This rhetorically organized, student-friendly reader includes short essays on a range of topics. Each selection is supported by exceptionally thorough and thoughtfully designed editorial apparatus that integrates reading, writing, and critical thinking.
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Including short essays on a range of topics, this work is supported by an editorial apparatus that integrates reading, writing, and critical thinking.
*New to this edition 1. ON WRITING *Pat Mora, "A Latina in Kentucky" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., "How to Write with Style" William Zinsser, "Simplicity" Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue" (Mixing Patterns) Summing Up: Chapter 1 From Seeing to Writing 2. ON READING Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Volar" Malcolm X, "Prison Studies" Ellen Tashie Frisina, "'See Spot Run': Teaching my Grandmother to Read" *Richard Rodriguez, "Open the Doors of Your Mind with Books" (Mixing Patterns) Summing Up: Chapter 2 From Seeing to Writing 3. DESCRIPTION Annie Dillard, "In the Jungle" Maxine Hong Kingston, "Catfish in the Bathtub" *Suzanne Berne, "My Ticket to the Disaster" Virginia Wolff, "The Death of the Moth" (Mixing Patterns) Summing Up: Chapter 3 From Seeing to Writing 4. NARRATION Elizabeth Wong, "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl" Langston Hughes, "Salvation" *David Sedaris, "Let It Snow" George Orwell, "A Hanging" (Mixing Patterns) Summing Up: Chapter 4 From Seeing to Writing 5. ILLUSTRATION Brent Staples, "Night Walker" Barbara Ehrenreich, "What I've Learned from Men" *U.S. Department of Defense, "Apocalypse Now" Amartya Sen, "A World Not Neatly Divided" (Mixing Patterns) Summing Up: Chapter 5 From Seeing to Writing 6. COMPARISON AND CONTRAST Rachel Carson, "A Fable for Tomorrow" *Dave Barry, "Punch and Judy" Michele Ingrassia, "The Body of the Beholder" Katha Pollitt, "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls" (Mixing Patterns) Summing Up: Chapter 6 From Seeing to Writing 7. DEFINITION *Dagoberto Gilb, "Pride" Suzanne Britt Jordan, "Fun, Oh Boy, Fun. You Could Die from It". Gloria Naylor, "A Word's Meaning" David Brooks, "The Organization Kid" (Mixing Patterns) Summing Up: Chapter 7 From Seeing to Writing 8. CLASSIFICATION Judith Viorst, "Friends, Good Friends--And Such Good Friends" *Scott Russell Sanders, "The Men We Carry in Our Minds" Rashup, "The American Dream for Sale: Ethnic Images in Magazines" James T. Baker, "How Do We Find the Student in a World of Academic Gymnasts and Worker Ants?" (Mixing Patterns) Summing Up: Chapter 8 From Seeing to Writing 9. PROCESS ANALYSIS *Bill Bryson, "Your New Computer" Ernest Hemingway, "Camping Out" Bruce Jay Friedman, "Eating Alone in Restaurants." Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "In the Kitchen" (Mixing Patterns) Summing Up: Chapter 9 From Seeing to Writing 10. CAUSE-AND-EFFECT ANALYSIS Stephen King, "Why We Crave Horror Movies" *Elie Wiesel, "The America I Love" Harry Crews, "Why I Live Where I Live" *Gina Barreca, "Why Women Laugh" (Mixing Patterns) Summing Up: Chapter 10 From Seeing to Writing 11. ARGUMENTATION AND PERSUASION ARGUMENTS PRO AND CON: REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY Manning Marable, "An Idea Whose Time Has Come..." (Mixing Patterns) Shelby Steele, "... Or A Childish Illusion of Justice" THE FEDERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT *William Kristol, "For the Marriage Amendment" *Andrew Sullivan, "A Call to Arms" MAJOR ISSUES IN TODAY'S WORLD PERSPECTIVES ON IDENTITY Jonathan Kozol, "Are the Homeless Crazy?" (Mixing Patterns) Ronald Takaki, "The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority" (Mixing Patterns) Anna Quindlen, "Women Are Just Better" (Mixing Patterns) PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL RIGHTS Molly Ivins, "Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns" Julie Bosman, "The (No) Free Speech Movement" Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" PERSPECTIVES ON THE AIDS EPIDEMIC *Lynsey J. Proctor, "Sex Education Can Learn from Bananas" *Richard Holbrooke and Richard Furman, "A Global Battle's Missing Weapon" *Brent Staples, "Avoiding the Truth of What's Needed to Fight AIDS: Needle Programs" Summing Up: Chapter 11 From Seeing to Writing APPENDIX: A GUIDE TO RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION What Are Research and Documentation? The Research Process Phase I: Choosing and Limiting a Topic Phase II: Gathering and Organizing Material Phase III: Writing the Paper Phase IV: Documenting Sources Sample Student Research Paper
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ISBN
9780073210391
Publisert
2005-08-01
Utgave
11. utgave
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Vekt
628 gr
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203 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
05, U
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Engelsk
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Biografisk notat

Gilbert H. Muller, who received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University, is currently professor of English and Special Assistant to the President at the LaGuardia campus of the City University of New York. He has also taught at Stanford University, Vassar College, and several universities overseas. Dr. Muller is the author of the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery O'Connor and the Catholic Grotesque, Chester Himes , and other critical studies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He is also a noted author and editor of textbooks in English and composition, including The Short Prose Reader with Harvey Wiener, and with John A Williams, The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Literature, Bridges: Literature across Cultures, and Ways In: Reading and Writing about Literature. Among Dr. Muller's awards are National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship. Harvey S. Wiener is currently affiliated with Marymount Manhattan College after serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Adelphi University. Previously University Dean for Academic Affairs, the City University of New York, he was founding president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Dr. Wiener is the author of many books on reading and writing for college students and their teachers, including The Writing Room (Oxford, 1981). He is co-author of The McGraw-Hill College Handbook, a reference grammar and rhetoric text. Dr. Wiener has chaired the Teaching of Writing Division of the Modern Language Association (1987). He has taught writing at every level of education from elementary school to graduate school. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brooklyn College, he holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature. Dr. Wiener has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, and the Exxon Education Foundation.