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The Order of Things: What College Rankings Really Tell Us by Malcolm Gladwell
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Women’s Brains by Stephen Jay Gould
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Writing Tasks

S-3: Assignment #1: Explaining Gladwell’s Ideas
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S-6: Assignment #2: Analyzing Gould’s Arguments
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S-7: Assignment #3 Synthesizing Ideas: Gladwell and Gould
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Charts for Discussion

S-1: What We Learned From Reading “The Order of Things: What College Rankings Really Tell Us”
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S-1: “The Order of Things: What College Rankings Really Tell Us” Unfamiliar Terms and Confusing Moments
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S-4: What We Learned From Reading “Women’s Brains”
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S-4: “Women’s Brains” Unfamiliar Terms and Confusing Moments
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