ReMix Reading and Composing Culture
, by Latterell, Catherine G.
- ISBN: 9780312681678 | 0312681674
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/19/2017
"Why do I think the way I do?" Answer this question and others as ReMix empowers you to write, design, and construct the world around you in order to become a more successful writer in college and beyond.
Catherine G. Latterell is associate professor of English at Penn State Altoona, where she teaches first-year composition as well as a range of other rhetoric and writing courses. In addition to composition and cultural studies, her scholarly interests include post-critical pedagogy, literacy studies, and computers and composition. Her published essays consider the intersection of theory and practice in writing programs, writing centers, and composition classrooms.
*new to the third edition1. Identity… or, who do you think you are?Emily White, High School’s Secret Life*Alex Kuczynski, Identity Crisis: Sign Your John Hancock Here. Or is it Your Lady Gaga?*Jennifer Ouellette, Tokens and Totems*COMIC: Gene Luen Yang, Forfeit Your Soul*Heather Havrilesky, Bobos*Roland Kelts, The Fifth FlavorLucy Grealy, Masks*W. Ralph Eubanks, Color Lines*COMICS: Jim Davis and Dan Walsh, Garfield Minus Garfield Paired Readings: Focus on LanguageGloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild TongueFiroozeh Dumas, The "F Word"2. Community… or, are these your people? Paired Readings: Focus on BeliefsSarah Adams, Be Cool to the Pizza DudeAzar Nafisi, I Believe in Empathy*Garrison Keillor, In Search of Lake WobegonDavid Berreby, It Takes a TribeJon Stewart, Commencement Address*Dinaw Mengestu, Home at LastPaired Readings: Focus on Social Networks*The Onion, New Facebook Notifications Alert Users When They Not Currently Looking at Facebook*Kat Ascharya, What Facebook Is Doing to Your Brain Is Kind of Shocking*SIDEBAR: Louis C.K. … On Why He Doesn’t Want to Get a Phone for His KidsShari Caudron, Befriending BarbieCOMIC: Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks *Alessandra Rizzotti, How Citizen Science Is Saving Our Oceans*Joan Didion, From Where I Was From*Mackensie Griffin, 'No Place For Discontent': A History Of The Family Dinner In America3. Competition… or, is it in you? *COMIC: Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes Bruce Glassman, We Can Work It Out: The Beatles’ Creative CompetitionSIDEBAR: George Martin and the Beatles, On Collaboration*Frank Bruni, How to Survive the College Admissions Madness*Tina Fey, Confessions of a JugglerPaired Readings: Focus on Originality*Nitsuh Abebe, On the Far Slope of the Uncanny Valley*Scott Plagenhoef, The Tumblr Trap*Barbara Ehrenreich, On Post-Positive Thinking*Dave Barry, Representing a Country is a Great Feeling *Flinder Boyd, When Smush Parker Saved the World*Clickhole, Science FTW: IBM Just Announced A Robotics Competition To Stop The Winner Of The Previous Competition Clustered Readings: Focus on Tips for SuccessDale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleStephen R. Covey, The Habits of Highly Effective People: Think Win/WinLois P. Frankel, Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office: Mistakes and Coaching Tips4. Romance… or, what’s love got to do with it? *Mira Jacob, The Arranged Marriage That Ended Happily Ever After: How My Parents Fell In Love, 30 Years LaterTim Neville, Once Upon a Time in a TentDavid Sedaris, The End of the Affair SIDEBAR: Chris Rock… on Marriage*Emma Court, A Millenial’s Guide to KissingPaired Readings: Focus on the Science of AttractionBenedict Carey, The Brain in Love*David Rothenberg, Come Up and See My Bowerbell hooks, Baby and Daddy Gus*Tim Gunn, Know What to Get off Your Chest and What to Take to the Grave*Nancy Hale, Are You Fickle? Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Cinderella5. Entertainment… or, why are we so bored? Katie Roiphe, Profiles EncouragedSIDEBAR: Ellen DeGeneres… on Celebrity*Mindy Kaling, Types of Women in Romantic Comedies Who Are Not Real*Michael W. Clune, The Sun and the Stars SIDEBAR: George Will… on Entertainment and ProgressPaired Readings: Focus on Music*James McBride, Hip-Hop Planet *Tom Junod, How Beyoncé and Taylor Swift Conquered the World with Pop Music Pete Rojas, Bootleg CultureDavid Nasaw, The Pernicious "Moving Picture" Abomination*William A. Ward, Humor From the Tombs *PHOTO ESSAY: Harry Pointer, 1870s-1880s: Victorian Lolcats*Amy Poehler, Things They Don’t Tell You about the Biz*David Mitchell, Something More Boring Instead*David Samuels, The Night Before the Grammys *Patton Oswalt, You Can, Unfortunately, Go Home Again6. Technology… or, what’s so great about progress? *COMIC: xkcd, Preferred Chat System *Michael Wolff, Television and the Way We Live NowPaired Readings: Focus on LanguageChristine Kenneally, The First Word: The Origins of Language*Rebecca Armendariz, Chat HistoryLangdon Winner, Technological Somnambulism*SIDEBAR: Vivek Wadhwa, Our Lagging Laws*Adam Gopnik, How the Internet Gets Inside UsScott McLeod, Words and PicturesHenry Petroski, The ToothpickDonald A. Norman, The Psychology of People and MachinesSIDEBAR: Malcolm Gladwell, On the Perfect Innovation*Gloria Jahoda, From Marshes and Moonports*Teddy Wayne, The Microcomplaint: Nothing Too Small to Whine About*Marco Kaye, Son, It’s Time We Talk about Where Start-Ups Come From
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