About the Book
75 Readings Plus is a version of the best-selling 75 Readings that supplies additional guidance for student readers. Both books are rhetorically arranged and collect the most popular essays for first-year writing. The readings represent a wide variety of authors, disciplines, issues, and interests, and at ten dollars less than most composition readers, 75 Readings Plus is an excellent value for students.
Table of Contents:
* - indicates selection new to this editionChapter One: Narration*George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant Langston Hughes: Salvation Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1Maya Angelou: Grandmother's Victory Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance…, Ch 2 Noda, Growing Up Asian in America, Ch 5Maxine Hong Kingston: No Name Woman*Macolm X: Coming to an Awareness of LanguageRelated Reading: Naylor, Meanings of a Word Ch 4 Steele, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7 *David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One DayChapter Two: Description James Baldwin: Fifth Avenue, Uptown Related Reading: Steele, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7 Virginia Woolf: The Death of the MothN. Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1 E.B. White: Once More to the LakeJoan Didion: Marrying Absurd Related Reading: Fox, Gawk Shows, Ch 9*Judith Ortiz Cofer: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican ChildhoodRelated Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1 Hughes: Salvation, Ch 1 Chapter Three: Process AnalysisAlexander Petrunkevitch: The Spider and the Wasp Jessica Mitford: Behind the Formaldehyde CurtainSue Hubbell: Honey Harvest Richard Marius: Writing DraftsAdam Goodheart: How to Paint a Fresco *Diane Ackerman: Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall Related Reading: Petrunkevitch, The Spider and the Wasp, Ch 3 Cole, The Arrow of Time, Ch 8Chapter Four: DefinitionSusan Sontag: Women's Beauty: Put Down of Power Source? Jo Goodwin Parker: What is Poverty? Related Reading: Ehrenreich, A Step Back to the Workhouse? Ch 10 Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics, Ch 10Gloria Steinem: Erotica and PornographyNancy Mairs: On Being a Cripple *Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a WordRelated Reading: Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness…, Ch 1*Ellen Goodman: The Company ManRelated Reading: Lutz, Doublespeak Ch 5Chapter Five: Classification and Division Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood Donald Hall: Four Kinds of ReadingKesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in AmericaRelated Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory Ch 1Judity Viorst: The Truth about LyingWilliam Lutz: Doublespeak*Jonathan Lethem: 9 Failures of the ImaginationChapter Six: Comparison and Contrast May Sarton: The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: As Study in Contrasts Deborah Tannen: Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and HersMark Twain: Two Views of the MississippiScott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds Related Reading: Staples, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7 Goodman, The Company Man, Ch 4*Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy PeopleChapter Seven: Example and Illustration Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for SupersitionPeter Farb and George Armelagos: Patterns of EatingEdward T. Hall: The Anthropology of Manners Barbara Huttman: A Crime of Compassion Brent Staples: Black men and Public Space Related Reading: Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Ch 6 *Franz Kafka, Letter to His FatherChapter Eight: Cause and Effect Norman Cousins: Pain Is Not the Ultimate EnemyShelby Steele: White GuiltBarbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone?Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance…., Ch 2 Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Strange, Would You? Probably *K.C. Cole: The Arrow of TimeRelated Reading: Ackerman, Why Leaves Turn Color…, Ch 3*Calvin Trillin: It's Just Too LateChapter Nine: Analogy Plato: The Myth of the CaveAlbert Camus: The Myth of SisyphusAlice Walker: Am I Blue?Nicols Fox: Gawk ShowHarace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic PrisonChapter Ten: Argument and Persuasion ARGUMENT Welfare Reform Barbara Ehrenreich: A Step Back to the Workhouse? Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the PoorRelated Reading: Whitehead, Where Have All the Parents Gone? Ch 8 Free Speech Nat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled? Alan M. Dershowiz: Shouting "Fire!"*Wendy Kaminer: Virtual RapeRape Camille Paglia: Rape and Modern Sex WarSusan Jacoby: Common Decency PERSUASION Jonathan Swift: A Modest ProposalRelated Reading: Parker, What Is Poverty? Ch 4 Marine Luther King, Jr.: I Have a DreamRelated Reading: Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness, Ch 1Debra Dickerson: Who Shot Johnny?Richard Rodriguez: Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic *Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife*Naomi Shahib Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists*Jonathan Kozol: The Details of LifeChapter Eleven: Mixed StrategiesStephen J. Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of DinosaursAmy Tan: Mother Tongue Lars Eighner: On Dumpster Diving *Andrew Sullivan: This Is a Religious WarRelated Reading: Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists, Ch 10 *Sandra Cisneros: Only DaughterRelated Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance…, Ch 2 *Annie Dillard: Total Eclipse*Ian Frazier: Coyote vs. AcmeRelated Reading: Goodman, The Company Man, Ch 4
About the Author :
Santi V. Buscemi teaches reading, composition, and literature at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, where he was chair of the Department of English for twenty-eight years. He is the author of A Reader for College Writers, 75 Readings, and 75 Readings Plus. He has lectured on freshman composition and developmental education at regional and national conferences in the United States and South Africa.
