Casebook 1. Can We Talk?
Deborah Tannen, “Can’t We Talk?”
Robin Turner, “’Male Logic’ and ‘Women’s Intuition’”
Sondra Thiederman, “He Said, She Said: Differences to Be Admired”
Eugene R. August, “Real Men Don’t: Anti-Male Bias in English”
Lisa J. King, “Gender Issues in Online Communities”
Casebook 2. Should We Have a National Language?
Richard Rodriguez, "Public and Private Language"
Senator S. I. Hayakawa, “The Case for Official English”
Susan Headden, et al, “One Nation, One Language? Only English Spoken Here”
Robert D. King, “Should English Be the Law?”
U. S. English, Inc., Advertisement
Casebook 3. Why Vote?
The Declaration of Independence
Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream"
Susan B. Anthony, "Women's Right to Vote"
Linda Feldmann, “Why the Poll Booths of America Are Empty”
Taipanonline, "Why People Don't Vote"
Richard Rose, “Evaluating Election Turnout”
Interview with David Pryor, "One Expert's Opinion on Election 2000"
George Will, “The Framers’ Electoral Wisdom”
Rob Richie and Steven Hill, “Why You Should Vote”
Emily B. Compton, "Why You Should Vote" (student writing)
Casebook 4. Are We Getting Warmer?
*U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Uncertainties"
*Eric Goldscheider, “Never Mind the Weather?”
*Richard Muller, “Global Warming Bombshell”
*Erik Kancler, “The Man Behind the Hockey Stick”: Interview with Michael Mann
*James Hansen, “The Global Warming Debate”
*Patrick Michaels, "Global Warming and Hurricanes: Still No Connection"
Casebook 5. Are We Too Plugged In?
*Andrew Freeman, “The Electronic Addiction”
*Liz Williams, Ethan Kolek, Meg Kluge, “Is Being 'Plugged In' Changing Campus Life?”
*Stephen Collinson, "Media Overload"
*Andrew Sullivan, "Society is Dead, We Have Retreated into the iWorld"
*Sherry Turkle, "Virtuality and Its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace"