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Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader, 6/E
Gary Goshgarian
Kathleen Krueger

ISBN-10: 0205642764
ISBN-13: 9780205642762

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2009
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Dialogues represents argument not as a battle to be won, but as a process of dialogue and deliberation–the exchange of opinions and ideas–among people with different values and perspectives.

 

Part One contains succinct instruction on analyzing and developing arguments, including critical reading, source documentation, and analyzing visual arguments. Part Two, updated with many new readings addressing current issues, offers a diverse collection of provocative essays from both the popular and scholarly medium. The lucid, lively, and engaging writing addresses students as writers and thinkers, without overwhelming them with unnecessary jargon or theory.

  • Part I defines argument as a process of "Debate,” “Dialogue,” and “Deliberation," offers guidance for evaluating and building arguments through comparing and synthesizing diverse viewpoints, and takes students step-by-step through every stage of a critical reading process–from previewing and skimming a reading, through annotating and summarizing, to analyzing, evaluating and arguing with that reading.
  • Integrated sample arguments in Part I exemplify important strategies of argument and give students practice in analyzing the features of good arguments, while thematically connected essays encourage students to compare different strategies and approaches to the same topic.
  • Student essays are used throughout to model the process of creating good arguments. 
  • Ch. 8, Visual Arguments, and Ch. 9, Researching Arguments, provide necessary skills for analyzing images, and for appropriately documenting sources, with an emphasis on evaluating electronic sources.
  • The Documentation Guide includes new student sample research papers in both MLA and APA styles, annotated to highlight important documentation issues. Examples of documentation using electronic sources have also been updated and expanded.
  • Part II comprises a compelling collection of model essays centered on contemporary issues and designed to provoke discussion and written responses.

  • 53 new readings in Part II, including
    • A new section in Ch. 11, Gender Matters, called A Brave New World? and offering readings on the changing nature of being male and being female in contemporary society
    • A new Ch. 12, America the Beautiful, that includes sections on Terrorism and the War in Iraq, and Outside Looking In: What Does the World Think of the U.S?
    • A new Ch. 13, In God We Trust, that expands the Casebook from the previous edition on Church and State and includes an almost completely new section on What’s Wrong with Darwin? The Debate over Evolution.
    •  A new Ch. 14, The Campus Experience, that includes a completely new section on The Role of the University
    • New readings in a section called What about Marriage? in Ch. 15, Family and Relationships, that explore the future of traditional marriage as well as the issues surrounding non-traditional and gay marriages.
  •  A new Casebook on Global Warming, with readings looking at the arguments on all sides of this provocative issue.
  • A new feature, Blog It, that offers posts from our newest form of journalism and opinion writing.
  • A robust new section in Part I, Ch. 5, on narrative argument.
  • A new section in Ch. 6 on interpreting evidence.
  • Updated sections in Ch. 9 on using search engines, and on-line note-taking.

Table of Contents

** New content is designated by asterisks.

 

I. STRATEGIES FOR READING AND WRITING ARGUMENTS.

 

1. Understanding Persuasion: Thinking Like a Negotiator.

Argument.

What Makes an Argument.

The Uses of Argument.

Debate.

Moving from Debate to Dialogue.

Dialogue.

Deliberation.

Deborah Tannen, “Taking a ‘War of Words’ Too Literally.”

Sample Arguments for Analysis.

        Michael Lewis, “The Case Against Tipping.”

        ** Andrew Braaksma, “Some Lessons I Learned on the Assembly Line”

Exercises.

Sample Pro/Con Checklist.

Review: Basic Terminology.

 

2. Reading Arguments: Thinking Like a Critic.

Why Read Critically?

Preview the Reading.

Skim the Reading.

Sample Argument for Analysis.

        Henry Wechsler, “Binge Drinking Must Be Stopped.”

        Consider Your Own Experience.

        Annotate the Reading.

        Summarize the Reading.

        Analyze and Evaluate the Reading.

        Argue with the Reading.

        Create a Debate and Dialogue Between Two or More Readings.

Sample Argument for Analysis.

        Fromma Harrop, “Stop Babysitting College Students.”

Construct a Debate.

Sample Arguments for Analysis.

        Kathryn Stewart and Corina Sole, “Letter to the Editor” from the Washington Post.

