Writing 2 Reader
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Syllabus
Rewrite Policy
Sciences
“Issues in Science - Science in Perspective” by Dolores laGuardia, and Hans P. Guth
“Idols of the Mind” by Francis Bacon
Debate in the Sciences
“Storm Over the Amazon” by Edward O. Wilson
“The Rivet Poppers” by Paul and Anne Ehrlich
“Biodiversity vs. Bioengineering?” by Peter Hubar
“A Logger’s Lament” By Leila L. Kysar
“Businesses are Battling Environmentalism with Its Own Laws” by Charles McCoy
“The Butterfly Problem” by Charles C. Mann and Mark K. Plummer
“Letter to the Editor in Response to ‘The Butterfly Problem’” by William Robert Irvin
“Rare Butterfly Consigned to Extinction” by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
“The Case for Human Beings” By Thomas Palmer
Special Topic In the Sciences
Abstract from the Roslin Institute
“Viable Offspring Derived from Fetal and Adult Mammalian Cells” by Ian Wilmut, et al.
Time Magazine Special Report on Cloning:
- “The Age of Cloning” by J. Madeleine Nash
- “Will We Follow the Sheep?” by Jeffrey Kluger<br
- “Can Souls be Xeroxed” by Robert Wright
- “Clone, Clone on the Range” by Douglas Coupland
- “Clone the Clowns” from The Economist
Introduction to Writing Style
“Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell
“Features of a Science Paper” by Mark Schlenz and Judy Kirscht
“Features of a Science Literature Review” by Mark Schlenz and Judy Kirscht
Scientific Literature Review
Science Paper Peer Reviews
Social Sciences
“Issues in Social Science - Social Science in Perspective” by laGuardia & Guth
Special Topic in the Social Sciences
“Behavioral Studies in Obedience” by Stanley Milgram
“Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority” by Stanley Milgram
“On ‘Obedience to Authority’” by Philip Zimbardo
“Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison” by C. Haney, C. Banks, and P. Zimbardo
“On the Ethics of Intervention in Human Psychological Research: With Special Reference to the Stanford Prison Experiment” by Philip G. Zimbardo
“Field Study and Reports” by Mark Schlenz and Judy Kirscht
Survey Building
Social Science Experiment
Social Science Paper Peer Reviews
Humanities
“Issues in the Humanities - The Humanities in Perspective” by laGuardia & Guth
“The Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde
“Phrases and Philosophies for Use of the Young” By Oscar Wilde
“A Few Maxims For the Instruction of the Over Educated” By Oscar Wilde
“Art for Art’s Sake” By E.M. Forster
Tools for Reading In the Humanities, Terms
“Figurative Language” and “Irony” by M.H. Abrams
“anyone lived in a pretty how town” by e.e. cummings
Poems
“Sonnet 116”, “Sonnet 129”, and “Sonnet 130” by Shakespeare
“[For What as Easy]” and “As I Walked Out One Evening” by W. H. Auden
“High Windows” and “Sad Steps” by Philip Larkin
“Is It Wise?” “Our Bog Is Dood” and “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” and “Living in Sin” by Adrienne Rich
“Spelling” by Margaret Atwood
“Mid-Term Break” by Seamus Heany
Bladerunner
“L.A. Otherworldly” by Jason Dietrich
Bladerunner Topics
Bladerunner Variations
Brave New World
Questions for Brave New World
“What is Happening to Our Population?” by Aldous Huxley
“Science and Civilization” by Aldous Huxley
“Eugenics: the Impulse Never Dies” by Alexander Cockburn
Guidelines for Writing Your Humanities Paper
Ten Things You Can Do On Your Paper to Make Me Pull My Hair Out
Humanities Paper Peer Reviews
Bibliography
--MarthineSatris 17:17, 8 August 2007 (PDT)
