Introduction: Thinking, Reading and Writing
NEW Looking to the Future with a Critical Eye: A Message for High School Graduates — Linda Elder
NEW The Role of Critical Thinking in Effective Decision Making — Brian Denis Egan
NEW Critical Thinking: What Is It Good For? (In Fact, What Is It?) — Howard Gabennesch
1. Description: Exploring Through the Senses
What a Certain Visionary Once Said — Tomson Highway
Halmonee — Jean Yoon
NEW Red Smile — Edith Iglauer
Night Shift on the Main — Joe Fiorito
NEW Between the North Bridge and the King George IV Bridge — Lisa Moore
2. Narration: Telling a Story
Elegy in Stone — Steven Heighton
NEW Between the Highs and the Lows, Life Happens — K’NAAN
Borderland — Anik See
Zada’s Hanukkah Legacy — Matt Cohen
NEW “Beginning” from Six String Nation — Jowi Taylor
Giving Up the Fight — Jenn Lamothe
3. Example: Illustrating Ideas
My Canada — Anita Rau Badami
NEW The Music We Hate: Joanna Newsom — Ryan McNutt
NEW John Lennon, Michael Jackson: Do Celebrities Die Anymore — Katrina Onstaad
Life Without Go-Go Boots — Barbara Kingsolver
Co-opting Dissent — Naomi Klein
NEW The Lost Art of Waving — Stephen Osborne
4. Process Analysis: Explaining Step by Step
Is the Belgian Coca-Cola Hysteria the Real Thing? — Malcolm Gladwell
Dogs and Monsters — Stanley Coren
You Are a Contract Painkiller — Maureen Littlejohn
NEW My Parents Killed Santa — Dakshana Bascaramurty
NEW Master of Play — Nick Paumgarten
How to Mummify a Pharoah — Adam Goodheart
5. Division/Classification: Finding Categories
Repress Yourself — Alison Gillmor
NEW Seven Criteria for the Adoption of New Technology — Will Braun
NEW Nancy Drew Knows It’s Hard — Faith Moosang
The Music of My Mind — Daniel J. Levitin
In Defense of Graffiti — Alex Boyd
6. Comparison/Contrast: Discovering Similarities and Differences
A Passion for the Environment — Monte Hummel
Opera Night in Canada — Michael McKinley
NEW Facebook and Status Anxiety — Irshad Manji
Montrealers, Cherish Your Clotheslines — Christopher Dewolf
NEW Crime and Punishment in a Foreign Land — Jennie Punter
7. Definition: Limiting the Frame of Reference
Pretty Like a White Boy — Drew Hayden Taylor
Forgiveness — June Callwood
NEW On Winning and Responsibility — Douglas Glover
NEW Fat Acceptance: A Basic Primer — Cynara Geissler
The Search for Mandela’s Gun — Simon Black
Don’t Call Me That Word — Lawrence Hill
8. Cause/Effect: Tracing Reasons and Results
Why We Crave Horror Movies — Stephen King
NEW Information-rich and Attention-poor — Peter Nicholson
NEW Sporting Life — John Moore
NEW Gluten Intolerance: Why Are More People Suffering Than Ever Before? — Carmen Everest Wahl
NEW Newfoundland Cooking — Jeannie Guy
More and More — Evelyn Lau
9. Argument/Persuasion: Inciting People to Thought or Action
A Call to Arms — Arlene Perly Rae, Irshad Manji, Anna Porter
The Culture of Overwork — Judy Rebick
NEW Anti-Gay Bullying — [no author]
Whisper, Echo, and Voice — Janice Stein
Potty-Mouthed and Proud of It — Russell Smith
Hijabs: Don’t Kick Up a Fuss — Seema Khan
Raise the Driving Age — Rafe Mair
Shootings — Adam Gopnik
Opposing Viewpoints
Violently Happy — Aaron Wherry
Sports Breeds Real-life Violence — Laura Robinson
10. Documented Essays: Reading and Writing from Sources
The Ecstasy of War — Barbara Enrenreich
Facilitated Communication & The Power of Belief — Lawrence Norton
11. Essays on Thinking, Reading, and Writing
A Passion for Language — Marguerite Andersen
The Rules of Writing Practice — Natalie Goldberg
Harry Potter’s Cauldron — Benoit Virole
Speak English, Dammit — Ryan Bigge
Appendix: Reference: Reading and Writing from Sources ***Online, Custom, and Instructor’s Manual Only
