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Organized alphabetically by author, this is a composition reader that features 84 essays by 21 of the most important writers of our time. The focus of the book is on writing itself, the choices writers make in developing expository essays and making arguments. Four essays represent each author, so that students can analyse how the individual writer's rhetorical choices change from one essay to another. The essays expose students to different ways of thinking about and discussing writing, as well as a context for rhetorically analysing the authors' work. Rather than concentrate on the writing styles of different authors, the book focuses on rhetorical considerations.

Table of Contents:
The Writers and Their Essays ANDRE ACIMAN Aciman on Writing: "A Literary Pilgrim Progresses to the Past" "The Capital of Memory" "A Late Lunch" "Shadow Cities" RICK BASS Bass on Writing: "Without Safety: Writing Nonfiction" "On Willow Creek" "Why I Hunt: A Predator's Meditation" "Thunder and Lightning" JOAN DIDION Didion on Writing: "Why I Write" "The Women's Movement" "In Bogota" "Girl of the Golden West" ANNIE DILLARD Dillard on Writing: from The Writing Life, Chapter One "Total Eclipse" "Teaching a Stone to Talk" "Spring" BARBARA EHRENREICH Ehrenreich on Writing: "Introduction" "Stamping Out a Dread Scourge" "Premature Pragmatism" "Oh, Those Family Values" JOSEPH EPSTEIN Epstein on Writing: "Compose Yourself" "A Mere Journalist" "The Art of the Nap" "Penography" HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. Gates on Writing: "Writing, 'Race,' and the Difference It Makes" "Sunday" "In the Kitchen" "Prime Time" STEPHEN JAY GOULD Gould on Writing: "Pieces of Eight: Confession of a Humanistic Naturalist" "The Creation Myths of Cooperstown" "A Cerion for Christopher" "The Great Western and the Fighting Temeraire" EDWARD HOAGLAND Hoagland on Writing: "To the Point: Truth Only Essays Can Tell" "The Courage of Turtles" "In Okefenokee" "Learning to Eat Soup" bell hooks hooks on Writing: "Women Who Write Too Much" "Black Women Writing" "Touching the Earth" "Justice: Childhood Love Lessons" JAMAICA KINCAID Kincaid on Writing: "Writing = Life" "In History" "Alien Soil" "Garden of Envy" URSULA LE GUIN Le Guin on Writing: "Prospects for Women in Writing" "The Fisherwoman's Daughter" "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" "Along the Platte" BARRY LOPEZ Lopez on Writing: "We are Shaped by the Sound of the Wind, the Slant of Sunlight" "The Stone Horse" "Apologia" "A Presentation of Whales" CYNTHIA OZICK Ozick on Writing: "On Permission to Write" "The Hole/Birth Catalog" "A Drugstore in Winter" "Rushdie in the Louvre" SALMAN RUSHDIE Rushdie on Writing: "Imaginary Homelands" "The Riddle of Midnight: India, August 1987" "Censorship" "In Good Faith" EDWARD SAID Said on Writing: "On Writing a Memoir" "No Reconciliation Allowed" "Palestine, Then and Now: An Exile's Journey through Israel and the Occupied Territories" "The Mind of Winter: Reflections on Life in Exile" SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS Sanders on Writing: "The Singular First Person" "Writing from the Center" "Letter to a Reader" "Buckeye" AMY TAN Tan on Writing: "Lost Lives of Women" "Mother Tongue" "The Language of Discretion" "Required Reading and Other Dangerous Subjects" JOHN UPDIKE Updike on Writing: "Why Write?" "Cemeteries" "Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Masters" "The Tarbox Police" ALICE WALKER Walker on Writing: "The Black Writer and the Southern Experience" "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" "My Daughter Smokes" "Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor" EDWARD O. WILSON Wilson on Writing: "The Writing Life" "The Serpent" "Ethics and Religion" "Humanity Seen from a Distance" The Student Writers on Writing Sarah Huntley, "Before Beginning" Monique Fournier, "Bees and Fears: Why I Write" Melvin Sterne, Untitled Kathe McAllister, "Blue Sky and Gravel: Where There Is No Plot" Heidi Beck, "Why I Write" Spencer Schaffner, "The Five-Paragraph Essay: Friend or Foe?" Marianne Rasmussen, "The Selfish Art: Exploring Identity Through Writing" Appendix, RESOURCES FOR ESSAY WRITERS


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780767417433
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
  • Height: 228 mm
  • Spine Width: 31 mm
  • Weight: 941 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0767417437
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jan 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Writer's Reader
  • Width: 162 mm


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