        James C. Carter, S.J.: “Letter to the Editor” from the Times-Picayune.

        Deliberate about the Readings.

        Look for Logical Fallacies.

Preview: Logical Fallacies.

Exercises.

 

3. Finding Arguments: Thinking Like a Writer.

The Writing Process.

Finding Topics to Argue.

Developing Argumentative Topics.

Finding Ideas Worth Writing About.

Refining Topics.

Sample Argument for Analysis.

        Stephanie Bowers, “What's the Rush?” (student essay).

Exercises.

 

4. Addressing Audiences: Thinking Like a Reader.

The Target Audience.

The General Audience.

Guidelines for Knowing Your Audience.

Adapting to Your Readers’ Attitudes.

Sample Arguments for Analysis.

        C. Everett Koop, “Don’t Forget the Smokers.”

        Jeff Jacoby, “What the Antismoking Zealots Really Crave.”

        Robert J. Samuelson, “Media Have Fallen for Misguided Antismoking Campaign.”

        Denise Cavallaro, “Smoking: Offended by the Numbers” (student essay).

Choosing Your Words.

Exercises.

 

5. Shaping Arguments: Thinking Like an Architect.

Components of an Argument.

Sample Argument for Analysis.

        Clara Spotted Elk, “Indian Bones.”

Analyzing the Structure.

Sample Argument for Analysis.

        Ron Karpati, “I Am the Enemy.”

Analyzing the Structure.

Three Basic Types of Argument

Position Arguments.

Sample Position Argument for Analysis.

        Sean Flynn, “Is Anything Private Anymore?”

        Analysis of a Sample Position Argument.

Proposal Arguments.

Sample Proposal Argument for Analysis.

        Amanda Collins, “Bring East Bridgewater Elementary Into the World” (student essay).

        Analyzing the Structure.

** Narrative Arguments

** Sample Narrative Argument

            Jerry Fensterman, “I See Why Others Choose to Die”

            Analyzing the Structure

            Analyzing the Narrative Features

 

6. Using Evidence: Thinking Like an Advocate.

How Much Evidence is Enough?

Why Arguments Need Supporting Evidence.

Forms of Evidence.

** Different Interpretations of Argument

            Different Definitions

            Different Interpretations of Tradition and Past Authority

            Different Interpretations of Scientific Data

            S. Fred Singer, “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

Some Tips About Supporting Evidence.

Sample Argument for Analysis.

        Arthur Allen, “Prayer in Prison: Religion as Rehabilitation” (student essay).

 

7. Establishing Claims: Thinking Like a Skeptic.

The Toulmin Model.

Toulmin’s Terms.

Finding Warrants.

Sample Argument for Analysis.

        Steven Pinker, “Why They Kill Their Newborns.”

        An Analysis Based on the Toulmin Model.

        Michael Kelly, “Arguing for Infanticide.”

Sample Student Argument for Analysis.

        Lowell Putnam, “Did I Miss Something?” (student essay).

 

8. Visual Arguments: Thinking Like An Illustrator.

Common Forms of Visual Arguments.

Analyzing Visual Arguments.

Art.

        Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica.”

        Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech.”

        Advertisements.

        Altoids Ad.

        Editorial or Political Cartoons.

        News Photographs.

Ancillary Graphics: Tables, Charts, and Graphs.

** Sample Argument for Analysis.

        Lee Innes, “Olympic Babes” (student essay).

 

9. Researching Arguments: Thinking Like An Investigator.

Sources of Information.

A Search Strategy.

Sample Entries for an Annotated Bibliography.

Locating Sources.

Evaluating Sources.

Taking Notes.

Drafting Your Paper.

Revising and Editing Your Paper.

Preparing and Proofreading Your Final Manuscript.

Plagiarism.

Documentation Guide: MLA and APA Style.

Where Does the Documentation Go?

Documentation Style.

A Brief Guide to MLA and APA Styles.

** Sample Research Papers .

       **Shannon O’Neill, Censorship in Public Schools” (student paper in MLA style).

        **Robin Fleishman, “Public Policy Proposal: Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Purposes” (student paper in APA style).

