Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers

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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