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| Reading And Writing In The Disciplines | |
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| Knowledge, Reading, and Writing across Disciplines | |
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| Preparing a Foundation for Learning | |
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| Understanding Genres | |
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| Sciences | |
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| Social Sciences | |
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| Humanities | |
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| Genres Used across Fields | |
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| Linking Thinking, Reading, and Writing | |
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| Learning in Disciplines | |
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| Categorizing Academic Disciplines | |
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| Natural and Applied Sciences | |
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| Social Sciences | |
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| Business and Applied/Professional Studies | |
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| History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies | |
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| Humanities | |
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| Creative Arts | |
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| Understanding Genre Expectations in the Disciplines | |
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| Researching in the Disciplines | |
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| Reasoning | |
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| Cross-Check | |
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| Reading across Disciplines: Reading for Learning, for Analysis, and for Argument | |
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| Reading for Learning | |
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| Strategies for Reading | |
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| Reading the Author's Logic: Logical Fallacies | |
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| Reading Visual Aids | |
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| Reading Internet Sites and Determining Credibility | |
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| Reading for Analysis | |
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| Strategies for Analytic Reading | |
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| Analyzing Arguments | |
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| Argumentation in the Disciplines | |
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| Cross-Check | |
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| Writing and Researching: Genres, Practices, and Processes | |
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| Writing Conventions | |
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| Rules | |
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| Guidelines | |
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| Strategies | |
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| Writing as a Cyclical Process | |
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| Planning and Invention | |
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| Analyzing your Audiences | |
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| Writing Arguments | |
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| Developing a Thesis Statement | |
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| Researching | |
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| Types of Research | |
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| Starting Your Research | |
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| Narrowing Your Topic | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| Synthesizing and Incorporating Borrowed Material without | |
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| Plagiarizing | |
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| Organizing Ideas | |
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| Working with Visual Aids | |
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| Revising, Editing, and Proofreading | |
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| Documenting Sources | |
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| MLA Documentation | |
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| Annotated Student Paper | |
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| APA Documentation | |
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| Cross-Check | |
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| Anthology Of Readings | |
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| Nature, Genetics, and the Philosophy of Science | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Emily Martin, et. al. "Scientific Literacy, What It Is, Why It's Important, and Why Scientists Think We Don't Have It" | |
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| Foundations in the Philosophy of Science | |
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| Paul Feyerabend, from Against Method | |
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| The Tools of Science: A World Too Small to See (images) | |
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| Genetics and Human Identity | |
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| Francis Fukuyama "Why We Should Worry" from Our Posthuman Future | |
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| Visions of the Posthuman (images) | |
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| Michael J. Sandel "The Case Against Perfection" | |
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| Olivia Judson "The Selfless Gene" | |
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| Robert Lanza "A New Theory of the Universe" | |
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| Natalie Angier "My God Problem—And Theirs" | |
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| Thinking Crosscurrently | |
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| Business and Economics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Barbara Ehrenreich, "Maid to Order" | |
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| Foundations: Free Enterprise and Social Responsibility | |
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| John Maynard Keynes, "The End of Laissez-Faire" | |
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| Doing Business in America (images) | |
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| Barbara Kellerman, "Leadership: Warts and All" | |
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| Nature and the Economic Realm: Causes and Conflicts | |
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| Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, "Information Asymmetry" (from Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything) | |
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| Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan, "Laughing All the Way to the Darwinian Bank" (from Mean Genes ,) | |
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| At Work in America: The Triumph and Trials of an Economic System (images) | |
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| Steve Denning, "Why Amazon Can't Make a Kindle in the USA" | |
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| Thinking Crosscurrently | |
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| Government, Political Science, and Public Policy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| David Mamet, "Political Civility" | |
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| Foundations: The Individual and the State | |
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| Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" | |
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| Mahatma Gandhi, "The Non-Violent Society" | |
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| Governments and their Symbols (images) | |
