Full Description
This collection of diverse readings is organized around the various purposes that motivate writers. Including detailed guides to understanding and composing for motives such as analyzing texts, analyzing images, and writing arguments, this text features a wide range of high-interest readings and provides a rhetorically grounded approach to academic writing and research.
Contents
Introduction: Writing for Your Life Chapter 1 Writing to Understand Experience Marilyn Schiel Levi's Scott Russell Sanders Grub Gloria Naylor The Meaning of a Word Tabari Njeri Life with Father Rick Marin Count Me Out of Hard Labor Sandy Fernandez I Dated Rick Marin (Companion Text) Annie Dillard Living Like Weasels Andre Aciman Lavender Chapter 2 Writing to Report Information Peter Stark As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow Peter Ling Thomas Jefferson and the Environment Eric Schlosser Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good Elizabeth Kolbert Uncharted Territory American Federation of Teachers Charter School Results Repeatedly Delayed (Companion Text) Tim Rogers Tough Break Katherine Boo The Best Job in Town Chapter 3 Writing to Explain Information Wes Pitts Photo Exorcism Nicholas D. Kristof In Japan, Nice Guys (and Girls) Finish Together Catherine Dold What Happened to the Anasazi? Gary Riven Bet on It Stephen Jay Gould Women's Brains Joan Roughgarden Same-Sex Sexuality Debrah Solomon An Interview with Joan Roughgarden (Companion Text) Chapter 4 Writing to Evaluate Something Jonathan Rowe Reach Out to Annoy Someone Ken Belson Saved, and Enslaved, by the Cell (Companion Text) YiLing-Chen Sweet and Lowdown Dara Moskowitz The Sad Comedy of Really Bad Food Francis Davis God's Lonely Man Susanna Kaysen My Diagnosis American Psychiatric Association Borderline Personality Disorder (Companion Text) Paul Goldberger High-Tech Bibliophila Cynthia Ozick She: The Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body Chapter 5 Writing to Analyze Images Jean Kilbourne Falling in Love with Food Susan Bordo Beauty (Re)discovers the Male body Steven Heller and Karen Pomerov Next: Understanding a Corporate Logo Annie Bourneuf The Re-rebranding of Berlin Barbie Zelizer Conveying Atrocity in Image Matt Welch The Pentagon's Secret Stash Sarah Boxer Torture Incarnate, Propped Up on a Pedestal(Companion Text) Chapter 6 Writing to Analyze Texts Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour (Core Text) Angelyn Mitchell Feminine Double Consciousness in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" Lawrence I. Berkove Fatal Self-Assertion in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" Genesis 9:18-27 (Core Text) F.W. Bassett Noah's Nakedness and The Curse of Canaan: A Case of Incest? Gene Rice The Curse That Never Was Psalm 87 (Companion Text) The Bill of Rights (Core Text) John Paul Stevens Groh v. Ramirez: A Majority Decision Clarence Thomas Groh v. Ramirez: A Dissenting Opinion Chapter 7 Writing to Persuade Others Adolph Reed Majoring in Debt Sally Jenkins Flunking the NCAA Stuart Taylor, Jr. Racial Profiling: The Liberals Are Right Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail A Letter from the Clergy (Companion Text) Aaron Belkin and Melissa S. Ember-Herbert Privacy and the U.S. Military U.S. Department of Defense Guidelines for Fact-Finding Inquiries into Homosexual Conduct (Companion Text) Chapter 8 Writing to Inspire Others Larry Carlat You Are Me Martin Luther King,Jr. I Have a Dream Garrison Keillor At the Cafe Ron Reagan I Know a Child Nancy Reagan Remarks at a Benefit for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (Companion Text) George Bush The State of Our Union George Orwell A Hanging Alice Walker Am I Blue? Chapter 9 Writing to Amuse Others Patricia Volk Technology Makes Me Mad John R. Alden Breakfast at the FDA Cafe David Sadaris The Learning Curve Cindy Chupach Relationship Reruns Jill Conner Browne Vacations: His and Hers Lynette Hanson Jill Conner Browne Tells All (Companion Text) Jonathan Katzman, Andy Lutz, and Erik Olson Would Hemingway Get Into Harvard? Chapter 10 Writing to Experiment with Form John Berger Et in Arcadia Ego Annie Dillard The Deer at Providencia George Orwell Marrakech Geeta Kothari If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I? Luc Sante I Was Born Adam Hochschild The Great Forgetting (Companion Text) Judy Ruiz Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy Appendix: Writing from Sources
