The Reader

 An innovative composition of rhetoric and readings in a  magazine format, The Reader, by Jim McDonald,  urges the reader to ask questions as they read, write, and research about classic topics and contemporary perspectives presented in a wide range of genres.

Table of Contents

Rhetorical Table of Contents

Preface

PART ONE

Ch. 1: Writing

Components of a Writer’s Composing Process

Planning and Inventing

Drafting

Revising

Editing and Proofreading

One Student Composing an Essay

        Ashley Jankower, "Learning Who I am as a Writer" (Literacy Narrative)

Ch. 2: Reading and Writing

Reading as a Process

Using the SQ3R Approach

Ch. 3: Research and Writing

Applying Reading and Writing Processes to Research Writing

Finding a Topic and Creating a Research Question

Choosing and Evaluating Print and Online Sources

Choosing What to Include in Your Research Writing

Avoiding Plagiarism

PART TWO

Ch. 4: Identity

Introduction

Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect”     (Essay)

Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”     (Cultural Criticism)

Ernest J. Gaines, “A Very Big Order: Reconstructing Identity”     (Memoir)

Promoting Ethnic Identities on the Web

   American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee     (Web page)

   National Congress of Vietnamese Americans     (Web page)

Nancy Mairs, “On Being a Cripple”     (Essay)

Lauren Moak, “Is This What You Really Want?”     (Student Research Paper)

          Connecting the Readings     (Mairs, Moak)

Identity and Identification in Magazine Advertisements

   Dove Self-Esteem Campaign, "Thinks She's Fat"     (Advertisement)

   MyRichUncle Education Finance, “I Am Not a Car”     (Advertisement)

          Connecting the Readings     (2 Magazine ads)

W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen.”     (Poem)

Lisa Nakamura, “Headhunting in Cyberspace”     (Academic Article)

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes     (Cartoon)

James McDonald, “Student Metaphors of Themselves as Writers”     (Academic Article)

Suggestions for Essays on Identity 

Ch. 5: Marriage and Family

Introduction

Chang-Rae Lee, “Coming Home Again”     (Memoir)

E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake”     (Essay)

          Connecting the Readings     (Lee, White)

Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”     (Poem)

Norman Rockwell, Easter Morning     (Painting)

Brian Lanker, “The Moment of Life”     (Photo)

Barbara Kingsolver, “Stone Soup”     (Essay)

William Raspberry, “Poverty and the Father Factor”     (Editorial)

Geleve Grice, “Haircut”     (Photo)

Molly Klane, “Playing the Princess: Examining the Implications of Performance and Gender on Contemporary American Weddings and Women”     (Student Research Paper)

Stephanie Coontz, “For Better, for Worse: Marriage Means Something Different Now”     (Editorial)

Andrew Sullivan and David Frum, “Gay Marriage.”      (Online debate)

George Lakoff, “What’s in a Word?  Plenty, If It’s Marriage”     (Web/Online Article)

          Connecting the Readings     (Sullivan & Frum, Lakoff)

Barbara Kantrowitz and Peg Tyre, with Joan Raymond, Pat Wingert, and Marc Bain, “The Fine Art of Letting Go”     (Magazine Article)

Images of Family in One Advertisement

   Parents. The Anti-Drug     (Advertisement)

          Connecting the Readings    (Kantrowitz, ad)

Suggestions for Essays on Marriage and Family

Ch. 6: Faith and Religion

Introduction

Thomas Bartlett, “Most Freshmen Say Religion Guides Them”     (News Article)

Shannon Gavin, “Cohabitation: Today’s New Lifestyle—or Not”    (Student Research Paper)

          Connecting the Readings     (Bartlett, Gavin)  

Sondra Perl, “A Simple Invitation”     (Memoir) 

W. Ross Winterowd, “Sin and Guilt”     (Essay)

Andre Dubus, “Sacraments”     (Memoir)

Annie Dillard, “Singing with the Fundamentalists”     (Essay)

