The Little, Brown Reader, one of the best-known and most respected thematic readers available today, continues its tradition of excellence by bringing together contemporary and classic readings with extensive critical reading and writing instruction and numerous illustrations.
Table of Contents:
Content new to this edition is indicated in bold
1 A Writer Reads
Previewing
Skimming
Gary Steiner Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Highlighting, Underlining, Annotating
Summarizing
Critical Thinking: Analyzing the Text
Tone and Persona
Alexander Mauskop, Lawrence S. Lerner, L. David Peters, Lisa Dinhofer, Sandy Asirvatham, Alice Dosaulmiers Letters Responding to Gary Steiner
A Checklist: Analyzing Letters of Response
A CHECKLIST: READING, ANALYZING, AND EVALUATING AN ESSAY
Brent Staples Black Men and Public Space
2 A Reader Writes
Incorporating Your Reading into Your Thinking: The Art and Science of Synthesis
A Controversial Essay
C.S. Lewis We Have No "Right to Happiness"
Responding to an Essay
The Writing Process
A CHECKLIST: GETTING STARTED
Getting Ready to Write a Draft
Draft of an Essay: On "‘We Have No "Right to Happiness'"
Revising and Editing a Draft
A Revised Draft: Persuasive Strategies in C. S. Lewis's "We Have No 'Right to Happiness’" Rethinking the Thesis: Preliminary Notes
The Final Version: Style and Argument: An Examination of C. S. Lewis‘s “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’ "
A Brief Overview of the Final Version
A CHECKLIST. ANALYZING YOUR ANALYSIS
3 Academic Writing
Kinds of Prose
A Note on Writing a Summary
More about Critical Thinking: Analysis and Evaluation
A CHECKLIST. CRITICAL THINKING
Joining the Conversation: Writing about Differing Views
Interviewing
Using Quotations
Avoiding Plagiarism
A CHECKLIST: AVOIDING PLAGIARISM,
How Much Do You Know about Citing Sources? A Quiz, with Answers
A CHECKLIST. THIRTEEN QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF WHEN EDITING
A Student's Documented Essay
Jason Green Did Dorothea Lange Pose Her Subject for “Migrant Mother”?
4 Writing an Argument
The Aims of an Argumentative Essay
Negotiating Agreements: The Approach of Carl R. Rogers
A CHECKLIST: ROGERIAN ARGUMENT
Some Ways of Arguing: Appeals to Reason and Appeals to Emotions
Three Kinds of Evidence: Examples, Testimony,, Statistics
How Much Evidence Is Enough?
Avoiding Fallacies
Drafting an Argument
Organizing an Argument
Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs
A CHECKLIST: REVISING PARAGRAPHS
Persona and Style
An Overview: An Examination of an Argument
Richard Rhodes Hollow Claims about Fantasy Violence
The Analysis Analyzed
An Argument about Phoning While Driving
Anonymous Turn Car On; Turn Phone Off
A Debate for Analysis: Do Credit Companies Market Too Aggressively to Youths? Two Views
Travis B. Plunkett Yes, Credit Companies Market Too Aggressively to Youths
Louis J. Freeh No, Credit Companies Do Not Market Too Aggressively to Youths
A CHECKLIST: REVISING DRAFTS OF ARGUMENTS
5 Reading and Writing Arguments about Images
The Language of Pictures
Writing about an Advertisement
Looking Closely
A CHECKLIST. ANALYZING ADVERTISEMENTS
Writing about a Political Cartoon
A CHECKLIST. ANALYZING POLITICAL CARTOONS
Lou Jacobs Jr. What Qualities Does a Good Photograph Have?
