Contents
Unit 1
Challenges in Higher Education.¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡1
Text A: Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡2
Text B:A Plea for "Close Learning"¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡9
Writing Focus: Planning an Argumentation ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡..16
Unit 2
Humanities¡ªTo Be or Not to Be, That Is the Question¡¡21
Text A: Humanities-To Be or Not to Be, That ls the Question ¡22
Text B:Why a Humanities Degree lsn't Career Suicide¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡29
Writing Focus: Writing a Strong Thesis Statement.¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡.35
Unit 3
Psychology¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡.39
Text A: What Children Lose When Their Brains Develop Too Fast ¡¡¡¡¡¡40
Text B: Content Moderators Pay a Psychological Toll to Keep Social
Media Clean¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡48
Writing Focus: Grounds ¡¡56
Unit 4
Post-Truth, Post-Fact Society? ..¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡59
Text A:Why Aren't People Listening to Scientists? ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡60
Text B: Teaching Writing in a Post-Truth Era ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡67
Writing Focus: Warrant ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡75
Unit 5
The Business of Survival¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡79
Text A: Bringing Dignity to Workers: Make the Minimum Wage
a Living Wage ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡80
Text B: For the Future, Look to the Past ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡86
Writing Focus: Responding to Opposing Views ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡93
Unit 6
Finance and Recession ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡97
Text A: How I Survived an Unexpected Financial Emergency.98
Text B: America's Property Market Suggests Recession s on the Way¡¡¡105
Writing Focus: Conduction.¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡114
Unit 7
New Tech, New Life¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡117
Text A: How ChatGPT Can Improve Education, Not Threaten lt .118
Text B: Are Autonomous Cars Really Safer than Human Drivers? ¡¡¡¡¡¡126
Writing Focus: Language Features of Academic Writing ¡132
Unit8
Science and Intelligence¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡139
Text A: To Fight Misinformation,We Need to Teach That Science Is
Dynamic ¡140
Text B: Artificial Intelligence Needs Both Pragmatists and Blue-Sky
Visionaries¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡148
Writing Focus: Citation and Reference ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡.155
References¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡159