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Reading Literature and Writing Argument

ISBN: 9780131891098 | 013189109X
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
Based on the premise that literature liberates thinking, and argument disciplines it. This anthology features a critical thinking, analytical approach that readers in turn will apply to their own thought and writing processes.It introduces and explains the tools of argument, and presents reading selections centered on four enduring themesIndividuality and Community, Nature and Place, Family and Identity, and Power and Responsibility.For those interested in literature, composition, and argumentative writing.
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Prefacexiii
1 Reading to Explore and Examine1(24)
Explore
2(2)
Examine
4(1)
Argument Structure
5(6)
Claims
5(4)
Randy Horick,
Truer to the Game
5(2)
Kenneth Rexroth,
Cold before Dawn
7(1)
Ezra Pound,
In a Station of the Metro
8(1)
William Blake,
London
8(1)
Evidence
9(1)
Warrants
10(1)
Audience Appeal and Tone
11(10)
Pathos
12(2)
Martin Espada,
Federico's Ghost
12(2)
Logos
14(1)
William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 18
14(1)
Ethos
14(3)
William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 130
15(1)
Jamaica Kincaid,
Girl
15(2)
Rogerian Argument Strategy
17(4)
Lucille Clifton,
For deLawd
19(1)
N. Scott Momaday,
New World
20(1)
Chapter Activities
21(4)
Robert Hayden,
Those Winter Sundays
21(1)
Wilfred Owen,
Dulce Et Decorum Est
22(2)
Robert Crumb,
A Short History of America
24(1)
2 Writing to Evaluate and Articulate25(36)
Evaluate
26(6)
William Shakespeare,
from Romeo and Juliet
27(1)
Arthur Miller,
from The Crucible
28(2)
Deductive and Induction: An Overview
30(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Ozymandias
31(1)
Articulate
32(27)
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
from Letter from Birmingham Jail
32(2)
Sample Student Essays
Shawn Mullin,
Yes, the Future Looks Bright, but the Moment Is Hell
34(1)
Daphne Beckham,
Perspective on Men
35(3)
Four-Part Written Exploration and Articulation
38(6)
Sample Student Essays
Lisa Colletti,
Super-Size It!
44(4)
Meredith Newman Blanco,
Who Are the Real Victims of Alcoholism?
48(5)
Literature
Walt Whitman,
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
53(1)
Jane Martin,
Rodeo
53(2)
William Wordsworth,
The World Is Too Much with Us
55(1)
Marge Piercy,
To Be of Use
56(1)
Gary Snyder,
After Work
57(1)
Sample Four-Part Written Exploration and Articulation
58(1)
Chapter Activities
59(2)
3 Individuality and Community61(138)
Prewriting and Discussion
64(1)
Readings
Fiction
Kate Chopin,
Désireé's Baby
65(4)
Frank Chin,
Donald Duk and the White Monsters from Donald Duk
69(5)
Stephen Crane,
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
74(8)
Louise Erdrich,
The Red Convertible
82(7)
Randall Kenan,
The Foundations of the Earth
89(13)
Maile Meloy,
Ranch Girl
102(5)
Tim O'Brien,
On the Rainy River
107(12)
Ernesto Quiñonez,
from Bodega Dreams
119(6)
Poetry
Sherman Alexie,
The Reservation Cab Driver
125(1)
Michael Cleary,
Burning Dreams on the Sun
126(1)
Emily Dickinson,
Much madness is divinest sense
127(1)
T.S. Eliot,
The Love Song off Alfred Prufrock
128(4)
Judy Grahn,
Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80
132(1)
Langston Hughes,
Passing
133(1)
Etheridge Knight,
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
134(2)
Claude McKay,
Outcast
136(1)
Dwight Okita,
In Response to Executive Order 9066
137(1)
Mary Oliver,
Wild Geese
138(1)
E.A. Robinson,
Richard Cory
139(1)
Muriel Rukeyser,
The Lost Romans
140(1)
Cathy Song,
Lost Sister
141(2)
Gary Soto,
Mexicans Begin Jogging
143(1)
Wallace Stevens,
Disillusionment at Ten O'Clock
144(1)
Alma Luz Villanueva,
Crazy Courage
145(2)
Nonfiction
Sherman Alexie,
Superman and Me
147(3)
John Hope Franklin,
The Train from Hate
150(1)
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Letter from Birmingham Jail
151(13)
Plato,
from Crito
164(5)
Richard Rodriguez,
The Chinese in All of Us
169(6)
Studs Terkel,
Frank Chin
175(5)
Henry David Thoreau,
Civil Disobedience
180(15)
Chapter Activities
195(1)
Collaboration Activity
195(1)
Making Connections
196(1)
Cross-Chapter Connections
197(2)
4 Nature and Place199(138)
Prewriting and Discussion
202(1)
Readings
Fiction
Rick Bass,
Antlers
203(8)
James Fenimore Cooper,
The Slaughter of the Pigeons, from The Pioneers
211(6)
Pam Houston,
A Blizzard under Blue Sky
217(5)
Sarah Orne Jewett,
A White Heron
222(7)
Ursula K. Le Guin,
May's Lion
229(6)
Jack London,
To Build a Fire
235(11)
Leslie Marmon Silko,
The Man to Send Rain Clouds
246(4)
Eudora Welty,
A Worn Path
250(6)
Virginia Woolf,
Kew Gardens
256(6)
Poetry
Lucille Clifton,
For deLawd
262(1)
James Dickey,
Deer Among Cattle
263(1)
Carolyn Forché,
Dulcimer Maker
264(1)
Robert Frost,
A Young Birch
265(1)
Linda Hogan,
Heartland
266(1)
Galway Kinnell,
Saint Francis and the Sow
267(1)
Denise Levertov,
The Victors
268(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke,
The Panther
269(1)
Theodore Roethke,
Meditation at Oyster River
270(2)
Pattiann Rogers,
Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew
272(2)
Carl Sandburg,
Chicago
274(1)
Anne Sexton,
The Fury of Flowers and Worms
275(1)
Gary Snyder,
The Call of the Wild
276(2)
William Stafford,
Traveling through the Dark
278(1)
Robert Penn Warren,
Excerpts from Audubon
279(3)
Walt Whitman,
Song of Myself 14
282(1)
Walt Whitman,
Song of Myself, 31
283(1)
William Wordsworth,
To My Sister
284(1)
James Wright,
A Blessing
285(2)
Nonfiction
Edward Abbey,
The Heat of Noon: Rock and Tree and Cloud, from Desert Solitaire
287(5)
Rachel Carson,
The Obligation to Endure, from Silent Spring
292(5)
Annie Dillard,
The Present, chapter excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
297(2)
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Excerpts from Nature
299(5)
Aldous Huxley,
Time and the Machine, from The Olive Tree
304(2)
Aldo Leopold,
Thinking Like a Mountain
306(2)
Joyce Carol Oates,
Against Nature
308(6)
N. Scott Momaday,
Excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain
314(4)
Janisse Ray,
Forest Beloved, from Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
318(4)
Henry David Thoreau,
Solitude, from Walden or Life in the Woods
322(5)
Alice Walker,
My Heart Has Reopened to You: The Place Where I Was Born
327(4)
Chapter Activities
331(2)
Collaboration Activity
333(1)
Making Connections
333(1)
Cross-Chapter Connections
334(3)
Sample Student Essay, Chapter Activity 3
Daniel Godwin,
Stewards and Tenants of the Wilderness
334(3)
5 Family and Identity337(124)
Prewriting and Discussion
340(1)
Readings
Fiction
Kate Chopin,
The Storm
341(4)
Genaro González,
Too Much His Father's Son
345(5)
Cherylene Lee,
Safe
350(7)
Bharati Mukherjee,
A Father
357(8)
Fae Myenne Ng,
A Red Sweater
365(7)
Grace Paley,
A Conversation with My Father
372(4)
Susan Power,
Red Moccasins
376(10)
John Updike,
Separating
386(8)
Alice Walker,
Everyday Use
394(8)
Poetry
Anne Bradstreet,
To My Dear and Loving Husband
402(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks,
The Mother
402(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks,
Ulysses
404(1)
Nikki Giovanni,
Mothers
405(2)
Thomas Hardy,
The Ruined Maid
407(1)
Seamus Heaney,
Digging
408(1)
Peter Meinke,
Advice to My Son
409(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye,
Arabic Coffee
410(1)
Sharon Olds,
I Go Back to May, 1937
411(2)
Mary Oliver,
The Black Walnut Tree
413(1)
Dudley Randall,