Sample Analysis of a Photograph
A Sample Essay by a Student: Zoe Morales Dancing at Durango
6 All in the Family
ILLUSTRATIONS
Pablo Picasso The Acrobat's Family with a Monkey
loanne Leonard Sonia
SHORT VIEWS
Anonymous (William James?), Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy, Jessie Bernard, Jane Austen
Lewis Coser The Family
Arlie Hochschild The Second Shift: Employed Women Are Putting in Anotheer Day of Work at
Home
Judy Brady I Want a Wife
Gabrielle Glaser Scenes from an Intermarriage
Andrew Sullivan Why the “M” Word Matters to Me
Laurie Essig and Lynne Owens What If Marriage Is Bad for Us?
Sam Schulman Letting Go
Anonymous Confessions of an Erstwhile Child
Mary Eberstadt Eminem Is Right
Celia E. Rothenberg Child of Divorce
Black Elk High Horse's Courting
Jamaica Kincaid Girl (story)
Theodore Roethke My Papa’s Waltz (poem)
7 Identities
ILLUSTRATIONS
Dorothea Lange Grandfather and Grandchildren Awaiting Evacuation Bus, Hayward, California
Marion Post Wolcott Behind the Bar, Birney, Montana
SHORT VIEWS
Margaret Mead, Simone de Beauvoir, Israel Zangwill, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm
Rogelio R. Gomez Foul Shots
Nancy Mairs On Being a Cripple
Zora Neale Hurston How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Gloria Naylor A Question of Language
Stephen Jay Gould Women's Brains
Paul Theroux The Male Myth
Katha Pollitt Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls
Langston Hughes Salvation
Amy Tan Snapshot: Lost Lives of Women
A Casebook on Race
Columbia Encyclopedia Race
Armand Marie Leroi A Family Tree in Every Gene
David Fitch, Herbert J. Gans, Mary T. Bassett, Lynn M. Morgan, Martin E. Fuller, John Waldman Letters Responding to Armand Marie Leroi
Shelby Steele Hailing While Black
Countee Cullen Incident (poem)
8 Teaching and Learning
ILLUSTRATIONS
Winslow Homer Blackboard
Gary Trudeau Doonesbury
SHORT VIEWS
Francis Bacon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Emma Goldman, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, D. H. Lawrence, Prince Kropotkin, John Ruskin, Confucius, Joseph Wood Krutch,
Plato The Myth of the Cave
Two Debates (Four Arguments) for Analysis:
1. Do Video Games Significantly Enhance Literacy?
James Paul Gee Pro
Howard Gardner Con
2. Should Laptops Be Banned from the Classroom?
Andrew Goldstein (student) Keep Online Poker Out of the Classroom: Why Professors Should Ban Laptops
Elena Choy Laptops in the Classroom? No Problem
Frederick Douglass Learning to Read and Write
Richard Rodriguez Public and Private Language
Maya Angelou Graduation
Walter Kirn Class Dismissed
Fan Shen The Classroom and the Wider Culture
David Brooks, "The Other Education"
David Gelernter Unplugged
A Casebook on Testing and Grading
Paul Goodman A Proposal to Abolish Grading
Diane Ravitch In Defense of Testing
Joy Alonso Two Cheers for Examinations
A Casebook: College Advice from People Who Have Been There Awhile
Brief Advice to First-year Students, Offered by Old-timers
Stanley Fish The Hunt for a Good Teacher
Gerald Graff An Argument Worth Having
Gary Wills Play Politics
Martha Nusbaum Go the Wrong Way
Langston Hughes Theme for English B (poem)
9 Work and Play
ILLUSTRATIONS
Dorothea Lange Lettuce Cutters, Salinas Valley
Helen Levitt Children
SHORT VIEWS
Mark Twain, Duke of Wellington, Barbara Ehrenreich, Smohalla, Lost Star, John Ruskin, Vince Lombardi, George Orwell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walt Whitman, Ken Burns, Bion
Bertrand Russell Work
Mike Rose Brains as Well as Brawn
Matthew Crawford The Case for Working with Your Hands
Gabriel Thompson, "A Gringo in the Lettuce Fields"
Zev Chafetz Let Steroids Into the Hall of Fame
Marge Piercy, “To Be of Use”
10 Messages
ILLUSTRATIONS
Jill Posener Born Kicking, Graffiti on Billboard, London
Anonymous Sapolio
SHORT VIEWS
Voltaire, Marianne Moore, Derek Walcott, Jane Wagner, Emily Dickinson, Anonymous, Rosalie Maggio, Alan Jacobs
Abraham Lincoln Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
Gilbert Highet The Gettysburg Address
Robin Lakoff You Are What You Say
Edward T. Hall Proxemics in the Arab World
James B. Twitchell The Marlboro Man: The Perfect Campaign
Eric Schlosser Kid Kustomers
Julia Bird, 14: a txt msg pom (poem)
11 Social Networking
ILLUSTRATIONS
Peer Steiner On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
Time Magazine Person of the Year
Three Cartoons
Terri Libenson The Frazzled Mom’s Default Facebook
Bliss No, Mother, I’ve been busy
Scott Stantis The newspaper says . . .
