude Awakening'
Mark Steinberg, '`Numbed' Down in America'
Henry Fairlie, 'The Idiocy of Urban Life'
Pico Iyer, 'Are We Coming Apart or Together?'
David Gergen, 'A Sense of Belonging'

CHAPTER 23: SOME CLASSIC ARGUMENTS

Jonathan Swift, 'A Modest Proposal'
Henry David Thoreau, 'Civil Disobedience'
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 'Declaration of Sentiments'
John Stuart Mill, from 'On Liberty'
Martin Luther King Jr., 'I Have a Dream'

Includes bibliographical references (p. 659-663) and index.