TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Quentin
TI  - The generation of ideas: a thematic reader 
SN  - 9781413000122 (pbk.)
AV  - PE1417 .M55 2005
U1  - 808.0427 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Boston, Mass.
PB  - Thomson/Wadsworth
KW  - College readers
KW  - English language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Problems, exercises, etc
KW  - Report writing
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [777]-778) and index; Introduction to ideas, critical thinking and writing -- Reacting to authority, youth rebellion: "Advice to youth" / Mark Twain; "Mary" / Maya Angelou -- Act your age, when does adulthood begin?: "Mami gets a job" / Esmeralda Santiago; "I don't want to grow up" / Christopher Noxon -- I am a rock, individualism, isolation, and alienation: "Courting danger" / "Melanie"; "On self-respect" / Joan Didion -- From minor to (what's your) major, identity in college: "Who shall I be?" / Jennifer Crichton; "Becoming mature" / Douglas Heath -- Can't buy me love, money, social class, and the self: "Wealth" / Andrew Carnegie; "American nightmares" / Katherine Newman -- Walking the walk, assimilation and classification: "Stone soup" / Barbara Kingsolver; "Yes, ma'am" / Dierdre N. McCloskey -- Hi-ho, hi-ho! American dreams of American drones?: "Bricklayer's boy" / Alfred Lubrano; "Work and its contents" / Aristides
N2  - "[This book] is a ... composition reader that selects both classic and contemporary readings about generational and individual identity ... The intent of [this book] is to demystify the processes of writing and critical thinking by acknowledging that everyone struggles with them, but that they can be a source of tremendous power"--Pref
ER  -