The Contemporary Reader, 7/E
Gary Goshgarian, Northeastern University

ISBN-10: 0321083423
ISBN-13: 9780321083425

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2002
Format: Paper; 608 pp
Published: 07/12/2001

Suggested retail price: $74.40
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A best-selling text, The Contemporary Reader offers highly engaging readings about current cultural issues. This accessible, wide-ranging, and current essay collection is designed to stimulate strong student response in class and in writing.

Over 90% of the readings have been written in the last five years. The text's ten tightly focused thematic chapters cover a range of writing on interesting issues familiar to students and relevant to our times.

  • More contemporary selections than any other popular culture reader on the market.
  • Readings are organized around a variety of provocative and engaging themes such as “Fashion and Flesh: The Images We Project”; “Gender Battles on the Big Screen”; “Young and Criminal”; and “Advertising: Wanting It, Selling It.” These thematic chapters are tightly focused and offer a range of perspectives on issues.
  • Introduction offers a step-by-step analysis of a sample essay to show students how to read critically. Coverage of critical writing has also been added to this edition.
  • Essays in the book reflect a wide assortment of writing styles by today's best writers including numerous women and minority authors. Notable authors include: Dave Barry, Deborah Tannen, Neil Postman, Susan Faludi, and many others.
  • A gallery of advertisements calls for critical thinking about images and values in contemporary society. This edition features all new ads.
  • A Companion Website includes links to additional online readings for each chapter, a guide to researching popular culture issues, and much more. See www.ablongman.com/goshgarian
  • Each reading selection is accompanied by helpful pedagogical elements—including an author headnote, “Exploring the Text” questions, and Writing Assignments.
  • “Group Projects” encourage working collaboratively inside and outside of the classroom with a special emphasis on writing that is community oriented.

  • 90% new readings. The most contemporary reader on the market, this edition features 90% new readings. The readings are from a variety of sources and include a couple student papers as well.
  • Four new focused thematic chapters. The most popular themes from the 6th edition return, along with four new high-interest thematic chapters:

    • Ch.5: “Humans Inc.: Rethinking and Retailing Reproduction”

    • Ch.7: “It's a Wide Web World”

    • Ch.8: “Sports: Not Just a Game”

    • Ch.10: “Generation Gaps: Boomers, X-ers, and Y.”

  • International Perspectives. In each chapter, a new “International Perspective” reading has been included. These offer a view of contemporary issues from cultures outside of the U.S. Students are now given a valuable global perspective on cultural topics.
  • A writing component has been added to the Introduction. To expand on the well-regarded section on critical reading, a review of the writing process has been added to the introduction. This includes coverage of pre-writing, audience-awareness, developing a thesis, documenting sources, drafting, editing, revising, and proofreading.
  • Viewpoints readings. Replacing the “Pro/Con” sections of earlier editions, new Viewpoints sections in every chapter feature two or three readings that present different points of view on varying issues.
  • A wealth of print advertisements, some now in color! 15 all-new advertisements from various sources are included in Chapter 2. In addition, a new color insert has been added, which includes eight full color ads with an accompanying student apparatus.
  • New Critical Thinking prompts before each reading, encourage students to begin thinking about the issues that will be raised in the reading.
  • New Freewriting prompts after each reading encourage students to begin responding immediately to the reading, and take note of their initial ideas and questions.
  • New Topical Considerations questions have been developed, to tie together the readings in each chapter. At the end of each chapter, students are directed to find these questions on website for The Contemporary Reader.



Preface.


Introduction.


Reading Critically.

What is Critical Thinking?

Why Read Critically?

How to Read Critically?

Sample Essay for Analysis: A No Fault Holocaust, John Leo.



Keep a Journal on What You Read.

Annotate What You Read.

Outline What You Read.

Summarize What You Read.

Question What You Read.

Analyze What You Read.



Writing Critically.

What is Critical Writing?

Developing Ideas.

Narrowing the Topic.

Identifying Your Audience.

Developing a Thesis.

Understanding Your Paper's Objective.

Researching.

Selecting Sources for Your Paper.

Documenting Sources.

Organizing Your Paper.

Drafting Your Essay.

Writing Your Introduction.

Developing Paragraphs and Making Transitions.

Concluding Well.

Editing and Revising.

Using Active Voice.

Grammar and Punctuation.

Proofreading Effectively.



1: Fashion and Flesh—The Images We Project.

An Image to Heal, Jill S. Zimmerman.

Never Too Buff, John Cloud reporting on The Adonis Complex.

My Hips, My Caderas, Alisa Valdes.

Hold That Nose, Lisa Miya-Jervis.

The Bald Individualist, Ptolemy Tompkins.

Believers in Search of Piercing Insight, D. James Romero.

I Don't Like What You're Wearing, David Updike.

International Perspectives.

East Meets West, Kuni Takahashi and Stephanie Schorow.

Viewpoints.

A Man's Guide to Slimming Couture: Or, 8 Tricks to Hide a Pot Belly, Scott McKeen.

Why Do We Get To Laugh at Fat Guy's?, Catherine Lawson.

Discrimination at Large, Jennifer A. Coleman.



2: Advertising—Wanting it, Selling it.

Targeting a New World, Joseph Turow.

Ad Ventures, Eric Effron.

The Tyranny of “Abercrappie”, Damien Cave.

Hey Kids, Buy This!, David Leonhart and Kathleen Kerwin.

Women Are Easy, Mark Boal.

Manufacturing Desire, Harry Flood.

Sample Advertisements, Palm Pilot, M&Ms, Apple Computer, Milk-Pokeman, Altoids, Yahoo, Saturn, Shreve, Crump & Low, Absolute Vodka.

International Perspectives.