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| Activism, Social Change, and its Discontents | |
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| Caitlin Flanagan, "How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement" | |
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| Activism and Social Change (images) | |
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| Jane Mayer, "The Black Sites" | |
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| Thinking Crosscurrently | |
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| Education and Society | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Shelby Steele, "The New Sovereignty" | |
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| Foundations: Theorizing Education | |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" | |
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| The Classroom: Then and Now (images) | |
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| Education in the Modern Age | |
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| Christina Hoff Sommers "The War Against Boys" | |
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| Diane Ravitch, "What I Learned About School Reform" (from The Death and the Life of the American School) | |
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| Alissa Quart, "The Baby Genius Edutainment Complex" | |
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| Emily Bernard, "Teaching the N-Word" | |
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| Jeff Sharlet, "Straight Man's Burden" | |
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| Guns in America: Two Views (images) | |
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| Dan Baum, "Happiness is a Worn Gun" | |
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| Malcolm Gladwell, "The 10,000 Hour Rule" (from Outliers: The Story of Success) | |
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| Thinking Crosscurrently | |
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| Communication and Pop Culture | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Foundations: Theories of Communication and Culture | |
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| Dick Hebdige, "Subculture and Style" | |
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| Comics and the Graphic Novel | |
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| Douglas Wolk from Reading Comics | |
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| Lynda Barry, from The Greatest of Marlys | |
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| Noel Murray and Scott Tobias, "How Has the Culture of TV (and TV-Watching) Changed? | |
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| Susan Willis "Disney World" (from Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World) | |
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| Susan Linn "Marketing, Media, and the First Amendment" (from Consuming Kids) | |
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| Using Advertising to Raise Awareness: Animal Rights (images) | |
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| William Deresiewicz, "Faux Friendship" | |
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| Thinking Crosscurrently | |
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| Philosophy and Psychology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Foundations: Examining the Self | |
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| Plato "The Apology" | |
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| Understanding Human Emotions (images) | |
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| V. S. Ramachandran, "Neuroscience: The New Philosophy" (from A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness) | |
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| Thinking Beyond the Human: Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism | |
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| A. M. Turing "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" | |
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| Ray Kurzweil, "The Law of Accelerating Returns" | |
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| Proving the Existence of God | |
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| Three Arguments for the Existence of God | |
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| William Paley from Natural Theology | |
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| St. Thomas Aquinas from Summa Theologica | |
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| St. Anselm from Proslogium | |
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| Theology and Cartoons (images) | |
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| Kwasi Wiredu from Cultural Universals and Particulars: An African Perspective | |
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| Robert Orsi "When 2 + 2 = 5" | |
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| Thinking Crosscurrently | |
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| History and Culture | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Jacques Barzun, "The Coming Age" (from From Dawn to Decadence 1500 to Present: 50 Years of Western Cultural Life) | |
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| Foundations: Historical Process and Human Agency | |
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| W. E. B. Dubois, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" (from The Souls of Black Folk) | |
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| Images of the American Civil War (images) | |
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| Richard Rodriguez, "In the Brown Study" (from Brown) | |
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| Bruce Catton, "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" | |
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| Illegal Immigration in America: Political Cartoons (images) | |
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| Immigration: Pathways and Promises | |
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| Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Rituals: A Prayer, a Candle, and a Notebook" | |
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| Belle Yang, "The Language of Dreams" | |
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| Margaret Regan, "Prologue" (from The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands) | |
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| Andrea Elliot, "A Muslim Leader in Brooklyn, Reconciling 2 Worlds" | |
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| Thinking Crosscurrently | |
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| Literature, Language, and Art | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Barbara Wallraff, "What Global Language?" | |
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| Foundations: What Makes it Literature? | |
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| Virginia Woolf, "Shakespeare's Sister" (from A Room of One's Own) | |
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| Architecture as Art (images) | |
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| The Interdisciplinary Imagination | |
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| James Tiptree, Jr. "The Last Flight of Doctor Ain" | |
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| Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street" | |
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| Art and Medicine Through the Ages (8-page, 4-color insert) | |
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| The Art of Love, the Passion of Art | |
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| Kate Chopin, "The Storm" | |
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| James Joyce, "Araby" | |
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| Terry Eagleton, "The Rise of English" (from Literary Theory: An Introduction) | |
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| Thinking Crosscurrently | |
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| Appendix Breaking Down Assignments: A Guide for Students | |