 

PART TWO    Essays and Readings          

 

CHAPTER 10: Advertising and Consumerism     

 

HOOKING THE CONSUMER

 

Targeting a New World  

Joseph Turow

“With budgets that add up to hundreds of billions of dollars, the [advertising] industry exceeds the church and the school in its ability to promote images about our place in society–where we belong, why, and how we should act toward others.”

 

Buy This 24-Year-Old and Get All His Friends Absolutely Free  

Jean Kilbourne

“Although we like to think of advertising as unimportant, it is in fact the most important aspect of the mass media. It is the point.”

 

** Consumer Angst

Paul Lutus

“Consumerism is one of religion’s modern replacements, and, like religion, it actively encourages, then exploits, dissatisfaction with everyday reality.”

 

Which One of These Sneakers Is Me?

Doug Rushkoff

“The battle in which our children are engaged seems to pass beneath our radar screens, in a language we don’t understand. But we see the confusion and despair that results. How did we get in this predicament, and is there a way out?”

 

** Case Study: The Success of the Nike Logo

Michael Levine

“How did Nike transform the category of sports footwear into the massive $14 billion business it is today? And how did it manage to grab an astounding 45 percent of the market by the year 2000.”

 

** READING THE VISUAL: Logos

 

 

THE QUEST FOR STUFF

 

Two Cheers for Consumerism

James Twitchell

Face it. We’re all consumerists at heart. So why doesn’t anyone want to talk about it?

 

READING THE VISUAL:  Powerful Drug Advertising

Mike Lester

 

Manufacturing Desire

Harry Flood

Six bathrooms, four bedrooms, vaulted ceiling, indoor swimming pool, great room: How much house does anyone really need?

** Materialistic Values: Causes and Consequences

** Tim Kasser, Richard M. Ryan, Charles E. Couchman, and Kennon M. Heldon

Consumer culture … must be understood as reflecting the combined actions and beliefs of a large number of individuals who have internalized a capitalistic, consumeristic worldview.

 

The $100 Christmas

Bill McKibben

A small revolt takes hold in the author’s New England hometown when a local minister proposes families celebrate a “$100 holiday.”

 

READING THE VISUAL:  Bump

 

THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISING

 

With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything

William Lutz

“Advertisers use weasel words to appear to be making a claim for a product when in fact they are making no claim at all.”

 

The Language of Advertising

Charles A. O’Neill

“The language of advertising is a language of finely engineered, ruthlessly purposeful messages.”

 

** Waaaasssuuuuppp with Advertising?

Tracy Pomerinke

When it comes to ad copy that "breaks the rules," grammarians and linguists don’t speak the same language.

 

Sexuality and Advertising

Arthur Asa Berger

“One of the problems sexploitation of the female body causes is a sense of inadequacy on the part of many women, who don’t have the lean and boyish, or in some cases, anorexic bodies that so many supermodels do.”

 

** Blog It: Flip It–Girls Fight Back Against Bad Ads

Holly Buchanan

Hip young women explain why different ads “flipped” past–and why marketers are failing to reach their target audiences.

http://marketingtowomenonline.typepad.com/blog/2007/10/flip-it---girls.html#more

 

Sample Ads and Study Questions

 

 

CHAPTER 11:  Gender Matters

 

FITTING IN

 

Saplings in the Storm

Mary Pipher

“Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves. They crash and burn in a social and developmental Bermuda Triangle.”

 

The Bully in the Mirror

Stephen S. Hall

“Tormented by an unattainable ideal, boys are learning what girls have long known: it isn’t easy living in a Baywatch world.”

 

READING THE VISUAL:  NEDAAd and BODAd

 

** What I Think About the Fashion World

Liz Jones

“We decided to publish two covers for the same edition [of Marie Claire]–one featuring Sophie Dahl, a size 12; the other, Pamela Anderson, a minute size 6–and we asked readers to chose . . . You would think that we had declared war.”

 

** Men’s Magazines and Gender Construction

David Gauntlett

Contemporary masculinity is often said to be 'in crisis'; as women become increasingly assertive and successful, apparently triumphing in all roles, men are said to be anxious and confused about what their role is today. Men’s magazines are less about entertainment and more about helping men finding a place for themselves in the modern world.

 

In the Combat Zone

Leslie Marmon Silko

“It isn’t height or weight or strength that makes women easy targets; from infancy women are taught to be self-sacrificing, passive victims.”

