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This engaging reader provides brief, readable selections organized by both rhetorical pattern and theme.
Contents
NEW CONTENTS ARE IDENTIFIED WITH AN ASTERISKPreface1. On Reading and WritingThe Challenges and Rewards of WritingGood Reasons for ReadingGuidelines for Active Reading* Guided Reading: Andrew Sullivan, "Society Is Dead; We Have Retreated into the IWorld"Writing Focus: Using Summary, Analysis, and SynthesisGetting StartedRichard Wilbur, "The Writer"Gail Godwin, "The Watcher at the Gates"Terry McMillan, "On Reading and Becoming a Writer"Kurt Vonnegut, "How to Write with Style"* Communicating with Instructors and Peers: In Person and Online* Participating in Peer Evaluations* The 7 Habits of Highly Successful StudentsMaking ConnectionsTopics for WritingabitH2. Using Narration: Growing Up, Growing WiserWhen to Use NarrationHow to Use NarrationWriting Focus: Preparing Your Essay for ReadersGetting Started: Reflections on Growing Up or Growing WiserN. Scott Momaday, "The End of My Childhood"Luis J. Rodriguez, "Always Running"* Sandra Cisneros, "Only Daughter"* Mansour Al-Nogardian, "Losing My Jihadism"* Bob Kerr, "The Best Story Turned Out to Be No Story At All"* Gaye Wagner, "Death of an Officer"* Jeanne Marie Laskas, "Inconspicuous Consumption"Making ConnectionsTopics for WritingA Checklist for Narration Essays3. Using Description: Reflecting on People and PlacesWhen to Use DescriptionHow to Use DescriptionWriting Focus: It's All About WordsGetting Started: Reflections on a PaintingFrancisco de Goya y Lucientes, The Third of May, 1808Edgar Degas, The Dance Class* Pablo Picasso, Three Dancers* Mary Cassatt, Two Women Seated by a Woodland Stream* Edward Hopper, Room in New YorkSalvador Dali, The Persistence of MemoryTracy Kidder, "Mrs. Zajac"Amy Tan, "Lost Lives of Women"Pat Mora, "Remembering Lobo"* Josh Tyrangiel, "Trouble Woman"Lance Morrow, "Africa"* David Montgomery, "Snow: A Prism of More Than Frozen Water"Jonathan Schell, "Ground Zero"Student Essay-Description: Alexa Skandar, "Time's Trophy"Making Connections: Among the Writers and OnlineTopics for WritingA Checklist for Description Essays4. Using Comparison and Contrast: Ways of LearningWhen to Use Comparison and ContrastHow to Use Comparison and ContrastWriting Focus: Coherence Is CrucialGetting Started: Reflecting on Expectations of College or WorkNancy Masterson Sakamoto, "Conversational Ballgames"Judith Viorst, "Boys and Girls: Anatomy and Destiny"Amanda Ripley, "Who Says a Woman Can't Be Einstein?"* David Sadker, "Gender Games"* Robin McKie, "Bring Back Stinks and Bangs!"Colbert King, "Surveying the Damage on Campus USA"Linda Pastan, "Marks"Student Essay-Contrast: Denisse M. Bonilla, "The Faded Stain"Making Connections: Among the Writers and OnlineTopics for WritingA Checklist for Comparison and Contrast Essays5. Explaining and Illustrating: Examining Media ImagesWhen to Use ExamplesHow to Use ExamplesWriting Focus: Vary your SentencesGetting Started: Thinking about AdvertisingFour Ads: Fila, Got Milk?, Council for Biotechnology Information, expedia.comJack McGarvey, "To Be or Not to Be As Defined by TV"* Dimitri A. Christakis, "Smarter Kids, Brought to You by the Letter T and V"* Jonetta Rose Barras, "We're Our Own Worst Imuses"* Shelby Steele, "Notes from the Hip-Hop Underground"* Markus Prior, "The Real Media Divide"Vincent P. Bzdek, "More Powerful Than . . . Ever: On Screen and Off, Superheroes Are a Force to Reckon With"Lisa Mundy, "A Date to Remember"Student Essay-Explaining and Illustrating: Michael King, "Rap's Refusal of Injustice"Making Connections: Among the Writers and OnlineTopics