Preface
1 An Introduction to Ideas：Critical Thinking and Writing
Generating Ideas
The Processes of Writing
Critical Thinking
Close Reading and Rhetorical Strategies
Defining and Aligning
Evaluation
Understanding Perspective
Summarizing
Close Reading
Connecting and Comparing
Two Examples of Student Writing：Finding the Self
What to Expect in the Next Seven Chapters
2 Reacting to Authority：Youth Rebellion
Bringing Up Ideas
Mark Twain。“Advice to Youth”
Maya Angelou，“Mary”
Michael Moore。“Idiot Nation”
Judith Rich Harris, “Nurture Is Not the Same asEnvironment”
Judith Ortiz Corer, “Volar; Maria Elena; Exile”[short story]
John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), “I Want You to Know That I Hate You, Baby” 73
Ralph “Sonny” Barger, from Hells Angel
Helen Nissenbaum, “Hackers and the Battle for Cyberspace”
Thinking Through Ideas: Beatniks on the Road
Gregory Corso, from “Variations on a Generation”
Jack Kerouac, from On the Road
Brenda Frazer, “Breaking Out of D.C.”
Joyce Johnson, from Minor Characers
Applying Ideas
3 Act Your Age: When Does Adulthood Begin?
Bringing Up Ideas
David Mamet, “The Rake: A Few Scenes from My Childhood”
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4 l Am a Rock: lndividualism, lsolation, and Alienation
5 From Minor to (Whats Your)Major: ldentity in College
6 Cant Buy Me Love: Money,Social Class,and the Self
7 Walking the Walk: Assimilation and Classification
8 Hi-Ho,Hi-Ho!American Dreams of American Drones?