 

He’s a Laker; She’s a “Looker”

Jennifer L. Knight and Traci A. Giuliano

“Coverage of women’s sport is inferior to that of men’s not only in quantity but in quality. . . . Sport commentators and writers often allude or explicitly refer to a female athlete’s attractiveness, emotionality, femininity, and heterosexuality . . . yet male athletes are depicted as powerful, independent, dominating, and valued.”

 

** Self-Made Man

Norah Vincent

I had lived in that neighborhood for years. As a woman, you couldn't walk down those streets invisibly. But that night, dressed as a man, I walked by those same stoops and doorways...I walked right by those same groups of men. Only this time they didn't stare. It was astounding, the difference, the respect they showed me by not looking at me, by purposely not staring.

 

a brave new world?    -----------------------------------------------

 

** Where the Boys Aren’t

Melana Zyla Vickers

Here's a thought that's unlikely to occur to twelfth--grade girls as their college acceptances begin to trickle in: After they get to campus in the fall, one in four of them will be mathematically unable to find a male peer to go out with.

 

** The New Girl Order

Kay S. Hymowitz

The Carrie Bradshaw lifestyle is showing up in unexpected places, with unintended consequences.

 

** READING THE VISUAL: STOPPING FOR DIRECTIONS (CARTOON)

 

** Soldiers Ahead

Holly Yeager

We now have units under fire with men and women in them. We have experience of women firing weapons. Guess what? They don’t fall to emotional bits.

 

** Homeward Bound

Linda Hirshman

“The family -- with its repetitious, socially invisible, physical tasks -- is a necessary part of life, but it allows fewer opportunities for full human flourishing than public spheres like the market or the government. This less-flourishing sphere is not the natural or moral responsibility only of women. Therefore, assigning it to women is unjust. Women assigning it to themselves is equally unjust.”

 

** BLOG IT: Do Violent Words Beget Violent Deeds?

Rod Van Mechelen

Is boy-bashing, good, clean fun, damaging to self-esteem, or does it promote violence?

http://www.backlash.com/content/gender/2004/rodvanmechelen031704a.html

 

** Revisionist Feminism–a Dialogue

Susan Faludi and Karen Lehrman

“Karen, I enter into this conversation with you about feminism with some misgivings. Not because I don’t want to talk to you. It is just that I suspect it will be like a phone conversation where the connection’s so bad neither party can hear the other through the static.”

 

 

CHAPTER 12: America the Beautiful? (new title needed)

 

Terrorism and the War in Iraq

 

Terrorism and the Media

The Council on Foreign Relations

“Terrorism is calculated violence, usually against symbolic targets, designed to deliver a political or religious message. . . . Terrorists [tailor] their attacks to maximize publicity and get their messages out through all available channels.”

 

READING THE VISUAL: Support our Troops: Editorial Cartoon

by Barry Blitt (Atlantic Nov. 2007 p. 54)

 

 

News Judgment and Jihad

Mark Bowden

Terrorists depend on the cooperation of the media. It’s time to stop providing it.

“We live in a new world, and now must make some careful adjustments to our way of life.”

 

** Words in a Time of War

Mark Danner

 

** Why Study War?

Victor Davis Hanson

Military history teaches us about honor, sacrifice, and the inevitability of conflict.

 

** Fear and Trembling in the Age of Terror

Robert J. Lewis

Since terrorism is not going to go away, the question we must ask is do we allow ourselves to be held hostage by the constant threat of it and resign ourselves to the gradual erosion of freedoms that have defined the Western spirit, or do we decide to live with terrorism on our terms -- and not theirs?

 

OUTSIDE LOOKING IN — WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OF THE U.S.?

 

** Pell-Mell

Tom Wolfe

The Ameican idea was born at approximately 5 pm on Friday, December 2, 1803, the moment Thomas Jefferson sprang the so-called pell-mell on the new British ambassador.

 

** Dear Mr. President

Joe Rothstein

“I'm traveling in Europe. And everywhere I go I hear Pink's song, "Dear Mr. President." In France. In Germany. In the Czech Republic. Everywhere. It's constantly on the radio. You hear it in small shops. People talk about it. Young and old. The song has captured the continent. What does it mean that this song's so popular in Europe? What does it mean? You decide.”