Ballad of Birmingham
414(1)
Adrienne Rich,
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
415(1)
Adrienne Rich,
Delta
416(1)
Anne Sexton,
Cinderella
416(4)
Gary Snyder,
Not Leaving the House
420(1)
Mark Strand,
The Continuous Life
421(1)
Margaret Walker,
Lineage
422(1)
Richard Wilbur,
The Writer
423(2)
Drama
Harvey Fierstein,
On Tidy Endings
425(18)
Nonfiction
Sullivan Ballou,
Major Sullivan Ballou's Last Letter to His Wife
443(2)
Peter D. Kramer,
Divorce and Our National Values
445(3)
Pauli Murray,
The Inheritance of Values
448(4)
Scott Russell Sanders,
The Men We Carry in Our Minds
452(5)
Chapter Activities
457(2)
Collaboration Activity
459(1)
Making Connections
460(1)
Cross-Chapter Connections
460(1)
6 Power and Responsibility461(194)
Prewriting and Discussion
464(1)
Readings
Fiction
Toni Cade Bambara,
The Lesson
465(6)
Raymond Carver,
Cathedral
471(11)
Edwidge Danticat,
The Book of the Dead
482(8)
Nadine Gordimer,
Terminal
490(3)
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
The Birth-Mark
493(12)
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
The Maypole of Merry Mount
505(7)
Tim O'Brien,
The Things They Carried
512(13)
Brady Udall,
He Becomes Deeply and Famously Drunk
525(18)
Ed Vega,
Spanish Roulette
543(9)
Poetry
Gwendolyn Brooks,
The Boy Died in My Alley
552(1)
Martin Espada,
Bully
553(1)
Carolyn Forche,
The Colonel
554(2)
Robert Frost,
Mending Wall
556(1)
A.E. Housman,
The Laws of God, the Laws of Man
557(1)
Langston Hughes,
Democracy
558(1)
Langston Hughes,
Theme for English B
559(2)
Denise Levertov,
Everything That Acts Is Actual
561(1)
Claude McKay,
America
562(1)
James Merrill,
Casual Wear
563(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Apostrophe to Man
563(1)
John Milton,
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
564(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye,
Famous
565(1)
Sharon Olds,
The Promise
566(2)
Linda Pastan,
Ethics
568(1)
Public Enemy,
Fight the Power
569(2)
Walt Whitman,
Beat! Beat! Drums!
571(1)
Drama
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata
572(44)
Nonfiction
Cochise,
[I am alone]
616(1)
Aaron Epstein and Yaron Brook,
The Evil of Animal 'Rights'
617(2)
Allan Gurganus,
Captive Audience
619(3)
John F. Kennedy,
Inaugural Address
622(3)
Abraham Lincoln,
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
625(2)
George Orwell,
A Hanging
627(4)
Katherine Anne Porter,
To Dr. William Ross
631(2)
Tom Regan,
Religion and Animal Rights
633(10)
Frank Schaeffer and John Schaeffer,
My Son the Marine?
from Keeping Faith. A Father Son Story about Love and the US. Marine Corps
643(3)
Richard Wright,
from Black Boy
646(6)
Chapter Activities
652(1)
Collaboration Activity
653(1)
Making Connections
654(1)
Cross-Chapter Connections
654(1)
Appendix A: Notes on the Writing Process655(14)
Clarifying a Subject, Purpose, and Audience
655(1)
Organizing a Longer, Research-based Argument Paper
656(7)
Claims of Fact, Value, and Policy
656(1)
Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
657(1)
Counterarguments, Concessions, and Refutations
658(1)
Argument Outline
658(1)
Sample Student Essay
Josh Griep,
Wild Captives: The Exotic Animal Trade
659(4)
The Rogerian Argument
663(6)
Rogerian Argument Organizational Plan
663(1)
Sample Student Essay
Russell Schneider,
To Obey or Not to Obey
664(5)
Appendix B: Notes on Using Sources and Creating a Draft669(6)
The Preliminary Bibliography
669(1)
Avoiding Plagiarism
670(2)
Using Your Sources and Creating a Draft
672(1)
Citations
672(1)
The Works Cited Page
673(1)
Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Paper
674(1)
Glossary675(6)
Authors' Biographical Notes681(14)
Credits695(8)
Author and Title Index703(6)
Subject Index709

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