Perspectives: Foundations of Writing and Critical Inquiry for Stevens Institute of Technology

COMPOSITION READINGS 
1. Mike Rose
    “Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language” 
2. Neil Postman 
    “The Word Weavers / The World Makers” 
3. John Swales 
    “The Concept of Discourse Community” 
4. Ann M. Penrose and Cheryl Geisler
    “Reading and Writing Without Authority” 

COMMUNITY READINGS 
5. Plato 
    “The Ring of Gyges” 
6. Geronimo
    Geronimo’s Story of His Life 
7. Hannah Arendt
    “We Refugees” 
8. Mohandas K. Gandhi
    “Satyagraha” 
9. Franklin Kameny
    Does Research into Homosexuality Matter? 
10. Jamaica Kincaid
    “Girl” 
11. Benedict Anderson
    Imagined Communities 
12. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
    Decolonising the Mind 
13. Desmond Tutu 
    “Speech: No Future Without Forgiveness” 
14. Celia Pearce
    “The Gathering of Uru: Birth of a Hood” 
15. Jay Johnson 
    “Through the Liminal: A Comparative Analysis of Communitas and Rites of Passage in Sport Hazing and Initiations”
16. Hilde Haualand
    "Sound and Belonging: What Is a Community?” 
17. Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Barbara King, and Yasmiyn Irizarry
    “Does STEM Stand Out? Examining Racial/Ethnic Gaps in Persistence Across Postsecondary Fields” 
18. Emma Lazarus 
    “The New Colossus” 
19. Langston Hughes 
    “I, Too” 
20. Gwendolyn Brooks 
    “kitchenette building” 
21. Wisława Szymborska 
    “The End and the Beginning”