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Edition: 5th
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Copyright: 07/18/2003
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

Viewpointsfeatures diverse, often opposing, perspectives on various themes--from human behavior, cultural heritage, and work to the media--and can be used in both high-level developmental writing courses and low-level freshman composition classes. It provides extensive reading and writing instruction, including essential pre-reading techniques, post-reading questions, and writing assignments to help students articulate their own opinions.

Rhetorical Table of Contest

xiii

Preface

xviii

PART 1 Viewpoints on Reading and Writing Essays

(78)

CHAPTER 1 Viewpoints on Reading Essays

(34)

Keeping a Reading Journal

(1)

Reading Essays

(1)

The Structure of an Essay

(14)

Thesis

(2)

Supporting Evidence

(10)

Order of Support

(2)

Before Going On

(1)

Understanding the Content

(9)

Separating Main Ideas from Supporting Details

(2)

Separating Fact from Opinion

(3)

Drawing Inferences

(4)

Before Going On

(1)

Marking as You Read

(8)

The Wet Drug

BY PETE HAMILL

(3)

Writing Summaries

(2)

Writing Reflections

(1)

Collecting Words to Learn

(1)

Before Going On

(1)

CHAPTER 2 Viewpoints on Writing Essays

(43)

Getting Started: Finding a Working Thesis (Stage 1)

(9)

Discovering Ideas in Your Reading Journal

(1)

Brainstorming

(5)

Freewriting

(2)

Before Going On

(1)

Getting It on Paper: Supporting Your Thesis (Stage 2)

(17)

Refining Your Thesis

(2)

Grouping Your Ideas

(1)

Outlining Your Support

(2)

Writing an Argumentative Essay

(2)

Nutshell Statements

(2)

Patterning Your Paragraphs: The Beginning

(1)

Patterning Your Paragraphs: The Middle

(3)

Patterning Your Paragraphs: The Ending

(1)

First Draft

(2)

Before Going On

(1)

Getting It Right: Revising and Editing (Stage 3)

(14)

Revising

(6)

Editing

(3)

Proofreading

(3)

Before Going On

(1)

Revising and Editing Checklists: Brief Versions

(1)

On the Net

(1)

PART 2 Readings Worth Thinking and Writing About

(283)

CHAPTER 3 Viewpoints on Learning

(52)

To Err Is Wrong

BY ROGER VON OECH

(8)

"We learn by our failures. A person's errors are the whacks that lead him to think something different."

In Praise of the F Word

BY MARY SHERRY

(5)

"Passing students who have not mastered the work cheats them and the employers who expect graduates to have basic skills."

Your Kid's Going to Pay for Cheating-Eventually

BY LEONARD PITTS

(4)

"Last week, school officials in Piper, Kan., adopted an official policy on plagiarism-with punishments ranging from redoing an assignment to expulsion. Unfortunately all that comes too late to help Christine Pelton."

Essence of Education

BY ROBERT W. TRACINSKI

100

(5)

"If campaigns such as the one against teaching evolution are allowed to succeed, the ultimate result will be the extinction of genuine education."

The Lesson

BY TONI CADE BAMBARA

105

(9)

"'Imagine for a minute what kind of society it is in which some people can spend on a toy what it would cost to feed a family of six or seven.'"

The Practicality of the Liberal Arts Major

BY DEBRA SIKES AND BARBARA MURRAY

114

(6)

"The time has come to rethink what education really is and how it relates to the functions of society."

Vouchers Answer New Segregation in Our Schools

BY PAUL GOLDMAN

120

(4)

"From busing to vouchers, two U.S. Supreme Courts-one liberal, one conservative-have now both come to the same conclusion: Our public schools are unacceptably segregated."

School Vouchers Don't Seem the Answer

BY LARRY EICHEL

124

(4)

"No one should have been surprised by the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling that school vouchers are constitutional. You could see it coming"

Student Essay: College Brings Alienation

BY JOHN GONZALES

128

(7)

"My decision to chase a dream, return to college at age 24, and take the liberal arts courses that will help me become a journalist has forced me to be two people."

