The River Reader
ISBN: 9781439082485 | 1439082480
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/1/2010
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English Students.
| Introduction | |
| Guidelines for Reading an Essay | |
| Sample Analysis of an Essay | |
| "Shakespeare's Sister" | |
| Visual Strategies: A Visual Essay | |
| Guidelines for Writing an Essay | |
| Student Essay | |
| "The Scenic Route" | |
| Narration and Description | |
| "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe" (professional paragraph) | |
| "Deloris" (student paragraph) | |
| "The Veil" (visual text) | |
| "My Name is Margaret" | |
| "Basketball Season" | |
| "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" | |
| "Digging" | |
| "Shooting an Elephant" | |
| "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" (story) | |
| Process Anaysis | |
| "Digging Limestone" (professional paragraph) | |
| "Making Stained Glass" (student paragraph) | |
| "How Many It Takes" (visual text) | |
| "Drawing on Experience" | |
| "Third World Driving Hints and Tips" | |
| "Campus Racism 101" | |
| "Arranging a Marriage in India" | |
| "The Knife" | |
| "The Golden Darters" (story) | |
| Comparison and Contrast | |
| "FDR and Truman" (professional paragraph) | |
| "Howard and Rush" (student paragraph) | |
| "At Play" and "Tianzi Mountains" (visual text) | |
| "Two Views of the River" | |
| "Cowboys v. Mounties" | |
| "Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa" | |
| "A Tale of Two Divorces" | |
| "Shakespeare in the Bush" | |
| "Everyday Use" (story) | |
| Division and Classification | |
| "Conservation is Good Work" (professional paragraph) | |
| "Gentlemen! Start Your Engines" (student paragraph) | |
| "Cloud Chart" (visual text) | |
| "The Truth About Lying" | |
| "Shades of Black" | |
| "Mother Tongue" | |
| "Four Kinds of Chance" | |
| "Five Myths About Immigration" | |
| "Revelation" (story) | |
| Defintion | |
| "Consumption" (professional paragraph) | |
| "Personality" (student paragraph) | |
| "Adbusters" (visual text) | |
| "A Word's Meaning Can Often Depend on Who Says It" | |
| "The Hoax" | |
| "Pain" | |
| "Attention! Multitaskers" | |
| "On Friendship" | |
| "The Lesson" (story) | |
| Cause and Effect | |
| "The Little Death" (professional paragraph) | |
| "Barrier-Free Design" (student paragraph) | |
| "The Endurance" (visual text) | |
| "Comforting Thoughts" | |
| "Peak Performances: Why Records Fall" | |
| "How Flowers Changed the World" | |
| "The Movie That Changed My Life" | |
| "Examined Life" | |
| "The Star" (story) | |
| Persuasion and Argument | |
| "The Organ Donor Shortage" (professional paragraph) | |
| "Genetic Engineering" (student paragraph) | |
| "Physicians Against Land Mines" (visual text) | |
| A Debate About Racism | |
| "I Have A Dream" | |
| "A Chinaman's Chance Reflections of the American Dream" | |
| A Debate About Windmills | |
| "An Ill Wind Off Cape Cod" | |
| "Cape Wind Is Sound for the Sound" | |
| A Debate About Family | |
| "Stone Soup" | |
| "Women and the Future of Fatherhood" | |
| A Debate About the Death Penalty | |
| "The Penalty of Death" | |
| "Execution" | |
| "Harrison Bergeron" (story) | |
| Resources for Writing | |
| Survival: A Casebook | |
| "A Match to the Heart" (Narration and Description) | |
| Images of Survival: A Visual Essay | |
| "My Daily Dives in the Dumpster" (Process Analysis) | |
| "The Spider and the Wasp" (Comparison and Contrast) | |
| "The Technology of Medicine" (Division and Classification) | |
| "The Particulars of Financial Failure" (Definition) | |
| "Why the Reckless Survive" (Cause and Effect) | |
| A Debate About Global Warming | |
| "The Time to Act is Now" (Persuasion and Argument) | |
| "Global Warming Delusions" (Persuasion and Argument) | |
| "Dream Children" (Story) | |
| Using and Documenting Sources | |
| Annotated Student Research Paper | |
| "The Problems and Possibilities of Online Communities" | |
| Glossary | |
| Credits | |
| Subject Index | |
| Name Title Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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