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Language Awareness with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates

Thirteenth Edition ©2020 Paul Eschholz; Alfred Rosa; Virginia Clark

The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

Language Awareness helps students understand that writing makes things happen in t...

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Language Awareness with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates by Paul Eschholz; Alfred Rosa; Virginia Clark - Thirteenth Edition, 2020 from Macmillan Student Store

Explore and harness the power of language

The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

Language Awareness helps students understand that writing makes things happen in the world. This collection teaches students how language operates and how it evolves over time―and this understanding, in turn, helps students use language more effectively in their own writing.  The supportive apparatus includes unique Language in Action activities, which connect the everyday and the academic by examining current language-related debates that deepen students' understanding of each reading.

This beloved reader has stood the test of time and has been revised with feedback from instructors across the country. The new edition features a blend of classic and contemporary readings that examine a wide range of topics through the lens of language. New readings include a range of perspectives around current topics like "fake news," gender-neutral pronouns, and the #MeToo movement.

Features

Compelling readings connect language and culture. In ten thematic chapters, 63 classic and contemporary readings — by authors ranging from Stephen King and Malala Yousafzai to John McWhorter and Rebecca Solnit — help students think and write about culturally significant topics. By connecting language, culture, and power, the readings encourage students to examine language in their own lives and in the world around them in their writing.

The most extensive reading and writing guidance in a language reader. With its chapters on critical reading, the writing process, and writing with sources, along with abundant editorial apparatus accompanying each selection (journal prompts, thinking critically questions, writing suggestions, and activities), Language Awareness offers more support for student writers than any comparable reader.

A unique set of activities links the readings to everyday life. "Language in Action" assignments follow each selection and ask students to apply what they have learned to texts and images they encounter daily, such as websites, cartoons, news articles, advertisements, and letters to the editor. Encouraging students to apply ideas gleaned from the readings to the “Language in Action” assignments gives them the practice they need to find and connect other sources in their own writing.

New to This Edition

The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

The book is now organized in two parts. Part 1 contains reading and writing guidance, with chapters on reading critically, academic writing, writing with sources, and writing a research paper. Part 2 contains the bulk of the thematic readings. This new organization allows instructors and students to easily find the support and the reading selections that they need.

A new chapter, "Language Evolution: How and Why Does Language Change?", reveals how language shifts over time. The six new readings in this chapter examine recent and ongoing developments in our language, from the rise of textspeak and emojis to the processes by which new words enter the lexicon. Overall, the chapter helps students understand that English is a living language―and that they themselves participate in language change every day.

  • John McWhorter's "Words on the Move" gives an overview of language evolution and context for why it happens.
  • Yesenia Padilla's "What Does Latinx Mean?" examines one recent word―Latinx―and the debate surrounding it.
  • Deborah Tannen’s “The (Sometimes Unintentional) Subtext of Digital Conversations” illustrates the ways that metamessages operate in online communication.

A new chapter, “Arguing About Language: Two Contemporary Debates,” helps students understand academic argument and write effective arguments of their own. It includes two new language-themed casebooks:

  • “The Campus Free Speech Controversy” examines the conversation surrounding freedom of speech on college campuses. The three authors in this unit take stances on related topics such as safe spaces and trigger warnings.
  • “The Great Gender-Neutral Pronoun Debate” explores the growing popularity of gender-neutral pronouns like the singular they, with three authors who take different perspectives on this issue.

In each casebook, the end-of-selection questions and activities invite students to bring the language concepts they have learned in the earlier core chapters of Language Awareness to bear on the topics of the language debates. At the end of each casebook, Writing Suggestions offer students opportunities to join the debate themselves by extending their analyses of the readings and making connections among the various authors’ arguments.

"Language Awareness is the ideal themed antidote to pop culture readers. The diverse mix of readings allows instructors to tailor the course to their teaching styles, while also focusing on the critical thinking skills students need in contemporary work and life situations.”
–Joshua Dickinson, Jefferson County Community College

"I love the variety of voices and times covered in Language Awareness. I appreciate that the essays are both historical and contemporary, local and global."
–Katie Booth, Moorpark College

"I really like that everything for teaching a writing course is included in the text, from strategies for reading and writing academic papers to documentation styles and paper topics."
–Kristin di Gennaro, Pace University

"The book has a nice mix of classic pieces and contemporary pieces. The activities help to make the readings more relevant for today and shift students' perspectives on ideas."
–Lisa Johnson, Casper College

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Table of Contents

*new readings

1. Reading Critically
Getting the Most out of Your Reading
　　　 　 Natalie Goldberg, Be Specific
　　　　 Henry Louis Gates Jr., What’s in a Name?
Reading as a Writer

2. Writing in College and Beyond
Developing an Effective Writing Process
　　　　 Rebekah Sandlin, The "Negro Revolt" in Me (student paper)

3. Writing with Sources
What Does It Mean to Write with Sources?
Write with Sources
Learn to Summarize, Paraphrase, and Quote from Your Sources
Avoid Plagiarism
　　　　 Jake Jamieson, The English-Only Movement: Can America Proscribe Language with a Clear Conscience? (student paper)