 

** BLOG IT: Does Europe Really Hate Us?

Corrina Collins

Why has U.S. stature in the world eroded? Opinion polls cite widespread dismay with the Iraq war, our dog-eat-dog social model and the arrogance of an imperial superpower that places itself above international law. But behind the surveys about "why they hate us" lies a reservoir of goodwill waiting to be tapped among foreigners who would prefer to see the United States succeed rather than fail.

 

READING THE VISUAL: Anti-American Graffiti  

 

** Globalization 3.0

Martin Walker

On or about December 11, 2001, a new era of globalization dawned. Now the West must cede command to others.

 

** The Power of Green

Thomas L. Friedman

One day Iraq, our post-9/11 trauma and the divisiveness of the Bush years will all be behind us – and America will need, and want, to get its groove back. We will need to find a way to reknit America at home, reconnect America abroad and restore America to its natural place in the global order – as the beacon of progress, hope and inspiration. I have an idea how. It’s called “green.”

 

** BBC Opinion Poll: What Do You Think of America?

Land of the free, home of junk food, or global policeman: What do you think of America?

The USA's role in the world was discussed in a unique global television debate hosted by the BBC. The debate revealed the results of a ground-breaking, international survey of attitudes that will capture popular prejudices and convictions about America.

 

 

CHAPTER 13: In God We Trust?

 

Church and State

 

What the Wall That Never Was

Hugh Heclo

“A hundred years ago, advanced thinkers were all but unanimous in dismissing religion as a relic of mankind’s mental infancy. What’s being dismissed today is the idea that humanity will outgrow religion.”

 

Why We’re Not One Nation “Under God”

David Greenberg

“Since the founding, critics of America’s secularism have repeatedly sought to break down the church-state wall.”

 

READING THE VISUAL: RELIGIOUS MEMBERSHIP IN THE U.S.

 

God of Our Fathers

Walter Isaacson

“Whenever an argument arises about the role that religion should play in our civic life, such as the dispute over the phrase ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance . . . assertions about the faith of the founders are invariably bandied about.”

 

Public Prayers on State Occasions Need Not Be Divisive or Generic

Charles Haynes

“Since it’s difficult to imagine any . . . president eliminating the tradition of opening and closing the inauguration with prayer, is there a way to pray that is genuine and yet somehow speaks to our nation’s expanding diversity?”

 

READING THE VISUAL:  Church and State

USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll

 

What Happy Holidays?

Cathy Young

“Peace on Earth? Forget it. Nowadays, Christmas is a battle in the culture wars.”

 

Deck the Halls?

Bridget Samburg

“The tension that we face is a larger tension about what the relationship of religion and state should be in America. We agree that the notion of a triumphant Christianity in society or in the classroom is inappropriate.”

 

What’s Wrong with Darwin? The Debate Over Evolution

 

** The Courtship of Charles Darwin

Edward J. Larson

Controversy over whether scientific of biblical explanations of life’s origins should be taught in our public schools took root eighty years ago in Tennessee. Today, evolutionists and creationists are engaged in a national wide legal battle.

 

** Remove the Stickers, Open Minds

Kenneth R. Miller

The forces of anti-evolution will pretend that the sticker case is an example of censorship and that the sinister forces of science have converged on classrooms to prevent honest and open examination of a controversial idea.

 

** The Crusade Against Evolution 

Evan Ratliff

In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of "creation science" is invading America's classrooms.

 

** The Gods Must Be Tidy!

Jonathan Witt

Is the cosmos a work of poor engineering or the gift of an artistic designer?

 

** Does Darwinism Devalue Human Life?

Richard Weikart

A number of years ago two intelligent students surprised me in a class discussion by defending the proposition that Hitler was neither good nor evil. Though I kept my composure, I was horrified. How could they justify such a view?--They did it by appealing to Darwinism. Darwinism, these students informed us, undermined all morality.

 

** A New Theology of Celebration

Francis S. Collins

As one of a large number of scientists who believe in God, I find it deeply troubling to watch the escalating culture wars between science and faith, especially in America.

 

CHAPTER 14:  The Campus Experience: Expectations and Responsibilities

 

 

The Role of the University

 

** Diversity: The Value of Discomfort

Ronald D. Liebowitz

It is no longer adequate to understand only one’s own culture…To succeed in the 21st century you need to be multi-cultural, multi-national, and multi-operational in how you think. And you can only be multi-cultural, multi-national, and multi-operational if you feel comfortable with the notion of difference.

