Patterns for College Writing : A Rhetorical Reader and Guide

Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, authors with nearly thirty years of experience teaching college writing, know what works in the classroom and have a knack for picking just the right readings. In Patterns for College Writing, they provide students with exemplary rhetorical models and instructors with class-tested selections that balance classic and contemporary essays. Along with more examples of student writing than any other reader, Patternshas the most comprehensive coverage of active reading, research, and the writing process, with a five-chapter mini-rhetoric; the clearest explanations of the patterns of development; and the most thorough apparatus of any rhetorical reader, all reasons why Patterns for College Writingis the best-selling reader in the country. And the new edition includes exciting new readings and expanded coverage of critical reading, working with sources, and research. It is now available as an interactive Bedford e-book and in a variety of other e-book formats that can be downloaded to a computer, tablet, or e-reader.

During their longstanding collaboration, Laurie Kirszner and Stephen
Mandell have produced a number of best-selling college texts for
Bedford/St. Martin’s, including Foundations First: Sentences and Paragraphs,
Writing First: Practice in Context, and Focus on Writing. Laurie Kirszner
teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at the University of
the Sciences. Stephen Mandell is the founder and former director of the basic
writing program at Drexel University, where he teaches composition, literature,
and technical and business writing.

PrefaceThematic Guide to the Contents  Introduction: How to Use This Book          Henry Louis Gates Jr., “What’s in a Name?”      Responding to an Essay PART ONE: THE WRITING PROCESS 1 Reading to Write: Becoming a Critical Reader      Understanding Critical Reading     Determining Your Purpose     Previewing      Highlighting * Brent Staples, Cutting and Pasting: A Senior Thesis by (Insert Name)* Maria Hinojosa, A Supreme Sotomayor: How My Country Has Caught up to Me     Annotating* Brent Staples, Cutting and Pasting: A Senior Thesis by (Insert Name) (with sample annotations)     Reading Visual Texts 2 Invention Understanding Your AssignmentSetting Limits Moving from Subject to TopicFinding Something to SayBrainstorming Journal Writing Grouping IdeasUnderstanding Thesis and SupportDeveloping a Thesis 3 Arrangement Recognizing a PatternUnderstanding the Parts of the Essay 4 Drafting and Revising Writing Your First DraftRevising Your EssayPoints for Special Attention: First DraftPoints for Special Attention: Second DraftLaura Bobnak, The Price of Silence (Student Essay) 5 Editing and Proofreading Editing for GrammarEditing for Punctuation Editing for Sentence Style and Word Choice Proofreading your EssayChecking Manuscript Format PART TWO: READINGS FOR WRITERS  6 Narration What is Narration? Using NarrationPlanning a Narrative Essay     Developing a Thesis Statement      Including Enough Detail      Varying Sentence Structure     Maintaining Clear Narrative Order Structuring a Narrative EssayRevising a Narrative EssayREVISION CHECKLIST: Narration Editing a Narrative EssayGRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: Avoiding Run-on Sentences
EDITING CHECKLIST: Narration A Student Writer: Narration Tiffany Forte, My Field of Dreams (Student Essay)     Points for Special Attention      Focus on Revision PEER EDITING WORKSHEET: Narration Visual Text: Marjane Satrapi, The Socks (Graphic Fiction) Sandra Cisneros, Only Daughter *Mark Edmundson, The Pink Floyd Night SchoolBonnie Smith-Yackel, My Mother Never Worked Martin Gansberg, Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant Sherman Alexie, Indian Education (Fiction) Writing Assignments for Narration Collaborative Activity for Narration  N.B. Chapters 7-14 follow the same structure as Chapter 6; subheadings have been omitted for brevity. 7 Description
Mallory Cogan, My Grandfather’s Globe (Student Essay)Mary Lim, The Valley of Windmills (Student Essay)Visual Text: Mary Hoover Aiken, Café Fortune Teller (Painting) * Jhumpa Lahiri, Rice* Ann Hodgman, No Wonder They Call Me a BitchSuzanne Berne, Ground Zero Heather Rogers, The Hidden Life of Garbage E. B. White, Once More to the Lake Kate Chopin, The Storm (Fiction)  8 Exemplification
Kristy Bredin, Job Application Letter (Student Essay)Grace Ku, Midnight (Student Essay)Visual Texts: Four Tattoos: Alex Williams, “Lisa, Karen”; Joel Gordon, “Rose”; Bob Daemmrich , “Jiminy Cricket”; and Charles Gatewood, “Body Art” (Photos) David J. Birnbaum, The Catbird Seat
Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space
