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—To Be or Not to Be, That Is the Question21
Text A: Humanities-To Be or Not to Be, That ls the Question 22
Text B:Why a Humanities Degree lsn’t Career Suicide29
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 Clean48
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 Survival79
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 Way105
Writing Focus: Conduction.114
Unit 7
New Tech, New Life117
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 Intelligence139
Text A: To Fight Misinformation,We Need to Teach That Science Is
Dynamic 140
Text B: Artificial Intelligence Needs Both Pragmatists and Blue-Sky
Visionaries148
Writing Focus: Citation and Reference .155
References159