 

** Who Should Get into College

John H. McWhorter

“Even as we seek diversity in the worthy, we must recognize that students need to be able to excel at college-level studies. Nobody wins, after all, when a young man or woman of whatever color, unprepared for the academic rigors of a top university, flunks out.”

 

 

** What's Wrong With Vocational School?

Charles Murray

“[Unqualified students] are in college to improve their chances of making a good living. What they really need is vocational training. But nobody will say so, because "vocational training" is second class. ‘College’ is first class.”

 

** The Death of Literary Theory

Stephen Metcalf

Hugh Blair was the very first English professor. When he was appointed in 1762, almost no one in the world did what he did: formally teach literary works written in English…. For most of the 240-odd years since Hugh Blair, English professors have been suckers, and for the same reason Blair made such a glorious one: No one knows what an English professor does.

 

** How to Get a College Education

Jeffrey Hart

“I launched into an impromptu oral quiz. Could anyone (in that class of 25 students) say anything about the Mayflower Compact? Magna Carta? The Spanish Armada? The Battle of Yorktown? The Bull Moose party? Don Giovanni ? William James? The Tenth Amendment? Zero. Zilch. Forget it.”

 

** What a College Education Buys

Christopher Caldwell

Economists would say that a college degree is partly a “signaling” device – it shows not that its holder has learned something but rather that he is the kind of person who could learn something. Colleges sort as much as they teach. Even when they don’t increase a worker’s productivity, they help employers find the most productive workers, and a generic kind of productivity can be demonstrated as effectively in medieval-history as in accounting classes.

 

Free Speech on Campus

 

Free Speech for You But Not for Me?

Mary Beth Marklein

“As campus officials look for ways to accommodate the growing diversity of their student bodies, an increasingly vocal number of students. . . . say there is little room for their opinions and beliefs.”

 

READING THE VISUAL:  Student Rally

 

Hate Speech Harms Public Discourse

Richard Delgado

“Hate speech may well make the speaker feel better, but it does not make the victim safer. . . . permitting a person to say something hateful to another increases, not reduces, the chance that he or she will do so again. Moreover, others may feel that they can follow suit.”

 

Free Inquiry? Not on Campus

John Leo

How the college speech police threaten the liberty of us all.

 

Regulating Racist Speech on Campus

Charles R. Lawrence III

“University officials who have formulated policies to respond to incidents of racial harassment have been characterized in the press as ‘thought police,’ but such policies generally do nothing more than impose sanctions against intentional face-to-face insults.”

 

** BLOG IT: The Torch: Insensitivity Is Not a Crime

When artists are misunderstood, it is not necessarily, and it is often not in any way, their fault. A situation in which viewers feel offended is not the same as a situation in which an artist is attempting to offend. At worst, one can say that by not catering to every possible interpretation of one’s art, an artist is being insensitive to some degree. And notwithstanding the ludicrous nature of such a standard, insensitivity is not a crime.

http://www.thefire.org/index.php/torch

 

There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too

Stanley Fish

“Free speech . . . is not an independent value but a political prize, and if that prize has been captured by a politics opposed to yours, it can no longer be invoked in ways that further your purposes, for now it is an obstacle to those purposes.”

 

students’ rights and responsiblities

 

Welcome to the Fun-Free University

David Weigel

“Many college administrators throughout the country are taking great pains to keep their students under tight control. The return of in loco parentis is killing student freedom.”

 

Parental Notification: Fact or Fiction

Joel Epstein

On campuses across the country, inebriated students are being written up and told that under a newly enacted disciplinary policy their parents will be notified. Can a school really confront student drinking in this manner?

 

READING THE VISUAL:  NASULCG/Anheuser-Busch Spring Break Ad

 

** A Word to the New Humanities Professor

Mark Edmundson

Pleasure and high-powered training–these are the things students now expect, in fact, demand, from an American college. You, invisible, self-abnegating, every-agreeable, will provide these commodities. You will provide them or–more than likely–you will find yourself another line of work.

