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Strategies for College Writing A Rhetorical Reader

by: Funk, Robert W.; Day, Susan X.; Coleman, Linda S.

Strategies for College Writing A Rhetorical Reader

by: Funk, Robert W.; Day, Susan X.; Coleman, Linda S.

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9780130982551
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0130982555
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/05/2002
Publisher: Pearson

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Who? What? Why? How? Strategies for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader, Second Edition, unifies the reading and writing processes through a Who, What, Why, How heuristic that is more accessible and easily practiced by beginning writers. NEW FEATURES: bull; bull;Twenty-five new readings, including essays by Langston Hughes, Gary Soto, Joan Didion, Alice Walker, Diane Ackerman, Amy Tan, Lewis Thomas, John Holt, Stephanie Ericsson, Scott Russell Sanders, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Bharati Mukherjee. bull;Expanded coverage of revision and audience throughout the next. bull;Updated suggestions for using computers and the Internet, including a text-tied Companion Website trade; -www.prenhall.com/funk-with quizzes, contextual information, and relevant web destinations.

Preface

xiii

Thematic Table of Contents

xix

Engaged Reading

(13)

Getting Started

(1)

Marking the Text

(1)

Reading with a Plan: Who? What? Why? and How?

(2)

``Gender Gap in Cyberspace''

(4)

Deborah Tannen

Using Who? What? Why? and How?

(3)

Making the Reading-Writing Connection

(1)

Developing the Habit

(1)

Using the Core Strategies

(2)

Internet Activity

(1)

Writing from Reading

(19)

Developing Your Writing Skills

(1)

Constructing an Essay

(6)

Generating Ideas

(2)

Making a Plan

(1)

Organizing Your Ideas

(2)

Writing a Draft

(2)

Revising and Editing

(5)

Revising from the Top Down

(1)

Checklist for Revising

(1)

Getting Feedback: Peer Review

(1)

Revising in Peer Groups

(1)

Rewriting on a Word Processor

(1)

Editing the Final Draft

(1)

Checklist for Editing

(1)

Editing on a Word Processor

(1)

Sample Student Essay with Author's Comments

(4)

``Dealing with Death, Coping with Life''

(4)

Jennifer Hoff

Internet Sources for Writers

(1)

Using Interent Resources

(1)

``Twelve Tips to Search the Internet Successfully''

(2)

Bruce maxwell

Strategies for Discovering and Relating Experiences: Narration

(46)

Informal Discovery Writing

(3)

From Discovery to Narration

(1)

Fromal Narration: Relating Discoveries to Readers

(2)

Student Essay: Tara Coburn, ``A Better Place''

(2)

Writer's Workshop: Responding to a Narrative

(1)

Getting Started on a Narrative

(1)

Organizing a Narrative

(1)

Developing a Narrative

(1)

Opening and Closing a Narrative

(1)

Using the Model

(2)

Checklist for Reading and Writing Narrative Essays

(1)

``Jackie's Debut: A Unique Day''

(6)

Mike Royko

Writing from Reading Assignment

(2)

Langston Hughes, ``Salvation''

(4)

``Street Scene: Minor Heroism in a Major Metropolitan Area''

(4)

Ian Frazier

``No Name Woman''

(12)

Maxine Hong Kingston

``Shooting an Elephant''

(8)

George Orwell

Further Ideas for Using Narration

(1)

Strategies for Appealing to the Senses: Description

(43)

``The Grandfather''

(2)

Gary Soto

Writer's Workshop I: Responding to a Description

(1)

Writing from Reading

(2)

Student Essay: Kevin McNeal, ``Last Visit''

(2)

Getting Started on a Description

(1)

Organizing a Descrption

(1)

Developing a Description

(1)

Using the Model

(2)

Writer's Workshop II: Analyzing a Description

(1)

Checklist for Reading and Writing Descriptive Essays

(1)

``Two Views of the Mississippi''

(5)

Mark Twain

Writing from Reading Assignment

(2)

``Marrying Absurd''

(5)

Joan Didion

``White Breast Flats''

(7)

Emilie Gallant

``In the Kitchen''

106

(8)

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

``Once More to the Lake''

114

(7)

E. B. White

Further Ideas for Using Description

121

(1)

Strategies for Making a Point: Exemplification

122

(55)

``Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space''

123

(4)

Brent Staples

Writer's Workshop I: Responding to an Exemplification Essay

127

(1)

Writing from Reading

127

(2)

Student Essay: Robet Lincoln, ``Out and About''

127

(2)

Getting Started on Exemplification

129

(1)

Organizing Exemplification

130

(1)

Developing Exemplification

131

(1)

Opening and Closing Exemplification

132

(1)

Using the Model

133

(1)

Writer's Workshop II: Analyzing an Exemplification Essay

133

(1)

Checklist for Reading and Writing Exemplification Essays

133

(1)

``On the Interstate: A City of Mind''

134

(6)

Sue Hubbell

Writing from Reading Assignment

138

(2)

``Shitty First Draft''

140

(6)

Anne Lamott

``Slow Descent into Hell''

146

(8)

Jon D. Hull

``In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens''

154

(11)

Alice Walker

``A Weight That Women Carry''

165

(11)

Sallie Tisdale

Further Ideas for Using Exemplification

176

(1)

Strategies for Examplaining How Things Work: Process Analysis

177

(46)

``Cat Bathing as a Martial Art''

178

(2)

Bud Herron

Writer's Workshop I: Responding to a Process Analysis

180

(1)

Writing from Reading

180

(3)

Student Essay: James R. Bryans, ``Buying Land: Easier Said Than Done''

181

(2)

Getting Started on a Process Analysis

183

(1)

Organizing a Process Analysis

183

(1)

Developing a Process Analysis

184

(1)

Opening and Closing a Process Analysis

185

(1)

Using the Model

186

(2)

Writer's Workshop II: Analyzing Process Writing

187

(1)

Checklist for Reading and Writing Process Essays

187

(1)

``Wall Covering''

188

(6)

Dereck Williamson

Writing from Reading Assignment

193

(1)

``Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall''

194

(5)

Diane Ackerman

``Embalming Mr. Jones''

199

(9)

Jessica Mitford

``How to Write a Personal Letter''

208

(5)

Garrison Keillor

``The Trouble with French Fries''

213

(9)

Malcolm Gladwell

Further Ideas for Using Process Analysis

222

(1)

Strategies for Clarifying Meaning: Definition

223

(45)

``The Company Man''

224

(2)

Ellen Goodman

Writer's Workshop I: Responding to a Definition

226

(1)

Writing from Reading

226

(2)

Student Essay: Megan Quick, ``In Tune with His Students''

226

(2)

Getting Started on a Definition

228

(1)

Organizing a Definition

229

(1)

Developing a Definition

230

(1)

Opening and Closing a Definition

231

(1)

Using the Model

232

(2)

Writer's Workshop II: Analyzing a Definition

232

(1)

Checklist for Reading and Writing Definition Essays

233

(1)

``Who's a Hillbilly?''

234

(5)

Rebecca Thomas Kirkendall

Writing from Reading Assignment

238

(1)

``I Want a Wife''

239

(4)

Judy Brady

``Mother Tongue''

243

(8)

Amy Tan

``Father Hunger''

251

(7)

Michel Marriott

``The Fear''

258

(9)

Andrew Holleran

Further Ideas for Using Definition

267

(1)

Strategies for Organizing Ideas and Experience: Division and Classification

268

(57)

``The Technology of Medicine''

269

(5)

Lewis Thomas

Writer's Workshop I: Responding to a Classification

273

(1)

Writing from Reading

274

(3)

Student Essay: Jessica Swigart, ``Ambition, Good or Bad?''

274

(3)

Getting Started on Division and Classification Writing

277

(1)

Organizing Division and Classification Writing

278

(1)

Developing Division and Classification Writing

279

(1)

Opening and Closing Division and Classification Writing

280

(1)

Using the Model

281

(2)

Writer's Workshop II: Analyzing a Division and Classification Essay

282

(1)

Checklist for Reading and Writing Division and Classification Essays

282

(1)

``Doublespeak''

283

(8)

William Lutz

Writing from Reading Assignment

289

(2)

``Three Kinds of Discipline''

291

(5)

John Holt

``The Ways We Lie''

296

(10)

Stephanie Ericsson

``What Friends Are For''

306

(9)

Phillip Lopate

``What We Now Know about Memory''

