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Riverside Reader

by: Trimmer, Joseph F.

Riverside Reader

by: Trimmer, Joseph F.

ISBN 13:
9780395903544
ISBN 10:
0395903548
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 08/10/1998
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Thematic Table of Contents

Preface

xxi

INTRODUCTION

(22)

Guidelines for Reading an Essay

(3)

Sample Analysis of an Essay: ``The Chain Gang Show''

(6)

Brent Staples

Guidelines for Writing an Essay

(5)

NARRATION AND DESCRIPTION

(72)

A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe (professional paragraph)

(1)

Maxine Hong Kingston

Deloris (student paragraph)

(2)

Lauren Briner

My Name Is Margaret

(8)

Maya Angelou

Keeping the Scorebook

(7)

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Village Watchman

(10)

Terry Tempest Williams

Silent Dancing

(12)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Shooting an Elephant

(10)

George Orwell

Truth or Consequences (story)

(17)

Alice Adams

PROCESS ANALYSIS

(58)

Digging Limestone (professional paragraph)

100

(1)

Scott Russell Sanders

Making Stained Glass (student paragraph)

101

(2)

Sara Temple

Drawing on Experience

103

(8)

Ann Zwinger

My Daily Dives in the Dumpster

111

(8)

Lars Eighner

Campus Racism 101

119

(6)

Nikki Giovanni

Dolphin Courtship: Brutal, Cunning, and Complex

125

(7)

Natalie Angier

In the Toils of the Law

132

(10)

Edward Hoagland

The Golden Darters (story)

142

(11)

Elizabeth Winthrop

COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

153

(76)

FDR and Truman (professional paragraph)

158

(1)

David McCullough

Howard and Rush (student paragraph)

159

(2)

Nathan M. Harms

Two View of the River

161

(4)

Mark Twain

Of Weirdos and Eccentrics

165

(6)

Pico Iyer

My Brother's House

171

(12)

Naomi Shihab Nye

Rapport-Talk and Report-Talk

183

(15)

Deborah Tannen

Nature and Televised Nature

198

(15)

Bill McKibben

Guests of the Nation (story)

213

(16)

Frank O'Connor

DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION

229

(72)

Conservation Is Good Work (professional paragraph)

234

(1)

Wendell Berry

Gentlemen! Start Your Engines (student paragraph)

234

(2)

Gareth Tucker

The Extendable Fork

236

(4)

Calvin Trillin

Four Kinds of Chance

240

(7)

James H. Austin

The Technology of Medicine

247

(8)

Lewis Thomas

Shades of Black

255

(8)

Mary Mebane

Predictable Crises of Adulthood

263

(11)

Gail Sheehy

Revelation (story)

274

(27)

Flannery O'Connor

DEFINITION

301

(64)

The Gospel of Mass Consumption (professional paragraph)

306

(1)

Jeremy Rifkin

Personality (student paragraph)

307

(2)

Jason Utesch

The Hoax

309

(5)

John Berendt

The Holy Use of Gossip

314

(9)

Kathleen Norris

Growing Up in Los Angeles

323

(7)

Richard Rodriguez

Interactivity

330

(10)

Jon Katz

The Tiger Is God

340

(11)

Stephen Harrigan

Everyday Use (story)

351

(14)

Alice Walker

CAUSE AND EFFECT

365

(84)

From the Nest to the Global Village (professional paragraph)

371

(1)

Winifred Gallagher

Barrier-Free Design (student paragraph)

372

(2)

Emily Linderman

Uniforms

374

(7)

Robert Coles

Keeping Women Weak

381

(16)

Cathy Young

Peak Performance: Why Records Fall

397

(8)

Daniel Goleman

One Violent Crime

405

(18)

Bruce Shapiro

The Movie That Changed My Life

423

(14)

Terry McMillan

One Holy Night (story)

437

(12)

Sandra Cisneros

PERSUASION AND ARGUMENT

449

(100)

Jabberwocky (professional paragraph)

458

(1)

Barbara Kingsolver

Genetic Engineering (student paragraph)

459

(2)

Jim. F. Saloman

I Have a Dream

461

(7)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream

468

(13)

Eric Liu

I Surf, Therefore I Am

481

(5)

Judith Levine

A Design for Living on the Internet

486

(9)

Esther Dyson

So How Did I Get Here?

495

(14)

Rosemary L. Bray

The Coming White Underclass

509

(10)

Charles Murray

What the Great Books Do

519

(9)

David Denby

The Limits of the Great Books

528

(9)

Mike Rose

Harrison Bergeron (story)

537

(12)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

RESOURCES FOR WRITING (Thematic Unit---Gambling)

549

(84)

Confessions of a Low Roller (Narration and Description)

555

(6)

Joseph Epstein

Handicapping (Process)

561

(9)

Bill Barich

The Wheat Farmer and the Crap Shooter (Comparison and Contrast)

570

(5)

Clyde Brion Davis

Analyzing a Pack of Cards (Division and Classification)

575

(8)

Charlotte Olmsted

Compulsive Gambling (Definition)

583

(10)

Margaret O. Hyde

Tricks of the Trade (Cause and Effect)

593

(9)

James Popkin

Grand Illusions (Persuasion and Argument)

602

(10)

Robert Goodman

Lyman's Luck (Story)

612

(10)

Louise Erdrich

Not a Bad Night (Student Text)

622

(11)

Jason Rex

Index

633

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