Inspired to Write Student's Book: Readings

Inspired to Write uses powerful and provocative readings to inspire students to write personal and academic essays. Inspired to Write contains 45 thematically grouped readings taken from a variety of genres, including personal essays, stories, newspaper and magazine articles, and academic texts. The readings provide students with models of good writing, stimuli for discussion, and inspiration for their own writing. In addition, tips and strategies to help developing writers are woven throughout the text.

Jean Withrow, Gay Brookes, and Martha Clark Cummings are writing instructors, each with over thirty years of classroom experience

To the Instructor	p. vi
To the Student	p. x
Authors' Acknowledgements	p. xi
Map of the World	p. xii
Becoming	p. 1
Family Origins	p. 4
Brothers	p. 4
The Brown Hen	p. 7
Memory: My Mother	p. 13
There Was Rice at Every Meal	p. 16
Revision	p. 21
Between Two Cultures	p. 22
Safe	p. 22
I Answer to "Elaine"	p. 25
Translating Means Growing Up Fast	p. 29
No Comprendo	p. 34
Revision	p. 38
Heroes	p. 40
Five New Words at a Time	p. 40
My Family Hero	p. 44
An Act of Courage	p. 50
Revision	p. 55
Identity	p. 56
Believing in the True Self	p. 56
Becoming a Writer	p. 59
Homage to my hips	p. 63
The Search for Identity	p. 65
Smoking	p. 69
Revision	p. 72
New Vistas and Ventures	p. 75
Opening New Doors	p. 78
The First Day	p. 78
A Walk to the Jetty	p. 83
On Turning Fifty	p. 87
The Transitions of Life	p. 91
Revision	p. 97
Dating and Marriage	p. 99
Pebbles	p. 99
Kids Talk about Dating across Cultural Lines	p. 101
Weddings	p. 106
Revision	p. 111
Work	p. 113
The First Job	p. 113
Behind the Counter	p. 116
To be of use	p. 121
The Model Medic	p. 124
Revision	p. 129
Exploring Emotions	p. 131
Hope Emerges As Key to Success in Life	p. 132
It's O.K. to Cry: Tears Are Not Just a Bid for Attention	p. 137
Going Through the House	p. 141
Black Steer Canyon	p. 146
Revision	p. 149
A Changing World	p. 151
Health	p. 154
Kids and Chemicals	p. 154
War on Disease	p. 157
No Laughing Matter	p. 161
Revision	p. 165
Environment	p. 167
The Mercury's Rising	p. 167
Warming Seas Prompt Tuvalu Evacuation	p. 168
Buzzard	p. 172
The Brave Little Parrot	p. 175
Revision	p. 180
Gender Roles	p. 182
Taming Macho Ways	p. 183
Women and Work: Around the World, Women Earn Less	p. 188
Battling Chauvinism to Do a Man's Job	p. 190
First Lullabye	p. 194
Revision	p. 196
Into the Future	p. 198
Kill Your Television	p. 198
Lectures vs. Laptops	p. 202
Letters	p. 203
The 20th Century: What's Worth Saving?	p. 206
Entering the Twenty-First Century	p. 210
Revision	p. 214
Peer Feedback Form	p. 217
Index of Toolboxes	p. 219
Index of Readings	p. 219
Index of Authors	p. 219
Acknowledgements	p. 220
Art Credits	p. 226
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