| Reading and Writing Arguments | p. 1 |
| Artworks (Color Plates) | |
| Edmond and Therese Morbilli (painting) | |
| Paul Helleu Sketching with His Wife (painting) | |
| Cafe (painting) | |
| The Lawrence Tree, 1929 (painting) | |
| The Child's Bath (painting) | |
| The Banjo Lesson (painting) | |
| El Chandelier (object) | |
| Mercenaries II (painting) | |
| Analytical Reading as Preparation for Argument | p. 1 |
| Reading Print Texts | p. 1 |
| Reading Visual Materials | p. 3 |
| Reading Web Sites | p. 7 |
| To Sum Up | p. 9 |
| Analytical Writing as Argument | p. 10 |
| Credibility | p. 10 |
| Writing about Texts and Images: The Writing Process | p. 14 |
| Using the Tools of Your Craft | p. 18 |
| Reporting Others' Experience | p. 25 |
| Sample Student Papers | p. 28 |
| The Media's Impact on Women's Body Image | p. 29 |
| Magritte's Clairvoyance (Self-Portrait) | p. 33 |
| To Sum Up | p. 38 |
| Defining Cultural Identity | p. 39 |
| Paintings (Color Plates) | |
| Flip Flops and Lace | |
| The Library | |
| Camas para Suenos (Beds for Dreams) | |
| Nisei Babies in Concentration Camp | |
| The Laundryman's Daughter (mixed media) | |
| Fantasy World for Children (mural) | |
| Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States | |
| Rainbow Shabbat (stained glass window) | |
| Cultural Identity in the Works of Art | p. 39 |
| Analyzing the Paintings | p. 39 |
| Analysis of a Painting | p. 40 |
| Cultural Identity in Essays | p. 41 |
| Analyzing the Essays | p. 42 |
| Essays | |
| The Language of Discretion | p. 43 |
| Public and Private Language | p. 51 |
| From Outside, In | p. 57 |
| First They Changed My Name... | p. 65 |
| What's in a Name? | p. 71 |
| The Names of Women | p. 76 |
| Transformation | p. 81 |
| From a Native Daughter | p. 85 |
| What Global Language? | p. 93 |
| Connecting the Readings with the Artworks | p. 98 |
| Finding Common Cause in Controversy: When African Americans attempt to eradicate elements of Black English vernacular from their speech, are they "practicing a form of self-hatred"? Or are they exercising their right to "social mobility"? | p. 101 |
| Essay | |
| The Dilemma of Black English | p. 102 |
| Empathizing with Different Points of View | p. 104 |
| Adding More Information | p. 104 |
| Seeking Common Cause | p. 105 |
| Debate Essay | p. 105 |
| Writing Projects | p. 105 |
| Writing a Short Essay | p. 105 |
| Writing an Extended Argument | p. 106 |
| Designing the Extended Writing Project | p. 107 |
| Using Web Resources | p. 108 |
| Constructing Gender | p. 109 |
| Advertisements (Color Plates) | |
| Want strong bones?...(America's Dairy Farmers and Milk Processors) | |
| Shop and not drop (America's Dairy Farmers and Milk Processors) | |
| Beyond Infinity, Givenchy | |
| Stetson | |
| Chanel Chance | |
| Dior | |
| Diving into a Diet Coke (Coca-Cola) | |
| Pepsi | |
| Gender in Advertisements | p. 109 |
| Analyzing the Advertisements | p. 110 |
| Analysis of an Advertisement | p. 110 |
| Gender in Essays | p. 111 |
| Analyzing the Essays | p. 112 |
| Analysis of an Essay | p. 112 |
| Essays | |
| The Myth of the Sexual Athlete | p. 113 |
| Just Walk On By | p. 118 |
| The Return of the Pig | p. 122 |
| Beer Commercials: A Manual on Masculinity | p. 127 |
| My Cosmetic Surgery | p. 139 |
| My Brown Face | p. 143 |
| "The More You Subtract, the More You Add": Cutting Girls Down to Size | p. 149 |
| The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies | p. 169 |
| Dividing the Consumer Pie | p. 177 |
| Connecting the Readings with the Advertisements | p. 180 |
| Finding Common Cause in Controversy: Should same-sex marriage be legalized? | p. 182 |
| Essays | |
| Why the M Word Matters to Me | p. 183 |
| Deathblow to Marriage | p. 185 |
| Empathizing with Different Points of View | p. 187 |
| Adding More Information | p. 188 |
| Seeking Common Cause | p. 188 |
| Debate Essay | p. 188 |
| Writing Projects | p. 188 |
| Writing a Short Essay | p. 188 |
| Writing an Extended Argument | p. 190 |
| Designing the Extended Writing Project | p. 190 |
| Using Web Resources | p. 192 |
| Images of Education | p. 193 |
| Architecture (Color Plates) | |
| University High School, Los Angeles, California (photograph) | |
| Diamond Ranch High School, Diamond Bar, California (photograph) | |
| Engineering Building, Utah State University (photograph) | |
