Viewpoints: Readings Worth Thinking and Writing About / Edition 4

Note: Chapters 2-10 conclude with "On the Net." I. Viewpoints on Reading and Writing Essays 1. Viewpoints on Reading Essays Keeping a Reading Journal Reading Essays The Structure of an Essay Understanding the Content Marking as You Read The Wet Drug, Pete Hamill 2. Viewpoints on Writing Essays Getting Started: Finding a Working Thesis (Stage 1) Getting It on Paper: Supporting Your Thesis (Stage 2) Getting It Right: Revising and Editing (Stage 3) II. Readings Worth Thinking and Writing About 3. Viewpoints on Learning To Err Is Wrong, Roger Von Oech In Praise of the F Word, Mary Sherry Your Kid's Going to Pay for Cheating—Eventually, Leonard Pitts Jr. Essence of Education, Robert W. Tracinski The Lesson, Toni Cade Bambara Modifying the Subject, Kate Zernike Do Charter Schools Cut it?—Yes, Sol Stern Do Charter Schools Cut it?—No, Lawrence Mishel Student Essay: One Hundred Percent Half-Breed, Bridget W. Dimery 4. Viewpoints on Human Behavior Call Me Crazy, But I Have to Be Myself, Mary Seymour I'm Not a Dork; I'm Ahead of Today's Fashions, Alan Ehrenhalt Night Walker, Brent Staples It's Getting Better All the Time—Or Is It? Pico Iyer Sunday in the Park, Bel Kaufman "The Ghetto Made Me Do It," Francis Flaherty Seeking the Roots of Violence, Anastasia Toufexis Student Essay: My Private Prison, Jody Nelson 5. Viewpoints on Cultural Heritage The Legacy of Generation Ñ, Christy Haubegger The Great Divide, Michael Quintanilla Cultural Baggage, Barbara Ehrenreich Let the I's Have It, Andrew Lam It Could Happen Here, Laila Al-Marayati This Cosby Show Is Undeserved, Renee Graham Does Cosby Help? Ellis Cose Student Essay: Coming to America, Hieu Huynh 6. Viewpoints on Some Social Concerns Your Mirror Image? Francine Russo Memories of a Sweet, Lethal, Smoke-Filled Home, Dean P. Johnson Big Ideas for a Better America, John F. Kennedy, Jr. Eggs, Twinkies and Ethnic Stereotypes, Jeanne Park Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids, Anna Quindlen The Hip-Hop Media—a World Where Crime Really Pays, Brent Staples My God, My Constitution, Phil Donahue Pledge Words Do No Harm to Nonbelievers, Rochelle Riley Student Essay: Should I Believe in God? Amy Kimoto 7. Viewpoints on Family and Relationships My Mother, Amy Tan The Perfect Family, Alice Hoffman Spoiling Our Kids, Amy Dickinson A Worldwide Family, Dianne Abu-Jaber Black Unlike Me, Jana Wolff Where's Papa? David Popenoe The Father Fixation, Judith Stacey Student Essay: My Younger Sibling, Anne Rishi 8. Viewpoints on Work Ka-Ching, Margaret Atwood On a Role, Lamar Graham Women Still Fighting for Job Equality, DeWayne Wickman The Work Ethic, Redefined, Virginia Postrel The Company Man, Ellen Goodman What Does Sex/Gender Have to Do with Your Job? Jeffrey Bernbach If You Let Me Play..., Mary Brophy Marcus Student Essay: "Oh, I'm Just a Housewife, Roy Wilson 9. Viewpoints on the Media and Technology Calling the C-Word the C-Work, James Poniewozik The Issue Isn't Sex, It's Violence, Caryl Rivers You've Got Mail! Ohh, No!! Lenore Skenazy Making Them Squirm, John Tierney Summer Kidnapping Panic, Michelle Goldberg Chips Ahoy, Richard Zoglin Filters Can't Block Out the World, Terry Schwadron Student Essay: TV News: Journalism or Propaganda, Jim Stone 10. Viewpoints on the Environment; Birthright Citizenship; and Capital Punishment The Global Environment is Deteriorating, Eugene Linden The Media Exaggerate Environmental Crises, Alan Caruba Proposed Law Discriminates Against Unborn, Patrick Osio Jr. America Should Not Grant Birthright Citizenship to Children of Illegal Immigrants, Tom Andres Death and Justice, Edward I. Koch Casting the First Stone, Lloyd Steffen Student Essay: Polar Bears: A Threatened Species, Kate Brody-Adams Appendix: Quoting and Documenting Sources