About the Book
This valuable writing resource focuses on demonstrating the various rhetorical modes. In addition, it contains a sizable argumentation section, along with significant coverage of narrative, descriptive, and expository writing. All the readings have been chosen for accessibility, as examples of writing whose organization and techniques students are capable of emulating.
Within each section, selections are organized in order of increasing difficulty, followed by questions and vocabulary exercises. Separate introductory chapters, “The Reading Process” and “The Writing Process,” are also included to help students improve their basic reading and writing skills.
Table of Contents:
* Denotes selections new to this edition.
Preface.
1.The Reading Process.
Reading, Understanding, and Remembering.
Keep Your Brain Engaged.
Do Something with It.
Mark It Up.
* Annotated Essay — Barry Lopez, The Arctic Forest.
Outline It.
2.The Writing Process.
Varieties of Prewriting.
Writing the First Draft.
Revising the Early Drafts.
Editing the Later Drafts.
Proofreading the Final Copy.
This Book's Value.
Types of Writing.
I.NARRATIVE-DESCRIPTIVE WRITING.
3.Description.
Student Work.
* Music Practice Room.
* Thanksgiving Dinner — Before.
* Thanksgiving Dinner — After.
Ruth.
Dude.
Paragraphs.
Eudora Welty, Phoenix Jackson.
Nien Cheng, Detention House Cell, Shanghai.
William Paulk, The White Glove.
Gilbert Highet, Subway Station.
Essays.
* Bailey White, Mr. Bonzonio.
Rick Boyer, The Spinning Mills at Lowell.
James Agee, Shady Grove Cemetery.
* J.A.N. Lee, Unforgettable Grace Hopper.
4.Narration.Student Work.
Going for the Gold.
On-the-Job Training.
On the Intermediate Slope.
The Kiss.
Paragraphs.
Richard Wright, Granny's Fall.
Jane Jacobs, Morning Ballet.
N. Scott Momaday, Mating Flight.
Essays.
* Carol Andrus, English for Novices in a New Land.
Mary E. Mebane, Nonnie's Day.
Floyd Dell, Christmas.
Samuel H. Scudder, Look at Your Fish.
II.EXPOSITORY WRITING.
5.Examples.
Student Work.
Art Majors Are Different.
Fear.
Beyond Words.
Accelerated Incubation.
Paragraphs.
Bergen Evans, The Disadvantages of Human Anatomy.
Margaret Truman, American Women in Wartime.
Stanley Kahan, The Actor's Voice.
* Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses.
Essays.
Carole Currie, We “Talk That Talk” on Any Subject.
* Gary Turbak, Something Different This Way Comes.
William D. Ellis, Solve That Problem — With Humor.
Luis R. Torres, Los Chinos Discover El Barrio.
6.Classification and Division.Student Work.
* The Gossiping Sisters.
Cat Fanciers.
Popular Diets.
T-Shirt Inscriptionalia.
Paragraphs.
Mortimer J. Adler, Three Kinds of Book Owners.
E.B. White, The Three New Yorks.
* Thomas Sowell, Immigrants.
Rachel Carson, Types of Whales.
Essays.
* Kathleen Fury, It's Only a Paper World.
Alvin Toffler, The Duration of Human Relationships.
* Franklin E. Zimring, Hot Boxes for Ex-Smokers.
John Holt, Three Kinds of Discipline.
7.Process.Student Work.
Donating Blood.
Registration.
Successful Sketching.
I Remember, Granner.
Paragraphs.
Veronica J. Nicholas, French Bread.
* Peter Farb, The Onset of Sleep.
* Harold McGee, The Stages of Wine Making.
* Frederick Douglass, How I Learned to Write.
Essays.
Alice Gray, Mosquito Bite.
S.I. Hayakawa, How Dictionaries Are Made.
Helen Sekaquaptewa, Building a Hopi House.
* Crystal Gromer, An Etiquette for Grief.
8.Comparison and Contrast.Student Work.
