The Resourceful Reader
ISBN: 9780838407790 | 083840779X
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 7/21/2003
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Rhetorically organized and containing more contemporary selections than other readers, the new edition emphasizes the rhetorical situation and writing about images.
Offering a balance of classroom favorites and seldom- or never-reprinted pieces, the sixth edition has been completely reshaped to be more in line with current rhetorical theory.
Offering a balance of classroom favorites and seldom- or never-reprinted pieces, the sixth edition has been completely reshaped to be more in line with current rhetorical theory.
| 1. EXAMPLE | |
| Alice Green, Chick with the Stick | |
| Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space | |
| Lara Kate Cohen, High School Confidential | |
| Sue Halpern, Recipe for Change | |
| Jack Hitt, The Hidden Life of SUVs | |
| Julia Cass, The Moses Factor | ... MORE |
| Brian Doherty, John Ashcroft’s Power Grab | |
| Images | |
| Texas Woman's University (Photograph) | |
| Ford Motor Company (Advertisement) | |
| 2. NARRATION | |
| Roy Fowler, Roadblocks | |
| Maria Said, Half-Walls Between Us | |
| John Hockenberry, The Hockenberry File | |
| Patricia Reynoso, Loving Papi | |
| Assaf Oron, An Open Letter to American Jews (and Other Friends of Israel) | |
| Maya Angelou, Momma, the Dentist, and Me | |
| Cecilia Balli, Return to Padre | |
| Images | |
| Jan Van Eyck, The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami, 1434 (Painting) | |
| Chevy Malibu (Advertisement) | |
| 3. DESCRIPTION | |
| Marta Salazar, Welcome to Wilderness | |
| Patricia Brady, The Blobs | |
| Mary Pipher, Excerpt from The Middle of Everywhere | |
| Aaron McCarroll Gallegos, Singing with All the Saints | |
| Greg Smith, The Body Farm | |
| Smita Madan Paul and Kiran Desai, Sari Story | |
| Bruce Barcott, Beyond the Valley of the Dammed | |
| Images | |
| Lorenzo Ciniglio, People Running from Collapsing World Trade Center (Photograph) | |
| Jennifer Brown, A NYPD Officer is Treated at a Triage Center Following the Collapse of Both World Trade Center Towers (Photograph) | |
| 4. PROCESS | |
| Veronica Ashida, Paper Mountains, Paper Valleys | |
| Leonard Felder, Developing a Mindful Way of Eating | |
| Anamary Palayo, Hot Tempered? Garrison Keillor, How to Write a Personal Letter | |
| Margery Guest, Sugaring | |
| Michael Kernan, Zoo Medicine | |
| Jane O’Reilly, Click: The Housewife’s Moment of Truth | |
| Images | |
| Eric Parsons, Jenny, a Search and Rescue Dog, Is Lowered During a Rappelling Drill (Photograph) | |
| Gaseous Diffusion Uranium Enrichment Process (Diagram) | |
| . CAUSE AND EFFECT | |
| Timothy Davis, World Trade or World Charade | |
| John M | |
| Williams, And Here's the Pitch | |
| Jack E | |
| White, Growing Up in Black and White | |
| Susan K | |
| Perry, Right Here, Write Now | |
| Margo Monteith and Jeffrey Winters, Why We Hate | |
| Walt Mueller, What’s So Bad about Bullies? Margaret Talbot, Girls Just Want to Be Mean | |
| Images | |
| eDiets | |
| om (Advertisement) | |
| GlobalWarmingAlert | |
| rg (Advertisement) | |
| 6. COMPARIOSN AND CONTRAST | |
| Keisha Jackson, The Real Truth About Cats and Dogs | |
| Bruce Catton, Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts | |
| Robin Morgan, Dispatch from Beijing | |
| Beth Ann Fennelly, Fruits We’ll Never Taste, Languages We’ll Never Hear: The Need for Needless Complexity | |
| Richard Rodriguez, The Male God of the Desert | |
| Paul Goldberger, Requiem: Memorializing Terrorism’s Victims in Oklahoma | |
| David Morris, Small is Still Beautiful | |
| Images | |
| Toyota (Advertisement) | |
| Working Assets (Advertisement) | |
| 7. CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION | |
| Joaquin Campos, U | |
| Military Actions | |
| Martin Luther King, Jr | |
| Three Types of Resistance to Oppression | |
| Ellen McGrath, Recovering from Trauma | |
| William Saletan, Get It Straight: The Hypocrisy of Blaming Gays for Sexual Abuse by Priests | |
| Jacqueline Berke, The Qualities of Good Writing | |
| Ron Geraci, Which Stooge Are You? Images | |
| Elliot Erwitt, USA | |
| New York | |
| New Rochelle | |
| 1995. (Photograph) | |
| Laurence Monneret, Elderly Couple Kissing Under Umbrella (Photograph) | |
| 8. DEFINITION | |
| Tanisha Carter, White Collar Crime | |
| Barbara Ehrenreich, A Mystery of Misogyny | |
| Katherine Kagan, Hegemony, Not Empire | |
| Ruben Navarrette, Jr | |
| Is It Reverse Discrimination? Lindsay Van Gelder, It’s Not Nice to Mess with Mother Nature | |
| Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron, Land of Identities | |
| Monica Ramirez Basco, The ‘Perfect’ Trap | |
| Images | |
| Peter Paul Rubens, Venus Before a Mirror (Photograph) | |
| Kevin R | |
| Morris, Karen Woman (Photograph) | |
| 9. ARGUMENT | |
| DeVon Freeman, Community College: Not Just for Dumb Kids | |
| Aurora Levins Morales, Liberation Genealogy | |
| Deborah Stone, Why We Need a Care Movement | |
| Ralph Nader, Blinded by Power | |
| Newt Gingrich, Follow the Light | |
| Randall Kennedy, You Can’t Judge a Crook by His Color | |
| Gregory Stock and Francis Fukuyama, The Clone Wars: A Reason Online Debate | |
| Images | |
| Pablo Picasso, Guernica (Painting) | |
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| Dept | |
| of Agriculture Forest Service, 1942 (Poster) | |
| 10. FOR FURTHER READING: SOME CLASSIC ESSAYS | |
| Plato, The Allegory of the Cave | |
| Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal | |
| Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft, The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed | |
| Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For | |
| Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth | |
| Judy Brady, I Want a Wife | |
| Images | |
| Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa (Painting) | |
| Bob Jackson, Lee Harvey Oswald (Photograph) | |
| Matty Zimmerman, Marilyn Monroe (Photograph) | |
| Coca Cola (Logo) |
