New Directions: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking

by Peter S. Gardner

• ISBN13: 9780521541725
• ISBN10: 0521541727
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

New Directions, Second Edition is a thematic reading-writing book aimed at the most advanced ESL learners. The Student's Book prepares students for the rigors of college-level writing by having them read long, challenging, authentic readings as a precursor to writing. This emphasis on reading gives New Directions its distinctive character. Each of the five topic-based chapters contains three core readings and five additional readings. The readings come from a variety of genres and are accompanied by exercise material. The second edition represents a major revision. It contains two entirely new chapters and many new readings and activities in the other three. Another significant new feature is a section at the end of the first chapter that takes students through the writing process. Students work through it for their first writing assignment and return to this thorough treatment of the writing process for each subsequent major writing assignment.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	xiii
1 Intercultural Communication	2	(54)
A Writer's Technique: Main Ideas and Supporting Details
CORE READING 1 American Values and Assumptions
Gary Althen	4	(14)
CORE READING 2 Where Do We Stand?
Lisa Davis	18	(8)
CORE READING 3 Time Talks, with an Accent
Robert Levine	26	(9)
MAKING CONNECTIONS	35	(1)
ADDITIONAL READING 1 Polite but Thirsty
Yaping Tang	36	(4)
ADDITIONAL READING 2 Friends and Strangers
Margaret K. (Omar) Nydell	40	(4)
ADDITIONAL READING 3 A Coward
Premchand	44	(7)
ADDITIONAL READING 4 The Blind Men and the Elephant
John Godfrey Saxe	51	(2)
ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor	53	(2)
ESSAY TOPICS	55	(1)
2 Education	56	(78)
A Writer's Technique: Purpose and Audience
CORE READING 1 School Is Bad for Children
John Holt	58	(9)
CORE READING 2 How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students' Research Papers	67	(9)
David Rothenberg
An Opposing View
Richard Cummins	71	(5)
CORE READING 3 Multiple Intelligences and Emotional Intelligence	76	(11)
David Miller Sadker & Myra Pollack Sadker
MAKING CONNECTIONS	87	(1)
ADDITIONAL READING 1 The Teacher Who Changed My Life
Nicholas Gage	88	(4)
ADDITIONAL READING 2 Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures	92	(3)
Ji-Yeon Mary Yuhfill
ADDITIONAL READING 3 Coyote and the Crying Song
Harold Courlander	95	(3)
ADDITIONAL READING 4 First Grade - Standing in the Hall
Cheryl Savageau	98	(1)
ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor	99	(2)
ESSAY TOPICS	101	(1)
The Essentials of Writing	102	(32)
PART ONE The Structure of an Essay	104	(7)
1 The Introduction	104	(3)
2 Body Paragraphs	107	(2)
3 The Conclusion	109	(2)
PART TWO The Writing Process	111	(13)
1 Assessing the Writing Situation	112	(1)
2 Exploring and Planning	113	(5)
3 Drafting	118	(1)
4 Revising	119	(3)
5 Editing and Proofreading	122	(2)
PART THREE Writing with Sources	124	(12)
1 Types of Sources	124	(1)
2 Locating Sources	125	(1)
3 Evaluating Sources	126	(1)
4 Taking Notes from Sources	126	(2)
5 Documenting Sources	128	(6)
3 Mass Media and Technology	134	(52)
A Writer's Technique: Figures of Speech
CORE READING 1 Computers and the Pursuit of Happiness
David Gelernter	136	(12)
An Opposing View
Winn. F. Martin	143	(5)
CORE READING 2 We've Got Mail - Always
Andrew Leonard	148	(9)
CORE READING 3 Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising
Ann McClintock	157	(13)
MAKING CONNECTIONS	170	(1)
ADDITIONAL READING 1 Students Shall Not Download. Yeah, Sure.
Kate Zernike	171	(4)
ADDITIONAL READING 2 Don't Touch That Dial
Madeline Drexler	175	(3)
ADDITIONAL READING 3 Conceptual Fruit
Thaisa Frank	178	(3)
ADDITIONAL READING 4 All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace	181	(2)
Richard Brautigan
ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor	183	(2)
ESSAY TOPICS	185	(1)
4 Gender Roles	186	(52)
A Writer's Technique: Summarizing and Paraphrasing
CORE READING 1 Sex Roles
Hamilton McCubbin & Barbara Blum Dahl	188	(12)
CORE READING 2 Boys Will Be Boys
Barbara Kantrowitz & Claudia Kalb	200	(10)
CORE READING 3 Sex, Sighs, and Conversation
Deborah Tannen	210	(8)
MAKING CONNECTIONS	218	(1)
ADDITIONAL READING 1 Women Have What It Takes
Carol Barkalow	219	(4)
An Opposing View
Bill Norton	222
ADDITIONAL READING 2 The Androgynous Male
Noel Perrin	223	(4)
ADDITIONAL READING 3 The Princess and the Admiral
Charlotte Pomerantz	227	(6)
ADDITIONAL READING 4 The Greater God
Rakesh Ratti	233	(2)
ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor	235	(2)
ESSAY TOPICS	237	(1)
5 Work	238	(50)
A Writer's Technique: Tone
CORE READING 1 The New American Dreamers
Ruth Sidel	240	(10)
CORE READING 2 Someone Is Stealing Your Life
Michael Ventura	250	(9)
CORE READING 3 Our Schedules, Our Selves
Jay Walljasper	259	(9)
MAKING CONNECTIONS	268	(1)
ADDITIONAL READING 1 The Rage to Know
Horace Freeland Judson	269	(5)
ADDITIONAL READING 2 Los Pobres
Richard Rodriguez	274	(4)
ADDITIONAL READING 3 Action Will Be Taken
Heinrich Böll	278	(4)
ADDITIONAL READING 4 To Be of Use
Marge Piercy	282	(2)
ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor	284	(2)
ESSAY TOPICS	286	(2)
CREDITS	288	(4)
INDEX	292