Kabir Helminski, “Islam: A Broad Perspective on Other Faiths”     (Essay)

Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), “The Great Mystery”     (Book chapter)

          Connecting the Readings     (Helminski, Eastman)

Tony Hoagland & Paige DeShong, “And These Things Give Birth to Each Other”     (Poem with Photo)

Albert Einstein, “An Ideal of Service to Our Fellow Man”     (Radio Commentary)

Organizing Believers on the Web

    B’nai B’rith International     (Web page)  

    “Our Mission,” Christian Coalition of America     (Web page)

   “NCC at a Glance: Who Belongs, How It Works, and What It Does” (Web page)  

Suggestions for Essays on Faith and Religion

Ch. 7: Language

Introduction

Neil Postman, “Invisible Technologies”     (Book Excerpt)

Geoffrey Nunberg, “If It’s Orwellian, It’s Probably Not”     (Cultural Criticism)

Peter Norvig, “The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation”     (PowerPoint Presentation)

Wiley Miller, Non Sequitur     (Cartoon)

Samuel Stoddard, The Dialectizer     (Web pages)

Malcolm X, “A Homemade Education”     (Literacy Narrative)

Suzan Shown Harjo, “We Are People, Not Property”     (Editorial)

Images of Hurricane Katrina   (Photos)

Thomas Lux, “The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently”     (Poem)

“The Tower of Babel,” Genesis 11:1-9     (Biblical Passage)

Jon Whyte, “Tower of Babel”     (Poem)

          Connecting the Readings     (Genesis, Whyte)

Deborah Tannen, “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently”     (Academic Article)

Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”     (Essay)

Gloria Anzaldúa,  “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”     (Cultural Criticism)

Kalyn Guidry, “The French Language: The Heart of Louisiana”     (Student Research Paper)

          Connecting the Readings     (Anzaldua, Guidry)

S. I Hayakawa, “Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Official Language”     (Editorial)

Robert King, “Should English Be the Law?”     (Magazine Article)

          Connecting the Readings      (Hayakawa, King)

Randall Kennedy, “Who Can Say `Nigger’? . . . and Other Considerations”     (Academic Article)

Suggestions for Essays on Language

Ch. 8: Education

Introduction

Richard Rodriguez, “Gains and Losses”     (Literacy Narrative)

Lisa Delpit, “Education in a Multicultural Society: Our Future’s Greatest Challenge”     (Lecture)

Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks     (Cartoon)

Scott Jaschik, “A Stand Against Wikipedia”     (Web/Online Article)

Adrienne Rich, “Taking Women Students Seriously”     (Cultural Criticism)

Lauren Silverman, “College and Allowance”     (Radio Commentary)

Advertising Higher Education

   University of Alabama    (Advertisement)

   University of Richmond     (Advertisement)

   Grinnell College    (Advertisement)

Suggestions for Essays on Education

Ch. 9: Work

Introduction

W. H. Auden, “Work, Labor, and Play”     (Essay)

Nisha Ramachandran, “Working Life”     (News Article)

Heather Hunsaker, “Slouching and Digressing”     (Academic Article)

          Connecting the Readings     (Ramachandran, Hunsaker)

Barbara Ehrenreich, “Serving in Florida”     (Book Excerpt)

          Connecting the Readings     (Rose, Ehrenreich)

Diana Claitor, “A Week in the Life of a Part-Time Teacher”     (Essay)

Judy Brady, “I Want a Wife”     (Essay)

Scott Adams, Dilbert, “Engineers in the Mist”     (Cartoon)

Neil Ravitz with Alec Morrison, “From the Ballfield to the Battlefield”     (Essay + Advertisement)

Robert B. Reich, “High-Tech Jobs Are Going Abroad!  But That’s Okay”     (Editorial)

David R. Francis, “Why the New Jobs Go to Immigrants”     (Editorial)

Eduardo Porter, “Cost of Illegal Immigration May Be Less Than Meets the Eye”     (Editorial)

          Connecting the Readings     (Francis, Porter)

