Introduction
Acknowledgements
I. Unit 1: Essays about Writing
1. What Color Is My Voice? Academic Writing and the Myth of Standard English
2. Punctuation’s Rhetorical Effects
3. Critical Thinking in College Writing: From the Personal to the Academic
4. We Write Because We Care: Developing Your Writerly Identity
5. “I Need You to Say ‘I’”: Why First Person is Important in College Writing
II. Unit 1: Readings
6. The Danger of a Single Story
7. Habits and Virtues: Does It Matter if a Leader Kicks a Dog?
8. Hope and Mourning in the Anthropocene: Understanding Ecological Grief
9. I Have Lost Everything
10. Ending National Parks
11. My Journey as a Writer
12. Murmurations: What the Whales Whispered
13. Where Communal Art Is Resistance
14. Why Rituals Are Good for Your Health
15. I’m a Trans Teen in a Red State — Anti-Trans Politicians Cannot Erase Me
16. The Cult of Self-Improvement: How a Documentary Aimed at Young People Could be Harmful
17. Are You Part Robot? A Linguistic Anthropologist Explains How Humans are Like ChatGPT – Both Recycle Language
18. Hope is Not the Same as Optimism, a Psychologist Explains − Just Look at MLK’s Example
19. Climate Quitting: the People Leaving their Fossil Fuel Jobs Because of Climate Change
20. Suggested Texts
III. Unit 2: Essays about Writing
21. Effectively and Efficiently Reading the Credibility of Online Sources
22. Public Writing for Social Change
23. Grammar, Rhetoric, Style
24. Finding the Good Argument OR Why Bother With Logic?
25. “Finding Your Way In”: Invention as Inquiry Based Learning in First Year Writing
26. Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment
IV. Unit 2: Readings
27. Education for Nomadic Families in Nigeria
28. Inside the prisoner-led struggle to win education for all
29. AI robot pets can be adorable and emotionally responsive. They also raise questions about attachment and mental health
30. NYC Nannies Built an Underground Care Economy That Should Inspire US Policy
31. 48 Hours as a Muslim American: A Professor Reflects
32. Does Recycling Actually Conserve or Preserve Things?
33. Can Tearing Down Freeways Bring New Life to Cities?
34. Minorities Face More Obstacles to a Lifesaving Organ Transplant
35. Fix the Machine, Not the Person
36. Capturing Carbon to Fight Climate Change is Dividing Environmentalists
37. Preserving Black Historical Resorts Is a Radical Act
38. Why Good People Turn Bad Online
39. Suggested Texts
V. Unit 3: Essays about Writing
40. Understanding Visual Rhetoric
41. The Rhetorical Possibilities of Accessibility
42. An Introduction to and Strategies for Multimodal Composing
43. Strategies for Analyzing and Composing Data Stories
44. Thinking Across Modes and Media (and Baking Cake): Two Techniques for Writing with Video, Audio, and Images
VI. Unit 3: Readings
45. The Radio Show Bringing Prisoners Messages from Home
46. Stories Retold in Water and Tallow
47. Data poisoning: how artists are trying to sabotage generative AI
48. Finding Joy and Elegy: Poetry from Pandemic
49. The College Mental Health Crisis in 10 Sketches
50. Who Gets to Define Classical Music?
51. Does Earth Really Have Too Many People?
52. Finding Focus: How a Visual Storyteller Gets the Right Image — and the Right Tone
53. Alien Beauty: Posthuman Re-Imaginings
54. Does Your Local Museum or University Still Have Native American Remains?
55. New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
56. A Light In Dark Times: In Overt Defense of Trans-Affirming Spaces in Education
57. Signs of Your Identity
58. Suggested Texts
Krista Karlson
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