On the Net

130

(2)

CHAPTER 4 Viewpoints on Human Behavior

132

(44)

Call Me Crazy, But I Have to Be Myself

BY MARY SEYMOUR

135

(4)

"Being a functional member of society and having a mental disorder is an intricate balancing act."

I'm Not a Dork; I'm Ahead of Today's Fashions

BY ALAN EHRENHALT

139

(5)

"We've come to perceive yesterday's styles as not only inappropriate, but also physically repulsive. Then the process reverses itself, and we change the rules."

Night Walker

BY BRENT STAPLES

144

(5)

"I soon gathered that being perceived as dangerous is a hazard in itself"

On Holidays and How to Make Them Work

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI

149

(4)

"On Labor Day you take the day off, then go to the Labor Day sales and spend your devalued money with a clerk who is working."

Sunday in the Park

BY BEL KAUFMAN

153

(5)

"My kid's got just as good a right here as yours, and if he feels like throwing sand, he'll throw it, and if you don't like it, you can take your kid the hell out of here."

We Real Cool

BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS

158

(3)

"We real cool. We left school."

"The Ghetto Made Me Do It"

BY FRANCIS FLAHERTY

161

(6)

"In the girl's neighborhood and in her family violence is a norm, an occurrence so routine that Morgan's 17 years of exposure to it have rendered her not responsible for her [criminal] actions."

Seeking the Roots of Violence

BY ANASTASIA TOUFEXIS

167

(5)

"Can society's ills really be responsible for all the savagery that is sweeping America? Or could some people be predisposed to violence by their genes?"

Student Essay: Teen Sex: "Too Scary Out There for Me"

BY MARI KINNEY

172

(8)

"I think we all feel lonely and want to feel loved, but sex won't fix that."

On the Net

175

(1)

CHAPTER 5 Viewpoints on Cultural Heritage

176

(42)

The Legacy of Generation Ñ

BY CHRISTY HAUBECCER

180

(4)

"The United States of the 21st century will be undeniably ours. Again."

The Great Divide

BY MICHAEL QUINTANILLA

184

(7)

"'Our families have struggled to come here for a better future and then we still have to struggle with people who are from our own race."

Cultural Baggage

BY BARBARA EHRENREICH

191

(5)

"Throughout the 60's and 70's, I watched one group after another African-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans-stand up and proudly reclaim their roots while I just sank back ever deeper into my seat."

Why Must Everything Be Black or White?

BY E.R. SHIPP

196

(4)

"All this is an illustration of just how wacky is our fascination with categorizing people in this country according to race-a concept that social scientists say has no biological basis."

Time to Look and Listen

BY MAGDOLINE ASFAHANI

200

(4)

"It is our collective differences that unite us and make us unique as a nation. It's what determines our present and our future."

If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?

BY JAMES BALDWIN

204

(5)

"It is not the black child's language that is in question, it is not his language that is despised: It is his experience."

What's Wrong with Black English

BY RACHEL L. JONES

209

(5)

"I have not formed a personal political ideology, but I do know this: it hurts me to hear black children use black English, knowing that they will be at yet another disadvantage in an educational system already full of stumbling blocks."

Student Essay: Coming to America

BY HIEU HUYNH

214

(8)

"My coming to America ... was not very pleasant."

On the Net

216

(2)

CHAPTER 6 Viewpoints on Some Social Concerns

218

(42)

Ethical Tightrope

BY JIM LICHTMAN

222

(5)

"Somewhere in our search for the good life, for our families and ourselves, we compromised. Not all at once, but in little ways over many years."

Keeping Faith in Kids

BY DAVID GERCEN

227

(4)

"Are we really raising a nation of hellions? What's wrong with the Y generation?"

Big Ideas for a Better America

BY JOHN F. KENNEDY, JR.

231

(4)

"It's become an all-too familiar refrain: Young people aren't interested in politics and don't care enough to vote."