| The Brown Center, Maryland Institute College of Art (photograph) | |
| Dormitory, Illinois Institute of Technology (photograph) | |
| Graduate Reading Room, Suzzallo Library, University of Washington (photograph) | |
| Snap the Whip (painting) | |
| Schoolhouse (photograph) | |
| Images of Education in Architecture | p. 193 |
| Analyzing the Architecture | p. 195 |
| Analysis of an Engineering Building | p. 136 |
| Images of Education in Essays | p. 196 |
| Analyzing the Essays | p. 197 |
| Analysis of an Essay | p. 197 |
| Essays | |
| School: The Story of American Public Education | p. 198 |
| Learning in the Key of Life | p. 205 |
| The School and the Life of the Child | p. 211 |
| Savage Inequalities | p. 214 |
| The Merits of Meritocracy | p. 224 |
| Who Is This Child? | p. 229 |
| Human Intelligence Isn't What We Think It Is | p. 232 |
| Epilogue: Lilia | p. 242 |
| Forget Classrooms. How Big Is the Atrium in the New Student Center? | p. 246 |
| Connecting the Readings to the Architecture | p. 252 |
| Finding Common Cause in Controversy: Who becomes valedictorian? A question of merit | p. 255 |
| Essay | |
| She's Almost Too Good to Be True, and to Prove It, She's Going to Sue | p. 256 |
| Empathizing with Different Points of View | p. 257 |
| Adding More Information | p. 257 |
| Seeking Common Cause | p. 258 |
| Debate Essay | p. 258 |
| Writing Projects | p. 258 |
| Writing a Short Argument | p. 258 |
| Writing an Extended Argument | p. 259 |
| Designing the Extended Writing Project | p. 260 |
| Using Web Resources | p. 262 |
| The Work World | p. 263 |
| Artworks (Color Plates) | |
| The Trial (painting) | |
| New York Office (painting) | |
| Dorothy Hodgkin (painting) | |
| Spring Sale at Bendel's (painting) | |
| Sun and Wind on the Roof (painting) | |
| Albert Einstein among Other Immigrants (mural) | |
| Mural, the Great Hall of the Detroit Institute of Arts | |
| El Campesino (painting) | |
| The Work World in the Artworks | p. 263 |
| Analyzing the Artworks | p. 264 |
| Analysis of a Painting | p. 265 |
| The Work World in the Essays | p. 265 |
| Analyzing the Essays | p. 266 |
| Analysis of an Essay | p. 266 |
| Essays | |
| The Physical Genius | p. 268 |
| The Working Life of a Waitress | p. 278 |
| Work Makes Life Sweet | p. 285 |
| Take this Job and Love It | p. 292 |
| Black Hair | p. 296 |
| SantaLand Diaries | p. 303 |
| Selection from Nickel and Dimed | p. 322 |
| Voices from the Workplace | p. 328 |
| Mural Painter | p. 328 |
| Psychiatrist (Anna Balas) | p. 330 |
| Journalist (Claudia Luther) | p. 332 |
| Connecting the Readings to the Artworks | p. 335 |
| Finding Common Cause in Controversy: Should the Family Time Flexibility Act be supported? | p. 337 |
| Essays | |
| Motherhood and Comp Time | p. 338 |
| The National Organization for Women, Background: The Family Time Flexibility Act | p. 340 |
| Empathizing with Different Points of View | p. 341 |
| Adding More Information | p. 342 |
| Seeking Common Cause | p. 343 |
| Debate Essay | p. 343 |
| Additional Debate Question | p. 343 |
| Writing Projects | p. 344 |
| Writing a Short Essay | p. 344 |
| Writing an Extended Argument | p. 345 |
| Designing the Extended Writing Project | p. 345 |
| Using Web Resources | p. 347 |
| Connecting to Nature | p. 349 |
| Artworks (Color Plates) | |
| Mount Rushmore National Monument, South Dakota (photograph) | |
| Crazy Horse Memorial (photograph) | |
| Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas (photograph) | |
| Crucified Land (painting) | |
| Bareford Mountains, West Milford, New Jersey | |
| Doesn't Fall Off His Horse | |
| Kindred Spirits (painting) | |
| The Icebergs (painting) | |
| A Bigger Grand Canyon (painting) | |
| The Blue Marble Earth, Western Hemisphere (photograph) | |
| The Natural World in the Artworks | p. 349 |
| Analyzing the Artworks | p. 351 |
| Analysis of a Painting | p. 352 |
| The Natural World in Essays | p. 352 |
| Analyzing the Essays | p. 353 |
| Analysis of an Essay | p. 353 |
| Essays | |
| Wilderness as a Form of Land Use | p. 354 |
| The Last Americans | p. 362 |
| An Entrance to the Woods | p. 372 |
| Heaven and Earth in Jest | p. 381 |
| The Migration Story: An Interior Journey | p. 389 |
| Ice and Light | p. 397 |
| Selection from In the Shadow of Man | p. 402 |
| Terminal Ice | p. 408 |
| The World's Largest Membrane | p. 416 |