4. Understanding the Power of Language: How We Find Our Voices

Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness of Language

Helen Keller, The Day Language Came into My Life

*Sherman Alexie, Superman and Me

Mary Pipher, Writing to Change the World

*Emily Parker, You Can Keep Quiet, You Can Emigrate, Or You Can Stay Here and Fight

Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

5. Language Essentials: Making Sense of Words in the World

Susanne K. Langer, Language and Thought

Steven Pinker, Words Don’t Mean What They Mean

*Melissa Fay Greene, Word Power for Babies

Ben Zimmer, Chunking

*Raffaella Zanuttini, Our Language Prejudices Don’t Make No Sense

Lera Boroditsky, Lost in Translation

6. Language Communities: Where Do We Belong?

Paul Roberts, Speech Communities

Richard Lederer, All-American Dialects

*Lou Ann Walker, Losing the Language of Silence

Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America

Amy Tan, Mother Tongue

*Eric C. Miller, Talk the Talk

7. Writers on Writing: How and Why We Write

Stephen King, Reading to Write

*Annie Dillard, Write Till You Drop

*Steven Pinker, Good Writing

Anne Lamott, Shitty First Drafts

William Zinsser, Simplicity

Donald M. Murray, The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts

*Bill Hayes, On Not Writing

8. Language that Manipulates: Politics, Propaganda, and Doublespeak

Donna Woolfolk Cross, Propaganda: How Not to Be Bamboozled

Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B. Birk, Selection, Slanting, and Charged Language

*Maria Konnikova, The Lost Art of the Unsent Angry Letter

William Lutz, The World of Doublespeak

Jason Stanley, The Ways of Silencing

*Elliot Ackerman, Assassination and the American Language

9. Language that Changed the World: Words that Made a Difference

Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

*Malala Yousafzai, Address at the Youth Takeover of the United Nations

*Toni Morrison, When Language Dies

*Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference

Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

10. The Language of Discrimination: Hate, Prejudice, and Stereotypes

Andrew Sullivan, What’s So Bad about Hate?

Gordon Allport, The Language of Prejudice

Firoozeh Dumas, The "F Word"

*Wendy Kaminer, Why We Need to Tolerate Hate

*Greg Lukianoff, Twitter, Hate Speech, and the Costs of Keeping Quiet

*Akiba Solomon, Thugs. Students. Rioters. Fans: Media’s Subtle Racism in Unrest Coverage

*Maisha Z. Johnson, What’s Really Going on with the Word "Thug" – And Why I’m Not Ready to Let It Go

11. The Language of Conflict: Argument, Apology, and Dignity

*Edwin Battistella, Sorry, Regrets, and More

*Donna Hicks, Safety

*Michael Gardner, The Dork Police: Further Adventures of Flex Cop

*Rick Reilly, Regretlessly Yours: The No-Fault Apology

* Emily Badger, Tarring Opponents as Extremists Really Can Work

*Amy Westervelt, Letting Go

12. Language and Gender: Power, Abuse, and Equality

*Roxane Gay, The Careless Language of Sexual Violence

*Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Happy Feminist

Sherryl Kleinman, Matthew B. Ezzell, and A. Corey Frost, The Social Harms of "Bitch"

*Joanna Schroeder, 11 Words You Need to Teach Your Son Before He Turns 6

Michael Kimmel, Bros Before Hos

*Ben Crair, The Internet Talks Like a Woman

13. Current Language Controversies

How Does Technology Impact Communication in Relationships?

*Sherry Turkle, The Tethered Self: Technology Reinvents Intimacy and Solitude David Carr, Keep Your Thumbs Still When I’m Talking to You

Alison Stein Wellner, Lost in Translation

How Does Language Work in Advertising?

Bill Bryson, The Hard Sell: Advertising in America

William Lutz, Weasel Words: The Art of Saying Nothing at All

*Kiera Butler, The Creepy Language Tricks Taco Bell Uses to Fool People Into Eating There

*Deena Shanker, Is the "Natural" Label 100 Percent Misleading?

Why Do We Lie?

*Judith Viorst, The Truth about Lying

*Po Bronson, Learning to Lie

*Richard Gunderman, Is Lying Bad for Us?

*Chana Joffe-Walt and Alix Spiegel, Psychology of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things

14. A Brief Guide to Writing a Research Paper

Paul Eschholz

Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa are professors emeriti of English at the University of Vermont. They have directed statewide writing programs and conducted numerous workshops throughout the country on writing and the teaching of writing. Eschholz and Rosa have collaborated on a number of best-selling texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, including Subject & Strategy; Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers; Models for Writers; with Virginia Clark, Language Awareness; and, with Virginia Clark and Beth Simon, Language: Readings in Language.

Alfred Rosa

Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa are professors emeriti of English at the University of Vermont. They have directed statewide writing programs and conducted numerous workshops throughout the country on writing and the teaching of writing. Eschholz and Rosa have collaborated on a number of best-selling texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, including Subject & Strategy; Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers; Models for Writers; with Virginia Clark, Language Awareness; and, with Virginia Clark and Beth Simon, Language: Readings in Language.

Virginia Clark

Virginia Clark was a professor of English at the University of Vermont and served as chair of the English department. With Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa, she is the coauthor of Language Awareness.