315

(9)

Lee Smith

Further Ideas for Using Division and Classificaiton

324

(1)

Strategies for Examining Connections: Comparison and Contrast

325

(51)

``Day to Night: Picking Cotton''

326

(3)

Maya Angelou

Writer's Workshop I: Responding to Comparison and Contrast

329

(1)

Writing from Reading

329

(2)

Student Essay: Kara Kitner, ``Life: It's All About Choices''

329

(2)

Getting Started on Comparison and Contrast

331

(1)

Organizing Comparison and Contrast

332

(3)

Developing Comparison and Contrast

335

(1)

Opening and Closing Comparison and Contrast

335

(1)

Using the Model

336

(2)

Writer's Workshop II: Analysing Comparison and Contrast

337

(1)

Checklist for Reading and Writing Comparison and Contrast Essays

337

(1)

``Parallel Worlds: The Surprising Similarities (and Differences) of Country-and-Western and Rap''

338

(8)

Denise Noe

Writing from Reading Assignment

344

(2)

``Pole Vaulting''

346

(5)

William Finnegan

``Sex, Lies, and Conversation''

351

(8)

Deborah Tannen

``The Men We Carry in Our Minds''

359

(7)

Scott Russell Sanders

``Dividing American Society''

366

(9)

Andrew Hacker

Further Ideas for Using Comparison and Contrast

375

(1)

Strategies for Interpreting Meaning: Cause and Effect

376

(45)

``Shopping and Other Spritual Adventures in America Today''

377

(3)

Phyllis Rose

Writer's Workshop I: Responding to Cause and Effect

380

(1)

Writing from Reading

380

(2)

Student Essay: Benjamin Erwin, ``Choosing Your Life''

380

(2)

Getting Started on Cause and Effect

382

(1)

Organizing Cause and Effect

383

(2)

Developing Cause and Effect

385

(1)

Opening and Closing Cause and Effect

386

(1)

Using the Model

387

(2)

Writer's Workshop II: Analyzing Cause and Effect

387

(1)

Checklist for Reading and Writing Cause and Effect Essays

387

(2)

``Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls''

389

(6)

Katha Pollitt

Writing from Reading Assignment

393

(2)

``My Wood''

395

(5)

E. M. Forster

``The Greenland Viking Mystery''

400

(6)

Kathy A. Svitil

``On Reading and Writing''

406

(6)

Stephen King

``The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria''

412

(8)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Further Ideas for Using Cause and Effect

420

(1)

Strategies for Influencing Opinion: Argument

421

(71)

``Bake Your Bread at Home''

422

(3)

Laurel Robertson

Writer's Workshop I: Responding to an Argument

425

(1)

Writing from Reading

425

(4)

Student Essay: Sean Stangland, ``The Educational Value of Film''

426

(3)

Getting Started on an Argument

429

(1)

Organizing an Argument

430

(2)

Developing an Argument

432

(1)

Opening and Closing an Argument

432

(1)

Using the Model

433

(2)

Writer's Workshop II: Analyzing an Argument

433

(1)

Checklist for Reading and Writing Argument Essays

434

(1)

``Marriage as a Restricted Club''

435

(7)

Lindsy Van Gelder

Writing from Reading Assignment

440

(2)

Further Ideas for Using Argument

442

(1)

Debate: How Is the Internet Affecting Young People?

443

(1)

``Young Cyber Addicts''

443

(4)

Amy Wu

``We're Teen, We're Queer, and We've Got E-mail''

447

(7)

Steve Silberman

``The Wired Teen''

454

(5)

Sue Ferguson

Ideas for Writing about the Teens Online Controversy

458

(1)

Debate: Are TV Talk Shows Harmful?

459

(1)

``Tuning in Trouble: Talk TV's Destructive Impact on Mental Health''

459

(7)

Jeanne A. Heaton

``In Defense of Talk Shows''

466

(5)

Barbara Ehrenreich

Ideas for Writing about Talk Shows

469

(2)

Debate: Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?

471

(1)

``Death and Justice''

471

(6)

Edward I. Koch

``Forgiving the Unforgivable''

477

(6)

Claudia Dreifus

``The Death Penalty on Trial''

483

(9)

Jonathan Alter

Ideas for Writing about the Death Penalty

491

(1)

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