 

** In loco parentis: Invasion of privacy or moral formation?

Joanne K.M. Bratten

It is rather a fruitless inquiry to ask if universities have the right to attempt to reform the moral lives of their students and invade their privacy. As adults they should be given the freedom to make adult choices, some of which may be personally detrimental.

 

** In re: Loco Parents

Margaret Gutman Klosko
Student affairs professional regularly remark to novices, “You see all those students walking around with cell phones? They are not talking to friends. They are talking to their mothers.”

 

CHAPTER 15:  Family and Relationships

 

What About Marriage?

 

** The Future of Marriage in America

David Popenoe

“There can be no doubt that the institution of marriage has continued to weaken in recent years. Whereas marriage was once the dominant and single acceptable form of living arrangement for couples and children, it is no longer.”

 

** Five Non-religious Arguments for Marriage over Living Together

Dennis Prager
I have always believed that there is no comparing living together with marriage. There are enormous differences between being a "husband" or a "wife" and being a "partner," a "friend" or a "significant other"; between a legal commitment and a voluntary association; between standing before family and community to publicly announce one's commitment to another person on the one hand and simply living together on the other.

 

** On Not Saying “I DO”

Dorian Solot

I must have missed the day in nursery school when they lined up all the little girls and injected them with the powerful serum that made them dream of wearing a white wedding dress.

 

** The Incredible Shrinking Father

Kay S. Hymowitz

Artificial insemination begets children without paternity, with troubling cultural and legal consequences.

 

READING THE VISUAL:  Families on Television

 

Marriage and Divorce American Style

E. Mavis Hetherington

“Before betting the farm on marriage . . . policy makers should take another look at the research. It reveals that there are many kinds of marriage and not all are salutary.”

 

READING THE VISUAL:  Marriage Trends

The National Marriage Project

 

** The Decline of Marriage

James Q. Wilson

“Culture has shaped how we produce and raise children, but that culture surely had its greatest impact on how educated people think. Yet the problem of weak, single-parent families is greatest among the least educated people. Why should a culture that is so powerfully shaped by upper-middle-class beliefs have so profound an effect on poor people?”

 

Gay Marriage . . . “We Do?”

 

The “M” Word

Andrew Sullivan

“When people talk about ‘gay marriage,’ they miss the point. This isn’t about gay marriage. It’s about marriage. It’s about family. It’s about love.”

 

** Defining Marriage Down is No Way to Save It.

David Blankenhorn

Does permitting same-sex marriage weaken marriage as a social institution? Or does extending to gay and lesbian couples the right to marry have little or no effect on marriage overall?

 

Same-Sex Marriage

Laurie Essig

“The reality is that I don’t want to marry Liza (nor she me). In fact, I’m against same-sex marriage for the same reasons I’m against all marriage.”

 

READING THE VISUAL:  Wedding Day

 

** Can This Marriage Be Saved?

Jonathan Rauch

Gay marriage is risky, but banning it is riskier.

 

** BLOG IT: A really, really, really long post about gay marriage

Unlike most libertarians, I don't have an opinion on gay marriage, and I'm not going to have an opinion no matter how much you bait me.

 

 

CHAPTER 16: Race, Ethnicity and Issues of Immigration

 

How Do Stereotypes Influence Us?

 

The Myth of the Latina Woman

Judith Ortiz Cofer

“There are . . . thousands of Latinas without the privilege of an education or the entrée into society that I have. For them life is a struggle against the misconceptions perpetuated by the myth of the Latina as whore, domestic or criminal.”

 

Hailing While Black

Shelby Steele

Are we debating racism in America or merely defending our ideologies?

 

** Muslim Mau-Mauing

Rod Dreher

One Dallas journalist’s experience with the Muslim community in the U.S.

 

Fairness for America’s Muslims

Omar Ahmad

“With negative stereotypes prevailing among more than a quarter of the American people, there is no wonder that reported hate crimes and discrimination against Muslim Americans [have] increased.”

 

Who Is a Whiz Kid?

Ted Gup

“Stereotypes that hint at superiority in one race implicitly suggest inferiority in another. They are ultimately divisive, and in their most virulent form, even deadly.”

 

READING THE VISUAL:  Chief Wahoo

 

** Why I'm Black, Not African American

John H. McWhorter

”We need a way of sounding those notes with a term that, first, makes some sense and, second, does not insult the actual African Americans taking their place in our country.”