for WritingA Checklist for Essays Using Examples6. Using Process Analysis: How We Work and PlayWhen to Use Process AnalysisHow to Use Process AnalysisWriting Focus: Punctuating ProperlyGetting Started: Reflections on Your Favorite GameJohn P. Aigner, "Putting Your Job Interview into Rehearsal"Suzette Elgin, "Improving Your Body Language Skills"Gail Saltz, "How to Get Unstuck Now"* Jack Welch, "Five Stages of Crisis Management"Carol Krucoff, "Restoring Recess"Ernest Hemingway, "Camping Out"* Tiffany Sharples, "Learning to Love"Making Connections: Among the Writers and OnlineTopics for WritingA Checklist for Process Essays7. Using Division and Classification: Understanding Human ConnectionsWhen to Use Division and ClassificationHow to Use Division and ClassificationWriting Focus: Words to Live WithoutGetting Started: Classifying Recent Reading or ViewingJudith Martin, "The Roles of Manners"Franklin E. Zimring, "Hot Boxes for Ex-Smokers"Curt Suplee, "The Science and Secrets of Personal Space"Stephanie Ericsson, "The Ways We Lie"Ralph Whitehead, Jr., "Class Acts"* David Brooks, "Human Capital"* Carolyn Foster Segal, "The Dog Ate My Disk, and Other Tales of Woe"Student Essay-Division and Classification: Garrett Berger, "Buying Time"Making Connections: Among the Writers and OnlineTopics for WritingA Checklist for Division and Classification Essays8. Using Definition; Explaining Ideas and ValuesWhen to Use DefinitionHow to Develop and Extended DefinitionWriting Focus: Using Metaphors, Avoiding ClichesGetting Started: Reflections on E. B. White's Ideas of DemocracyJohn Ciardi, "Is Everybody Happy?"Robert K. Miller, "Discrimination Is a Virtue"Andrew Vachss, "The Difference Between 'Sick' and 'Evil'"David Hackett Fischer, "Freedom's Not Just Another Word"* Charles Krauthammer, "The Greatness Gap"* Robin Givhan, "Glamour, That Certain Something"Alastair Reid, "Curiosity" Student Essay-Definition: Laura Mullins, "Paragon or Parasite?"Making Connections: Among the Writers and OnlineTopics for WritingA Checklist for Definition Essays9. Using Causal Analysis: Analyzing Family and Community ConflictsWhen to Use Causal AnalysisHow to Use Causal AnalysisWriting Focus: References to Authors, Works, and the Words of OthersGetting Started: Reflections on Why You Are in College or Why You Have a Particular Trait/InterestKeith Ablow, "When Parents Are Toxic to Children"Linda J. Waite, "Social Science Finds: 'Marriage Matters'"Amitai Etzioni, "Part-Time Fast-Food Jobs Do Teens More Harm Than Good"* Patricia Dalton, "The Don't Blame Me Generation"* Ray Fisman, "Cos and Effect"Judith D. Auerbach, "The Overlooked Victims of AIDS"Langston Hughes, "Dream Deferred"Making Connections: Among the Writers and OnlineTopics for WritingA Checklist for Causal Analysis Essays10. Using Argument and Persuasion: Supporting and Fair and Safe WorldThe Characteristics of ArgumentHow to Use Argument and PersuasionWriting Focus: Logical FallaciesGetting Started: Reflections on the Challenges Facing Our World* Jack Ohman, King CartoonElizabethCady Stanton, "Declaration of SentimentsLinda J. Collier, "Adult Crime, Adult Time"Richard Cohen, "Kids Who Kill Are Still Kids"John Borneman and Laurie Kain Hart, "An Elastic Institution"Michael Kinsley, "Abolish Marriage"* Anne Applebaum, "The Torture Myth"* Mark Bowden, "Waterboarding: A Clarification" * Joel Achenbach, "When Size Really Mattered"* Tom Toles, Cartoon on Global WarmingStudent Essay-Refutation: David M. Ouellette, "Blame It on the Media and Other Ways to Dress a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"Making ConnectionsTopics for WritingA Checklist for Argument EssaysGlossaryCreditsIndex
