Table of Content
*New to the editionPreface: Demystifying Academic ConversationIntroduction: Entering the Conversation Part 1. "THEY SAY"1. "They Say": Starting with What Others Are Saying2. "Her Point Is": The Art of Summarizing3. "As He Himself Puts It": The Art of QuotingPart 2. "I SAY"4. "Yes / No / Okay, But": Three Ways to Respond5. "And Yet": Distinguishing What You Say from What They Say6. "Skeptics May Object": Planting a Naysayer in Your Text7. "So What? Who Cares?": Saying Why It MattersPart 3. TYING IT ALL TOGETHER8. "As a Result": Connecting the Parts9. "You Mean I Can Just Say It That Way?": Academic Writing Doesn't Mean Setting Aside Your Own Voice10. "But Don't Get Me Wrong": The Art of Metacommentary11. "He Says Contends": Using the Templates to RevisePart 4. IN SPECIFIC ACADEMIC SETTINGS12. "I Take Your Point": Entering Class Discussions*13. Don't Assume They'll Scroll Up: Entering Online Conversations14. "What's Motivating This Writer?": Reading for the Conversation15. "Analyze This": Writing in the Social SciencesREADINGS16. How Can We Bridge the Differences That Divide Us?*Sean Blanda, The Other Side Is Not Dumb*danah boyd, Why America Is Self-Segregating*Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (documented)*J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis*Gabriela Moro, Minority Student Clubs: Segregation or Integration? (student essay, documented)*Robert Leonard, Why Rural America Voted for Trump*Joseph Stiglitz, A Tax System Stacked against the 99 Percent*Barack Obama, Howard Commencement Address17. Is College the Best Option?Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill, Should Everyone Go to College? (documented)Sanford Ungar, The New Liberal ArtsCharles Murray, Are Too Many People Going to College? (documented)Liz Addison, Two Years Are Better than FourGerald Graff, Hidden IntellectualismMike Rose, Blue-Collar Brilliance*Ben Casselman, Shut Up about Harvard*Steve Kolowich, On the Front Lines of a New Culture War18. Are We in a Race against the Machine?Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid?Clive Thompson, Smarter than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the BetterMichaela Cullington, Does Texting Affect Writing? (student essay)*Jenna Wortham, How I Learned to Love Snapchat*Carole Cadwalladr, Google, Democracy and the Truth about Internet Search*Kenneth Goldsmith, Go Ahead: Waste Time on the InternetSherry Turkle, No Need to Call*Zeynep Tufecki, Does a Protest's Size Matter?19. What's Gender Got to Do with It?Anne-Marie Slaughter, Why Women Still Can't Have It AllRichard Dorment, Why Men Still Can't Have It All"*Raynard Kington, I'm Gay and African American . . .*Laurie Frankel, From He to She in First Grade*Andrew Reiner, Teaching Men to Be Emotionally HonestStephen Mays, What about Gender Roles in Same-Sex Relationships? (student essay)*Kate Crawford, Artificial Intelligence's White Guy Problem*Nicholas Eberstadt, Men Without Work (documented)20. What's There to Eat?Michael Pollan, Escape from the Western Diet*Olga Khazan, Why Don't Convenience Stores Sell Better Food?Mary Maxfield, Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating (student essay)David Zinczenko, Don't Blame the EaterRadley Balko, What You Eat Is Your BusinessMichael Moss, The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk FoodDavid H. Freedman, How Junk Food Can End Obesity*Sara Goldrick-Rab, Katharine Broton, Emily Brunjes Colo, Expanding the National School Lunch Program to Higher Education
