Readings for Writers (with 2009 MLA Update Card)
ISBN: 9780495899495 | 0495899496
Edition: 13thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 5/18/2009
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For over thirty years, READINGS FOR WRITERS has been the preeminent rhetorical reader for the freshman composition course. This best-seller continues its tradition of providing the most comprehensive coverage of writing, while also offering the greatest reading selections of any rhetorical reader on the market. With more than 100 selections from a broad range of topics and genres, this text offers something to spark excitement in any developing writer.
| Reading and Writing | |
| Guidelines for Critical Reading | |
| Kinds of Reading, Andy Rooney | |
| Hidden within Technology's Empire, A Republic of Letters, Saul Bellow | |
| What Is Rhetoric | |
| Road Map to Rhetoric | |
| Grammar and Rhetoric | |
| Audience and Purpose | |
| The Internal Reader/Editor | |
| Levels of English | |
| ... MORE | |
| Writing about Visual Images Exercises | |
| Advice: What--and How--to Write When You Have No Time to Write, Donald Murray | |
| Examples: I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter to Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln [New selection] | |
| Have a Cigar, James Herriot | |
| Real Life Student Writing: E-mail from Samoa | |
| What Is a Writer's Voice | |
| Road Map to Writer's Voice | |
| Voice: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road | |
| Vocabulary | |
| Syntax | |
| Attitude | |
| Exercises | |
| Advice: How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words, Paul Roberts | |
| Examples: Tone: The Writer's Voice in the Reader's Mind, Mort Castle | |
| The Waltz, Dorothy Parker | |
| Remarks on the Life of Sacco and on His Own Life and Execution, Bartolomeo Vanzetti | |
| Salvation, Langston Hughes | |
| A Grunt's Prayer, Ken Noyle [New selection] | |
| Real Life Student Writing: A Thank-You Note to an Aunt | |
| What Is a Thesis | |
| Road Map to a Thesis | |
| Finding Your Thesis | |
| Key Words in the Thesis | |
| Characteristics of a Good Thesis | |
| Nine Errors to Avoid in Composing a Thesis | |
| The Explicit versus the Implicit Thesis | |
| Advice: Thesis, Sheridan Baker | |
| Examples: The Grieving Never Ends, Roxanne Roberts | |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor | |
| Spring, Edna St. Vincent Millay | |
| Real Life Student Writing: A Eulogy to a Friend Killed in a Car Wreck | |
| How Do I Organize | |
| Road Map to Organizing | |
| Organizing the Short Essay | |
| Organizing the Long Essay | |
| Planning by Listing Supporting Materials | |
| Organizing with a Formal Outline | |
| Advice: Write to be Understood, Jim Staylor [New selection] | |
| Examples: My Wood, E.M. Forester | |
| Rules for Aging, Roger Rosenblatt | |
| The Catbird Seat, James Thurber | |
| That Time of Year (Sonnet 73), William Shakespeare | |
| Real Life Student Writing: Note from a Graduate Student to a Department Secretary | |
| Developing Paragraphs | |
| Road Map to Developing Paragraphs | |
| Parts of the Paragraph | |
| Supporting Details | |
| Topic Sentence Developed over More Than One Paragraph | |
| Position of the Topic Sentence | |
| Paragraph Patterns | |
| Characteristics of a Well-Designed Paragraph | |
| Writing Your Own Paragraphs | |
| Advice: Writing Successful Paragraphs, A.M. Tibbetts and Charlene Tibbetts | |
| Examples: Paragraphs with the Topic Sentence at the Beginning | |
| From the Lessons of the Past, Edith Hamilton | |
| Pain, William Somerset Maugham | |
| I Am Tired of Fighting (Surrender Speech), Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce | |
| Man against Darkness, W. T. Stace | |
| What Is a Poet | |
| Mark Van Doren | |
| On Disease, Lewis Thomas, M.D. The Flood, Robert Frost | |
| Real Life Student Writing: Letter of Application to an Honors Program | |
| Patterns of Development: The Rhetorical Modes | |
| Narration | |
| Road Map to Narration | |
| What Narration Does | |
| When to Use Narration | |
| How to Write a Narrative | |
| Warming Up to Write a Narrative | |
| Examples: Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell | |
| My Name is Margaret, Maya Angelou | |
| Shame, Dick Gregory | |
| On Black Fathering, Cornel West [New selection] | |
| Those Winter Sundays | |
| Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: What Does Islam Say about Terrorism | |
| Abdullah Momin | |
| "Postscript" to Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia | |
| Punctuation Workshop: The Period | |
| Student Corner: The Right Moves against Terrorism | |
| Description | |
| Road Map to Description | |
| What Description Does | |
| When to Use Description | |
| How to Write a Description | |
| Warming Up to Write a Description | |
| Examples: The Libido for the Ugly | |
| Hell | |
| A Worn Path | |
| Pigeon Woman | |
| Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: Body Image | |
| Stretch Marks | |
| Punctuation Workshop: The Comma | |
| Student Corner: Body Modification--Think about It! | |
| Process Analysis | |
| Road Map to Process Analysis | |
