For courses in Composition and Literature, Argumentative Writing, Writing about Literature, and Introduction to Literature.   Based on the premise that writing is valued only when it makes readers think, this anthology combines the content of literature and argument texts into one easy to use book.    Reading Literature and Writing Argument is the result of the authors' experiences as teachers of two college composition courses:  "Writing Argument and Persuasion" and "Writing about Literature." Both courses enrich students, as both readers and writers, through their active engagement with ideas in written text.  Based on their experiences in the two composition courses as their guide, the authors harnessed the courses' complementary strengths in Reading Literature and Writing Argument.  The result is a book that provides students with a diverse range of reading experiences-fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama- that will immerse students in critical and creative thinking as they address problems and issues from multiple perspectives.  This book prompts students to see language as a way to create meaning in their lives and to see themselves as writers with a purpose and an audience.

Table of Contents:
    Chapter One- Reading To Explore, Analyze, and Evaluate     Explore     Analyze: Argument Structure             Claims                 Randy Horick, “Truer to the Game”                 Kenneth Rexroth, “Cold Before Dawn”                 Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”                 William Blake, “London”.     Evidence    WarrentsEvaluate: Audience Appeal and Tone    Pathos    Martin Espada, “Federicos Ghost”.     Logos     William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”.     Ethos     William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 130”.     Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl”.     Rogerian Argument Structure     Lucille Clifton, “for deLawd”.     N. Scott Momaday, “New World”    Chapter Activities                 Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays”                 Wilfred Owen, “Dulce Et Decorum Est”             Visual Argument                 Robert Crumb, “A Short History of America”                 Paul Madonna, "All Over Coffee"       Chapter Two- Examining Thinking and Shaping an Argument          Examine Thinking           Inductive Reasoning                 The Fallacy of Hasty Generalization                      William Shakespeare, from Romeo and Juliet                      Arthur Miller, from The Crucible.     Deductive Reasoning              Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”    Logical FallaciesShaping an Argument      Martin Luther King, Jr., from “Letter from Birmingham Jail”      Sample Student Essays                Shawn Mullin, “Yes, the Future is Bright, but the Moment is Hell”                Daphne Beckham, “Perspective on Men”        Four-Part Written Exploration and Articulation Student Samples:                 Lisa Colletti, “Super-Size It!”                Meredith Newman Blanco, “Who Are the Victims of Alcoholism?”Literature:                 Jane Martin, "Rodeo"                William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much with Us”                Marge Piercy, “To Be of Use”                Gary Snyder, “After Work”                Molly Peacock, "Say You Love Me"Chapter Activities Chapter Three- Participating in an Academic CommunityClarifying a Subject, Purpose, and AudienceOrganizing a Research- Based Argument        The Heart of an Argument is its Claim: Claims on Fact, Value, and Policy        The Body of an Argument is its Support: Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos        Counter- argument: Concessions and Refutations            Argument Outline        Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay        Annotated Student Essay, John Griep, "Wild Captives: The Exotic Animal Trade" The Rogerian Argument        Rogerian Argument Organizational Plan        Sample Student Essay, Matt Morrision, "'Separating' the ArgumentsWorking with Sources    Avoiding Plagiarism with Note- Taking        Paraphrasing        Direct Quotations        Documentation System        The Preliminary Bibliography Crafting a Draft    In-Text Parenthetical Citations    Using Electronic Sources    The Works Cited Page            Sample Student Works Cited Page    Writing Projects    "Justice and Ethical Responsibilty"            Sample Student Wssay, Jeff Smith, "The Power of Inaction"    "Knowledge and Individual Power"Essay Scoring Rubric- for Peer Reviews and Self- EvaluationEssay Scouring Rubric for Rogerian Argument- for Peer Review and Self-Evaluation Chapter Four- Individuality and Community Prewriting