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Readings for Writers (with InfoTrac)

by: McCuen-Metherell, Jo Ray; Winkler, Anthony C.

Readings for Writers (with InfoTrac)

by: McCuen-Metherell, Jo Ray; Winkler, Anthony C.

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9780838405468
ISBN 10:
0838405460
Edition: 11th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/04/2003
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

This best-selling rhetorical reader includes both essays and fiction and now offers a new chapter on combining the patterns of development, coverage of visual rhetoric, and more on the reading and writing process.

Preface

vii

Thematic Table of Contents

xix

PART 1 READING AND WRITING

(190)

Introduction to Part I: From Reading to Writing

(2)

1 GUIDELINES FOR CRITICAL READING

(12)

Kinds of Reading

(5)

Answers to Critical Reading Questions on Andy Rooney

(2)

Education of a Wandering Man/Louis L'Amour

(5)

2 WHAT IS RHETORIC?

(40)

Editors' Counsel

(21)

Grammar and Rhetoric

(1)

Audience and Purpose

(1)

The Internal Reader/Editor

(1)

Levels of English

(2)

Writing as a Process

(2)

Writing about Visual Images

(14)

Advice

(3)

What-and How-to Write When You Have No Time to Write/Donald Murray

(3)

Examples

(13)

I Have a Dream/Martin Luther King, Jr.

(5)

Letter to the Rev. J. Page Hopps/Oscar Wilde

(3)

Have a Cigar/James Herriot

(5)

Real-Life Student Writing

(3)

E-mail from Somoa

(3)

3 WHAT IS A WRITER'S VOICE?

(38)

Editors' Counsel

(6)

Voice: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

(1)

Vocabulary

(1)

Syntax

(1)

Attitude

(3)

Advice

(10)

How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words/Paul Roberts

(10)

Examples

(19)

Tone: The Writer's Voice in the Reader's Mind/Mort Castle

(5)

The Politics of Housework/Pat Mainardi

(6)

Remarks on the Life of Sacco and On His Own Life and Execution/Bartolomeo Vanzetti

(2)

Salvation/Langston Hughes

(4)

When Becky Left Home/Anthony C. Winkler

(2)

Real-Life Student Writing

(3)

A Thank-you Note to an Aunt

(3)

4 WHAT IS A THESIS?

(38)

Editors' Counsel

(10)

Finding Your Thesis

(2)

Key Words in the Thesis

(1)

Characteristics of a Good Thesis

(3)

Nine Errors to Avoid in Composing a Thesis

(3)

The Explicit Versus the Implicit Thesis

101

(2)

Advice

103

(4)

The Thesis/Sheridan Baker

103

(4)

Examples

107

(22)

The Grieving Never Ends/Roxanne Roberts

107

(6)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find/Flannery O'Connor

113

(14)

Spring/Edna St. Vincent Millay

127

(2)

Real-Life Student Writing

129

(2)

A Eulogy to a Friend Killed in a Car Wreck

129

(2)

5 HOW DO I ORGANIZE?

131

(32)

Editors' Counsel

131

(11)

Organizing the Short Essay

131

(2)

Organizing the Long Essay

133

(1)

Planning by Listing Supporting Materials

134

(1)

Organizing with a Formal Outline

134

(8)

Advice

142

(3)

How to Write Clearly/Edward T. Thompson

142

(3)

Examples

145

(17)

My Wood/E.M. Forster

145

(4)

Rules for Aging Roger Rosenblatt

149

(3)

The Catbird Seat/James Thurber

152

(8)

That Time of Year (Sonnet 73)/William Shakespeare

160

(2)

Real-Life Student Writing

162

(1)

Note from a Graduate Student to a Department Secretary

162

(1)

6 DEVELOPING PARAGRAPHS

163

(28)

Editors' Counsel

163

(14)

Parts of the Paragraph

164

(1)

Supporting Details

165

(1)

Topic Sentence Developed Over More Than One Paragraph

166

(1)

Position of the Topic Sentence

167

(1)

