Readings, Engl 1020, sec. 15, Spring 2014, O'Donnell, ETSU

Engl 1020 Critical Thinking and Argumentation, sec 15, Spring 2014, O'Donnell

Readings
last update: March 5, 2014

Here, compiled together under topic areas, are most of the articles we will read this semester, gathered under subject headings. Not all of these are necessarily required readings. See "Calendar," (link above), for specific assignments and due dates.

I. Humans' Relations to Non-Human Animals

- "The Killer in the Pool." By Tim Zimmerman. Outside, Friday, July 30, 2010. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/The-Killer-in-the-Pool.html. (Click here for a printable pdf file.)

- "One of History's Grandest Experiments: Can Dolphins Communicate with Us?" By Tim Zimmermann, Outside Magazine, September 20, 2012. http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/Talk-To-Me-20120731.html

- "The Last Distinction?: Talking to the animals." By Benjamin Hale. Harper's Magazine, August 2012, p65-70. (Cached here.)

II. Health Sciences / Physiology

- "The T-Cell Army: Can the body’s immune response help treat cancer?" By Jerome Groopman. The New Yorker, April 23, 2012. www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/23/120423fa_fact_groopman (Click here for a cached version.)

- "I Want My Prostate Back: The urologist diagnosed his prostate cancer. A high-tech robot removed the diseased organ. Then came two common aftereffects: sexual dysfunction, and nagging questions. Was it all a monstrous mistake?" By Laurence Roy Stains. Photographs by Nigel Cox. Men's Health, January 28, 2010. www.menshealth.com/health/coping-prostate-cancer

- "The Teeming Metropolis of You: Every day, a host of bacteria are at war within you." By Brendan Buhler. California Magazine, Fall 2011. alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/fall-2011-good-fight/teeming-metropolis-you

- "How to Fall 35,000 Feet—And Survive." By Dan Koeppel. Popular Mechanics, January 29, 2010. www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/safety/4344036

- "The Mind of a Disease" [review of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee]. By Jonathan Weiner. New York Times Sunday Book Review, November 12, 2010. www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/books/review/Weiner-t.html. (Click here for a cached version.)

- "Relationship Violence: The Secret That Kills 4 Women a Day." By Liz Brody. Glamour Magazine, May 2011. www.glamour.com/tell-somebody/2011/05/relationship-violence-the-secret-that-kills-4-women-a-day. (Click here for a cached version.)

III. Food Safety/ Ethics/ GMOs

- "Consider the Lobster." By David Foster Wallace. Gourmet Magazine, August 2004. www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster. (Click here for a cached version.)

- "All You Can Eat: A Journey Through a Seafood Fantasy." By Jim Carrier. Orion Magazine, March/ April 2009. www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4395/

- "Should You Eat Chicken? [Contributing Op-Ed Writer]." By Mark Bittman. The New York Times, October 15, 2013. www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/opinion/bittman-should-you-eat-chicken.html

- "Genetically Modified Forest Planned for U.S. Southeast: International Paper and MeadWestvaco are planning to transform plantation forests of the southeastern U.S. by replacing native pine with genetically engineered eucalyptus." By Paul Voosen. Scientific American, Jan 29, 2010. www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=eucalyptus-genetically-modified-pine-tree-southwest-forest

- "Flesh of Your Flesh: Should you eat meat?" [review of J. Foer's Eating Animals]. By Elizabeth Kolbert. The New Yorker, November 9, 2009. www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/09/091109crbo_books_kolbert. (Click here for a cached version.)

IV. Fossil Fuels/ Alternative Energy

- "Learn More about Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: Frequently Asked Questions." ilovemountains.org, Appalachian Voices, Boone NC. No date. www.ilovemountains.org/resources

- "My Polluted Kentucky Home [Op-Ed Contributor]." By Silas House. NY Times online. February 19, 2011. www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/opinion/20House.html

- "The Cloud Factories: Power, Pollution and the Internet--data centers waste vast amounts of energy." The first in a series about the physical structures that make up the cloud, and their impact on our environment. By James Glanz. New York Times, September 22, 2012. www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html

- A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables: Wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world's energy, eliminating all fossil fuels. Here's how. By Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi. Scientific American, October 26, 2009. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030

- "Officials Don’t Really Know How Dangerous the Chemical Spilled in West Virginia Is: Authorities have virtually no way of regulating many industrial chemicals. The latest spill could change that." By Bryan Walsh. Time Magazine online, Jan. 14, 2014. science.time.com/2014/01/14/how-dangerous-is-chemical-spilled-in-west-virginia/

- "No One’s Job: West Virginia’s Forbidden Waters." Posted by Jedediah Purdy, January 14, 2014. "News Desk" blog at the New Yorker Magazine online. www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/01/a-chemical-spill-along-the-elk-river-in-west-virginia.html

- "Our Toxicity Experiment in West Virginia." Posted by Deborah Blum, January 18, 2014. "Wired Science Blogs," at Wired Magazine online. www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/01/chemistry-experiments-west-virginia-dont-try-home/