and DiscussionReadings         Fiction             Kate Chopin, “Desirees Baby”             Stephen Crane, “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”             Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible”             Laura Hendrie, "Corsage"             Edward P. Jones, "The Store"             Randall Kenan, “The Foundations of the Earth”             Maile Meloy, “Ranch Girl”             Ernesto Quinonez, from Bodega Dreams         Poetry             Sherman Alexie, “The Reservation Cab Driver”             Michael Cleary, “Burning Dreams On The Sun”             Countee Cullen, "Incident"             Emily Dickinson, “Much madness is divinest sense”             T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”             Jack Gilbert, "Trying to Sleep"             Judy Grahn, “Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80”             Etheridge Knight, "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane"             Don McKay, "the lesson of the moth"             Claude McKay, “Outcast”.             Dwight Okita, “In Response to Executive Order 9066”             Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”             E. A. Robinson, “Richard Cory”             Muriel Rukeyser, “The Lost Romans”             Cathy Song, “Lost Sister”             Gary Soto, “Mexicans Begin Jogging”             Wallace Stevens, “Disillusionment of Ten OClock”             Alma Luz Villanueva, “Crazy Courage”         Nonfiction             Sherman Alexie, “Superman and Me”             John Hope Franklin, “The Train from Hate”             Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”             Plato, from “Crito”             Richard Rodriguez, “The Chinese in All of Us”             Fred Setterberg, "The Unusal Story"             Jonahan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"             Studs Terkel, “Frank Chin”             Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” Chapter Activities and Topics for Writing Arguments Collaboration Activity: Creating a Rogerian Argument         Sample Issue: Immigration Policy Making Connections Cross-Chapter Connections   Chapter Five-Nature and Place Prewriting and Discussion Readings         Fiction            Rick Bass, “Antlers”              James Fenimore Cooper, “The Slaughter of the Pigeons,” from Pioneers              Pam Houston, “A Blizzard under Blue Sky”             Sarah Orne Jewett, “A White Heron”             Ursula K. Le Guin, “Mays Lion”             Jack London, “To Build a Fire”             Leslie Marmon Silko, “The Man to Send the Rain Clouds”             Eudora Welty, “A Worn Path”             Virginia Woolf, “Kew Gardens”     Poetry             Lucille Clifton, “for deLawd”             James Dickey, “Deer Among Cattle”             Carolyn Forche, “Dulcimer Maker”             Robert Frost, “A Young Birch”             Linda Hogan, “Heartland”             Galway Kinnell, “Saint Francis and the Sow”             Denise Levertov, “The Victors”             Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Panther”             Theodore Roethke, “Meditation at Oyster River”             Pattiann Rogers, “Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew”             Carl Sandburg, “Chicago”             Anne Sexton, “The Fury of Flowers and Worms”             Gary Snyder, “The Call of the Wild”             William Stafford, “Traveling Through the Dark”             Robert Penn Warren, Excerpts from Audubon             Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, “14”             Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, “31”             William Wordsworth, “To My Sister”             James Wright, “A Blessing”         Nonfiction             Edward Abbey, “Eco-Defense"             Rachel Carson, “The Obligation to Endure,” from Silent Spring             Annie Dillard, “The Present,” chapter excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek             Ralph Waldo Emerson, excerpts from Nature             Aldous Huxley, “Time and the Machine,” from The Olive Tree             Verlyn Klinkenborg, "At the Edge of the Visible"             Aldo Leopold, “Thinking Like a Mountain”             Joyce Carol Oates, “Against Nature”             N. Scott Momaday, Excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain             Janisse Ray, “Forest Beloved,” from Ecology of a Cracker Childhood             Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” from Walden Chapter Activities and Topics for Writing Arguments Collaboration Activity: Creating a Rogerian Argument         Sample Issue: Energy Exploration Making Connections Cross-Chapter Connections   Chapter Six-Family and Identity Prewriting and Discussion Readings           Fiction             Kate Chopin, “The Storm”             Lydia Davis, "Break It Down"             Genaro Gonzalez, “Too Much His Fathers Son”             Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants"             Cherylene Lee, “Safe”             Fae Myenne Ng, "A Red Sweater"             Grace Paley, “A Conversation with My Father”             John Updike, “Separating”             Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”.         