Incorporating readings representing new voices and styles in nonfiction that will appeal to contemporary readers, this classic composition reader continues to provide engaging, instructive models of the rhetorical modes.   A wealth of new selections appear in this respected modes-based reader, continuing its tradition of offering high-quality, accessible readings, both classic and with a contemporary “edge” and style. The readings encourage students to take a stand on questions of culture, identity, and value in college communities, in the workplace, and in society. Thorough introductions to each rhetorical pattern, numerous exercises, and sample student essays throughout the book emphasize practical concrete writing strategies. A thematic table of contents and table of “Essay Pairs”—which groups essays particularly well-suited for study and discussion—make this book versatile and convenient for instructors to adapt for their classes.

Table of Contents:
** denotes new to this edition   1. Reading for Writers   2. Ways of Writing             Discovering             Planning             Drafting             Revising   3. Example Andy Rooney, In and Of Ourselves We Trust  Wil Haygood, Underground Dads Mary Karr, Dysfunctional Nation   Issues and Ideas: Characterizing Behavior             Brent Staples, Just Walk On By             Jonah Lehrer, The Uses of Reason     4. Classification ** William Zinsser, College Pressures ** Amy Tan, Mother Tongue Michael Ventura, Don’t Even Think About It!   Issues and Ideas: Sorting Out How We Communicate             ** Deborah Tannen, But What Do You Mean?             ** Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We Lie             5. Comparison ** Rachel Carson, Fable for Tomorrow Mark Twain, Two Ways of Seeing a River Bruce Catton, Grant and Lee, A Study in Contrasts Bill McKibben, Old Macdonald Had a Farmer’s Market   Issues and Ideas: Evaluating Traditions            ** Bharati Mukherhee, Two Ways to Belong in America            ** WilliamOuchi, Japanese and American Workers   6. Analogy Alice Walker, Am I Blue? ** Robert Benchley, Advice to Writers ** Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth   Issues and Ideas: Perceiving Likeness in Differences             ** Henry David Thoreau, The Battle               ** Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Oyster Bed             ** Visual Text (Advertisement) TK   7. Process Analysis ** Amy Sutherland, What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage ** Barbara Kingsolver, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast Ian Frazier, How to Operate the Shower Curtain    Issues and Ideas: Demystifying Everyday Rituals           ** Stanley Fish: Getting Coffee Is Hard to Do           ** Ernest Hemingway, Camping Out   8. Cause-Effect ** Michael Jernigan, Living the Dream ** Norman Cousins, Who Killed Benny Paret?   Issues and Ideas: Fathoming Consequences             Cullen Murphy, Hello, Darkness            Verlyn Klinkenborg, Our Vanishing Night   9. Definition John Berendt, The Hoax ** Jhumpa Lahiri, My Two Lives Anne Fadiman, Coffee   Issues and Ideas: Clarifying Values and Roles            Stephen L. Carter, The Insufficiency of Honesty            ** Mary Pipher, Beliefs about Families             10. Description ** Suzanne Berne, Ground Zero George Simpson, The War Room at Bellevue  Daniel Thomas Cook, Children of the Brand     Issues and Ideas: Expressing Memories            Donna Tartt, A Garden Party            E. B. White, Once More to the Lake    11. Narration Geoffrey Canada, Pain ** Langston Hughes, Salvation ** Sandra Cisneros, Only Daughter   Issues and Ideas: Dramatizing Ethical Dilemmas             Martin Gansberg, Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police             ** George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant             12. Induction and Deduction Nancy Friday, The Age of Beauty   Issues and Ideas: Digital Realities              J. C. Herz, Superhero Sushi   12. Argument Issues and Ideas: Persuading an Audience                           Christopher B. Daly, How the Lawyers Stole Winter             Stephanie Mills,  Could You Live with Less?             Anna Quindlen, The Drug That Pretends It Isn’t             Andrew O’Hehir, The Myth of Media Violence             ** Al Gore, The Time to Act Is Now             ** Mark Twain, The Damned Human Race             Elizabeth Svoboda, “I Am Not a Puzzle, I Am a Person”             Margaret Atwood, Pornography             Sarah Min, Language Lessons             Martin Luther King, Jr.,  Letter from Birmingham Jail    14. Further Readings Jason Kelly, The Great TV Debate Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit George Orwell, A Hanging Jean E. Kilbourne, Beauty . . . And the Beast of Advertising