Luis Alberto Urrea, “A Lake of Sleeping Children”     (Essay)

Child Labor Photographs

   Garbage picker, Mexico     (Photograph)

   Afghan child laborer     (Photograph)          

   Family sewing garters     (Photograph)

Suggestions for Essays on Work

Ch. 10: Wealth and Property

Introduction

David Boaz, “Ownership Society: Responsibility, Liberty, Prosperity”     (Web/Online Article)

Naomi Klein, “Disowned by the Ownership Society”     (Editorial)

          Connecting the Readings     (Boaz, Klein)

Steve Breen and Rob Rogers, Two Political Cartoons     (Cartoons)

Christine Dugas, “Debt Smothers Young Americans”     (Newspaper Article)

Identifying Products with Buyers in Magazine Advertisements

   John Deere     (Advertisement)

   Rolex     (Advertisement)

   Fair Instant, "Coffee with a Bigger Heart"    (Advertisement)

Lamar Smith, “Keynote Speech at the Progress and Freedom Foundation Conference”     (Speech)

Lawrence Lessig, “Some Like It Hot”     (Magazine Article)

          Connecting the Readings     (Smith, Lessig)

Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury     (Cartoon)

Brandi Trapp, “Plagiarism a Problem for WSU Students”     (Newspaper Article)

Meghan O’Rourke, “The Copycat Syndrome: Plagiarists at Work”     (Web/Online Article)

          Connecting the Readings     (Trapp, O’Rourke)

Suggestions for Essays on Wealth and Property

Ch. 11: Folk and Popular Culture

Introduction

Zora Neale Hurston, "Folklore and Music"      (Essay)

Patricia Rickels, “Some Accounts of Witch Riding”     (Academic Article)

Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”     (Short Story)

Three Quilts

   Harriet Powers, Bible Quilt     (Photo)

   Polly Calistro, “Around America”     (Photo)

   Squares from the AIDS Memorial Quilt     (Photo)

          Connecting the Readings     (3 quilts)

Howard Nemerov, “Santa Claus”     (Poem)

Spike Lee (Dir.), "Bamboozled"     (DVD Cover)

John Powers, “A Drop in the Ocean”     (Newspaper Article)

Nelson George, "Gangsters--Real and Unreal”     (Essay)

Angela Ards, “Rhyme and Resist: Organizing the Hip-Hop Generation”     (Magazine Article)

          Connecting the Readings     (George, Ards)

Clay Jones, “I Demand Reparations!”     (Cartoon)

Kira Viator, “Stick to Ya Roots”     (Student Song Lyrics)

Andrea Kretchmer, “Movie Review: Junebug”     (Film Review)

Suggestions for Essays on Folk and Popular Culture

Ch. 12: War, Terrorism, and Protest

Introduction

Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Military-Industrial Complex Speech, 17 January 1961”     (Speech)

Zachary Scott-Singley, “April 29, 2005—Memories of Death”     (Blog)

Images of War

   Eugène Delacroix, LibertyLeading the People     (Painting)

   Pablo Picasso, Guernica     (Painting)

   Joe Rosenthal, Soldiers raising the American flag at Iwo Jima, 23 Feb. 1945     (Photo)

   Nick Ut, Girl fleeing napalm attack near Trang Bang, Vietnam, 8 June 1972     (Photo)

          Connecting the Readings     (Images of War)

Kenneth Roth, “The Law of War in the War on Terror”     (Academic Article)

James Zumwalt, “Laws of War Need to Change to Defeat `Uncivilized’ Enemy”     (Editorial)

          Connecting the Readings     (Roth, Zumwalt)

Susan Brison, "Gender, Terrorism, and War"     (Academic Article)

Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”     (Letter)

Rachel Corrie, "Letter from Gaza Strip"      (Letter)

Jennifer Earl, "Where Have all the Protests Gone? Online"      (Essay)

Toni Smith, “My Turn”     (Editorial & Photo)

Suggestions for Essays on War, Terrorism, and Protest

Index

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