1 An Introduction to Ideas:Critical Thinking and Writing

Generating Ideas

The Processes of Writing

Critical Thinking

Close Reading and Rhetorical Strategies

Defining and Aligning

Evaluation

Understanding Perspective

Summarizing

Close Reading

Connecting and Comparing

Two Examples of Student Writing:Finding the Self

What to Expect in the Next Seven Chapters

2 Reacting to Authority:Youth Rebellion

Bringing Up Ideas

Mark Twain,“Advice to Youth”

Maya Angelou,“Mary”

Michael Moore,“Idiot Nation”

Judith Rich Harris,“‘Nurture'Is Not the Same as‘Environment’”

Judith Ortiz Cofer,“Volar;Maria Elena;Exile”[short story]

John Lydon(Johnny Rotten),“I Want You to Know That I HateYou,Baby”

Ralph“Sonny”Barger,from Hell's Angel

Helen Nissenbaum,“Hackers and the Battle for Cyberspace”

Thinking Through Ideas:Beatniks on the Road

Applying Ideas

3 Act Your Age:When Does Adulthood Begin?

Bringing Up Ideas

David Mamet,“The Rake:A Few Scenes from My Childhood”

Vivian Gornick,from Fierce Attachments

Esmeralda Santiago,“Mami Gets a Job”

Joyce Carol Oates,“Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been?”[short story]

Louise J.Kaplan,from“Adolescence:Trivializations and Glorifications”

Naomi Wolf,from“Fourth Base:How to Make a Woman”

Bruno Bettelheim,from“The Problem of Generations”

Charles Mungoshi,“The Setting Sun and the Rolling World”[short story]

Christopher Noxon,“I Don't Want to Grow Up!”

Marcia Mogelonsky,“The Rocky Road to Adulthood”

William Kowinski,“Kids in the Mall:Growing Up Controlled”

Thinking Th rough Ideas:The History of Adolescence

Applying Ideas

4 I Am a Rock:Individualism,Isolation,and Alienation

Bringing Up Ideas

Alice Walker,“Beauty:When the Other Dancer Is the Self”

“Melanie,”“Courting Danger”

Joan Didion,“On Self-Respect”

Benjamin Franklin,from The Autobiography

Alfons Marcoen and Luc Goossens,“Loneliness:Attitude Towards Aloneness,and Solitude:Age Differences and Developmental Significance During Adolescence”

Willa Cather,“Paul's Case:A Study in Temperament”[short story]

Marcel Danesi,“The Emergence of Coolness”

Gerard Jones,“Violent Media Is Good for Kids”

Peter Marin,“The Open Truth and Fiery Vehemence of Youth”

Natalie Kusz,“Ring Leader”

Thinking Through Ideas:Aloneness in Poetry and Song Lyrics

Applying Ideas

5 From Minor to(What's Your)Major:Identity in College

Bringing Up Ideas

Ralph Waldo Emerson,“The American Scholar”

Richard Rodriguez,“The Achievement of Desire”

Jennifer Crichton,“Who Shall I Be?”

Dan Chaon,“Fraternity”[short story]

Beth Bailey,“From Panty Raids to Revolution:Youth and Authority,1950-1970”

Douglas Heath,“Becoming Mature”

Roberta E Borkat,“A Liberating Curriculum”

Mark Edmundson,“On the Uses of a Liberal Education”

Jacob Neusner,“Grading Your Professors”

Thinking Through Ideas:Binge Drinking

Applying Ideas

6 Can't Buy Me Love:Money,Social Class,and the Self

Bringing Up Ideas

Laurel Johnson Black,“Stupid Rich Bastards”

Andrew Carnegie,“Wealth”

bell hooks,“The Me-Me Class:The Young and the Ruthless”

Gregory Mantsios,“Class in America—2003”

Rosemary Bray,“So How Did I Get Here?”

Shelby Steele,“On Being Black and Middle Class”

Katherine Newman,“American Nightmares”

Toni Cade Bambara,“The Lesson”[short story]

Thinking Through Ideas:Supersizing

Applying Ideas

7 Walking the Walk:Assimilation and Classification

Bringing Up Ideas

Mike Rose,“I Just Wanna Be Average”

Randolph Bourne,“Trans-National America”

Mary Crow Dog,“Civilize Them with a Stick”

Sallie Tisdale,“A Weight That Women Carry”

Eric Liu,“A Chinaman's Chance:Reflections on the American Dream”

Sherman Alexie,“Indian Education”[short story]

Barbara Kingsolver,“Stone Soup”

Dierdre N.McCloskey,“Yes,Ma'am”

Bharati Mukherjee,“Two Ways to Belong in America”

Thinking Through Ideas:Talking the Talk:Language and Assimilation

Applying Ideas

8 Hi-Ho,Hi-Ho!American Dreams or American Drones?

Bringing Up Ideas

Gary Soto,“Looking for Work”

Alfred Lubrano,“Bricklayer's Boy”

Robert Louis Stevenson,“An Apology for Idlers”

Sue Shellenbarger,“Teens Are Inheriting Parents'Tendencies Toward Work Overload”

Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi and Barbara Schneider,“The Evolving Nature of Work”

Aristides,“Work and Its Contents”

Ann Cummins,“Where I Work”[short story]

Neil Howe and William Strauss,“Jiggy with It”

Barbara Brandt,“Less Is More:A Call for Shorter Work Hours”

Thinking Through Ideas:Women's Work

Applying Ideas

Rhetorical List of Readings

Credits

Index of Authors and Titles