Perspectives on Contemporary Issues (with InfoTrac)
, by Ackley, Katherine Anne
- ISBN: 9780838452547 | 083845254X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/21/2002
This cross-disciplinary reader encourages critical thinking and academic writing by presenting students with a variety of perspectives on current issues from across the curriculum.
| Part I: WRITING CRITICALLY AND CONDUCTING RESEARCH | |
| 1. Reading Critically | |
| Reading Critically in Preparation for Writing Critically | |
| Organizing and Developing Ideas | |
| Illustration: Reading Critically | |
| Robert N | |
| Sollod, The Hollow Curriculum | |
| Discussion of The Hollow Curriculum | |
| Roald Dahl, Burned Out and Bored | |
| 2. Writing a Summary | |
| Writing a Summary | |
| Illustration: Making Marginal Notes | |
| Arthur Levine, The Making of a Generation | |
| Summary of Arthur Levine's The Making of a Generation | |
| *Martha W | |
| Barnett, Lessons in Democracy | |
| 3. Writing a Critique | |
| The Connection between Reading Critically and Writing a Critique | |
| Writing a Critique | |
| Illustration: Critique of Robert N | |
| Sollod's The Hollow Curriculum | |
| *Linda Lee, Who Needs College? 4. Writing a Synthesis | |
| Writing a Synthesis | |
| Illustration: Synthesis | |
| 5. In-Text Citations, Paraphrasing, and Quoting | |
| Documenting Sources: In-Text Citations Using MLA Style | |
| Paraphrasing | |
| Quoting | |
| Integrating Source Material into Your Paper | |
| Using Ellipsis Points, Brackets, Single Quotation Marks and "Qtd | |
| in" | |
| Documenting Sources in a Collection of Essays | |
| 6. Writing a Research Paper | |
| Using MLA Style | |
| Defining Your Purpose | |
| Discovering a Topic | |
| Developing a Working Bibliography | |
| Using the Library | |
| Using Electronic Sources | |
| Mark Horowitz, Finding History on the Net | |
| Creating a Preliminary Bibliography | |
| Evaluating Sources | |
| Taking Notes | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Illustration: Plagiarism, Inaccurate Documentation, and Correct Handling of Source Material | |
| Documenting Sources | |
| Citing Sources in the Text and Creating a Works Cited Page | |
| Sample Pages from Student Research Papers | |
| 7. Writing a Research Paper Using APA Style | |
| Parenthetical Citations Using APA Style | |
| Sample Pages from Student Research Paper Using APA Style | |
| Mark Plonsky, Psychology with Style: A Guide to Writing Research Reports Using APA Style | |
| Part II: THE ARTS, MEDIA STUDIES, AND POPULAR CULTURE | |
| 8. The Arts | |
| Robert Hughes, Behold the Stone Age | |
| Norman Cousins, The Poet and the Computer | |
| Harold M | |
| Williams, Don't Ignore the Arts | |
| Diana Jean Schemo, Between the Art and the Artist Lies the Shadow | |
| 9. Music, Film, and Media Studies | |
| Isabelle Leymarie, Rock 'n' Revolt | |
| Leonard Pitts, Jr | |
| The Lessons of Presley's Hips | |
| Michael Medved, Hollywood Poison Factory | |
| Louise Bernikow, Cinderella: Saturday Afternoon at the Movies | |
| Peter H | |
| Gibbon, The End of Admiration: The Media and the Loss of Heroes | |
| Sissela Bok, Aggression: The Impact of Media Violence | |
| Andrea Sachs and Susanne Washburn, Tough Talk on Entertainment | |
| 10. Television | |
| Pete Hamill, Crack and the Box | |
| Mike Males, Stop Blaming Kids and TV | |
| Susan R | |
| Lamson, TV Violence: Does It Cause Real-Life Mayhem? William F | |
| Buckley Jr, Don't Blame Violence on the Tube | |
| 11. Advertising | |
| Jean Kilbourn, Advertising's Influence on Media Content | |
| Richard Wolkomir and Joyce Wolkomir, You Are What You Buy | |
| William Lutz, With These Words I Can Sell You Anything | |
| John O'Toole, What Advertising Isn't | |
| Part III: SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | |
| 12. Education | |
| Marianne M | |
| Jennings, The Real Generation Gap | |
| Romesh Ratnesar, The Homework Ate My Family | |
| Howard Gardner, A Prescription for Peace | |
| David McCullough, No Time to Read? 13. Poverty and Homelessness | |