Paragraph Patterns

168

(1)

Characteristics of a Well-Designed Paragraph

169

(3)

Writing Your Own Paragraphs

172

(5)

Advice

177

(3)

Writing Successful Paragraphs/A.M. Tibbetts and Charlene Tibbetts

177

(3)

Examples

180

(10)

Paragraphs with the Topic Sentence at the Beginning

180

(3)

From the Lessons of the Past/Edith Hamilton

180

(1)

Pain/William Somerset Maugham

181

(1)

I Am Tired of Fighting (Surrender Speech)/Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé

182

(1)

Paragraphs with the Topic Sentence at the End

183

(7)

Man Against Darkness/W.T. State

183

(2)

What Is a Poet?/Mark Van Doren

185

(1)

On Disease/Lewis Thomas, M.D.

186

(1)

The Flood/Robert Frost

187

(3)

Real-Life Student Writing

190

(5)

Letter of Application to a Honors Program

190

(1)

PART 2 PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT

191

(460)

Introduction: The Rhetorical Modes

191

(4)

7 NARRATION

195

(42)

Editors' Counsel

195

(4)

What Narration Does

195

(1)

When to Use Narration

195

(1)

How to Write a Narration

195

(3)

Warming Up to Write a Narration

198

(1)

Examples

199

(23)

Shooting an Elephant/George Orwell

199

(7)

My Name Is Margaret/Maya Angelou

206

(6)

Shame/Dick Gregory

212

(4)

The Odour of Cheese/Jerome K. Jerome

216

(4)

Those Winter Sundays/Robert Hayden

220

(2)

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

222

(10)

Terrorism

222

(1)

It's America's Good Fortune That They Have a President Willing to Declare War on Terrorism/Peter Worthington

223

(4)

America and Anti-Americans/Salman Rushdie

227

(5)

Student Corner

232

(5)

The Right Moves Against Terrorism/Sion Arkelian, Glendale Community College

232

(1)

How I Write/How I Wrote This Essay/My Writing Tip

233

(4)

8 DESCRIPTION

237

(42)

Editors' Counsel

237

(5)

What Description Does

237

(1)

When to Use Description

238

(1)

How to Write a Description

238

(3)

Warming Up to Write a Description

241

(1)

Examples

242

(19)

The Libido for the Ugly/H.L. Mencken

242

(4)

Hell/James Joyce

246

(4)

A Worn Path/Eudora Welty

250

(8)

Pigeon Woman/May Swenson

258

(3)

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

261

(8)

Spanking Children

261

(1)

The Need for Spanking/Betsy Hart

262

(3)

Children Don't Need to be Spanked to Learn a Lesson/Geoff Axford

265

(4)

Student Corner

269

(10)

Spanking-So What Is the Fuss About?/Shelley Taylor, SUNY at Oswego

269

(6)

How I Write/How I Wrote This Essay/My Writing Tip/Shelley Taylor

275

(4)

9 PROCESS ANALYSIS

279

(38)

Editors' Counsel

279

(4)

What Process Analysis Does

279

(1)

When to Use Process Analysis

280

(1)

How to Write a Process Analysis

280

(2)

Warming Up to Write a Process Analysis

282

(1)

Examples

283

(14)

How to Buy a New Car/Clark Howard

283

(4)

Hunting Octopus in the Gilbert Islands/Sir Arthur Grimble

287

(5)

Hitler's Workday/William Shirer

292

(3)

How to Be an Army/Kenneth Patchen

295

(2)

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

297

(13)

Ageism

297

(1)

Painting: My Parents/Henry Koerner

297

(1)

The View from Eighty/Malcolm Cowley

298

(7)

Stay Young/Marya Mannes

305

(5)

Student Corner

310

(1)

Aging/Kimberly Caitlin Wheeler, Yale University

310

(3)

How I Write/How I Wrote This Essay/My Writing Tip/Kimberly Caitlin Wheeler

313

(4)

10 ILLUSTRATION/EXEMPLIFICATION

317

(42)

