New Directions, Second Edition is a thematic reading-writing book aimed at the most advanced ESL learners. INTRODUCTION vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii 1 Intercultural Communication 2(54) A Writer's Technique: Main Ideas and Supporting Details CORE READING 1 American Values and Assumptions Gary Althen 4(14) CORE READING 2 Where Do We Stand? Lisa Davis 18(8) CORE READING 3 Time Talks, with an Accent Robert Levine 26(9) MAKING CONNECTIONS 35(1) ADDITIONAL READING 1 Polite but Thirsty Yaping Tang 36(4) ADDITIONAL READING 2 Friends and Strangers Margaret K. (Omar) Nydell 40(4) ADDITIONAL READING 3 A Coward Premchand 44(7) ADDITIONAL READING 4 The Blind Men and the Elephant John Godfrey Saxe 51(2) ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor 53(2) ESSAY TOPICS 55(1) 2 Education 56(78) A Writer's Technique: Purpose and Audience CORE READING 1 School Is Bad for Children John Holt 58(9) CORE READING 2 How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students' Research Papers 67(9) David Rothenberg An Opposing View Richard Cummins 71(5) CORE READING 3 Multiple Intelligences and Emotional Intelligence 76(11) David Miller Sadker & Myra Pollack Sadker MAKING CONNECTIONS 87(1) ADDITIONAL READING 1 The Teacher Who Changed My Life Nicholas Gage 88(4) ADDITIONAL READING 2 Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures 92(3) Ji-Yeon Mary Yuhfill ADDITIONAL READING 3 Coyote and the Crying Song Harold Courlander 95(3) ADDITIONAL READING 4 First Grade - Standing in the Hall Cheryl Savageau 98(1) ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor 99(2) ESSAY TOPICS 101(1) The Essentials of Writing 102(32) PART ONE The Structure of an Essay 104(7) 1 The Introduction 104(3) 2 Body Paragraphs 107(2) 3 The Conclusion 109(2) PART TWO The Writing Process 111(13) 1 Assessing the Writing Situation 112(1) 2 Exploring and Planning 113(5) 3 Drafting 118(1) 4 Revising 119(3) 5 Editing and Proofreading 122(2) PART THREE Writing with Sources 124(12) 1 Types of Sources 124(1) 2 Locating Sources 125(1) 3 Evaluating Sources 126(1) 4 Taking Notes from Sources 126(2) 5 Documenting Sources 128(6) 3 Mass Media and Technology 134(52) A Writer's Technique: Figures of Speech CORE READING 1 Computers and the Pursuit of Happiness David Gelernter 136(12) An Opposing View Winn. F. Martin 143(5) CORE READING 2 We've Got Mail - Always Andrew Leonard 148(9) CORE READING 3 Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising Ann McClintock 157(13) MAKING CONNECTIONS 170(1) ADDITIONAL READING 1 Students Shall Not Download. Yeah, Sure. Kate Zernike 171(4) ADDITIONAL READING 2 Don't Touch That Dial Madeline Drexler 175(3) ADDITIONAL READING 3 Conceptual Fruit Thaisa Frank 178(3) ADDITIONAL READING 4 All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace 181(2) Richard Brautigan ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor 183(2) ESSAY TOPICS 185(1) 4 Gender Roles 186(52) A Writer's Technique: Summarizing and Paraphrasing CORE READING 1 Sex Roles Hamilton McCubbin & Barbara Blum Dahl 188(12) CORE READING 2 Boys Will Be Boys Barbara Kantrowitz & Claudia Kalb 200(10) CORE READING 3 Sex, Sighs, and Conversation Deborah Tannen 210(8) MAKING CONNECTIONS 218(1) ADDITIONAL READING 1 Women Have What It Takes Carol Barkalow 219(4) An Opposing View Bill Norton 222 ADDITIONAL READING 2 The Androgynous Male Noel Perrin 223(4) ADDITIONAL READING 3 The Princess and the Admiral Charlotte Pomerantz 227(6) ADDITIONAL READING 4 The Greater God Rakesh Ratti 233(2) ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor 235(2) ESSAY TOPICS 237(1) 5 Work 238(50) A Writer's Technique: Tone CORE READING 1 The New American Dreamers Ruth Sidel 240(10) CORE READING 2 Someone Is Stealing Your Life Michael Ventura 250(9) CORE READING 3 Our Schedules, Our Selves Jay Walljasper 259(9) MAKING CONNECTIONS 268(1) ADDITIONAL READING 1 The Rage to Know Horace Freeland Judson 269(5) ADDITIONAL READING 2 Los Pobres Richard Rodriguez 274(4) ADDITIONAL READING 3 Action Will Be Taken Heinrich Böll 278(4) ADDITIONAL READING 4 To Be of Use Marge Piercy 282(2) ADDITIONAL READING 5 Humor 284(2) ESSAY TOPICS 286(2) CREDITS 288(4) INDEX 292