First-Year Writing and Rhetoric Readings

Bartholomae, “Inventing the University” (1986)
Economist, “God, Good Guys, and Guns” (1 Aug 2015)
Economist, “Midsummer Murder” (15 Aug 2015)
Economist, “[…] Some Oil Majors Are Still Ducking the Issue of Global Warming,” (14 Nov 2015)
Economist, “Student ‘Safety’ Has Become a Real Threat to Free Speech on Campus” (13 Jun 2015)
 Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics” (1974)
 Hosier, “Teaching Information Literacy Through Un-Research,” (2015)
Jarvis Thomson, “A Defense of Abortion” (1971)
Kennedy, “Vanderbilt Convocation Address: Responsibilities of Education Citizens” (18 May 1963)
                        Kennedy address – full audio file: begin at 6:02      Kennedy address – full transcript: only pages 2-4
 Marquis, “Why Abortion is Immoral” (1989)
McMahan, “Why Gun ‘Control’ Is Not Enough,” (19 Dec 2012)
 Mother Jones, “Yes, the Mainstream Media Does Publish Fake News,” (5 Jul 2017)
 National Geographic, “Population 7 Billion” (Jan 2011)
 National Geographic, “World Without Ice” – text only (Oct 2011)
Newsweek, “Millennial College Graduates: Young, Educated, and Jobless,” (27 May 2015)
New York Times, “Bullets Stall Youthful Push for Arab Spring,” (17 Mar 2011)
Plato, The Republic, Book VII excerpt on the “Allegory of the Cave” (1987 [380 BCE])
Politico, “#SomeBlackLivesDontMatter” (27 May 2015)
Schlosser, “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me” (Jun 2015)
 Schor, The Overspent American excerpt (1999)
 Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” (1972)
 Sommers, “Responding to Student Writing” (1982)
 Sommers, “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” (1980)
 Thonney, “Teaching the Conventions of Academic Discourse” (2011)
 U.S. News and World Report, “There Is Value in Liberal Arts Education, Employers Say” (22 Sep 2014)
 Young, “Responsibility and Global Labor Justice” (2004)