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Visions Across the Americas : Short Essays for Composition
ISBN: 9781428263772 | 1428263772
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 3/12/2009
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What do John Steinbeck and Maya Angelou have in common? They're both among the great authors you'll encounter in VISIONS ACROSS THE AMERICAS: SHORT ESSAYS FOR COMPOSITION. This book presents 72 cross-cultural essays on such diverse themes as: Language and Culture; The Family; Americans and Immigrants; Racism, Sexism, and Ageism; and Technology, Cyberspace, and the Cosmos. An Irony and Humor theme has been added to this newest edition. Each chapter provides students with a blueprint for a specific type of essay, with pre- and post-reading questions and activities that reinforce an understanding of the rhetorical modes addressed in that chapter.
| Communicating is Language at Work | |
| Tips on Becoming an Active Reader | |
| Toni Morrison, Writers Together (annotated) | |
| Responding to Readings: Constructing Paragraphs and Essays | |
| Generating Ideas and Establishing a Focus | |
| Peter Elbow, Freewriting | |
| Structuring Essays | |
| Point of View: Position of Authority | |
| Appropriate Use of Point of View | ... MORE|
| Lead-ins and Concluding Sentences | |
| Transitions | |
| Revising and Editing | |
| Marriage: The Changing Institution | |
| Internet Connection: Joanne Jaime, Modern Marriages | |
| Special Writing Activities: The Individual and Group Response | |
| Journals, Reading/Writing Logs, and Thesis Notebooks | |
| Response and Summary | |
| Group Activities and Collaborative Writing | |
| Summation | |
| Why I Am a Writer | |
| The Joy of Writing | |
| My Mother''s English | |
| Narration | |
| Common Elements of Narration | |
| Creating Chronological Order | |
| Developing Character | |
| Establishing Mood and Tone | |
| Tips on Writing Narrative Essays | |
| Maxine Hong Kingston, Ghosts | |
| The Offering of the Pipe as told to John G | |
| Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow) | |
| Journey to Nine Miles | |
| Internet Connection: Alice Walker, Pilgrimages | |
| Saigon, April 1975 | |
| Leaps of Faith | |
| The Star | |
| Internet Connection: Arthur C. Clarke, Crisis of Faith/Science | |
| Additional Topics and Issues for Narrative Essays | |
| Description | |
| Details: Appealing to the Five Senses | |
| Figurative Language: Appealing to the Imagination | |
| Dialogue: Revealing Characters Through Speech | |
| Actions: Describing People by What They Do | |
| Tips on Writing Descriptive Essays | |
| Langston Hughes, Salvation | |
| Internet Connection: Langston Hughes,Testimonies/Beliefs | |
| Champion of the World from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
| Internet Connection: Maya Angelou, Colloquialisms, Jargon, Slang | |
| Old Before Her Time | |
| Internet Connection: Katherine Barrett, Role-Playing | |
| from The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
| Confessions of a Quit Addict | |
| The Snake | |
| Additional Topics and Issues for Descriptive Essays | |
| Illustration and Example | |
| Developing Your Thesis | |
| Creating Vivid Examples | |
| Tips on Writing Illustration and Example Essays | |
| Now That''s Reality TV | |
| My Own Style | |
| The Myth of the Model Minority | |
| Internet Connection: Philip Chiu, Model Minorities | |
| Where Have All the Flowers Gone: Is the Human Race Its Own Worst Enemy? Internet Connection: Ann Scheid, Ecology | |
| Notes from a Son to His Father | |
| The Ways We Lie | |
| Additional Topics and Issues for Illustration and Example Essays | |
| Definition | |
| Definition by Example | |
| Definition by History | |
| Definition by Comparison or Contrast | |
| Definition by Negation | |
| Tips on Writing Definition Essays | |
| What Is Intelligence, Anyway? Jo Goodwin Parker, What Is Poverty? Internet Connection: Jo Goodwin Parker, Poverty in the United States | |
| Guillermo G=mez-Peħa, Documented / Undocumented | |
| Does America Still Exist? Sravani Banerjee, Pizza, Pakora, and Pancit+The Importance of Global Education | |
| What Is This Thing Called Family? Internet Connection: Lee Herrick, Adoption/Family | |
| Additional Topics and Issues for Definition Essays | |
| Process Analysis | |
| [Chapter not yet received from author.Unable to add Internet Connections.] Directive Process Papers: How to Do Something | |
| Informative Process Papers: How Something Is/Was Done | |
| Tips on Writing Process Analysis Essays | |
| Interviews: Stories That Make a Difference | |
| Freedom | |
| Community Re-discovered | |
| A Homemade Education from The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Luis M. Valdez, Perspectives on "Borders" | |
| Christine Ng, Bringing Out the Flirt in You | |
| Additional Topics and Issues for Process Analysis Essays | |
| Comparison and Contrast | |
| Developing Essays Using Comparison and Contrast | |
| Irony and Voice | |
| Tips on Writing Com | |
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