Traveling the White Water.
* Two Showering Experiences.
Comparing Mechanics.
The Changing World of Women.
Paragraphs.
Charles Osgood, Listening and Reading.
* Richard Selzer, Surgery and Writing.
Ellen Willis, Women and Blacks.
Ashley Montagu, The Natural Superiority of Women.
Essays.
Deborah Tannen, Different Worlds of Words.
Rachel Carson, Fable for Tomorrow.
* Bob Satterwhite, Busy Cities, Tranquil Forests.
James W. Stigler and Harold W. Stevenson, How Asian Teachers Polish Each Lesson to Perfection.
9.Analogy.Student Work.
Fraternal Itch.
Freshman English.
Sunbathing on Scott Beach.
Fishing for the Buyer.
Paragraphs.
* Dave Barry, Adulthood.
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, A Good Relationship.
Arthur Eddington, Daedalus and Icarus.
Essays.
Bob Greene, Harbors Are Changing.
William Humphrey, The Salmon Instinct.
Lewis Carroll, Feeding the Mind.
Lewis Thomas, The Iks.
10.Cause and Effect.Student Work.
Study Habit Blues.
Why Students Leave College.
Robert Redford Moves to Lenoir.
The Downfall of Downtown.
Paragraphs.
Helen Keller, W-a-t-e-r.
* Theodore Dreiser, Travel's Effects.
Diane Ackerman, Smells and Our Memories.
Norman Cousins, Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy.
Essays.
Barry Lopez, The Arctic Forest.
Aldo Leopold, Thinking Like a Mountain.
Donna Kaminski, Where Are the Female Einsteins?
Clarence Darrow, Crime and Criminals.
11.Definition.Student Work.
Feminist.
Laughter.
* Defining Crime.
Brief Examples.
Some Campus Definitions.
Eight Definitions of Religion.
Ambrose Bierce, Some Definitions from The Devil's Dictionary.
Paragraphs.
* Joel Arem, Volcanos.
Neil Postman, Euphemism.
H.W. Fowler, Abstractitis.
* Rebecca Rupp, Science.
Essays.
Robert Fulghum, Liberation.
Denise Graveline, The Blue Book.
* Penny Ward Moser, There's Always Room for … .
III.PERSUASIVE WRITING.
12.Argumentative Techniques.
Student Work.
No Finals for A-Students (Deduction).
Let Women Fight (Induction).
All Reasons but One (Emotional Appeal).
Opposing Viewpoints.
The Right to Pray in School (Deduction).
Against Public Prayer in Schools (Refutation).
Guns for Self-Defense (Emotional Appeal).
Guns Aren't for Everyone (Refutation).
* The Internet Should Be Regulated (Induction).
* International Regulation of the Web Is Not the Way (Refutation).
Paragraphs.
Robin Roberts, Strike Out Little League (Induction).
Martin Luther King, Jr., Laws We Need Not Obey (Deduction).
* Patricia Poore, Household Garbage Is Not the Main Problem (Refutation).
* Susan Brownmiller, Why Feminists Object to Pornography (Emotional Appeal).
Essays.
* Holly Sklar, CEO Greed Is out of Control (Induction).
Alleen Pace Nilsen, Sexism in English: A Feminist View (Induction).
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (Deduction and Induction).
Peter Drucker, What Employees Need Most (Deduction).
Virginia Hall, Bad Grammar Seen as Unsafe (Deduction).
* Elizabeth Austin, A Small Plea to Delete a Ubiquitous Expletive (Deduction).
* Nicole Crane, How to Kill a Great Magazine (Refutation).
April Oursler Armstrong, Let's Keep Christmas Commercial (Refutation).
Black Hawk, Black Hawk's Farewell (Emotional Appeal).
* Donna Britt, How to Make Kids Killers (Emotional Appeal).
Appendix: A Short Guide to Material and Formal Fallacies.Glossary.Credits.Index of Titles and Authors.
