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First Year Writing: WRTG 1150

Program for Writing and Rhetoric
Reading Themes

 

Life at the Academy

 

  1. Beeman, Richard R.
    Learning Beyond Measure.
    New York Times, (17 September 2002) Op/Ed.

  2. Brooks, David.
    The Organization Kid.
    Atlantic Monthly, v.287, n.4 (April 2001): 40-54.

  3. Bruffee, Kenneth A.; Palmer, Parker J.; Gullette, Margaret M.; Gillespie, Diane; et al.
    Making the most of knowledgeable peers.
    Change, v.26 n.3 (May 1994): 38-44.

  4. Delli Carpini, Michael X.
    Gen.Com: Youth, Civic Engagement, And The New Information Environment.
    Political Communication, v17 i4 (Oct-Dec 2000): 341-49.
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  5. Denizet-Lewis, Benoit.
    Ban of Brothers
    New York Times Magazine, (9 January 2005): 32.

  6. Duenwald, Mary.
    Students Find Another Staple of Campus Life: Stress
    New York Times, (17 September 2002): F5.

  7. Thelen, David.
    Becoming Martin Luther King, Jr.: An Introduction.
    The Journal of American History, v.78 n.1 (June 1991): 11-22.

  8. Edmundson, Mark.
    On the uses of a liberal education: 1. as lite entertainment for bored college students.
    Harper's Magazine, v.295 n.1768 (September 1997): 39-50.

  9. Faigel, Harris C.
    The freshman experience: The case of Alice, Dorothy, Peter, and Wendy.
    Journal of American College Health, v. 45 i3 (November 1996): 141-144.

  10. Gladwell, Malcolm.
    Something Borrowed.
    The New Yorker, v.80 i.36 (November 2004): 040.

  11. Gregory, Marshall W.
    Introductory courses, student ethos, and living the life of the mind.
    College Teaching, v.45 (Spring 1997): 63-71.

  12. Jaschik, Scott.
    A New H.I.V. Alarm.
    New York Times, (16 January 2005): Section 4A / p. 34.

  13. Jameson, Samuel Haig.
    Certain Adjustment Problems of University Girls.
    The Journal of Higher Education, v.10 n.5 (May 1939): 249-255 +290.

  14. Kaminer, Wendy
    A Civic Duty To Annoy
    Atlantic Monthly, v. 280 no. 3 (Septemper 1997) :16-7.
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  15. Leibowitz, Wendy R.
    Technology transforms writing and the teaching of writing.
    Chronicle of Higher Education, v.46 n.14 (26 November 1999): A67-A68.

  16. Menand, Louis.
    The End Matter.
    The New Yorker, v. 79 i. 29 (27 October 2003): 120.

  17. Pollitt, Katha.
    Canon to the Right of Me …
    The Nation, v.253 n.9 (23 September 1991): 328(4).

  18. Shapiro, Judith R.
    Keeping Parents Off Campus.
    New York Time,. (22 August 2002): 23.

  19. Snare, Charles E.
    Implications of Considering Students as Consumers.
    College Teaching, v. 45 n. 4 (1997): 122.

  20. Sonner, Brenda S.
    A is for 'Adjunct': Examining Grade Inflation in Higher Education.
    Journal of Education for Business, v. 76 n. 1 (2000):5.

  21. Tannen, Deborah.
    Agonism in the academy: Surviving higher learning's argument culture.
    The Chronicle of Higher Education, v.46 n.30 (31 March 2000): B7-B8.

  22. Valentine, Barbara.
    The Legitimate Effort in Research Papers: Student Commitment versus Faculty Expectations.
    The Journal of Academic Librarianship, v.27 i2 (March 2001): 107-15.

  23. Wilson, Bradford.
    The Phenomenon of Grade Inflation in Higher Education.
    National Forum,v. 79 n. 4 (1999): 38.