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Emerging

Contemporary Readings for WritersFourth Edition ©2019 Barclay Barrios

Emerging focuses on the skills necessary for academic writing in any discipline—and offers concrete strategies for improving those skills.  Author Barclay Barrios uses an inquiry-based approach to help students understand and write about a variety of texts, while innovative assignment
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The contemporary conversations that shape our lives

Emerging focuses on the skills necessary for academic writing in any discipline—and offers concrete strategies for improving those skills.  Author Barclay Barrios uses an inquiry-based approach to help students understand and write about a variety of texts, while innovative assignment sequences explore the important but unsettled issues that shape our lives, such as How is technology changing us?, How can you make a difference in the world?, and a central question of our time, How can we get along? Thought-provoking, contemporary readings help students address those questions in meaningful ways.  Fifteen new readings and updated writing assignments keep Emerging in tune with current ideas that will challenge students to think beyond their own experiences—and beyond the classroom.

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Vivid, approachable readings explore complex, interdisciplinary ideas. Written for a general audience, the readings allow students to engage with ideas without stumbling on exclusionary language. The essays range from brief (2-3 pages) to longer (12-15 pages) than those typically found in composition readers to provide students access to the ideas that shape our world. These diverse selections—arranged alphabetically for maximum flexibility—represent cross-disciplinary work (such as a psychologist thinking about animal rights), putting students into conversations with public intellectuals including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, and Sherry Turkle.

A focus on connections among readings. Emerging helps students see how ideas connect to one another, in sometimes surprising ways, through topical tags and creative assignments, making it flexible for instructors and fruitful for students.

Innovative apparatus helps students develop the critical reading and writing skills needed to bridge public and academic issues. Part One presents key skills of academic success: reading critically, synthesizing, arguing, using evidence, and revising.  Several types of questions follow each selection in Part Two, including unique assignments as analytical tools to aid in critical understanding. In Part Three, eight assignment sequences offer a variety of projects that help students work critically with multiple readings, connecting and distinguishing key ideas.

New to This Edition

Compelling new readings bring to life cutting-edge topics, including:

  • Novelist Michael Chabon reflects on his son’s love of fashion and the universal search for people who will understand you and share your passions.
  • Essayist Leslie Jamison traces the complicated path to obtaining an elusive medical diagnosis—and the aftermath.
  • Journalist Adrien Chen explores the influence of social media on our beliefs—and makes a case for radical empathy.

New multimodal assignments throughout the book offer instructors new options for students to write and compose in a variety of media.

Four new or substantially revised assignment sequences provide a convenient way to structure selected readings into a coherent course.  They  ask challenging questions to spark students’ interest and to guide them on a substantive academic project, such as:

  • How Do We Face the Challenge of Race?
  • What Does Ethical Conflict Look Like in a Globalized World?
  • How Can We Get Along?
  • What is the Role of Art in the World?

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Table of Contents

*new to the 4th edition
 
Preface for instructors 
 
Part 1
EMERGING AS A CRITICAL THINKER AND ACADEMIC WRITER
What’s Emerging? 
Reading Critically 
Thinking Critically
Making an Argument
Using Support 
About Research
Revising, Editing, and Proofreading
*Sample Student Paper
 
Part 2
THE READINGS
 
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Making Conversation and The Primacy of Practice
*Namit Arora, What Do We Deserve?
*Michael Chabon, My Son, the Prince of Fashion
*Adrian Chen, Unfollow
*Ta-Nehisi Coates, from Between the World and Me
 *Andrew Cohen, Race and the Opioid Epidemic
 *Kavita Das, (Un)American, (Un)Cool
 Torie Rose DeGhett, The War Photo No One Would Publish
 Helen Epstein, AIDS, Inc.
 Francis Fukuyama, Human Dignity
 Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
 Daniel Gilbert, Reporting Live from Tomorrow
 *Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change
 *Anna Holmes, Variety Show
 Robin Marantz Henig, What is it about 20-Somethings?
 *Leslie Jamison, Devil’s Bait
 Chuck Klosterman, Electric Funeral
 Maria Konnikova, The Limits of Friendship
 *Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind
 Yo-Yo Ma, Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education
 *Robinson Meyer, Is it Okay to Enjoy the Warm Winters of Climate Change?
 Sharon Moalem, Changing Our Genes: How Trauma, Bullying, and Royal Jelly Alter Our Genetic Destiny
 Nick Paumgarten, We Are a Camera
 Michael Pollan, The Animals: Practicing Complexity
 *Alexander Provan, The Future of Originals
 Julia Serano, Why Nice Guys Finish Last
 Peter Singer, Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets
 Rhys Southan, Is Art a Waste of Time?
 Sarah Stillman, Hiroshima and the Inheritance of Trauma
 *Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries
 Tomas van Houtryve, From the Eyes of a Drone
 *Otto von Busch, Crafting Resistance
 David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster
 Ethan Watters, Being WEIRD: How Culture Shapes the Mind
 Wesley Yang, Paper Tigers
 Kenji Yoshino, Preface and The New Civil Rights
 
Part 3
ASSIGNMENT SEQUENCES
Sequence 1, How Is Technology Changing Us?
*Sequence 2, How Do We Face the Challenge of Race?
Sequence 3, How Does Gender Shape Us, and How Do We Shape Gender?
*Sequence 4, What Does Ethical Conflict Look Like in a Globalized World?
Sequence 5, How Can You Make a Difference in the World?
Sequence 6, What Should Be the Goal of an Education?
*Sequence 7, How Can We Get Along?
*Sequence 8, What is the Role of Art in the World?
 
Index

Barclay Barrios

Barclay Barrios (PhD, Rutgers University) is Assistant Dean of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches freshman composition and graduate courses in composition methodology and theory, rhetorics of the World Wide Web, and composing digital identities. He is past Director of Instructional Technology at Rutgers University and has served on the board of Pedagogy. Barrios is a contributor to Bits: Ideas for Teaching Composition (Bedfordbits.com) and is a frequent presenter at professional conferences.

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