Eggs, Twinkies and Ethnic Stereotypes

BY JEANNE PARK

235

(4)

"We all hold misleading stereotypes of people that limit us as individuals in that we cheat ourselves out of the benefits different cultures can contribute."

Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids

BY ANNA QUINDLEN

239

(5)

"Here is the parallel universe that has flourished while the more fortunate were rewarding themselves for the stock split with SUVs and home additions. There is a boom market in homelessness."

Severing the Human Connection

BY H. BRUCE MILLER

244

(5)

"Is it that the people are simply incorrigibly dishonest, that the glue of integrity and mutual respect that holds society together is finally dissolving?"

My God, My Constitution

BY PHIL DONAHUE

249

(4)

"Religion and devotion to God should, like St. Paul's charity, not be puffed up. God does not reward the loudest voice. Moreover, the 'under God' inclusion in the pledge is, as the much-maligned majority in the Ninth Federal Circuit ruled, unconstitutional."

Pledge Words Do No Harm to Nonbelievers

BY ROCHELLE RILEY

253

(3)

"Now that we've had a chance to think about it, what is the Pledge of Allegiance, really? It's just words honoring a flag that has represented a country founded 'under God.'"

Student Essay: Should I Believe in God?

BY AMY KIMOTO

256

(7)

"Religion may bring sanctuary and guidance to some people, but I object to some of the ideas preached by many religions, like the concept that one religion is right and the rest are wrong"

On the Net

257

(3)

CHAPTER 7 Viewpoints on Family and Relationships

260

(48)

Silent Bond

BY DAVID BIRO

263

(5)

"There is nothing like a crisis to galvanize a family, to set its silent wheels in motion."

The Perfect Family

BY ALICE HOFFMAN

268

(4)

"If I felt deprived as a child, it was only when our family was measured against some notion of what we were supposed to be."

My Grandmother

BY LINDA PASTAN

272

(3)

"She married knowingly,/at her father's bidding,/the wrong man."

Spoiling Our Kids

BY AMY DICKINSON

275

(4)

"Childish feelings of mini-deprivation like this are, I suspect, helping fuel a run on luxury products for kids by parents who feel that their darlings should never go without."

House of Cards

BY KEVIN GRAY

279

(4)

"Any excuse for a reunion and my family holds one... I'm not a fan of these functions, though I feel compelled to add that it's not because I don't love my family. It's my family's secrets that trouble me, the way we bury our mistakes in silence, rewrite our private shames through public denial."

Black Unlike Me

BY DANA WOLFF

283

(5)

"I had already done that thing again. That thing that white parents who have black children do: we move from racially clueless to racially conscious in the most clumsy of ways, never turning off our radar or putting down our dukes."

Where's Papa?

BY DAVID POPENOE

288

(12)

"What the decline of fatherhood and marriage in America really means is that slowly, insidiously, and relentlessly our society has been moving in an ominous direction."

The Father Fixation

BY JUDITH STACEY

300

(4)

"However well intentioned and appealing, most of the claims made by family values crusaders are blatantly false as well as destructive."

Student Essay: My Younger Sibling

BY ANNE RISHI

304

(7)

"Now I see I've become an unwitting role model for my sister, a role I can only hope she doesn't follow"

On the Net

306

(2)

CHAPTER 8 Viewpoints on Work

308

(44)

What Does Your Pen Color Say About You?

BY JESSIE MILLIGAN

311

(4)

"Just when you thought you'd heard of every possible survey, along comes one that says the color of pen ink used by American workers is linked to job performance."

On a Role

BY LAMAR GRAHAM

315

(7)

"'There's no such thing as a lifetime career anymore.'"

For a Lady I Know

BY COUNTEE CULLEN

322

(3)

"She thinks that up in heaven, /Her class lies late and snores."

Women Still Fighting for Job Equality

BY DEWAYNE WICKHAM

325

(4)

"'No doubt about it, I'm still bumping up against that glass ceiling."

