Emerging: CONTEMPORARY READINGS FOR WRITERS

About this Book
Cover Page
Inside Front Cover
Accessibility
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface for Instructors
Contents
Alternative Contents by Discipline
Thematic Contents
Halftitle Page
Part One Emerging as a Critical Thinker and Academic Writer
What’s Emerging?
The Readings
The Support
The Writer
Reading Critically
Strategies for Reading Critically
Annotating
Glossing the Text
Reading Visuals
Reading Arguments
Thinking Critically
Responding
Connecting as Critical Thinking
Strategies for Making Connections
Synthesizing
Strategies for Synthesizing
Making an Argument
Introduction to Argument
Some Models for Argument
Strategies for Forming an Argument
Points to Consider
Practical Help
Writing an Argument
From Argument to Organization
Thinking about Audience
Organization and Transitions
Using Support
Working with Quotations
About Citation
About Disciplines
Conducting Research
Academic Research
Having Sources, Finding Sources
Evaluating Sources in the Era of “Fake News”
A Formula for Academic Research
Research and Disciplines
Revising, Editing, and Proofreading
Sample Student Paper
Part Two The Readings
Kwame Anthony Appiah: Making Conversation
Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Primacy of Practice
Sarah Bellamy: Performing Whiteness
Adrian Chen: Unfollow
Ta-Nehisi Coates: From Between the World and Me
Torie Rose DeGhett: The War Photo No One Would Publish
Francis Fukuyama: Human Dignity
Yessenia Funes: Pollution Is Racial Violence
Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist
Malcolm Gladwell: Small Change
Gavin Haynes: How Knitters Got Knotted in a Purity Spiral
Samuel James: We’re All Fundamentalists Now
Leslie Jamison: Devil’s Bait
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: There’s Nothing Naïve about Moral Clarity
Maria Konnikova: The Limits of Friendship
Hannah Landecker: Eating as Dialogue, Food as Technology
Yi-Ling Liu: Greetings, Premier, I Run a Gay Website
Valeria Luiselli: Border
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt: The Coddling of the American Mind
Yo-Yo Ma: Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education
Sharon Moalem: Changing Our Genes: How Trauma, Bullying, and Royal Jelly Alter Our Genetic Destiny
Anne Helen Petersen: I Don’t Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore
Michael Pollan: The Animals: Practicing Complexity
Laurence Ralph: An Open Letter to All the Future Mayors of Chicago
Tobias Rees: From the Anthropocene to the Microbiocene
Julia Serano: Why Nice Guys Finish Last
Rhys Southan: Is Art a Waste of Time?
Aviva Stahl: The Sexual Assault Epidemic That No One Is Talking About
Sarah Stillman: Hiroshima and the Inheritance of Trauma
Sherry Turkle: The Empathy Diaries
Tomas van Houtryve: From the Eyes of a Drone
David Foster Wallace: Consider the Lobster
Esmé Weijun Wang: High-Functioning
Ethan Watters: Being WEIRD: How Culture Shapes the Mind
Wesley Yang: Paper Tigers
Kenji Yoshino: Preface
Kenji Yoshino: The New Civil Rights
Hari Ziyad: My Gender Is Black
Part Three Assignment Sequences
Sequence 1 How Is Technology Changing Us?
Sequence 2 How Do We Address Systemic Racism?
Sequence 3 How Does Gender Shape Us, and How Do We Shape Gender?
Sequence 4 How Can We Be Good Stewards of Climate and the Environment?
Sequence 5 How Can You Make a Difference in the World?
Sequence 6 What Should Be the Goal of an Education?
Sequence 7 How Can We Get Along?
Sequence 8 What Does It Mean to Be Mentally Healthy in a Complex World?
Acknowledgments (continued from page ii)
Index of Authors and Titles
Inside Back Cover
Back Cover Page
Extended Descriptions
The front cover of the book, Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers, Fifth Edition, by Barclay Barrios
An annotated excerpt from an essay
A paragraph with circled words and annotations
A photo shows several military trucks in transit along a muddy track in a desert. A cloud of smoke rises from a small mound of burned ruins along the left of the track
An illustration by Fritz Kahn titled, “Der Mensch als Industriepalast” shows the interiors of the human body as a chemical plant
A drone photograph shows a baseball stadium
A drone photograph shows a circular park
A drone photograph shows a wedding gathering
A drone photograph shows a playground
A drone photograph shows a tent city jail
A drone photograph shows the U.S. border
A drone photograph shows a war cemetery
A drone photograph shows a firetruck aiding a burnt car
An illustration labeled (a) shows a double-headed arrow, and an illustration labeled (b) shows a line with outward feathered ends. An illustration labeled (c) shows the difference in the orientation of walls based on the corners in the built
The inside back cover of the book, Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers, Fifth Edition, by Barclay Barrios
The back cover of the book, Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers, Fifth Edition, by Barclay Barrios