Incorporating readings that represent 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.

Table of Contents:
* mark sections new to this edition.   1. Reading as a Writer Brent Staples, Just Walk on By 2. Ways of Writing   3. Example Andy Rooney, In and Of Ourselves We Trust *Atul Gewande, Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth *Barry Schwartz, When It’s All Too Much Mary Karr, Dysfunctional Nation   Issues and Ideas: Identities             Wil Haygood, Underground Dads             *Susan Straight, Cartilage             Alan Buczynski, Iron Bonding 4. Classification Judith Stone, Personal Beast Michael Ventura, Don’t Even Think About It! *Salman Akhtar, Remembering the Dead   Issues and Ideas: Images of Sound and Sight             *Alissa Quart, Cinema of the In-Crowd             Brenda Peterson, Life Is a Musical 5. Comparison Twain, Two Ways of Seeing a River Catton, Grant and Lee, A Study of Contrasts Lopate, A Smoker with a Nonsmoker Walker, Am I Blue?   Issues and Ideas: Gender Differences             Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds             Wade, Method and Madness: How Men and Women Think             *Catherine Seipp, Meet Today’s Dad 6. Analogy *Lan Samantha Chang, Like Robinson Crusoe Janisse Ray, Built by Fire   Issues and Ideas: Humans and Animals             Tom Wolfe, O Rotten Gotham–Sliding Down into the Behavioral Sink             Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson 7. Process Buhler and Graham, Give Juggling a Hand *Sridhar Pappu, Deranged Marriage David Fontana, Working with Dreams Jim Harrison, Going Places   Issues and Ideas: Advertising and Appearances             Twitchell, We Build Excitement             Kilbourne, Beauty . . . And the Beast of Advertising             Mitford, To Dispel Fears of Live Burial 8. Cause-Effect Perry and Dawson, What’s Your Best Time of Day Murphy, Hello Darkness Roach, My Father the Geezer   Issues and Ideas: Consuming             Kowinski, Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled             *Linn, Branded Babies: From Cradle to Consumer 9. Definition Welsch, Gypsies Berendt, The Hoax *Dagoberto Gilb, Pride *Carina Chocano, Pilgrim   Issues and Ideas: Defining Values and Roles             Carter, The Insufficiency of Honesty             von Kreisler, Courage             Chambers, Mother’s Day             Savage, Role Reversal 10. Description Soto, The Jacket Simpson, The War Room at Bellevue  *Donna Tartt, Heaven on a Hummingbird’s Wing   Issues and Ideas: Place and Person             White, Once More to the Lake 11. Narration Gansberg, 38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police Canada, Pain   Issues and Ideas             *Kumiko Makihara, Making the Grade             Issues and Ideas: Stories and Values             Orwell, A Hanging             Worcester, Arms and the Man             Lee, Uncle Chul Gets Rich 12. Induction and Deduction Friday, The Age of Beauty Baumeister, Violent Pride   Issues and Ideas: Digital Realities             Szalavitz, A Virtual Life             Herz, Superhero Sushi 13. Argument Daly, How the Lawyers Stole Winter *Aisha Tyler, The Ballad of Yogurt Girl Mills,  Could You Live with Less? *Anna Quindlen, The Drug That Pretends It Isn’t Lawrence, Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You Min, Language Lessons 14. Further Readings Atwood, Pornography Silko, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit King, Letter from Birmingham Jail