Advertisements from Germany.

Viewpoints.

The Language of Advertising (updated for 2000), Charles A. O'Neill.

With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything, William Lutz.



3: Television: For Better or For Worse.

Screen II: The Invasion of the Attention Snatchers, Paul McCormack.

TV's War of Words, Deborah Tannen.

Can Television Improve Us?, Jane Rosenzweig.

How to Raise a Media Skeptic, Susan Douglas.

The Man Who Counts the Killings, Scott Stossel.

Stop Blaming Kids and TV, Mike Males.

Neil Postman and Steve Powers, How to Watch TV News.

International Perspectives.

Paradise Lost: Fijans, American Television, and Eating Disorders, Amy O'Connor.

Viewpoints.

AAP Press Release: AAP Discourages Television for Very Young Children.

American Academy of Pediatrics, August 2, 1999.

TV Can Be A Good Parent, Ariel Gore.



4: Young and Criminal?

Children as the Enemy, Peter Elikann.

Students Have Always Been Violent, David Greenberg.

Adult Crime, Adult Time, Linda Collier.

The Crackdown on Kids, Annette Fuentes.

When a Gangsta Goes to College, Sean Flynn.

Violent Culture: The Media, the Internet, and Placing the Blame, Darren Beals (Student paper).

International Perspectives.

Yemen Bans Teen Death Penalty, Scott Peterson.

Viewpoints.

Games Don't Kill People—Do they?, Greg Costikyan.

The Trigger Principle, Mark Pesce.



5: Humans Inc.: Revolutionizing, Rethinking and Retailing Reproduction.

Human Harvest, Lisa Gerson.

Designer Babies, Sharon Begley.

Small Wonders, Phyllis L. Fagell.

How Old is Too Old to Have a Baby?, Judith Newman.

I Donated My Eggs for Money, Francesca Cimino.

Possible Inclusion: Why I Won't Donate My Sperm for Money, Joe Student (Student paper).

International Perspectives.

Take it to the Bank, Jeff Stryker.

Viewpoints.



Health Update: Human Cloning, Diane M. Yokam.

White House Press Release: Cloning Prohibition Act of 1997.

Human Cloning? Don't Just Say No, Ruth Macklin.



6: The Family in Flux.

Family: Idea, Institution, and Controversy, Betty G. Farrell.

The New Nostalgia, Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers.

Single Mothers, Menace to Society?, Stephanie Coontz.

Babes in Arms, Ilene Chaykin.

My Long Distance Life, Nick Sheff.

Working Dads, Unite!, Joel Achenbach.

Taking Care of Aging Parents, Cathy Booth.

International Perspectives.

Confucius Said, “Sons, Care for Your Parents,” Parents Say, “We Sue”, Leslie Chang.

Viewpoints.

Let Gays Marry, Andrew Sullivan.

Who Says Banning Gay Marriage is Immoral?, Jeff Jacoby.

Cartoon: Wasserman's View, “Assault on Family Values.”



7: It's a Wide Web World.

(Cover: Peter Steiner cartoon, New Yorker, 1994).

The Virtual Community (repeat), Howard Rheingold.

Online and Bummed Out, Jerry Adler.

Can a Body Meet a Body Coming Through the Wire?, Chet Raymo.

Identity in the Age of the Internet, Sherry Turkel.

Come in CQ, Ellen Ullman.

Going Postal, Tony Schwartz.

My Brave New E-Boys, Eric Effron.

International Perspectives.

A Great Leap, Thomas Sancton.

Viewpoints.

The Unwanted Gaze: Privacy and the Internet, Jeffrey Rosen.

Privacy for Sale: Peddling Data on the Internet, Andrew L. Shapiro.



8: Sports: Not Just a Game.

Youth Sports Penalty Box (cartoon on frontispiece), Dan Wasserman.

Sports Centered, Jay Weiner.

Where are the Heros?, Ed Siegel.

Take Me Out of Their Ball Game, Marial Guhde Keri.

Making the Cut, Teri Bostian.

Where the Boys Are, Cathy Young.

Unpaid Professionals, Andrew Zimbalist.

International Perspectives.

We Have Always Behaved Like Soccer Thugs, Jeremy Paxman.

Viewpoints.

Naïve Court Didn't Go Far Enough with Drug Testing, Claude Lewis.

Just Say No to Random Drug Testing, David Rocah.



9: Gender Battles on the Big Screen.

Brave Dames and Wimpettes, Susan Issacs.

Out in the Cold, Neal King, Heroes in Hard Times: Cop Action Movies in the U.S., 1999.

Girls in Trouble Again, Susan Fuchs.

The Don Juan Syndrome, Julia Chapa.

Honor they Daughter, Jenn Shreve.

International Perspectives.

The Politics of Being Mast: Are Women Just Mohras in Indian Cinema?, Amitabha Bagchi.

Viewpoints.

Primal Stuff, Stanley Kauffmann.

It's Thelma and Louise for Guys, Susan Faludi.

The Emasculation Proclamation, Joel Stein.



10: Generation Gaps: Boomers, X-ers, and Y,.

How You Can Tell Which Generation is Yours, Richard Polito.

The Internet and Motherhood, Gen-X and the Millenials, Kevin W. Johansen.

An Early History of the Boomers, Dave Barry.

Generation Ex, Eric Weisbard.

Where Have All the Causes Gone?, Jon Meacham.

Marketing to Generation Y, Ellen Neuborne.

Generation Y's First Vote, Howard Fineman.

International Perspectives.

Bridging the Generation Gap, Kadir Jasin.

Viewpoints.

Military Uses Net to Get Connected with Gen Y, Dave Moniz.

Uncle Sam Wants You...To Have Fun!, Diane Brady.

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