1: Writing Processes

Learning by Doing: Analyzing Audience

2: Reading Processes

Learning by Doing: Reading Online

3: Critical Thinking Processes

Learning by Doing: Analyzing Logic

4: Recalling an Experience

Learning from Other Writers: The Game Ain’t Over Til the Fatso Man Sings

Learning by Doing: Recalling from Photographs

5: Observing a Scene

Learning from Other Writers: Observing the Titanic

Learning by Doing: Scenes from the News

6: Comparing and Contrasting

Learning from Other Writers: Hurricane Katrina Pictures: Then & Now, Ruin & Rebirth

Learning by Doing: Comparing and Contrasting Experience of a Major Event

7: Taking a Stand

Learning from Other Writers: Dirty Water Campaign

Learning by Doing: Writing Your Representative

8: Evaluating and Reviewing

Learning from Other Writers: Best Buttermilk Pancakes

Learning by Doing: Evaluating Film

9: Supporting a Position with Sources

Why am I Obsessed with Celebrity Gossip?

Celebrity Relationships: Why Do We Care?

The Strange Power of Celebrity

Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Learning by Doing: Finding Credible Sources

10: Responding to Visual Representations

Learning from Other Writers: Charlie Living with Autism

Learning by Doing: Analyzing the Web Site for Your Campus

11: Writing Online

Learning from Other Writers: Sample E-mail to an Instructor

Learning by Doing: Tracking Your Time Online

Learning by Doing: Exploring Your Course or Learning Management System (CMS or LMS)

12: Strategies for Generating Ideas

Learning by Doing: Brainstorming from a Video

13: Strategies for Stating a Thesis and Planning

Learning by Doing: Analyzing a Thesis

14: Strategies for Drafting

Learning by Doing: Identifying Topic Sentences

Learning by Doing: Identifying Transitions

15: Strategies for Developing

Learning by Doing: Editing Sentences

16: Planning and Managing Your Research Project

Learning by Doing: Narrowing Online Research

17: Working with Sources

Learning by Doing: Practicing with Online Sources

18: Finding Sources in the Library, on the Internet, and in the Field

Learning by Doing: Comparing Google and Database Searches

19: Evaluating Sources

Learning by Doing: Evaluating Online Sources

20: Integrating Sources

Learning by Doing: Quoting and Paraphrasing Accurately

Introduction

Introduction: Reading to Write

e-1: Families

Mother Tongue

Public and Private Language

Once a Mother, Always a Mother

Paternity Leave Around the World

e-2: Men and Women

The High Cost of Manliness

Guys Suffer from Oppressive Gender Roles Too

Who Does the Talking Here?

Boxing Beauties

e-3: Popular Culture

Why We Crave Horror Movies

Violent Media Is Good for Kids

My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead

‘Harlem Shake’ vs. History: Is the YouTube Novelty-Hits Era That Novel?

e-4: Digital Living

Grief in the Age of Facebook

Is Facebook Making Us Sad?

How Computers Change the Way We Think

Generative Art — Computers, Data, and Humanity

e-5: Explorations on Living Well

The Creation of Discontent

In Defense of Consumerism

Be Cool to the Pizza Dude

Highway Angel