Editors' Counsel

317

(5)

What Illustration/Exemplification Does

317

(1)

When to Use Illustration

318

(1)

How to Use Illustration

319

(2)

Warming Up to Write an Illustration

321

(1)

Examples

322

(20)

What Is Style?/F. L. Lucas

322

(9)

The Buck Stops Where?/Barry Parr

331

(5)

"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall ..."/John Leo

336

(4)

Living in Sin/Adrienne Rich

340

(2)

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

342

(12)

Drug Abuse

342

(1)

Painting: The Subway/George Tooker

343

(1)

Drugs/Gore Vidal

344

(3)

Don't Legalize Drugs/Morton M. Kondracke

347

(7)

Student Corner

354

(5)

Drug Use: The Continuing Epidemic/Linda Kunze, Glendale Community College

354

(2)

How I Write/How I Wrote This Essay/My Writing Tip/Linda Kunze

356

(3)

11 DEFINITION

359

(52)

Editors' Counsel

359

(5)

What Definition Does

359

(1)

When to Use Definition

359

(1)

How to Use Definition

360

(3)

Warming Up to Write a Definition

363

(1)

Examples

364

(29)

Who the Devil Is the Devil?/Robert Wernick

364

(11)

The Company Man/Ellen Goodman

375

(3)

In Praise of the Humble Comma/Pico Iyer

378

(4)

Kitsch/Gilbert Highet

382

(8)

Ars Poetica/Archibald MacLeish

390

(3)

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

393

(8)

Global Warming

393

(1)

Glacial Melt in Greenland Causes Alarm/Mike Toner

393

(1)

Painting: Detroit Industry/Diego M. Rivera

394

(4)

Global Warming and Other Tales/Andrew Mercy

398

(3)

Student Corner

401

(10)

Saving Life on Earth-It Doesn't Take an Education/Michèle Izzo, University of Maryland

401

(5)

How I Write/How I Wrote This Essay/My Writing Tip/Michèle Izzo

406

(5)

12 COMPARISON/CONTRAST

411

(54)

Editors' Counsel

411

(7)

What Comparison/Contrast Does

411

(1)

When to Use Comparison/Contrast

412

(1)

How to Use Comparison/Contrast

412

(5)

Warming Up to Write a Comparison/Contrast

417

(1)

Examples

418

(20)

That Lean and Hungry Look/Suzanne Jordan

418

(4)

Diogenes and Alexander/Gilbert Highet

422

(6)

Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts/Bruce Catton

428

(4)

Bricklayer's Boy/Alfred Lubrano

432

(6)

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

438

(22)

The Existence of God

438

(1)

Painting: The Creation of Adam/Michelangelo

439

(1)

Ten Reasons for Believing in Immortality/John Haynes Holmes

440

(11)

Breaking the Last Taboo/James A. Haught

451

(8)

Text box: Children's Letters to God

459

(1)

Student Corner

460

(5)

The Existence of God/Ara Babaian, Loyola Law School of Los Angeles

460

(2)

How I Write/How I Wrote This Essay/My Writing Tip/Ara Babaian

462

(3)

13 DIVISION/CLASSIFICATION

465

(52)

Editors' Counsel

465

(4)

What Division/Classification Does

465

(1)

When to Use Division/Classification

466

(1)

How to Use Division/Classification

466

(2)

Warming Up to Write a Division/Classification

468

(1)

Examples

469

(29)

Styles of Loving/John Alan Lee

469

(12)

Thinking as a Hobby/William Golding

481

(8)

Kinds of Discipline/John Holt

489

(4)

The Idols/Francis Bacon

493

(3)

English 101/Bart Edelman

496

(2)

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

498

(13)

Racism

498

(1)

Painting: Mexico, Chile, Soweto/Rupert Garcia

499

(2)

Warriors Don't Cry/Melba Patillo Beats

501

(5)

Incidents With White People/Sarah L. and A. Elizabeth Delany

506

(5)

Student Corner

511

(6)

