All examples of student writing in this book come from open-access internet sites such as www.directessays.com. All otherwise uncredited examples were composed by the author.
1 Richard Lanham, Revising Prose, Third Edition (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 4.
2 Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Chapter 1.
3 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1.
4 John McPhee, ‘The Founding Fish,’ The New York Times, 8 December 2002.
5 R. Fagin, ‘Inverting Schema Mappings’, ACM Transactions on Database Systems 32.4, Article 25 (November 2007): 1.
6 Mickael Le Gac et al, ‘Phylogenetic Evidence of Host-specific Cryptic Species in the Anther Smut Fungus’, Evolution 61.1 (2007): 15.
7 Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis et al, ‘Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-centric Tasks’, ACM Transactions on Database Systems 32.4, Article 21 (November 2007): 2.
8 Richard Leschen and Thomas Buckley, ‘Multistate Characters and Diet Shifts: Evolution of Erotylidae (Coleoptera)’, Systematic Biology 56.1 (2007): 97.
9 Claudia Lapping, ‘Recodifications of Academic Positions and Reiterations of Desire: Change but Continuity in Gendered Subjectivities’, Studies in Higher Education 31:4 (2006): 423.
10 Robert Morgan, Sigodlin (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1990), 58. Quoted by permission of the author.
11 Kathryn A. Becker-Blease et al, ‘A Genetic Analysis of Individual Differences in Dissociative Behaviors in Childhood and Adolescence’, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 45.3 (March 2004): 522.
12 Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009), 50, 53.
13 Emily Dickinson, Poem 254, in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1960), 116.
14 A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (New York: Vintage, 1991), 63.
15 Dava Sobel, Longitude (New York: Penguin, 1996), 4–5.
16 Helen Sword, ‘Zombie Nouns’, The New York Times, 23 July 2012.
17 Lori A. Fidler and J. David Johnson, ‘Communication and Innovation Implementation’, Academy of Management Review 9.4 (1984): 704.
18 William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene 1.
19 George Smoot, ‘Looking for the Big Bang’, in Galileo’s Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science Writing, ed. Edmund Blair Bolles (London: Little, Brown, 1999), 239–40.
20 Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (New York: Norton, 2006), xi.
21 Joan Didion, ‘On Self-Respect’, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (London: Andre Deutsch, 1969), 143–44.
22 Gary Younge, The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013), 118.
23 Anne Salmond, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (London: Penguin, 2003), xix–xx.
24 Robert N. Proctor, ‘“-Logos,” “-Ismos,” and “-Ikos”: The Political Iconicity of Denominative Suffixes in Science (or, Phonesthemic Tints and Taints in the Coining of Science Domain Names)’, Isis 98:2 (2007): 290.
25 Lanham, op. cit., 5.
26 Benjamin Robinson, ‘Socialism’s Other Modernity: Quality, Quantity and the Measure of the Human’, Modernism/Modernity 10.4 (2003): 709.
27 Michele Leggott, ‘milk and honey taken far far away (ii)’, in Milk & Honey (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005), 44. Quoted by permission of the author.
28 Michele Leggott, ‘27’, in Like This? (Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1988), 27. Quoted by permission of the author.
29 Renée Riese Hubert and Judd D. Hubert, ‘Reading Gertrude Stein in the Light of the Book Artists’, Modernism/Modernity 10.4 (2003): 683.
30 Claire Colebrook, ‘The Sense of Space: On the Specificity of Affect in Deleuze and Guattari’, Postmodern Culture 15.1 (2004): par. 2.
31 Adalaide Morris, How to Live/What to Do: H.D.’s Cultural Poetics (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003), 79.
32 Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil (New York: Hyperion, 2001), 91.
33 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene 2.
34 Josipa Roksa, ‘Does the Vocational Focus of Community Colleges Hinder Students’ Educational Attainment?’ Review of Higher Education 29.4 (2006): 499.
35 Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (New York: Berkley Books, 1977), 14.
36 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2.
37 Richard Dawkins, obituary for W. D. Hamilton, in The Independent, 3 October 2000.
38 John Banville, The Sea (London: Picador, 2005), 6.
39 Russell Hogg, ‘Criminology, Crime and Politics Before and After 9/11’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 40:1 (2007): 83.
40 William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act VI, Scene 1.
41 Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 35.
42 Bruce Tesar, ‘Using Inconsistency Detection to Overcome Structural Ambiguity’, Linguistic Inquiry 35.2 (2004): 231.
43 Rachel Oberter, ‘Esoteric Art Confronting the Public Eye: The Abstract Spirit Drawings of Georgiana Houghton’, Victorian Studies 48.2 (2005): 223.
44 ‘High Anxiety in the Andes’, Journal of Democracy 12.2 (2001): 5. Unsigned editorial.
45 William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 2.
46 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logorrhoea; accessed March 2007. (This entry has since been revised, and the quoted passage has disappeared.)
47 William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act V, Scene 2.
48 Emily Dickinson, Poem 2, in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1960), 4.
49 Mark Sainsbury, ‘Is There Higher-Order Vagueness?’ Philosophical Quarterly 41.163 (1991): 168.
50 Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science (Champaign: Wolfram Media, 2002), 784.
51 Margarita Estévez-Abe, ‘Gender Bias in Skills and Social Policies: The Varieties of Capitalism Perspective on Sex Segregation’, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society 12.2 (2005): 184.
52 Tony Jackson, ‘Writing and the Disembodiment of Language’, Philosophy and Literature 27.1 (2003): 117–18.
53 Judith Butler, ‘Giving an Account of Oneself ’, Diacritics 31.4 (2001): 22–23.
54 Loren C. Eiseley, ‘Little Men and Flying Saucers’, Harper’s 206.1234 (March 1953): 86.
55 Geoff Cunfer, ‘Manure Matters on the Great Plains Frontier’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34.4 (2004): 539.
56 Jeff Karon, ‘Deception and Intentional Transparency: The Case of Writing’, Philosophy and Literature 27.1 (2003): 134.
57 Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), 337.
58 Lave and Wenger, op. cit., 35.
59 William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, Scene 2; Othello, Act I, Scene 3; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene 2; Richard III, Act IV, Scene 1; Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1.
60 Stephanie Gilmore and Elizabeth Kaminski, ‘A Part and Apart: Lesbian and Straight Feminist Activists Negotiate Identity in a Second-Wave Organization’, Journal of the History of Sexuality 16:1 (2007): 99.