My Mother Never Worked

BY BONNIE SMITH-YACKEL

329

(6)

"'Well, you see your mother never worked.'"

The Company Man

BY ELLEN GOODMAN

335

(4)

"He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00A.M. Sunday morning"

What Does Sex/Gender Have to Do with Your Job?

BY JEFFREY BERNBACH

339

(6)

"Historically, the most obvious example of sex bias has been paying women less than men for doing the same work.... This is wage inequality, not to be confused with the glass ceiling, which denies women the opportunity to advance up the corporate ladder."

If You Let Me Play...

BY MARY BROPHY MARCUS

345

(4)

"While most of America's corporations are still commanded by male chief executives, women are gaining ground, winning vice presidential and top management slots, and, in a few cases, the highest leadership roles. Many of these young female executives say playing team sports helped them get ahead."

Student Essay: "Oh, I'm Just a Housewife"

BY ROY WILSON

349

(7)

"Why is it that so many mothers like mine think of themselves as second-class citizens or something similar because they don't have a job?"

On the Net

350

(2)

CHAPTER 9 Viewpoints on the Media

352

(10)

Calling the C-Word the C-Word

BY JAMES PONIEWOZIK

356

(6)

"Three cheers for Dennis Pluchinsky. These days, too many people who would squelch reporting and expression couch their threats in mealymouthed terms-'watch what you say,'and so on-so as to

avoid being accused of favoring censorship."

The Issue Isn't Sex, It's Violence

BY CARYL RIVERS

362

(6)

"I always find myself annoyed when 'intellectual' men dismiss violence against women with a yawn, as if it were beneath their dignity to notice."

Trauma TV

BY ANDREW FERGUSON

368

(4)

"It is only fitting, since there were many moments during the coverage when Kennedy's demise seemed little more than an excuse for people to talk about themselves on live TV."

Pandora's Idiot Box

BY DAVID RAKOFF

372

(5)

"I've just bought the first television of my adult life.... I did not have a television because I was trying to amount to something, a little plan that has essentially panned out."

Summer Kidnapping Panic

BY MICHELLE GOLDBERG

377

(5)

"Random child kidnappings are actually declining The real epidemic is one of saturation TV coverage."

Chips Ahoy

BY RICHARD ZOGLIN

382

(7)

"The V chip will be welcomed by many parents who despair of monitoring the multitude of TV programs available to their kids."

Filters Can't Block Out the World

BY TERRY SCHWADRON

389

(5)

"What's more important to me is education in the home. That includes exposure to the unknown and unwanted."

Student Essay: TV News: Journalism or Propaganda?

BY JIM STONE

394

(9)

"That old warning about buyer beware, caveat emptor, should be changed to include television news."

On the Net

397

(1)

CHAPTER 10 Opposing Viewpoints on the Death Penalty

398

(1)

For:

Death Penalty Saves Lives

BY JEFF JACOBY

403

(4)

"Death penalty abolitionists don't usually mention it, but in promoting a moratorium on executions, they are urging us down a road we have taken before."

Death and Justice

BY EDWARD I. KOCH

407

(6)

"Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm this fact."

Against:

Casting the First Stone

BY LLOYD STEFFEN

413

(7)

"The death penalty must still be questioned as a moral act because it affronts the moral principle that the deliberate and premeditated taking of fully sentient human life is wrong"

Death Penalty's False Promise

BY ANNA QUINDLEN

420

(4)

"Simply put, lam opposed to the death penalty."

Observation:

A Hanging

BY GEORGE ORWELL

424

(6)

"It is curious; but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man."

Student Essay:

Stop Executing Juveniles

BY TRISHA TOYOTO

430

(2)

"We must stop letting our courts send children to the executioner."

On the Net

432

(1)

Appendixes

433

(12)

A. Essay Format and Proofreading Guide

433

(6)

B. Quoting and Documenting Sources

439

(6)

Acknowledgments

445

(6)

Index

451

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