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Outlooks and Insights : A Reader for College Writers

by: Paul Eschholz

Outlooks and Insights : A Reader for College Writers

by: Paul Eschholz

ISBN 13:
9780312101107
ISBN 10:
0312101104
Edition: 4th
Format: Trade Paper
Copyright: 11/15/1994
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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Summary

This thematically arranged reader offers a broad range of 77 readings, including 58 essays, 10 short stories, and 8 poems. The 8 thematic sections contain focused subsections designed to facilitate classroom discussion and student writing on well-defined issues, questions, and concerns.

Introduction: On Reading and Writing

Private Lives

(60)

A Sense of Self

(30)

``Shame''

(5)

Dick Gregory

``Shooting an Elephant''

(7)

George Orwell

``How It Feels to Be Colored Me''

(5)

Zora Neale Hurston

``I'm Nobody! Who Are You?'' (Poem)

(2)

Emily Dickinson

``A Sense of Shelter'' (Short Story)

(11)

John Updike

Turning Points

(28)

``Salvation''

(4)

Langston Hughes

``Once More to the Lake''

(7)

E. B. White

``The Endless Streetcar Ride into the Night and the Tinfoil Noose''

(6)

Jean Shepherd

``Learning to See''

(5)

Samuel H. Scudder

``The Road Not Taken'' (Poem)

(2)

Robert Frost

``The Story of an Hour'' (Short Story)

(4)

Kate Chopin

Family and Friends

103

(102)

Family Ties

105

(32)

``Our Son Mark''

105

(8)

S. I. Hayakawa

``My Grandmother:A Rite of Passage''

113

(7)

Anthony Brandt

``A Tale of Two Gravies''

120

(4)

Karen P. Engelhardt

``Those Winter Sundays'' (Poem)

124

(2)

Robert Hayden

``Heritage'' (Poem)

126

(3)

Linda Hogan

``A Worn Path'' (Short Story)

129

(8)

Eudora Welty

The Troubled American Family

137

(44)

``Can the American Family Survive?''

137

(10)

Margaret Mead

``Homosexuality: One Family's Affair''

147

(7)

Michael Reese

Pamela Abramson

``All Happy Clans Are Alike: In Search of the Good Family''

154

(10)

Jane Howard

``Paul's Case'' (Short Story)

164

(17)

Willa Cather

What are Friends?

181

(24)

``On Friendship''

181

(5)

Margaret Mead

Rhoda Metraux

``College Friends''

186

(4)

Jennifer Crichton

``Friendships among Men''

190

(9)

Mark Feigen Fasteau

``Last Day'' (From Charlotte's Web)

199

(6)

E. B. White

Men and Women

205

(66)

Gender Roles

207

(30)

``Unfair Game''

207

(4)

Susan Jacoby

``I'll Explain It to You': Lecturing and Listening''

211

(15)

Deborah Tannen

``The Androgynous Man''

226

(4)

Noel Perrin

``Rope''(Short Story)

230

(7)

Katherine Anne Porter

Men and Women in the Workplace

237

(34)

``The Importance of Work''

237

(6)

Gloria Steinem

``Summer Job''

243

(7)

Mary Mebane

``On Power''

250

(5)

Barbara Lazear Ascher

``Confessions of a Working Stiff''

255

(7)

Patrick Fenton

``One Last Time''

262

(9)

Gary Soto

Campus Life

271

(80)

Teaching and Learning

273

(32)

``Angels on a pin''

273

(3)

Alexander Calandra

``How I Learned to Read and Write''

276

(6)

Frederick Douglass

``Miss Duling''

282

(5)

Eudora Welty

``Theme for English B'' (Poem)

287

(3)

Langston Hughes

``In the Region of Ice'' (Short Story)

290

(15)

Joyce Carol Oates

Campus Issues of the 1990s

305

(46)

``The Unromantic Generation''

305

(11)

Bruce Weber

``Sexual Correctness: Has It Gone Too Far?''

316

(9)

Sarah Crichton

``College Is a waste of Time and Money''

325

(10)

Caroline Bird

``The Recoloring of Campus Life''

335

(13)

Shelby Steele

``Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures''

348

(3)

Ji-Yeon Mary Yuhfill

Language in America

351

(116)

Language, Prejudice, and Sexism

353

(52)

``The Language of Prejudice''

353

(11)

Gordon Allport

``The Meanings of a Word''

364

(4)

Gloria Naylor

``Defining the` American Indian': A case Study in the Language of Suppression''

368

(9)

Haig Bosmajian

``Sexism in English: A 1990s Update''

377

(11)

Alleen Pace Nilsen

``On the Subway'' (Poem)

388

(3)

Sharon Olds

``The Yellow Wallpaper'' (Short Story)

391

(14)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Language and Persuasion

405

(62)

``Politics and the English Language''

405

(13)

George Orwell

``Propaganda: How Not to Be Bamboozled''

418

(11)

Donna Woolfolk Cross

``Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals''

429

(18)

Jib Fowles

``Inaugural Address, 1993''

447

(5)

Bill Clinton

``When Language Dies: 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture''

452

(8)

Toni Morrison

``Harrison Bergeron'' (Short Story)

460

(7)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Cultural Encounters

467

(36)

``Chief Red Jacket Responds to the Reverend Mr. Cram''

469

(5)

Chief Red Jacket

``In Search of Bruce Lee's Grave''

474

(4)

Shanlon Wu

``Talking in the New Land''

478

(11)

Edite Cunha

``On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst''

489

(12)

Marianna De Marco torgovnick

``Immigrants''(Poem)

501

(2)

Pat Mora

Contemporary Issues

503

(54)

``The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society''

505

(8)

Jonathan Kozol

``Abortion Is too Complex to Feel All One Way About''

513

(4)

Anna Quindlen

``A Brother's Murder''

517

(4)

Brent Staples

``Why Worry About the Animals?''

521

(10)

Jean Bethke Elshtain

``What Is the Truth about Global Warming?''

531

(6)

Robert James Bidinotto

``Fear in a Handful of Numbers''

537

(5)

Dennis Overbye

``Active and Passive Euthanasia''

542

(7)

James Rachels

``How Far She Went''(Short Story)

549

(8)

Mary Hood

The Individual and Society: Some Classic Statements

557

(60)

``Declaration of Independence''

559

(4)

Thomas Jefferson

``Civil Disobedience''

563

(19)

Henry David Thoreau

``Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions''

582

(6)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

``A Woman's Fight''

588

(3)

Pretty Shield

``Letter from Birmingham Jail''

591

(15)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

``The Unknown Citizen'' (Poem)

606

(3)

W. H. Auden

``The Lottery'' (Short Story)

609

(8)

Shirley Jackson

Glossary

617

(18)

Index of Authors and Titles

635

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Outlooks and Insights : A Reader for College Writers

Outlooks and Insights : A Reader for College Writers

9780312101107

0312101104

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