Racism: How Far Have We Come?/Nancey Phillips, California State University at Long Beach

511

(3)

How I Write/How I Wrote This Essay/My Writing Tip/Nancey Phillips

514

(3)

14 CAUSAL ANALYSIS

517

(54)

Editors' Counsel

517

(5)

What Causal Analysis Does

517

(1)

When to Use Causal Analysis

518

(1)

How to Use Causal Analysis

518

(3)

Warming Up to Write a Causal Analysis

521

(1)

Examples

522

(31)

A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun/Linda M. Haselstrom

522

(5)

Coming Into Language/Jimmy Santiago Baca

527

(8)

Why Tigers Become Man-Eaters/Jim Corbett

535

(6)

Why I Went to the Woods/Henry David Thoreau

541

(6)

The Storm/Kate Chopin

547

(6)

Design/Robert Frost

553

(12)

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

555

(1)

The Status of Women

555

(2)

The New Feminism/Kate Gubata

557

(4)

The Farce of Feminism/Rebecca E. Rubins

561

(4)

Student Corner

565

(6)

"Woman" Is a Noun/Paula Rewa, East Tennessee State University

565

(3)

How I Write/How I Wrote This Essay/My Writing Tip/Paula Rewa

568

(3)

15 ARGUMENTATION AND PERSUASION

571

(44)

Editors' Counsel

571

(6)

What Argumentation and Persuasion Do

571

(1)

When to Use Argumentation and Persuasion

571

(1)

How to Use Argumentation and Persuasion

572

(4)

Warming Up to Write an Argument

576

(1)

Examples

577

(22)

In Defense of Gender/Cyra McFadden

577

(4)

A Modest Proposal/Jonathan Swift

581

(7)

I Want a Wife/Judy Syfers Brady

588

(3)

Sex Predators Can't Be Saved/Andrew Vachss

591

(5)

Dooley Is a Traitor/James Michie

596

(3)

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

599

(10)

Homelessness

599

(1)

Migrant Mother, Niporno Valley/Dorothea Lange

600

(1)

Homeless: Expose the Myths/Joseph Perkins

601

(3)

The Homeless Lack a Political Voice, But Not American Ideals/Matt Lynch

604

(5)

Student Corner

609

(6)

People Out on a Limb/Antoinette Poodt, Furman University

609

(2)

How I Write/How I Wrote This Essay/My Writing Tip/Antoinette Poodt

611

(4)

16 COMBINING THE MODES

615

(36)

Editors' Counsel

615

(2)

What Combining the Modes Does

615

(1)

When to Combine the Modes

616

(1)

How to Use Combined Modes

616

(1)

Examples

617

(18)

Shrew-The Littlest Mammal/Alan DeVoe

617

(5)

Cricket/Robert MacNeil

622

(7)

Once More to the Lake/E.B. White

629

(6)

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

635

(9)

Separation of Church and State

635

(2)

Separating Sides in the Church-State Conflict/James Watkins

637

(3)

Pledge Ruling Just Plain Wrong/Richard W. Whitrock

640

(4)

Student Corner

644

(41)

The Modern Reformation/Adam Winkler, Georgia State University

644

(4)

How I Write/How I Wrote This Essay/My Writing Tip/Adam Winkler

648

(3)

PART 3 REWRITING YOUR WRITING

651

(26)

The Editing Booth

653

(24)

APPENDIX

677

(88)

SAMPLE STUDENT PAPERS

685

(80)

Annotated MLA-style Paper

685

(30)

Choosing Single Motherhood: A Sign of Modern Times?/Stephanie Hollingsworth

687

(28)

Annotated APA-style Paper

715

(34)

Development of a scale to detect sexual harassers: The Potential Harasser Scale (PHS)/Leanne M. Masden and Rebecca B. Winkler

717

(32)

Annotated Literary Paper

749

(16)

A Worn but Lightly Traveled Path/Douglas B. Inman

754

(11)

Glossary

765

(7)

Literary Credits

772

(3)

Index

775

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