Some Online Readings

The following essays are online versions of readings used in Basic Composition (355:100) and Expository Writing (355:101) at Rutgers:

Belkin, Lisa. The Made to Order Savior

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/magazine/the-made-to-order-savior.html

Berry, Wendell. "God, Science and Imagination"

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sewanee_review/v118/118.1.berry.html

Blackmore, Susan. "Strange Creatures"

http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Books/Meme%20Machine/Chapter%201.htm

Bremmer, Ian. "Democracy in Cyberspace"

http://www.viet-studies.info/kinhte/FA_Democracy_and_Internet.pdf

Carr, Nicholas.  "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/

Chua, Amy. "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html#print

Fallows, James.  “Win in China!” from Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China.  New 

York: Vintage, 2009. (Previously published in The Atlantic Monthly, April 2007).

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/04/win-in-china/5700/1/

Flammang, Janet. “Introduction” from The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society.  

Urbana: U of Il. Press, 2009. 1-21.

A good substitute: Michael Pollan, "The Food Movement Rising"

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/food-movement-rising/

Gladwell, Malcolm.  “Small Change: Why The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted.”  The New Yorker 

86.30 (October 10, 2010): 42-49.  Print and online.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all  

Gladwell, Malcolm.  "Thresholds of Violence: How School Shootings Catch On."  the New Yorker (October 19, 2015).  Web.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-violence

Gopnik, Alison. “Possible Worlds: Why do Children Pretend?” from The Philosophical Baby: What 

Chilrden’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life.  New York: Farrar, Straus and 

Giroux, 2009.  (19-46).

http://us.macmillan.com/BookCustomPage.aspx?isbn=9780312429843#Excerpt

  

Hochschild. Arlie Russell.  “From the Frying Pan into the Fire” in The Commercialization of Intimate 

Life: Notes from Home and Work, published by University of California Press, 2003. ©2003 by 

Regents of the University of California. 

http://www.ucpress.edu/excerpt.php?isbn=9780520214880#readchapter10

Klein, Naomi. Excerpt, pages xviii-xxvii, from “Preface: Fences of Enclosure, Windows of 

Possibility.”  Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate. New 

York: Picador, 2002 ©2002 by Naomi Klein.

http://makeworlds.net/node/28

http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2002/sep/06/the-preface-to-fences-and-windows/

Kristof, Nicholas D. and Sheryl WuDunn.  “Introduction: The Girl Effect” from Half the Sky: 

Turn Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.  New York: Knopf, 2009.  

http://earthchildinstitute.org/_documents/perspectives_philanthropy.pdf (see page 42)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23Women-t.html

Orr, Gregory.  “The Return to Hayneville.” The Virginia Quarterly Review 84 no3 29, 28, 30-43 

Summer 2008.

http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2008/summer/orr-hayneville/

Siebert, Charles.  "An Elephant Crackup?" 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08elephant.html?pagewanted=all

Slater, Lauren.  “Who Holds the Clicker?” Mother Jones.  November 2005.  63-67, 90, 92.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2005/11/who-holds-clicker 

Smith, Zadie. “Speaking in Tongues.”  The New York Review of Books.  February 26, 2009. 

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/feb/26/speaking-in-tongues-2/

Specter, Michael.  "A Life of Its Own."

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/28/090928fa_fact_specter

Turkle, Sherry.  “Introduction: Alone Together/The Robotic Moment/Connectivity and Its 

Discontents/Romancing The Machine: Two Stories” from Alone Together: Why We Expect More 

from Technology and Less from Each Other.  New York: Basic Books, 2011. ©2011 by Sherry Turkle. 

http://alonetogetherbook.com/?p=4 (portion only)

Yoshino, Kenji.  “Preface” and “Racial Covering” from Covering: The Hidden Assault on our Civil 

Rights.  New York: Randomhouse, 2007.  ix-xii and 111-141. ©2006 by Kenji Yoshino. 

http://plein66.nl/documents/429/Yoshino_Covering_Excerpt_1_.pdf (short excerpt) 

http://www.kenjiyoshino.com/covering.htm