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| Reading the World | |
| Education | |
| *Greek Schoolchildren (460 BCE) | |
| "Encouraging Learning" (circa 250 BCE) | |
| "On Liberal and Vocational Studies" (ca. 55 CE) | |
| "Manners to Be Observed by Teachers and Students" (1096) | |
| Page from the New England Primer (1777) | |
| "National Education" (1791) | |
| "Learning to Read and Write" (1845) | |
| "Knowledge Its Own End" (1852) | |
| "The Banking Concept of Education" (1970, revised 1993) | |
| "O Americano, Outra Vez" (1985) | |
| "Education: A Lifelong Process" (1989) | |
| Human Nature | |
| Shrine of the Dead Man (14,000 BCE) | |
| "The Speech of Aristophanes" (385 BCE) | |
| "Man's Nature is Good" (circa 300 BCE) | |
| "Man's Nature Is Evil" (circa 300 BCE) | |
| "The Precious Garland" (circa 200 BCE) | |
| Vitruvian Man (1487) | |
| from Leviathan (1651) | |
| Igbo Mother and Child (19th-20th century) | |
| "The Individual and the Pattern of Culture" (1934) | |
| *"The Fitness of Human Nature" (1988) | |
| Law and Government | |
| The Papyrus of Ani (1240 BCE) | |
| from the Tao te Ching (400 BCE) | |
| "On the Perfect State" (circa 900) | |
| from The Treasure of the City of Ladies (1405) | |
| from The Prince (1513) | |
| "A Letter to Queen Victoria" (1839) | |
| Triumph of the Will (1935) | |
| "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) | |
| "In Quest of Democracy" (1990) | |
| "Nuremberg or National Amnesia: A Third Way" (1997) | |
| War and Peace | |
| from The Art of War (400-320 BCE) | |
| "Against Offensive Warfare" (circa 425 BCE) | |
| from Summa Theologica (1265-74) | |
| *Progress of an Aztec Warrior (1541) | |
| Liberty Leading the People (1830) | |
| Guernica (1937) | |
| "Warfare: An Invention-Not a Biological Necessity" (1940) | |
| "Pacifism and the War" (1942) | |
| "The Unsurrendered People" (1965) | |
| "What Is a Just War?" (2003) | |
| Wealth, Poverty, and Social Class | |
| "Against Music" (circa 425 BCE) | |
| New Testament: Luke, Chapter 16 (circa 90 CE) | |
| Gin Lane (1751) | |
| from Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) | |
| "Economic and Moral Progress" (1916) | |
| "Migrant Mother" (1936) | |
| "The Day of the Dead" (1961) | |
| "Africans Are Not Poor" (1965) | |
| "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor" (1974) | |
| "The Stool Makers of Jobra Village" (1999) | |
| "A More Perfect Union" (2008) | |
| Science and Nature | |
| Cosmological Chart of Ptolemy's Universe (circa 150 BCE) | |
| *Beatus Map (776 CE) | |
| from On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (1190 CE)Averroës | |
| "The Guide for the Perplexed" (circa 1200) | |
| Joseph Wright of Derby: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) | |
| "Natural Selection" (1859) | |
| "The Obligation to Endure" (1962) | |
| "The Sacred Balance" (1997) | |
| "The Universe in a Grain of Sand" (2001) | |
| "The Climate Emergency" (2004) | |
| *The Galaxy Cluster Abell 2667 (2007) | |
| Language and Rhetoric | |
| "Pericles' Funeral Oration" (circa 387 BCE) | |
| from Gorgias (380 BCE) | |
| from Rhetoric (350 BCE) | |
| "The Present State of Rhetorical Theory" (1900) | |
| Freedom of Speech (1943) | |
| "Language and the Destiny of Man" (1972) | |
| Ad for Chinese Population Policy (1980) | |
| "The Power and Beauty of Language" (1987) | |
| "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" (1987) | |
| "Nobel Lecture" (1993) | |
| A Guide to Reading and Writing | |
| Reading Ideas | |
| Prereading | |
| Annotating | |
| Identifying Patterns | |
| Reading Visual Texts | |
| Summarizing | |
| Reading with a Critical Eye | |
| Generating Ideas | |
| Considering Expectations | |
| Exploring Your Topic | |
| Achieving Subtlety | |
| Structuring Ideas | |
| Thesis Statements | |
| Introductions | |
| Transitions | |
| Conclusions | |
| Supporting Ideas | |
| Supporting Claims | |
| Logos: Appealing to Reason | |
| Pathos: Emotional Appeals | |
| The Writer's Ethos | |
| Synthesizing Ideas | |
| Summarizing Multiple Sources | |
| Comparing and Contrasting | |
| Finding Themes and Patterns | |
| Synthesizing Ideas to Form Your Own Argument | |
| Incorporating Ideas | |
| Finding Sources | |
| Finding and Evaluating Sources | |
| Quoting, Summarizing, and Paraphrasing | |
| Giving Credit through Proper Attribution | |
| Revising and Editing | |
| Rethinking | |
| Rewriting | |
| Editing | |
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