| Anna Quindlen, Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids | |
| America magazine editorial, Still Hungry, Still Homeless | |
| Melanie Scheller, On the Meaning of Plumbing and Poverty | |
| Peter Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty | |
| 14. Criminal Behavior | |
| Lou Prato, How Much is too Much? William S | |
| Pollack, The Columbine Syndrome: Boys and the Fear of Violence | |
| Gary Kleck, There are No Lessons to be Learned from Littleton | |
| Wayne M | |
| Barrett and Bernard Rowe, What's Wrong with America and Can Anything Be Done About It? Barbara Ehrenreich, Maintaining the Crime Supply | |
| 15. Gender and Sex Roles | |
| Jane Smiley, You Can Never Have Too Many | |
| Joan DeGuire North, Strangers in a Strange Land: Women in Higher Education Administration | |
| Ana Veciana-Suarez, Thank Heaven for Little Boys | |
| Lois Gould, X: A Fabulous Child's Story | |
| 16. Race and Ethnicity | |
| George Henderson, Race in America | |
| William Booth, One Nation, Indivisible: Is It History? Linda Chavez, Hispanics and the American Dream | |
| Alex Kotlowitz, Colorblind | |
| *17. Terrorism | |
| *Fareed Zakaria, The End of the End of History | |
| *The London Times, With One Voice: Washington, Westminster and the World | |
| *Lance Morrow, The Case for Rage and Retribution | |
| *Reshma Memon Yaqub, I'm Not the Enemy | |
| *David Pryce-Jones, Why They Hate Us | |
| Part IV: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | |
| 18. Computers and Cyberspace | |
| Lori Gottlieb, Is There a Geek in the House? Seth Shostak, You Call This Progress? Joe Saltzman, Dick Tracy Never Had It This Good! Don Tapscott, The Generation Lap | |
| Amy Bruckman, Christmas Unplugged | |
| 19. Natural Sciences | |
| Jacob Bronowski, The Reach of the Imagination | |
| Roald Hoffmann, The Chemist | |
| Matt Ridley, The Year of the Genome | |
| Lee Ann Fisher Baron, The Influence of "Junk Science" and the Role of Science Education | |
| Boyce Rensberger, The Nature of Evidence | |
| 20. Bioethics | |
| James D | |
| Watson, All for the Good | |
| Ian Wilmut, Dolly's False Legacy | |
| Jeff Lyon, Playing God: Has Science Gone Too Far? Ruth Macklin, Human Cloning? Don't Just Say No | |
| Charles Krauthammer, Of Headless Mice…and Men | |
| 21. Public Health | |
| Johanna McGeary, Death Stalks a Continent | |
| Faith McLellan, Human Rights: A Critical Framework for the Response to HIV/AIDS | |
| The Economist, Science and Profit | |
| Tom Fiedler, AIDS Fight Boils Down to Dollars vs | |
| Lives | |
| 22. Environmental Studies | |
| Aaron Sachs, Humboldt's Legacy and the Restoration of Science | |
| Paul Hawken, A Declaration of Sustainability | |
| American Spectator commentary, The Galileo of Global Warming | |
| D | |
| Grant DeMan, Out, Damn Naturalists | |
| Part V: BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS | |
| 23. Marketing and the American Consumer | |
| James B | |
| Twitchell, In Praise of Consumerism | |
| Louise Lee, Can Levi's Be Cool Again? Steven Levy, Playing Fair with Copyright | |
| Phyllis Rose, Shopping and Other Spiritual Adventures in America Today | |
| 24. The Workplace | |
| Jay Matthews, For Love or Money | |
| Matthew Boyle, Beware the Killjoy | |
| Barbara Ehrenreich, Zipped Lips | |
| Terry Golway, Rewriting the Old Rules | |
| 25. The American Image Abroad | |
| Pico Iyer, Selling Our Innocence Abroad | |
| Michael Elliott, Here to Stay | |
| Frances Stead Sellers, Terribly Sorry, But I Don't Understand | |
| T | |
| R | |
| Reid, Yobbish Prat Whinges On | |
| *26.The United States in the Global Marketplace | |
| *Kofi Annan, Development without Borders | |
| *Vito Tanzi, Globalization without a Net | |
| *Robert Borosage, Mixing '60s Activism and Anti-Globalization | |
| *Murray Weidenbaum, Dispelling the Myths about the Global Economy | |
| Appendix 1: Definitions of Terms | |
| Appendix 2: Formatting Guidelines for Course Papers | |
| *Denotes new to this edition |
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