| Connecting the Readings to the Artworks | p. 419 |
| Finding Common Cause in Controversy: Does the federal government have the right to prevent states from developing land while Congress decides whether to preserve this land as wilderness? | p. 422 |
| Essay | |
| The Nation: Tussle over a Western Jewel | p. 423 |
| Empathizing with Different Points of View | p. 427 |
| Adding More Information | p. 428 |
| Seeking Common Cause | p. 428 |
| Debate Essay | p. 428 |
| Writing Projects | p. 428 |
| Writing a Short Essay | p. 428 |
| Writing an Extended Argument | p. 423 |
| Designing the Extended Writing Project | p. 430 |
| Using Web Resources | p. 431 |
| Exploring Cyberculture | p. 433 |
| Web Sites (Color Plates) | |
| The Farnsworth Art Museum Web Site | |
| The Guerrilla Girls Web Site | |
| La Grande Odalisque (painting) | |
| The Web Site for the Museum of Web Art (MOWA) | |
| The Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories Web Pages | |
| Exploring Cyberculture in Web Sites | p. 433 |
| Analyzing the Web Sites | p. 433 |
| Analysis of a Web Site | p. 434 |
| Exploring Cyberculture in the Essays | p. 435 |
| Analyzing the Essays | p. 436 |
| Analysis of an Essay | p. 437 |
| Essays | |
| Pyramids and Pancakes | p. 438 |
| Selection from Small Pieces Loosely Joined | p. 450 |
| You've Got Blog: How to Put Your Business, Your Boyfriend, and Your Life Online | p. 456 |
| How to Recognize the Future When It Lands on You | p. 463 |
| Beyond the Information Revolution | p. 472 |
| Creating a Culture of Ideas | p. 479 |
| Mind the Gap: The Digital Divide as the Civil Rights Issue of the New Millennium | p. 483 |
| Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teachers | p. 487 |
| Selected Web Sites | p. 491 |
| Connecting the Readings with the Web Pages | p. 499 |
| Finding Common Cause in Controversy: Should it be legal for individuals to download music from file-sharing Web sites? (e.g., Gnutella, Blubster, Grokster)? | p. 500 |
| Essay | |
| Piracy Gets Mixed Reviews in Industry | p. 501 |
| Empathizing with Different Points of View | p. 507 |
| Adding More Information | p. 507 |
| Seeking Common Cause | p. 508 |
| Debate Essay | p. 508 |
| Writing Projects | p. 508 |
| Writing a Short Essay | p. 508 |
| Writing an Extended Argument | p. 509 |
| Designing the Extended Writing Project | p. 509 |
| Using Web Resources | p. 511 |
| Exploring the Arts | p. 513 |
| Artworks (Black and White) | |
| Darci Kistler and Robert LaFosse, New York City, 1990 (photograph) | |
| Martha Graham in Letter to the World (photograph) | |
| Still from Stagecoach | |
| Artworks (Color Plates) | |
| The Sources of Music (mural) | |
| Showtime (collage) | |
| The Three Musicians (painting) | |
| Blues (painting) | |
| Reservation Scene (rug) | |
| Dancing at the Louvre (quilt) | |
| Self-Portrait (painting) | |
| A Peaceable Kingdom with Anna Pavlova (painting) | |
| Exploring the "Art" in Works of Art | p. 513 |
| Analyzing the Works of Art | p. 514 |
| Analysis of a Painting | p. 515 |
| Exploring the Arts in Essays | p. 516 |
| Analyzing an Essay | p. 518 |
| Essays | |
| Selection from Ways of Seeing | p. 519 |
| Ways of Seeing | p. 530 |
| Selection from Dance and Photography | p. 547 |
| By Means of the Visible: A Picture's Worth | p. 551 |
| Selection from The Hollywood Eye | p. 562 |
| Selection from When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist | p. 572 |
| Selection from A Century of the Blues | p. 580 |
| The Ties That Bind | p. 586 |
| Selection from Blood Memory | p. 591 |
| Connecting the Readings to the Works of Art | p. 596 |
| Finding Common Cause in Controversy: How much license should a documentary filmmaker take in editing, juxtaposing, and otherwise reconstructing events? | p. 599 |
| Essay | |
| Bowling for Columbine: Documentary or Fiction? | p. 600 |
| Empathizing with the View that Moore's Film Is Not a True Documentary | p. 603 |
| Empathizing with the View that Moore Has Produced a Worthy Documentary | p. 604 |
| Adding More Information | p. 604 |
| Seeking Common Cause | p. 606 |
| Debate Essay | p. 606 |
| Writing Projects | p. 606 |
| Writing a Short Essay | p. 606 |
| Writing an Extended Argument | p. 608 |
| Designing the Extended Writing Project | p. 608 |
| Using Web Resources | p. 610 |
| Credits | p. C-1 |
| Index | p. I-1 |
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