Fiction, Creative Writing & Composition 

Genre/Form: Problems and exercises
Problems, exercises, etc
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anne Kress; Suellyn Winkle
ISBN: 9780312401061 031240106X
OCLC Number: 185021932
Description: xxi, 611 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: 1. Putting a price on integrity --
Opening image --
What the bagelman saw / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner --
Everybody does it / David Callahan --
The art of college management: cheating --
Psssst --
what's the answer / J.D. Heyman et al --
Justice or just us? What to do about cheating / Jason M. Stephens --
God's little toys: confessions of a cut and paste artist / William Gibson --
Rise of the plagiosphere: how new tools to detect plagiarism could induce mass writer's block / Ed Tenner --
Focus on genre: websites --
Reading deeply: an annotated selection --
Something borrowed / Malcolm Gladwell --
2. Changing landscape of family --
Opening image --
Coming home / Carolyn Kleiner Butler --
The American family / Stephanie Coontz --
Le beau-pere / Phyllis Rose --
Rabenmutter: Germany in angst over low birthrate / Emma Pearse --
Executive child / Caitlin Flanagan --
The politics of family / Robert Kuttner --
Growing up with mom and mom / Susan Dominus --
My Yiddishe mama / Henry Louis Gates --
We're all cousins and other web revelations / Michael Schuyler --
Roca wear and Brooks Brothers advertisements --
Focus on genre: memoirs --
The important things / Philip Weitl --
Grandmothers / Ruth Reichl --
Where he was: memories of my father / Raymond Carver --
Casa: a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood / Judith Ortiz Cofer --
Reading deeply: an annotated selection --
Complexity of family life among the low-income and working poor / Patricia Hyjer Dyk --
3. Defining identity in a virtual world --
Opening images --
Growing up online / Bruce Bower --
The MySpace generation / Jessi Hempel with Paula Lehman --
R we D8ting / Sandra Barron --
The Sims: suburban rhapsody / Clive Thompson --
Life or something like it / Karen Moltenbrey --
The perils and promise of online schmoozing / Jane Black --
The business of life: making a virtual living telecommuting to a brave new world / Peter Svensson --
Community: from neighborhood to network / Barry Wellman --
How computers change the way we think / Sherry Turkle --
Focus on the genre: blogs --
Reading deeply: an annotated selection --
Explanation for the perpetration of and reactions to deception in a virtual community / Adam N. Joinson and Beth Dietz-Uhler --
4. Branding a way of life --
Opening image --
What's changed / Jane Hammerslough --
Elysia, Evan, and Allison / Lauren Greenfield --
The thing about thongs / Claudia Wallis --
Tommy "follow the flock" spoof advertisement --
Sprite remix / Rob Walker --
Urban warfare / Kate MacArthur and Hillary Chura --
The age of reason / Kenneth Hein --
The buzz on buzz / Renee Dye --
The man behind Abercrombie & Fitch / Benoit Denizet-Lewis --
The cult you're in / Kalle Lasn --
P & G 'buzz marketing' unit hit with complaint / Bruce Horowitz --
Focus on genre: websites --
Reading deeply: an annotated selection --
The value of brand for the commodity / Scott Bedbury --
5. Making and remaking history --
Opening images --
Malcolm X / Clayborne Carson --
1776: a musical about the Declaration of Independence / Sarah Vowell --
Frontlines: dispatches from U.S. soldiers in Iraq / Soldiers' blogs --
The states, their nicknames and mottoes, and other facts critical to safe travel / John Hodgman --
Rewriting history / Anne Scott MacLeod --
Revisionism revisited / Ian Mortimer --
Judging cinematic history / Robert Brent Toplin --
The mixed review of the Museum of the American Indian / Lynn Neary --
Googling the future / John Leo --
Focus on genre: graphic novels --
Reading deeply: an annotated selection --
From the profane to the sacred: ritual and mourning at sites of terror and violence / Janet Jacobs --
6. Mapping the human genome --
Opening image --
A tale of two loves / Alan Lightman --
Humbled by the genome's mysteries / Stephen Jay Gould --
Creative tome DNA deli coffee cups (2000) / Roz Chast and Tom Tomorrow --
The poetry of genetics / Johannes Borgstein --
Ban all human cloning / Art Lentini --
Genome ethics / James Watson --
Genes cleaned and starched, while you wait / Dave Barry --
GFP bunny / Carol Becker --
Focus on genre: genomic art --
Reading deeply: an annotated selection --
The critical collaboration between art and science: an experiment on a bird in the air pump and the ramifications of genomics for society / Tamar Schlick.
Responsibility: [selected and compiled by] Anne Kress, Suellyn Winkle.