Poetry             Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”             Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Mother”             Gwendolyn Brooks, “Ulysses”             Michael Cleary, "Boss's Son"             Gregory Corso, "Marriage"             Nikki Giovanni, “Mothers”             Thomas Hardy, “The Ruined Maid”             Seamus Heaney, “Digging”             Peter Meinke, “Advice to My Son”             Naomi Shihab Nye, “Arabic Coffee”             Sharon Olds, “I Go Back to May, 1937”                 Mary Oliver, “The Black Walnut Tree”             Dudley Randall, “Ballad of Birmingham”             Adrienne Rich, “Aunt Jennifers Tigers”             Adrienne Rich, “Delta”             Anne Sexton, “Cinderella”             Gary Snyder, “Not Leaving the House”             Mark Strand, “The Continuous Life”             Margaret Walker, “Lineage”             Richard Wilbur, “The Writer”.         Drama             Harvey Fierstein, On Tidy Endings         Nonfiction                     Sullivan Ballou, “Major Sullivan Ballous Last Letter to His Wife”                     Peter D. Kramer, “Divorce and Our National Values”                     Pauli Murray, “The Inheritance of Values”                     Scott Russell Sanders, “The Men We Carry in Our Minds       Chapter Activities and Topics for Writing Arguments     Collaboration Activity: Creating a Rogerian Argument             Sample Issue: Same Sex Marriage     Making Connections     Cross-Chapter Connections       Chapter Seven-Power and Responsibility     Prewriting and Discussion     Readings               Fiction                 Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson”                 Raymond Carver, “Cathedral”                 Nadine Gordimer, “Terminal"                 Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birth-Mark”.                 Tim OBrien, “The Things They Carried”                 Brady Udall, “He Becomes Deeply and Famously Drunk”                 Ed Vega, “Spanish Roulette”             Poetry                Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Boy Died in My Alley”                 Martin Espada, “Bully”                 Carolyn Forche, “The Colonel”                 Robert Frost, “Mending Wall”                 Langston Hughes, “Democracy”                 Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B”                 Claude McKay, “America”                 James Merrill, “Casual Wear”                 Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Apostrophe to Man”                 John Milton, “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent”                 Naomi Shihab Nye, “Famous”                 Sharon Olds, “The Promise”                 Linda Pastan, “Ethics”                 Public Enemy, “Fight the Power”                 Walt Whitman, “Beat! Beat! Drums!”.             Drama                 Aristophanes, Lysistrata             Nonfiction                  Francis Bacon, "Of revenge"                 Cochise, “[I am alone]”                 John Crawford, "Lies" from "The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell"                 Aaron Epstein and Yaron Brook, “The Evil of Animal Rights”                 Allan Gurganus, “Captive Audience”                 Constance L. Hays, "What Wal-Mart Knows about Customers' Habits"                 John F. Kennedy, “Inaugural Address”                 Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865”                 George Orwell, “A Hanging”                 Katherine Anne Porter, “Letter to Dr. Ross”                 Tom Regan, “Religion and Animal Rights”.                 Frank Schaeffer and John Schaeffer, “My Son the Marine?” from Keeping Faith: A Father Son                Story about Love and the U.S. Marine Corps.                Richard Wright, from Black Boy                Suzanne Winckler, "A Savage Life"                Richard Wright, from Black Boy     Chapter Activities and Topics for Writing Arguments     Collaboration Activity: Creating a Rogerian Argument               Sample Issue: The Justice or Injustice of Reparations     Making Connections     Cross-Chapter Connections     Appendices       A. Glossary     B. Authors' Biographical Notes     C. Author Title Index     D. Subject Index Credits