About the Book
This book contains all the readings found in the "75 Readings" (3rd edition), and integrates the apparatus found in the Instructor's Manual for "75 Readings". Author biographies, questions on content and strategy, and suggestions for writing for each selection are all included. The book now incorporates brief chapter introductions, focusing on each rhetorical mode and the selections used to illustrate the strategy. This helps students draw connections among selections regarding purpose, strategy and voice.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Narration: "A Hanging", George Orwell; "Salvation", Langston Hughes; "Grandmother's Victory", Maya Angelou; "Crybaby", Akira Kurosawa; "The Transaction", William Zinsser; "Testimonies of Guatemalan Women", Luz Alicia Herrera; "The Discus Thrower", Richard Selzer; "Somewhere, Some Time, Some Place", Olive Schreiner. Part 2 Description: "Where the World Began", Margaret Laurence; "The Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador", Joan Didion; "Tuesday Morning", William Least Heat Moon; "Cyclone! Rising to the Fall", Peter Schjeldahl; "Main Street", Mordecai Richler; "The Death of the Moth", Virginia Woolf; "The Crime of the Tooth - Dentistry in the Chair", Peter Freundlich; "My Father", Doris Lessing. Part 3 Process: "Attaining Moral Virtue", Benjamin Franklin; "The Spider and the Wasp", Alexander Petrunkevich; "The Gray Beginnings", Rachel Carson; "How to Cook a Carp", "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain", Jessica Mitford; "Introduction to Frankenstein", Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; "How to Write a Rotten Poem with Almost No effort", Richard Howey. Part 4 Definition: "The Holocaust", Bruno Bettelheim; "Beauty", Susan Sontag; "The Virtues of ambition", Joseph Epstein; "Moral Ambiguity", Barbara Grizzuti Harrison; "What is Poverty?, Jo Goodwin Parker; "Pornoviolence", Tom Wolfe; "Good Souls", Dorothy Parker. Part 5 Division and Clasification: "Thinking as a Hobby", William Goldberg; Bicycles", Erika Ritter; "Struggle for Justice", American Friends Service Committee; "Presidential Character and How to Foresee it", James David Barber; "The Climythology of America", David Ludlum; "Reflections on Horror Movies", Robert Brustein; "Cinematypes", Susan Allen Toth. Part 6 Comparison and Contrast: "Grant and Lee - a Study in Contrasts", Bruce Catton; "On Permission to Write", Cynthia Ozick; "Football Red and Baseball Green", Murray Ross; "Two Views of the Mississippi", Mark Twain; "The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life", May Sarton; "Viewing vs. Reading", Marie Winn; "Conservatives and Liberals", Ralph Waldo Emerson. Part 7 Example and Illustration: "Backwater Cuisine", Ann Hodgman; "Why Don't we Complain?", William F. Buckley, Jr; "Does America Still Exist", Richard Rodriguez; "I Remember...", Joyce Maynard; "A few Kind Words for Superstition", Robertson Davies; "Were Dinosaurs Dumb?", Jay Gould; "The Patterns of Eating", Peter Farb, George Armelagos. Part 8 Cause and effect: "How Do You Know It's Good?", Marya Mannes; "The Villain in the Atmosphere", Isaac Asimov; "Pain is Not the Ultimate enemy", Norman Cousins; "My Wood", E. M. Forster; "Watching the Grasshopper Get the Goodies", Ellen Goodman; "Nuclear Holocaust", Jonathon Schell; "The Ilks", Lewis Thomas; "Art and the State in South Africa", Nadine Gordimer. Part contents only
