Introduction vii
Acknowledgments xi
UNIT 1 LEAVING HOME 1 (50)
Marriage is a Private Affair 3 (14)
Chinua Achebe
An Indian Family in New York 17 (14)
Bharati Mukherjee
Immigrants: How They're Helping to Revitalize 31 (20)
the U.S. Economy
Vocabulary Games 46 (5)
UNIT 2 YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT 51 (40)
What Do You Know about Nutrition? 53 (10)
What's for Lunch? 63 (14)
John Naisbitt
Cody Loves Ruth 77 (14)
Anne Tyler
Vocabulary Games 87 (4)
UNIT 3 WHY DO PEOPLE BEHAVE THE WAY THEY DO? 91 (52)
The Lottery 93 (14)
Shirley Jackson
Social Influence: Conformity, Compliance, and 107(18)
Obedience to Power
Sears
Peplau
Taylor
Learning to Bow: Conformity in Japan 125(18)
Bruce Feiler
Vocabulary Games 138(5)
UNIT 4 THE HUMAN BRAIN AND ITS WORKINGS 143(44)
The Old Brain and the New 145(14)
Robert Jastrow
Gray Matters 159(16)
Overcoming the Pain in a Missing Limb 175(12)
Vocabulary Games 183(4)
UNIT 5 OPENING UP THE MIND 187(46)
Footsteps of My Life 189(14)
Helen Keller
The Library Card 203(16)
Richard Wright
The Art of Reading 219(14)
Lin Yu-T'ang
Vocabulary Games 229(4)
EXPANSION 233(24)
Choosing a Writing Topic 235(1)
Getting Started 235(5)
Brainstorming 235(1)
Making a list 236(1)
Mapping and clustering 237(1)
Freewriting 238(2)
Choosing a Topic for Library Research 240(1)
Exploring the Topic 241(1)
Narrowing the Topic 241(1)
Developing the Topic 242(1)
Doing Library Research 243(4)
The card catalog 243(1)
Encyclopedias 244(1)
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature 244(2)
The New York Times Index 246(1)
Taking Notes 247(1)
Quoting & Paraphrasing
Quoting 248(1)
Paraphrasing 248(1)
Footnotes and Bibliography 249(1)
Footnotes 249(1)
Bibliography 250(1)
Interviewing 250(2)
Deciding on interview information areas 250(1)
Making up interview questions 250(1)
Selecting people to interview 251(1)
Conducting the interview 251(1)
Using interview information 251(1)
Making an Outline 252(1)
The Parts of a Composition 253(2)
Writing and Getting Feedback on the First 255(1)
Draft
Writing the first draft 255(1)
Getting feedback on the first draft 255(1)
Writing and Getting Feedback on the Second 255(1)
Draft
Using feedback to revise content 256(1)
Getting feedback on the second draft 256(1)
Editing for form 256(1)
Writing and Getting Feedback on the Second 256(1)
Draft
Glossary 257(22)
Credits 279