The Working Reader

Forty short selections for essay-level developmental writers focus on work and the workplace. Writing activities focus on the types of writing that students will be required to do when they start to work, such as reports, memorandums, business letters, and charts and graphs.

Preface

ix

Work---What Is It?

1

(22)

The Journal

2

(1)

The Essay

3

(2)

The Summary

5

(18)

What You Do Is What you are

7

(3)

Nickie McWhirter

Work and Play

10

(4)

Robert Murray Davis

My Mother Never Worked

14

(5)

Bonnie Smith-Yackel

Working Just to Live is Perverted into Living Just to Work

19

(4)

Ana Veciana-Suarez

Choosing a Career

23

(40)

The Table

24

(1)

The Report

24

(39)

Choices: Vocation, Career, or Job

37

(4)

Alan M. Webber

Liberal Arts Gave Me a Liberal dose of Life Lessons

41

(3)

Rebecca Knight

Different Paths to Success

44

(4)

Joannie M. Schrof

Cooperative Education: Learn More, Earn More, Prepare for the Workplace

48

(5)

Matthew Mariani

Find Work That you Love

53

(10)

Barbara Moses

Family and Gender Issues

63

(26)

Business Letters

64

(25)

A Woman's Place

67

(6)

Cokie Roberts

Women Who Stay at Home and Love It!

73

(4)

Ebony Magazine

Being There: The Father Quandary

77

(3)

Joan K. Peters

What Today's Fathers Want

80

(6)

James A. Levine

Todd L. Pittinsky

Still Seeking the Perfect Balance

86

(3)

Elizabeth McGuire

Ethics

89

(24)

Memorandums

89

(24)

What is Ethics Anyway?

92

(3)

O. C. Farrell

Gareth Gardiner

The Twenty-Dollar Bill

95

(2)

Calvin Trillin

Defining Success

97

(3)

Michael Korda

It's Failure, Not Success

100

(4)

Ellen Goodman

Unethical Workers and Illegal Acts Society Magazine

104

(4)

The Business of Ethics

108

(5)

John Davidson

Time Management, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

113

(34)

The Time Log

114

(1)

Problem Solving

114

(1)

Decision Making

114

(3)

Time Management

The Cult of Busyness

117

(4)

Barbara Ehrenreich

Managing Your Time

121

(5)

Edwin Bliss

Problem Solving

How Not to Lose Friends over Money

126

(7)

Lois Duncan

Putting a Lid on Conflicts

133

(5)

Michael Barrier

Decision Making

It's Time to Make up Your Mind

138

(3)

Winston Fletcher

Truth and Consequences

141

(6)

Geanne Rosenberg

Discrimination and Harassment

147

(26)

Pie Charts, Bar Charts, and Line Graphs

147

(26)

Women and Physics

151

(4)

K. C. Cole

Do We Need These Laws?

155

(3)

Andrew Sullivan

Earth to Andrew

158

(3)

Elizabeth Birch

Why Black Men Have Lost Ground

161

(4)

Peter Passell

Know your Rights---And Go for the Job

165

(3)

Mary Ann Farrell

After All This Time, Why Don't People Know What Sexual Harassment Means?

168

(5)

Anne Fisher

Technology and the Workplace

173

(18)

E-mail

173

(1)

Internet Research

174

(17)

The Ins and Outs of E-mail USA Today Magazine

178

(3)

Caught in the Net

181

(3)

Kimberly S. Young

Bigbrother@the.office.com

184

(3)

Deborah Branscum

Saying Adios to the Office

187

(4)

Edward C. Baig

Managing Your Life

191

(24)

The Resume

192

(2)

The Cover Letter

194

(1)

The Thank You Letter

195

(20)

Set a Course for Lifelong Learning

197

(3)

Tim O'Brien

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

200

(3)

Cassandra Hayes

Traditional Degrees, Nontraditional Jobs: A Degree is Not a Life Sentence

203

(6)

Kathleen Green

What Will you Do When you Retire?

209

(6)

Ralph Warner

Acknowledgments

215

(4)

Index

219

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