 

Assimilation and Immigration

 

Forging a New Vision of America’s Melting Pot

Gregory Rodriguez

“Rather than upholding the segregated notion of a country divided by mutually exclusive groups, Mexican-Americans might use their experience to imagine an America in which racial, ethnic and cultural groups collide to create new ways of being American.”

 

Diversity and Its Discontents

Arturo Madrid

“In short, diversity is desirable only in principle, not in practice. . . . We desire, we like, we admire diversity, not unlike the way the French (and others) appreciate women; that is, Vive la difference!–as long as it stays in its place.”

 

** Do We Want Mexifornia?

Victor Davis Hanson

“Our schools, through multiculturalism, cultural relativism, and a therapeutic curriculum, often promote the very tribalism, statism, and group rather than individual interests that our new immigrants are fleeing from. If taken to heart, such ideas lead our new arrivals to abject failure in California.”

 

** Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants?

David Kennedy

“Mexican-Americans will have open to them possibilities closed to previous immigrant groups. They will have sufficient coherence and critical mass in a defined region so that, if they choose, they can preserve their distinctive culture indefinitely.”

 

Racial Profiling

 

You Can’t Judge a Crook by His Color

Randall Kennedy

Racial profiling may be justified, but is it still wrong?

 

READING THE VISUAL:  Pulling Teeth

American Civil Liberties Union

 

The Racial Profiling Myth Debunked

Heather MacDonald

“The anti—racial profiling juggernaut has finally met its nemesis: the truth.”

 

Are You a Terrorist, or Do You Play One on TV?

Laura Fokkena

“Racial profiling and ethnic stereotyping are nothing new to Americans of Middle Eastern descent. . . . Nowhere is this game of Pin-the-Bomb-Threat-on-the-Muslim more obvious than at the airport.”

 

 

 

** America Incarcerated

Glenn C. Loury           

In June 2006 some 2.25 million people were being held in the nearly 5,000 prisons and. One-third of inmates in state prisons are violent criminals, convicted of homicide, rape, or robbery. The other two-thirds consist mainly of property and drug offenders. Inmates are disproportionately drawn from the most disadvantaged parts of society. They are also vastly disproportionately black and brown.

 

Chapter 17: Casebook: Global Warming

 

** How Cities Green the Planet

Peter W. Huber, Mark P. Mills

Think of the skyscraper as America's great green gift to the planet. It packs more people onto less land, which leaves more wilderness undisturbed in other places, where the people aren't. The city gets Wall Street, Saks, the Met, and the Times Square crowds, which leaves more flyover country for bison and cougars. It's Saul Steinberg'scelebrated New Yorker cover, painted green.

 

** An Uncertain Truth

Jesse Lichtenstein

We don’t know exactly how hot the earth will get–and we’re not about to find out.

 

** The Power of Green

Thomas L. Friedman

One day Iraq, our post-9/11 trauma and the divisiveness of the Bush years will all be behind us – and America will need, and want, to get its groove back. We will need to find a way to reknit America at home, reconnect America abroad and restore America to its natural place in the global order – as the beacon of progress, hope and inspiration. I have an idea how. It’s called “green.”

 

** Global Warming is an Immediate Crisis

Al Gore

“When the politicians are paralyzed in the face of a great threat, our nation needs a popular movement, a rallying cry, a standard, a mandate that is broadly supported on a bipartisan basis.”

 

** Don't Believe the Hype

Richard S. Lindzen

“A general characteristic of Mr. Gore's approach is to assiduously ignore the fact that the earth and its climate are dynamic; they are always changing even without any external forcing. To treat all change as something to fear is bad enough; to do so in order to exploit that fear is much worse.”

 

** READING THE VISUAL: Polar Bear on an Ice Floe

 

    Dialogues represents argument not as a battle to be won, but as a process of dialogue and deliberation—the exchange of opinions and ideas—among people with different values and perspectives.

    Part One contains succinct instruction on analyzing and developing arguments, including critical reading, source documentation, and analyzing visual arguments. Part Two, updated with many new readings addressing current issues, offers a diverse collection of provocative essays from both the popular and scholarly medium. The lucid, lively, and engaging writing addresses students as writers and thinkers, without overwhelming them with unnecessary jargon or theory.

     

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