Preface Xiii 1 An Introduction to Ideas：Critical Thinking and Writing 1 Generating Ideas 3 The Processes of Writing 4 Critical Thinking 7 Close Reading and Rhetorical Strategies 8 Defining and Aligning 9 Evaluation 10 Understanding Perspective 10 Summarizing 11 Close Reading 12 Connecting and Comparing 12 Two Examples of Student Writing：Finding the Self 14 What to Expect in the Next Seven Chapters 26 2 Reacting to Authority：Youth Rebellion 29 Is rebellion an attempt to define an individual sell to rwact to authority,or to fit in with one‘s peer group? ■Bringing Up Ideas 32 Mark Twain。“Advice to Youth” 33 The American master of satire offrs such practical advice as “Always obey your parents，when they are present”and"You want to be very careful about lying；otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught．” Maya Angelou，“Mary” 37 An employer calls her young servant“Mary”instead of her prefeTrea name“Marguerite”；is that any reason for Marguerite to break the woman‘s china? Michael Moore。“Idiot Nation” 42 One of to day‘s most prominent liberal gadflies admits that he dropped out of college because he couldn’t find a parking spot· Judith Rich Harris, “‘Nurture‘ Is Not the Same as ‘Environment‘” 55 Maybe parents have less to do with their children‘s values and personalities than we‘ve been led to believe. Judith Ortiz Corer, “Volar; Maria Elena; Exile” [short story] 67 A young girl wants to fly like Supergirl; a young woman rejects her mother‘s rules about sexuality. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), “I Want You to Know That I Hate You, Baby” 73 The lead singer of the groundbreaking punk band The Sex Pistols reflects on music as well as on fashion. Ralph “Sonny” Barger, from Hell‘s Angel 85 Are those guys who ride motorcycles in menacing gangs looking for attention, freedom, or just a good time? Helen Nissenbaum, “Hackers and the Battle for Cyberspace” 94 The Internet provides new opportunities to think about rebellion.
Thinking Through Ideas: Beatniks on the Road 105 The literary stylists who rejected the conservative 1950s tell their stories in their unique way. 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 120 3 Act Your Age: When Does Adulthood Begin? 123 When does a child become an adult? Bringing Up Ideas 125 David Mamet, “The Rake: A Few Scenes from My Childhood” 126 Painful and violent events are associated with rites of passage in this playwright‘s memoir. ……