SHORT VIEWS
Henry David Thoreau, Paul Saffo, Marshall McLuhan, Anonynous, Anonymous
Christine Rosen Virtual Friendship
Jeff Howe Tomorrow’s Crowd
Clay Shirky Everyone Is a Media Outlet
A Casebook on Virtual Worlds
Brent Staples What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace
Jeremy Rifkin Virtual Companionship
Kay S. Hymowitz Big Mother Is Watching
A Casebook on Twitter: Two Essays and Two Cartoons
David Carr Why Twitter Will Endure
Maureen Dowd To Tweet or Not to Tweet
Roz Chast Meet Mr. Twitters
Alex Gregory Hey, fans
Norman Silver txt commandment
12 Law and Disorder
ILLUSTRATIONS
Bernie Boston Flower Power
Norman Rockwell The Problem We All Live With
SHORT VIEWS
African Proverb, Niccolo" Machiavelli, Andrew Fletcher, Samuel Johnson, William Blake, Anatole France, H. L. Mencken, Mae West
Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence
Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Resistance
Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail
Michael Levin The Case for Torture
A Casebook on Bullying
Natalie Angier The Sandbox: Bully for You--Why Push Comes to Shove
Andrew Keen Douse the Online Flames
Dan Wasserman School Officials Take a Test
13 CONSUMER CULTURE
ILLUSTRATIONS
Grant Wood American Gothic
Richard Hamilton just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?
SHORT VIEWS
Chinese Proverb,William Blake, Anonymous, George Bernard Shaw, G. C. Lichtenberg, Anonymous, Alison Lurie, Rudi Gernreich, Kenneth Clark, Le Corbusier, Epictetus
Henry David Thoreau, Where I LIIed, and What I Lived For
Michael Pollan Eat Food: Food Defined
Michael Ableman Feeding Our Future
David Gerard Hogan Fast Food
Donna Maurer Vegetarianism
Jonathan Safran Foer Against Meat (Or at Least Percent of It)
Paul Goldberger Quick! Before It Crumbles!
Peter Singer and Jim Mason Wal-Mart: Everyday Low Prices At What Cost?
Sheldon Richman The Chutzpah of Wal-Mart's Critics
Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
James Wright Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (poem)
14 Our Environment: Present and Future
ILLUSTRATIONS
The 2010 BP oil spill
SHORT VIEWS
Henry David Thoreau, Theodore Roosevelt, Prince Charles, John McCain, Rush Limbaugh, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Native American proverb
Edward Abbey Eco-Defense
Daniel Goleman and Gregory Norris How Green Was My Bottle
Al Gore We Can't Wish Away Climate Change
Simon Noble and Generoso Pope Letters of Responding to Al Gore
Nicolette Hahn Niman The Carnivore's Dilemma
Robert Frost Fire and Ice (poem)
Appendix: A Writer’s Glossary
