About the Book
For courses in English Composition.
This patterns reader (rhetorical modes organization) integrates critical thinking apparatus into every chapter, which helps students become better critical thinkers, readers, and writers. 60 provocative and interesting readings—24 of which are new to this edition—are accompanied well-developed introductions, sample student essays, prewriting questions, and flexible writing assignments.
Table of Contents:
(NOTE: Each chapter begins with a definition of the section concept, Thinking Critically, Reading and Writing, Student Essay, and Some Final Thoughts sections and ends with Chapter Writing Assignments. A * denotes a new selection.) Introduction: Thinking, Reading, and Writing.
1. Description: Exploring Through the Senses.
Summer Rituals, Ray Bradbury. Notes from the Country Club, Kimberly Wozencraft. The Pines, John McPhee. The View from 80, Malcolm Cowley. *Labyrinthine, Bernard Cooper.
2. Narration: Telling a Story.
For My Indian Daughter, Lewis Sawaquat. New Directions, Maya Angelou. The Saturday Evening Post, Russell Baker. Only daughter, Sandra Cisneros. How the Crab Apple Grew, Garrison Keillor.
3. Example: Illustrating Ideas.
The Baffling Question, Bill Cosby. *Red, White and Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon. Darkness at Noon, Harold Krents. Mother Tongue, Amy Tan. A Brother's Murder, Brent Staples.
4. Process Analysis: Explaining Step by Step.
Managing Your Time, Edwin Bliss. Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain, Jessica Mitford. *Sports Centered, Jay Weiner. *Engage in Word Play! Linda Formichelli. *Getting Out of Debt (and Staying Out), Julia Borland.
5. Division/Classification: Finding Categories.
Memory: Tips You'll Never Forget, Phyllis Schneider. *Calculated Risks, K.C.Cole. Second Chances for Children of Divorce, Judith Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee. Confessions of an Ex-Smoker, Franklin Zimring. The Truth About Lying, Judith Viorst.
6. Comparison/Contrast: Discovering Similarities and Differences.
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts, Bruce Catton. *Past Present, Jimmy Santiago Baca. Japanese and American Workers: Two Casts of Mind, William Ouchi. The Politics of Muscle, Gloria Steinem. *You're Short, Besides! Sucheng Chan.
7. Definition: Limiting the Frame of Reference.
*Grandma, Erma Bombeck. The Barrio, Robert Ramirez. Beliefs About Families, Mary Pipher. *Ways to Ai, Wang Ping. A Working Community, Ellen Goodman.
8. Cause/Effect: Tracing Reasons and Results.
Why We Crave Horror Movies, Stephen King. The Broken Cord, Michael Dorris. The Fear of Losing a Culture, Richard Rodriguez. Meet the Bickersons, Mary Roach. Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self, Alice Walker.
9. Argument and Persuasion: Inciting People to Thought or Action.
*Justice: Childhood Love Lessons, bell hooks. *Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgment, Robert Heilbroner. *We Are Training Our Kids to Kill, Dave Grossman. *Embedded Reporters Make for Good Journalism, David Shaw. *Is the New News Good News? Justin Ewers. *America Must Take Stronger Measures to Halt Illegal Immigration, Michael Scott. *Illegal Immigration Does Not Threaten America, Richard Raynor.
10. Documented Essays: Reading and Writing from Sources.
The Ecstasy of War, Barbara Ehrenreich. Appearance and Delinquency: A Research Note, Jill Leslie Rosenbaum and Meda Chesney-Lind.
11. Further Thinking, Reading, and Writing.
Essays.
I Am Writing Blindly, Roger Rosenblatt. Writing as a Moral Act, Rita Mae Brown.
Fiction.
*The Library Card, Richard Wright. *The Secrets of Bats, Jess Row.
Poetry.
*Books, Billy Collins. *Catch, Robert Francis Glass.
Drama.
*Misreadings, Neena Beber.
Glossary of Useful Terms.
Credits.
Index of Authors and Titles.
Thematic Table of Contents.
African-American Studies. Aging. Art and Media. Autobiography. Behavioral Science. Business. Chicano and Latin American Studies. Economics. Education. History. Language. Other Ethnic Studies. Philosophy and Religious Studies. Physical Education. Political Science. Psychology. Reading. Science. Sociology. Women's Studies. Writing.
