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661 pages : index ; |
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Part I: Making sense -- Introduction -- Making sense through writing -- Making sense through research. Part II: Essays -- Anzaldua, Gloria / Chciana artists: exploring nepantla, el lugar de la frontera -- Berger, John / The changing views of man in the portrait -- Birkerts, Sven / The owl has flown -- Corn, Wanda M. / The birth of a national icon: Grant Wood's 'American Gothic' -- DeVeaux, Scott / Progress and the bean -- Diamond, Jared / necessity's mother -- Dillard, Annie / Seeing -- Early, Julie English / the spectacle of science and self: Mary kingsley -- Ellison, Raplh / The little man at Chehaw Station -- Ewen, Stuart / The marriage between art and commerce -- Frye, Northrup / The motive for metaphor -- Geertz, Clifford / Common sense as a cultural system -- Gould, Stephen Jay / The smoking gun of eugenics -- ingham, Zita / landscape, drama, and dissensus: the rhetorical education of Red Lodge, Montana -- kaku, Michio / Second thoughts: the genetics of a brave new world? -- Kuhn, Thomas / The historical structure of scientific discovery -- Lasch, Christopher / The lost art of argument -- Lewontin, Richard C. / Science as social action -- Martin, Emily; Claeson, Bjorn; Richardson, Wendy; Schoch-Spana, Monica; and Taussig, karen-Sue / Scientific literacy, what it is, why it's important, and why scientists think we don't have it: the case of immunology and the immune system -- McCloud, Scott / Setting the record straight -- McGraw, Erin / bad eyes -- Mellix, Barbara / from outside, in -- Mosley, Walter / For authors, fragile ideas need loving everyday -- Percy, Walker / The loss of the creature -- Rybczynski, Witold / designs for escape -- Solnit, rebecca / Aerobic Sisyphus and the suburbanized psyche -- Sommers, nancy / I stand here writing -- Sontag, Susan / In Plato's cave -- Susman, Warren I. / personality and the making of twentieth-century culture -- Tompkins, Jane / At the Buffalo Bill Museum, June 1988 -- Toumey, CHristopher P. / Science in an Old testament style -- Trask, Haunani-Kay / From a native daughter -- Tuan, YiFu / Easrth: Nature and culture -- Tutkle, Sherry / The triumph of tinkering -- Wliiams, patricia J. / The ethnic scarring of American whiteness -- Willis, susan / Disney World: public use/private state -- Winterson, Jeannette / Imagination and reality. Part III: Assignment sequences. Part IV: Writing in the disciplines. |
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Authorship -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Writing.
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| Added Author |
Brittenham, Rebecca.
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Campbell, Scott, 1964-
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Girard, Stephanie.
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| ISBN |
0395986303 $21.95 |
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