Preface.
PART I: WRITING CRITICALLY AND CONDUCTING RESEARCH.
1. Reading Critically.
"Culture Bundling and Other Obstacles to a Real Gun Control Debate", Ken White.
2. The Writing Process.
3. Writing a Summary.
"Dream Machines", Will Wright.
4. Writing a Critique.
"Liberal Arts and the Bottom Line", Lane Wallace.
5. Writing an Argument.
"The Gender Wage Gap--A Myth that Just Won't Die", Abigail Hall.
6. Writing a Synthesis and Documenting Sources.
7. Writing a Research Paper.
PART II: ISSUES ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES.
8. Popular Culture and the Arts.
"Do Video Games Kill?" Karen Sternheimer. "Hip-Hop's Betrayal of Black Women", Jennifer McLune. "Scientists aren't the Only Innovators! We Really Need Artists", Sarah Lewis. Mindtap only--. "A Glaring Diversity Gap in Films", Manohla Dargis. "Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad", Kenneth D. M. Jensen.
9. Media Studies.
"Why I just Asked My Students to Put Their Laptops Away", Clay Shirky. "Our Photoshopping Disorder", Erin Cunningham. "The Collective Conscience of Reality Television", Serena Elavia. Mindtap only--. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Lolcats?" Dana Liebelson. "Establishment Media: Openly Defends Rioting as Ferguson Burns," Alex Newman.
10. Education.
"Critical Thinking? You Need Knowledge", Diane Ravitch. "Excerpt from Why School? A Student in a Community College Basic Skills Program", Mike Rose. "The Anti-College Movement", Heather Schilling. Mindtap only--. "A Liberal Arts Education Has Tremendous Value", E. Bruce Pitman. "To Do or to Teach? Is That Even a Question?" Sarah Taylor Ellis.
11. Poverty and Homelessness.
"The Cost of Child Poverty", Jeff Madrick. "The Resurrection of America's Slums", Alana Semuels. "Ignoring Homeless Families", Greg Kaufman. Mindtap only--. "The Changing Face of Low-Wage Poverty in the U.S.", Steven Greenhouse. "Poverty: Yes, it's about Personal Responsibility but it's Also about the Choices We Make as a Society", Nicholas Kristof.
12. Gender Studies.
"The Puzzle of Boys", Thomas Bartlett. "Men are Stuck in Gender Roles, Data Suggest", Emily Alpert Reyes. "Target Is Right on Target about the Use of Gender Labels", Christia Brown. Mindtap only--. "Once Upon a Lifetime", Rizi Timane. "What Makes a Woman?" Elinor Burkett.
13. Racism and Discrimination.
"Parents Outraged after Students Shown 'White Guilt' Cartoon for Black History Month", Peter Holley. "When I Was White", Sarah Valentine. "The School-to-Prison Pipeline", Marilyn Elias. Mindtap only--. "Immigration: How We Got Here from There", Jack Kenny. "Immigration and America's Urban Revival", Robert J. Sampson.
14. Psychology and Human Behavior.
"Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: A Lesson in the Power of Situation", Philip Zimbardo. "The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment", Maria Konnikov. "When Good People Do Bad Things", Anne Trafton. Mindtap only--. "The End of Punishment", Katherine Reynolds Lewis. "Willpower and Won't Power", Michael Shermer.
15. Bioethics and Environmental Studies.
"Kidneys for Sale: A Reconsideration", Miriam Schulman. "Why Legalizing Organ Sales Would Help to Save Lives, End Violence", Anthony Gregory. "Global Warning: Get Up! Stand Up!" Bill McKibben. "The Sixth Extinction", Jeff Corwin. Mindtap only--. "The Environmental Crisis in Your Closet", Adam Matthews. "Editing Human Germline Cells Debated", Tina Hesman Saey.
16. Marketing, the American Consumer, and the Workplace.
"Every Nook and Cranny: The Dangerous Spread of Commercialized Culture", Gary Ruskin and Juliet Schor. "Escape from the Job Jungle", Peter Weinberg. "Why Companies Aren't Getting the Employees They Need", Peter Cappelli. Mindtap only--. "Risky Rhetoric", Lori Widmer. "In Defense of Consumerism", Dan Hannan.