Readings

Textbooks

Packer, Nancy, and John Timpane. Writing Worth Reading. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1989.
Ross, Carolyn, ed. Writing Nature. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
Perelman, Leslie C., et al. The Mayfield Handbook of Scientific and Technical Writing. Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield Pub. Co., 1998.

Additional Readings

Critical essays on water use conflicts.
Reisner, Marc. "Unleash the Rivers." Time 155, no. 17 (25 April 2000): 66-71.
Schildgen, Bob. "Unnatural Disasters." Sierra (May/June 1999): 48-57.
Stewart, Meg. "Dredging to Keep New York-New Jersey Harbor Alive." In The Earth Around Us. Edited by Jill Schneiderman. New York: W.H. Freeman, 2000, pp. 232-243.
Wilkinson, Charles F. "Crossing the Next Meridian." Environment 32, no. 10 (December 1990): 14-20, 32.

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