Emerging

*new to the 4th edition
 
Preface for instructors 
 
Part 1
EMERGING AS A CRITICAL THINKER AND ACADEMIC WRITER
What’s Emerging? 
Reading Critically 
Thinking Critically
Making an Argument
Using Support 
About Research
Revising, Editing, and Proofreading
*Sample Student Paper
 
Part 2
THE READINGS
 
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Making Conversation and The Primacy of Practice
*Namit Arora, What Do We Deserve?
*Michael Chabon, My Son, the Prince of Fashion
*Adrian Chen, Unfollow
*Ta-Nehisi Coates, from Between the World and Me
 *Andrew Cohen, Race and the Opioid Epidemic
 *Kavita Das, (Un)American, (Un)Cool
 Torie Rose DeGhett, The War Photo No One Would Publish
 Helen Epstein, AIDS, Inc.
 Francis Fukuyama, Human Dignity
 Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
 Daniel Gilbert, Reporting Live from Tomorrow
 *Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change
 *Anna Holmes, Variety Show
 Robin Marantz Henig, What is it about 20-Somethings?
 *Leslie Jamison, Devil’s Bait
 Chuck Klosterman, Electric Funeral
 Maria Konnikova, The Limits of Friendship
 *Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind
 Yo-Yo Ma, Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education
 *Robinson Meyer, Is it Okay to Enjoy the Warm Winters of Climate Change?
 Sharon Moalem, Changing Our Genes: How Trauma, Bullying, and Royal Jelly Alter Our Genetic Destiny
 Nick Paumgarten, We Are a Camera
 Michael Pollan, The Animals: Practicing Complexity
 *Alexander Provan, The Future of Originals
 Julia Serano, Why Nice Guys Finish Last
 Peter Singer, Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets
 Rhys Southan, Is Art a Waste of Time?
 Sarah Stillman, Hiroshima and the Inheritance of Trauma
 *Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries
 Tomas van Houtryve, From the Eyes of a Drone
 *Otto von Busch, Crafting Resistance
 David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster
 Ethan Watters, Being WEIRD: How Culture Shapes the Mind
 Wesley Yang, Paper Tigers
 Kenji Yoshino, Preface and The New Civil Rights
 
Part 3
ASSIGNMENT SEQUENCES
Sequence 1, How Is Technology Changing Us?
*Sequence 2, How Do We Face the Challenge of Race?
Sequence 3, How Does Gender Shape Us, and How Do We Shape Gender?
*Sequence 4, What Does Ethical Conflict Look Like in a Globalized World?
Sequence 5, How Can You Make a Difference in the World?
Sequence 6, What Should Be the Goal of an Education?
*Sequence 7, How Can We Get Along?
*Sequence 8, What is the Role of Art in the World?
 
Index