V. Fracking

- "Fracking Water: It’s Just So Hard to Clean." Blog post by Bill Chameides, October 4, 2013. At "The Great Energy Challenge" subsection of the Environment section at nationalgeographic.com, the website of the National Geographic Society. energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/04/fracking-water-its-just-so-hard-to-clean/

- "Fracking explained: opportunity or danger." Youtube. Running time: 5:03. Published on Sep 3, 2013. Posted by Kurzgesagt, affiliated with Phillip Dettmer, a freelance Information Designer based in Munich, Germany. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uti2niW2BRA

- "Gasland." Documentary film, United States, 2010. Running time: 104 minutes. Directed and produced by Josh Fox. Distributed by New Video Group. Available on Youtube as of June 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=96AEzQYangE

- "Why Not Frack?" By Bill McKibben. The New York Review of Books. March 8, 2012. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/08/why-not-frack/

VI. Global Warming

- "The Acid Sea: The carbon dioxide we pump into the air is seeping into the oceans and slowly acidifying them. One hundred years from now, will oysters, mussels, and coral reefs survive?"

By Elizabeth Kolbert. National Geographic Magazine, April 2011. ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/04/ocean-acidification/kolbert-text

- "The Global Warmists' Last Line Of Defense: The Warming Must Be In The Bermuda Triangle." By James Taylor. Forbes Magazine, April 24, 2013. www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/04/24/the-global-warmists-last-line-of-defense-the-warming-must-be-in-the-bermuda-triangle/

- "Climate change slowdown is due to warming of deep oceans, say scientists: Climate sceptics have seized on a pause in warming over the past five years, but the long-term trend is still upwards" By Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent. The Guardian [newspaper--Manchester, England], Monday 22 July 2013. www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jul/22/climate-change-slowdown-warming-oceans

- "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math: Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is." Bill McKibben. Rolling Stone Magazine, July 19, 2012. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719

- "Climate of Doubt: Frontline goes inside the groups who shifted the direction of the climate change debate." Runtime: 53:46. October 23, 2012. WGBH Blueridge PBS. www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/climate-of-doubt/

- "Robert Brulle: Inside the Climate Change 'Countermovement'." Edited transcript of an interview with a sociologist who researches funding patterns of groups who oppose action on global warming, conducted on Sep 30, 2012. PBS Frontline, October 23, 2012. www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/environment/climate-of-doubt/robert-brulle-inside-the-climate-change-countermovement/

- "Review of the must-read book: Merchants of Doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from smoke to global warming." By John Atcheson. Posted July 14, 2010, at the liberal climate change blog, climateprogress.org, edited by Joe Romm. climateprogress.org/2010/07/14/merchants-of-doubt-naomi-oreskes-review/

- "Hosed: Is there a quick fix for the climate?" [rev. of Levitt and Dubner's SuperFreakonomics and Al Gore's Our Choice], by Elizabeth Kolbert. The New Yorker, November 16, 2009. www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/16/091116crbo_books_kolbert

VII. Rachel Carson

- "Margaret Atwood: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, 50 years on." By Margaret Atwood. The Guardian [Manchester, England]. Friday, December 7, 2012. www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/07/why-rachel-carson-is-a-saint

- Rehabilitating Carson: Why do some people continue to hold Rachel Carson responsible for millions of malaria deaths?" By John Quiggin. Prospect Magazine, May 24, 2008. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/rehabilitatingcarson/

- ''Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer?: The creation of an anti-environmental myth.'' Aaron Swartz, ''Extra!'' [F.A.I.R.], September/October, 2007.

- RachelWasWrong.org. "Uncovering Silent Spring's Deadly Consequences," by the Competitive Enterprise Institute

VIII. Reviews

(These articles also appear under the topic categories, above on this page, but they are grouped here for your convenience, to give you some ideas about what a good review essay is like--since you, yourself, will be writing a review essay for this class.)

- "Cancer World: The making of a modern disease" [Review of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee]. By Steven Shapin. The New Yorker online, November 8, 2010. www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/11/08/101108crbo_books_shapin. (Click here for a cached version.)

- "The Last Distinction?: Talking to the animals." By Benjamin Hale. Harper's Magazine, August 2012, p65-70. (Cached here.)

