PART 1 Chapter 1. Reading Critically Getting the Most Out of Your Reading Be Specific, Natalie Goldberg Practice Reading, Annotating, and Analyzing What''s in a Name?, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Reading as a Writer Chapter 2. Writing in College and Beyond Developing an Effective Writing Process The "Negro Revolt" in Me, Rebekah Sandlin (student essay) Chapter 3. Writers on Reading and Writing Reading to Write, Stephen King Shitty First Drafts, Anne Lamott The First Sentence, Iman Humaydan The Maker''s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts, Donald M. Murray How to Mark a Book, Mortimer Adler Chapter 4. Writing with Sources What Does It Mean to Write with Sources? Write with Sources Learn to Summarize, Paraphrase, and Quote from Your Sources The "Official English" Movement: Can America Proscribe Language with a Clear Conscience?, Jake Jamieson (student essay) Chapter 5. A Brief Guide to Writing a Research Paper Establish a Realistic Schedule Locate and Use Print and Online Sources Evaluate Your Sources Analyze Your Sources Develop a Working Bibliography of Your Sources Take Notes Document Your Sources MLA-Style Documentation APA-Style Documentation PART 2 Chapter 6.
Understanding the Power of Language: How We Find Our Voices Coming into Language, Jimmy Santiago Baca The Day Language Came into My Life, Helen Keller The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, Audre Lorde Stupid Rich Bastards, Lauren Johnson Black On and On: Appalachian Language and Academic Power, Meredith McCarroll Address at the Youth Takeover of the United Nations, Malala Yousafzai Chapter 7. Language Communities: Where Do We Belong? Speech Communities, Paul Roberts All-American Dialects, Richard Lederer Sign of the Times, Sara Novi? Two Ways to Belong in America, Bharati Mukherjee The Strange Persistence of First Languages, Julie Sedivy Land of the Giants, Alex Tizon Mother Tongue, Amy Tan Chapter 8. Language Evolution: How and Why Does Language Change? Words on the Move, John McWhorter How New Words Are Born, Andy Bodle What Does Latinx Mean? A Look at the Term That''s Challenging Gender Norms, Yesenia Padilla Textspeak Is Modernizing the Egnlish Language (*English), Lauren Collister Smile, You''re Speaking Emoji, Adam Sternbergh The (Sometimes Unintentional) Subtext of Digital Conversations, Deborah Tannen Chapter 9. Language That Manipulates: Politics, Advertising, and Doublespeak Propaganda: How Not to Be Bamboozled, Donna Woolfolk Cross Selection, Slanting, and Charged Language, Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B. Birk The Case of the Missing Perpetrator, Rebecca Solnit Fighting Words, Judith Matloff Fake News Starts with the Title, Benjamin Horne Weasel Words: The Art of Saying Nothing at All, William Lutz The Ways of Silencing, Jason Stanley Chapter 10. The Language of Discrimination: Hate, Prejudice, and Stereotypes What''s So Bad About Hate?, Andrew Sullivan The Language of Prejudice, Gordon Allport The "F Word," Firoozeh Dumas The Racist Trope That Won''t Die, Brent Staples The Fight Over the Words of Immigration, Jeff Gammage Nobody Mean More to Me Than You, June Jordan Chapter 11. Language and Gender: Power, Abuse, Equality We''re All Mad Here: Weinstein, Women, and the Language of Lunacy, Laurie Penny The Careless Language of Sexual Violence, Roxane Gay Happy Feminist, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie The Social Harms of "Bitch," Sheryl Kleinman, Matthew B.
Ezzell, and A. Corey Frost "Bros Before Hos": The Guy Code, Michael Kimmel How to Refer to My Husband-Wife, Michelle Tea Chapter 12. The Language of Lying: Ethics, White Lies, and Fraud The Truth about Lying, Judith Viorst Lying Words, James Pennebaker Learning to Lie, Po Bronson Is Lying Bad for Us?, Richard Gunderman Psychology of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things, Chana Joffe-Walt and Alix Spiegel Everybody Lies, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Chapter 13. The Language of Conflict Resolution: Dignity, Apology, De-escalation Resolve Current and Future Conflicts with Dignity, Donna Hicks Language and Conflict, Karol Janicki Sorry, Regrets, and More, Edwin Battistella Further Adventures of Flex Cop, Michael Gardner Stalling for Time, Gary Noesner Letting Go, Amy Westervelt Chapter 14. Arguing about Language: Two Contemporary Debates The Campus Free Speech Controversy The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces, John Palfrey What Campuses Can and Can''t Do, Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman The Great Gender-Neutral Pronoun Debate We Need the Singular "They," Stephanie Golden The Transgender Language War, Abigail Shrier Are Gender-Neutral Pronouns Actually Doomed?, Christen McCurdy.