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Our schools and colleges often make the intellectual life seem more impenetrable, narrowly specialized, and inaccessible than it is or needs to be, argues the eminent scholar and educator Gerald Graff, whose provocative book offers a wealth of practical suggestions for making the culture of ideas and arguments more readily understandable. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: In the Dark All Eggheads Are Gray

Pt. I Confusing the Issue
ch. 1 The University Is Popular Culture, But It Doesn't Know It Yet
ch. 2 The Problem Problem and Other Oddities of Academic Discourse
ch. 3 The Mixed-Message Curriculum

Pt. II Intellectualism and Its Discontents
ch. 4 Two Cheers for the Argument Culture
ch. 5 Paralysis by Analysis?

Pt. III Communicative Disorders
ch. 6 Unlearning to Write
ch. 7 Scholars and Sound Bites: The Myth of Academic Difficulty
ch. 8 Why Johnny Can't Argue
ch. 9 Outing Criticism
ch. 10 The Application Guessing Game with Andrew Hoberek

Pt. IV Teaching the Club
ch. 11 Hidden Intellectualism
ch. 12 A Word for Words and a Vote for Quotes
ch. 13 Wrestling with the Devil
ch. 14 Deborah Meier's Progressive Traditionalism

Epilogue: How to Write an Argument - What Students and Teachers Really Need to Know
Notes
Index