- "Our Debt to the Dog. Book Review." [Review of Our Debt to the Dog: How the Domestic Dog Helped Shape Human Societies, by Bryan Cummins.] By Don Messerschmidt. Posted on September 22, 2013. LiteraryDogs. literarydogs.com/2013/09/22/our-debt-to-the-dog-book-review/

- "Review of the must-read book: Merchants of Doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from smoke to global warming." By John Atcheson. Posted July 14, 2010, at "Climate Progress," the climate section edited by Joe Romm at ThinkProgress.org, a blog site sponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a nonpartisan, liberal organization. thinkprogress.org/romm/2010/07/14/206422/merchants-of-doubt-naomi-oreskes-review/

- "The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert: Review." By Jeet Heer. National Post, online, February 14, 2014. arts.nationalpost.com/2014/02/14/the-sixth-extinction-by-elizabeth-kolbert-review/

- "'Under The Surface,' Marcellus Shale Book, Joins Other Fracking Stories." [Review of Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale, by Tom Wilber.] No author listed. Huffington Post, April 9, 2012. www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/09/under-the-surface-book_n_1411936.html

- "Unsentimental Education." [Review of Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey From Homeless to Harvard, by Liz Murray.) By Tara McKelvey. New York Times, Sunday Book Review online. September 12, 2010. www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/books/review/McKelvey-t.html

- "When computers take over: What if the current exponential increase in information-processing power could continue unabated?" [Review of The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, by Ray Kurzweil.) By Paul Davies. Nature, volume 437 (23 March 2006): p421-422. Posted at Kurzweil's "Singularity" website: www.singularity.com/When_computers_take_over.pdf. Accessed March 2014.

- "Why Not Frack?" By Bill McKibben. The New York Review of Books. March 8, 2012. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/08/why-not-frack/

IX. Sources Provided by Students in This Class

- Jacquelyn C Campbell. "Health consequences of intimate partner violence." The Lancet, Volume 359, Issue 9314 (13 April 2002): pages 1331-1336. www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(02)08336-8/abstract

- Peter Eisler. "Deadly 'superbugs' invade U.S. health care facilities." USA Today online, March 6, 2013. www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/29/bacteria-deadly-hospital-infection/1727667/

- Seamus McGraw. "Is Fracking Safe? The Top 10 Controversial Claims About Natural Gas Drilling." Popular Mechanics online, no date (approximately December 2013). www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/coal-oil-gas/top-10-myths-about-natural-gas-drilling-6386593

- Bethany McLean. "Book review: ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon,’ By Brad Stone." The Washington Post, online, October 15, 2013. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-the-everything-store-jeff-bezos-and-the-age-of-amazon-by-brad-stone/2013/10/15/185c6c3e-34cc-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html

- Paul Solotaroff. "In the Belly of the Beast: Animal Cruelty is the Price We Pay for Cheap Meat." Rolling Stone Magazine, online, December 10, 2013. www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists

X. Aritcles about the Importance of Critical Reading

- "Fight Over Minimum Wage Illustrates Web of Industry Ties." By Eric Lipton. The New York Times online, February. 9, 2014. www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/us/politics/fight-over-minimum-wage-illustrates-web-of-industry-ties.html

- "A Valuable Reputation: After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him" [Annals of Science]. By Rachel Aviv. The New Yorker Magazine online, February 10, 2014. www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv

XI. On Writing

- "The New Economy of Letters." By Jill Lepore. The Chronicle of Higher Education online, September 3, 2013. chronicle.com/article/The-New-Economy-of-Letters/141291/

- "Headings--Six Levels Deep." From Writing HTML: A Tutorial for Creating Web Pages. Maricopa Learning Center, 1995. muskingum.edu/~webmgr/archive/tutorial/tut/tut3.htm

- UNC-Chapel Hill Writing Center Handouts on Writing Groups: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/writing-groups/

- "We Are Teaching High School Students to Write Terribly: The many problems of the SAT’s essay section." By Matthew J.X. Malady. Salon dot com, October 10, 2013. www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2013/10/sat_essay_section_problems_with_grading_instruction_and_prompts.html

XII. Links Related to 1020 Course Goals (Thanks to ETSU 1020 instructor Dennis Prater for most of these.)

A. Evaluating Sources
- Information and Its Counterfeits – Johns Hopkins University -- http://old.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/counterfeitold.html
- Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask – University of California-Berkeley -- http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
- How to Distinguish Peer-Reviewed from Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications – ETSU Sherrod Library -- http://sherrod.etsu.edu/how/refereed.html
- How to Read a Scientific Paper -- by Phillip Scheuerman, ETSU Professor of Environmental Health -- http://www.etsu.edu/intopform/How%20to%20read%20a%20scientific%20paper.pdf

B. On the Annotated Bibliography
- "How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography." Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York. Last updated September 5, 2013. guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliography
- "Writing an Annotated Bibliography." Lucy Scribner Library, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. lib.skidmore.edu/library/index.php/li371-annotated-bib
- "Writing an Annotated Bibliography." A handout adapted from Writing Across the Curriculum, by Sandra Nagy, and posted at the Writing Center website at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Illinois. write.siu.edu/Handouts/Writing%20an%20Annotated%20Bibliography.pdf
- "Annotated Bibliography Samples." Online Writing Lab at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/

C. Framing the Research Question / Constructing Thesis Statements / Writing a Research Paper
- How to Write a Research Question – George Mason University -- http://writingcenter.gmu.edu/?p=307
- Developing Strong Thesis Statements – Purdue OWL -- https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/588/01/
- Writing a Research Paper – Purdue OWL -- https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/658/1/