Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers

Inside Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Brief Contents
Contents
Rhetorical Contents
Part 1
Chapter 1: Reading Critically
Getting the Most Out of Your Reading
1. Prepare Yourself to Read the Selection
Be Specific, Natalie Goldberg
2. Read the Selection to Get an Overview of It
Be Specific
3. Annotate the Selection with Marginal Notes
4. Summarize the Selection in Your Own Words
5. Analyze the Selection to Come to an Understanding of It
6. Complete the “Language in Action” Activity to Discover the Far-Reaching Connections between the Selection and Language in the Real World
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
1. Understand Your Assignment
2. Find a Subject and Topic
3. Gather Ideas
4. Formulate a Thesis
5. Support Your Thesis with Evidence
6. Determine Your Organization
7. Write Your First Draft
8. Revise
9. Edit and Proofread
10. Sample Student Essay Using 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
Summary
Paraphrase
Direct Quotation
Integrate Borrowed Material into Your Text
Avoid Plagiarism
A Sample Student Essay Using Library and Internet 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
Conduct Keyword Searches
Evaluate Your Sources
Analyze Your Sources for Position and Bias
Develop a Working Bibliography of Your Sources
Take Notes
Document Your Sources
MLA In-Text Citations
MLA List of Works Cited
Periodical Print Publications: Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers
Nonperiodical Print Publications: Books, Brochures, and Pamphlets
Online Publications
Periodical Articles Published or Accessed Online
Periodical Publications Accessed In Online Databases
Other Web Publications
MLA Manuscript Format
Paper and Type
Title, Name, and Course Information
Margins, Line Spacing, and Paragraph Indentation
Page Numbers
Long Quotations
Spacing for Punctuation
URLs
Works Cited Page
APA-Style Documentation
APA In-Text Citations
APA List of References
Periodicals
Other Sources
APA Manuscript Format
Paper and Type
Title Page
Margins, Line Spacing, and Paragraph Indentation
Page Numbers
Spacing for Punctuation
Web Addresses
References Page
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, Laurel 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 Nović
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 Ngozi Adichie
The Social Harms of “Bitch”, Sherryl 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 L. 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
Notes
Glossary of Rhetorical and Linguistic Terms
Acknowledgements
Index of Authors and Titles
Inside Back Cover
Back Cover