| What Process Analysis Does | |
| When to Use Process Analysis | |
| How to Write a Process Analysis | |
| Warming Up to Write a Process Analysis | |
| Examples: How to Improve your Personality | |
| Hunting Octopus in the Gilbert Islands | |
| Hitler's Workday | |
| In the Emergency Room | |
| Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: Painting: My Parents | |
| The View from Eighty | |
| Punctuation Workshop: The Semicolon | |
| Student Corner: Aging | |
| Illustration/Exemplification | |
| Road Map to Illustration/Exemplification | |
| What Illustration/Exemplification Does | |
| When to Use Illustration | |
| How to Use Illustration | |
| Warming Up to Write an Illustration | |
| Examples: What Is Style | |
| F.L. Lucas | |
| In the Name of the Law | |
| "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall..." | |
| Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: Drugs | |
| Don't Legalize Drugs | |
| Punctuation Workshop: The Dash | |
| Student Corner: Drug Use: The Continuing Epidemic | |
| Definition | |
| Road Map to Definition | |
| What Definition Does | |
| When to Use Definition | |
| How to Use Definition | |
| Warming Up to Write a Definition | |
| Examples: Of Altruism, Heroism, and Nature's gifts in the Face of Terror | |
| Definition: The Company Man | |
| In Praise of the Humble Comma | |
| Kitsch | |
| Ars Poetica | |
| Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security with Billions | |
| Wide Open Spaces | |
| Punctuation Workshop: The Apostrophe | |
| Student Corner: Immigrants in America | |
| Comparison/Contrast | |
| Road Map to Comparison/Contrast | |
| What Comparison/Contrast Does | |
| When to Use Comparison/Contrast | |
| How to Use Comparison/Contrast | |
| Warming Up to Write a Comparison/Contrast | |
| Examples: That Lean and Hungry Look | |
| Diogenes and Alexander | |
| Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts | |
| Baba and Me | |
| Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: Heaven: Nothing to Write Home About | |
| Hollywood's Heaven and Hell: A Prime-time Afterlife Special | |
| Punctuation Workshop: The Question Mark | |
| Student Corner: The Existence of God | |
| Division/Classification | |
| Road Map to Division/Classification | |
| What Division/Classification Does | |
| When to Use Division/Classification | |
| How to Use Division/Classification | |
| Warming Up to Write a Division/Classification | |
| Examples: Move Over, Teams | |
| Thinking as a Hobby | |
| Kinds of Discipline | |
| The Idols | |
| English 101 | |
| Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: Warriors Don't Cry | |
| Incidents with White People | |
| Punctuation Workshop: The Colon | |
| Student Corner: Racial Justice: How Far Have We Come | |
| Nancey Phillips | |
| Causal Analysis | |
| Road Map to Causal Analysis | |
| What Causal Analysis Does | |
| When to Use Causal Analysis | |
| How to Use Causal Analysis | |
| Warming Up to Write a Causal Analysis | |
| Examples: A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun | |
| Coming into Language | |
| Bricklayer's boy | |
| Why I Went to the Woods | |
| The Storm | |
| Design | |
| Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: The New Feminism | |
| The Farce of Feminism | |
| Punctuation Workshop: The Exclamation Point | |
| Student Corner: "Woman" Is a Noun | |
| Argumentation and Persuasion | |
| Road Map to Argumentation and Persuasion | |
| What Argumentation and Persuasion Do | |
| When to Use Argumentation and Persuasion | |
| How to Use Argumentation and Persuasion | |
| Warming Up to Write an Argument | |
| Examples: Why Don't We Complain | |
| William Buckley [New selection] | |
| A Modest Proposal | |
| A Nation in Need of Vacation | |
| Sex Predators Can't Be Saved | |
| Dooley Is a Traitor | |
| Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: Painting: Migrant Mother | |
| Homeless: Expose the Myths | |
| The Homeless Lack a Political Voice, But Not American Ideals | |
| Punctuation Workshop: Quotation Marks | |
| Student Corner: People Out on a Limb | |
| Combining the Modes What Combining the Modes Does | |
| When to Combine the Modes | |
| How to Use Combined Modes | |
| Examples: Shrew--The Littlest Mammal | |
| Will Spelling Count | |
| Jack Connor | |
| Once More to the Lake | |
| Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: No Technology | |
| No problem | |
| OMG! If LOL then KMN! | |
| Punctuation Workshop: Using Other Punctuation with Quotation Marks | |
| Student Corner | |
| Image Gallery | |
| Rewriting Your Writing | |
| The Editing Booth: Revising | |
| Special Writing Projects | |
| Assignment 1: The Research Paper Why English Instructors Assign Research Papers | |
| How to Choose Your Topic | |
| How to Narrow Your Subject | |
| The Process of Writing the Paper | |
| Preparing "Works Cited" or "References" | |
| Writing the Final Copy | |
| Annotated MLA Style Paper | |
| Annotated APA Style Paper | |
| Assignment 2: The Literary Paper | |
| How to Write a Paper about Literature: The In-Class Essay on Literature | |
| Annotated Literary Paper | |
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