Rhetorical Contents
Preface
Introduction: How to Read and Write Critically
What Is Critical Thinking?
Why Read Critically?
How to Read Critically
Now Cut That Out! John Leo
Keep a Journal on What You Read
Annotate What You Read
Outline What You Read
Summarize What You Read
Question What You Read
Analyze What You Read
What Is Critical Thinking?
Developing Ideas
Brainstorming
Narrowing the Topic
Identifying Your Audience
Developing a Thesis
Understanding Your Paper’s Objective
Researching
Selecting Sources for Your Paper
Documenting Sources
Organizing Your Paper
Drafting Your Essay
Writing Your Introduction
Developing Paragraphs and Making Transitions
Concluding Well
Editing and Revising
Using Active Voice
Grammar and Punctuation
Proofreading Effectively
Approaching Visuals Critically
Images and Advertising
Altoids Ad
Deciphering Editorial Cartoons
Graduation Cartoon
CHAPTER: 1 Fashion and Flesh: The Images We Project
What I Think About the Fashion World, Liz Jones
Culture Shock: Get Real Ad
Out-of-Body Image, Caroline Heldman
The Natural Beauty Myth, Garance Franke-Ruta
My Hips, My Caderas, Alisa Valdes
Weight of the World, Niranjana Iyer
How Men Really Feel About Their Bodies, Ted Spiker
Culture Shock: Mr. Olympia
Never Too Buff, John Cloud
Why I Rue My Tattoo, Beth Janes
Tattoo Me Again and Again, Stephanie Dolgoff
Perspectives: Dress to Please
CHAPTER: 2 Consumer Nation: Wanting It, Selling
Targeting a New World, Joseph Turow
Will Your Recession Be Tall, Grande, or Venti?, Daniel Gross
Just a Little Princess?, Peggy Orenstein
Perspectives: Vital Signs
Culture Shock: A Portfolio of Advertisements
Gap
Boys and Girls Clubs
Skechers
M&M’s
Kenneth Cole
Apple iPod Nano
Honda
United Colors of Bennetton
Which One of These Sneakers Is Me?, Douglas Rushkoff
The Allure of Luxury, James B. Twitchell
With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything, William Lutz
The Language of Advertising, Charles A. O’Neill
CHAPTER: 3 Generation Debt: The Financial Challenges We Face
Generation Debt, Anna Kamenetz
Grow Up? Not So Fast, Lev Grossman
Culture Shock: Boomerang Statistics
Maxed Out, James D. Scurlock
Strapped, Tamara Draut
Debtor’s Prism, Margaret Atwood
Investigating the Nation’s Exploding Credit Squeeze, Danny Schechter
Perspectives: Empty-nesters
Twentysomething: Be Responsible, Go Back Home After College, Ryan Healy
The “Responsible” Child, Florinda Vasquez
CHAPTER: 4 Carbon Footprints: It’s Not Easy Being Green 179
Nobel Lecture on Global Warming, Al Gore
Culture Shock: Earth’s Before and After Pics
Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins?, Gregg Easterbrook
Culture Shock: The House We All Build
Big Foot, Michael Specter
Six Products, Six Carbon Footprints, Jeffrey Ball
Perspectives: It’s Not Easy Being Green!
My Carbon Footprint: A Documentary, a Daughter, and All That Is Dear, Jennifer Davidson
Are Cows Worse than Cars?, Ben Adler
Can Cities Save the Planet?, Witold Rybczynski
CHAPTER: 5 Look at Me!: Celebrity and Our Fifteen Minutes of Fame
The Culture of Celebrity, Joseph Epstein
Death to the Film Critics! Hail the CelebCult!, Roger Ebert
Perspectives: Public Library 256
Return of the Brainless Hussies, Rebecca Traister
Mirror, Mirror, on the Web, Lakshmi Chaudry
Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism, Christine Rosen
Crafting Your Image for Your 1,000 Friends on Facebook, Stuart Wolpert
The Case for Reality TV, Michael Hirschorn
Reality TV: Should We Really Watch?, Elizabeth Larkin
The Strange Life and Impending Death of Jade Goody, Meredith Blacke
CHAPTER: 6 Perspectives on Gender: Bridging the Gap
My Most Attractive Adversary, Madeleine Begun Kane
Perspectives: What She Wore 302
Has Male Bashing Gone Too Far?, Jake Brennan
The New Girl Order, Kay S. Hymowitz
The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Scott Russell Sanders
The Science of Difference, Steven Pinker
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Byron Hurt
Culture Shock: 50 Cent
He’s a Laker; She’s a “Looker”, Jennifer L. Knight and Traci A. Giuliano
VIEWPOINTS
Why Men Don’t Watch Women’s Sports, Graham Hays
Gender Inequality, E. M. Swift
Culture Shock: Annika Sorenstam Has Another Remarkable Year For A Lady
CHAPTER: 7 Race and Racism: Can We Be Color-Blind? 347
Inequality, Race, and Remedy, Alan Jenkins
Leaving Race Behind, Amitai Etzioni
People Like Us, David Brooks
Perspectives: History Marches On
Are You a Terrorist, or Do You Play One on TV?, Laura Fokkena
Culture Shock: Which Man Looks Guilty? 378
Why I’m Black, Not African American, John H. McWhorter
Black vs. “Black”, Gary Kamiya
Our Biracial President, James Hannaham
The End of White America?, Hua Hsu
The End of the Black American Narrative, Charles Johnson
CHAPTER: 8 The American University System: Still Making the Grade?
How to Get a College Education, Jeffrey Hart
VIEWPOINTS
A’s for Everyone!, Alicia C. Shepard
Culture Shock: The College Track Onward and Upward
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education, William Deresiewicz
Higher Ed, Inc., James Twitchell
Just Let Go Already, Joe Queenan
Welcome to the Fun-Free University, David Weigel
Animal House at 30: O Bluto, Where Art Thou?, Eric Hoover
Perspectives: Binge Drinking
CHAPTER: 9 Domestic Affairs: The Family in Flux
Family: Idea, Institution, and Controversy, Betty G. Farrell
Perspectives: The New American Family
Numbers Drop for the Married-with-Children, Blaine Harden
Culture Shock: Marriage Trends in the United States
On Not Saying “I Do”, Dorian Solot
Five Non-Religious Arguments for Marriage, Dennis Prager
For Better, For Worse, Stephanie Coontz
Did I Miss Something?, Lowell Putnam
How Getting Married Made Me an Activist, David Jeffers
Less Shouting, More Talking, Richard Mouw
Why I’m Not Getting Married . . . Again, David Shneer
Credits
Index