* Deborah L. Rhode, Why Looks Are the Last Bastion of Discrimination
* Zev Chafets, Let Steroids into the Hall of Fame
* Jamaica Kincaid, Girl 9 Process
Eric McGlade, The Search (Student Essay)Melany Hunt, Medium Ash Brown (Student Essay)
* Visual Text: Matt McKeon, The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook (Graphs)
Malcolm X, My First Conk
Stanley Fish, Getting Coffee Is Hard to Do
* Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht, Jennifer Worick, How to Decorate Your Room When You're Broke
Arthur Miller, Get It Right: Privatize Executions
Jessica Mitford, The Embalming of Mr. Jones
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery (Fiction)  10 Cause and Effect
Evelyn Pelicane, The Irish Famine, 1845–1849 (Student Essay)
Visual Text: Louis Requena, Major League Baseball Brawl (Photo)
Norman Cousins, Who Killed Benny Paret?
* Stan Cox, The Case against Air Conditioning
Lawrence Otis Graham, The “Black Table” Is Still There
Linda M. Hasselstrom, A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun
* Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, Why Vampires Never Die
Janice Mirikitani, Suicide Note (Poetry)  11 Comparison and Contrast
Mark Cotharn, Brains versus Brawn (Student Essay)
Maria Tecson, A Comparison of Two Web Sites (Student Essay)
Visual Texts: Auguste Rodin, The Kiss, and Robert Indiana, LOVE (Sculptures)
Bruce Catton, Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
* Paul H. Rubin, Environmentalism as Religion
Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America
* Amy Chua, Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior
Ellen Laird, I’m Your Teacher, Not Your Internet-Service Provider
Deborah Tannen, Sex, Lies, and Conversation
Gwendolyn Brooks, Sadie and Maud (Poetry)  12 Classification and Division
Josie Martinez, What I Learned (and Didn’t Learn) in College (Student Essay)
Visual Text: Ellis Island Immigration Museum/NPS, Key to Chalk Marks Designating Medical Conditions of Immigrants, Ellis Island (Chart) William Zinsser, College Pressures Carolyn Foster Segal, The Dog Ate My Disk, and Other Tales of Woe Amy Tan, Mother Tongue Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We Lie * Billy Collins, Aristotle 13 Definition Ajoy Mahtab, The Untouchable (Student Essay)Visual Text: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Census 2010 Form (Questionnaire) Judy Brady, I Want a Wife José Antonio Burciaga, Tortillas Meghan Daum, Fame-iness Gayle Rosenwald Smith, The Wife-Beater * Amanda Brown, Love and Other Catastrophes 14 Argumentation Matt Daniels, An Argument Against the Anna Todd Jennings Scholarship (Student Essay)Visual Text: American Civil Liberties Union, Thanks to Modern Science . . . (Ad) Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail * DEBATE: Are Internships Fair to Students?* Anya Kamenetz, Take This Internship and Shove It* Jennifer Halperin, No Pay? Many Interns Say, “No Problem”* DEBATE: Should American Citizenship Be a Birthright?* Linda Chavez, The Case for Birthright Citizenship* George F. Will, An Argument to Be Made about Immigrant Babies and Citizenship* CASEBOOK: What Can Be Done about the Shortage of Organ Donors?* Alex Tabarrok, The Meat Market* Scott Carney, The Case for Mandatory Organ Donation* Charles Krauthammer, Yes, Let’s Pay for Organs* Virginia Postrel, The Surgery Was Simple; the Process Is Another Story* CASEBOOK: Should the Government Fight Obesity by Taxing Sugary Drinks?* Richard F. Daines, A Tax That Invests in Our Health* David Leonhardt, Fat Tax* Daniel Engber, Let Them Drink Water!  15 Combining the Patterns Michael Huu Truong, The Park (Student Essay)Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving * Barbara Ehrenreich, The Shame GameDavid Kirby, Inked Well Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal  * PART THREE: WORKING WITH SOURCES 16 Finding and Evaluating Sources     Finding Information in the Library     Finding Information on the Internet     Evaluating Sources 17 Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism     Paraphrasing     Summarizing     Quoting     Integrating Source Material Into Your Writing     Synthesizing Sources     Avoiding Plagiarism     Avoiding Common Errors that Lead to Plagiarism     Avoiding Plagiarism with Online Sources 18 Documenting Sources: MLA
     Parenthetical References in the Text      The Works-Cited List Philip Lau, The Limitations of Wikipedia (Student Essay in MLA Style) *Appendix: Documenting Sources: APA      Using Parenthetical References     Preparing a Reference List     Examples of APA Citations *Sample Student Essay in APA Style: Philip Lau, The Limitations of Wikipedia

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