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ISBN: 9780155074804 | 0155074806
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Copyright: 5/26/2000

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This best-selling rhetorical reader teaches rhetorical principles and exemplifies them by using a comprehensive of essays.

Preface

Thematic Table of Contents

vii

Guidelines for Critical Reading

(8)

Defining Rhetoric

(42)

Introduction: What is Rhetoric?

(1)

Advice

(8)

What---and How---to Write When You Have No Time to Write

(4)

Donald Murray

Discussion

(1)

Simplicity

(4)

William Zinsser

Examples

(14)

I Have a Dream

(5)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter to the Rev. J. Page Hopps

(5)

Oscar Wilde

Have a Cigar

(4)

James Herriot

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

(9)

Teen Violence

(1)

Photo: Memorial Service at Columbine High School / CORBIS/AFP

(1)

Social Cesspool Polluting Youth

(4)

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Dont' Blame the Parents; It's Mainly the Peers

(3)

Judith Rich Harris

Student Corner

(10)

Violence Rampant among Teens

(6)

Michael Cotton

How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip

(4)

Michael Cotton

The Writer's Voice

(62)

Introduction: What is a Writer's Voice?

(1)

Advice

(11)

How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words

(11)

Paul Roberts

Discussion

(10)

What Is Style?

(10)

F. L. Lucas

Examples

(18)

Remarks on the Life of Sacco and on His Own Life and Execution

(3)

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Salvation

(3)

Langston Hughes

A, B, and C: The Human Element in Mathematics

(5)

Stephen Leacock

Three Bears in Search on an Author

(4)

Dan Greenburg

Black Rook in Rainy Weather

(3)

Sylvia Plath

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

(9)

Family Values

(1)

Painting: Tribute to the American Working People

(1)

Honore Desmond Sharrer

An Argument against Hating Our Enemies

(3)

Etty Hillesum

On Developing Human Values

(4)

Gerald A. Larue

Student Corner

100

(13)

Family Values

100

(10)

Claudia Sanders

How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip

110

(3)

Claudia Sanders

Purpose and Thesis

113

(56)

Introduction: What is a Thesis?

113

(1)

Advice

The Thesis

114

(4)

Sheridan Baker

Discussion

118

(3)

The Controlling Concept

118

(3)

Harry Crosby

George Estey

Examples

121

(23)

The Grieving Never Ends

121

(8)

Roxame Roberts

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

129

(13)

Flannery O'Connor

Spring

142

(2)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

144

(14)

Ageism

144

(1)

Painting: My Parents

145

(1)

Henry Koerner

The View from Eighty

146

(7)

Malcolm Cowley

Stay Young

153

(5)

Marya Mannes

Student Corner

158

(11)

Aging

158

(4)

Kimberly Caitlin Wheeler

How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writingg Tip

162

(7)

Kimberly Caitlin Wheeler

Planning and Organizing

169

(48)

Introduction: Thinking Ahead

169

(1)

Advice

170

(4)

How to Write Clearly

170

(4)

Edward T. Thompson

Discussion

174

(4)

Take This Fish and Look at It

174

(4)

Samuel H. Scudder

Examples

178

(17)

My Wood

178

(4)

E. M. Forster

Rules for Aging

182

(3)

Roger Rosenblatt

The Catbird Seat

185

(8)

James Thurber

That Time of Year (Sonnet 73)

193

(2)

William Shakespeare

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

195

(13)

Drug Abuse

195

(1)

Painting: The Subway

196

(1)

George Tooker

Drugs

197

(3)

Gore Vidal

Don't Legalize Drugs

200

(8)

Morton M. Kondracke

Student Corner

208

(9)

Drug Use: The Continuing Epidemic

208

(6)

Linda Kunze

How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip

214

(3)

Linda Kunze

Developing Paragraphs

217

(48)

Introduction: Writing Paragraphs

217

(1)

Advice

218

(3)

Writing Successful Paragraphs

218

(3)

A. M. Tibbetts

Charlene Tibbetts

Discussion

221

(2)

The Function of the Paragraph

221

(2)

Richard M. Weaver

Examples

223

(10)

Paragraphs with the Topic Sentence and the Beginning

223

(1)

From The Lessons of the Past

223

(2)

Edith Hamilton

Pain

225

(1)

William Somerset Maugham

I Am Tired of Fighting (Surrender Speech) / Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

226

(1)

Paragraphs with the Topic Sentence at the End

227

(1)

Man against Darkness

227

(2)

W. T. Stace

What Is a Poet?

229

(1)

Mark Van Doren

On Disease

230

(1)

Lewis Thomas

The Flood

231

(2)

Robert Frost

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

233

(11)

Ecology

233

(1)

Painting: Detroit Industry

234

(1)

Diego M. Rivera

Our Values Hurt the Environment

235

(4)

Joseph W. Krutch

Economic Growth Requires Environmental Compromises

239

(5)

Lester C. Thurow

Student Corner

244

(15)

Saving Life on Earth---It Doesn't Take an Education

244

(11)

Michele Izzo

How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip

255

(4)

Michele Izzo

Introduction to the Patterns of Development

259

(6)

Patterns of Development for the Subject ``Guilt'' / The Editors

260

(5)

Reporting: Narration, Description, and Process Analysis

265

(98)

Advice

265

(3)

How to Write a Narration

265

(3)

Examples

268

(24)

Shooting an Elephant

268

(7)

George Orwell

My Name Is Margaret

275

(7)

Maya Angelou

Shame

282

(4)

Dick Gregory

The Odour of Cheese

286

(4)

Jerome K. Jerome

Those Winter Sundays

290

(2)

Robert Hayden

Advice

292

(3)

How to Write a Description

292

(3)

Examples

295

(27)

The Libido for the Ugly

295

(5)

H. L. Mencken

Once More to the Lake

300

(7)

E. B. White

Hell

307

(4)

James Joyce

A Worn Path

311

(8)

Eudora Welty

Pigeon Woman

319

(3)

May Swenson

Advice

322

(2)

How to Write a Process Analysis

322

(2)

Examples

324

(22)

Hunting Octopus in the Gilbert Islands

324

(5)

Sir Arthur Grimble

In an Assassin's Footsteps

329

(8)

David Montgomery

Hilter's Workday

337

(2)

William Shirer

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

339

(5)

Donald Barthelme

How to Be an Army

344

(2)

Kenneth Patchen

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

346

(10)

The Existence of God

346

(2)

Painting: Creation of Adam

348

(1)

Michelangelo

Where Was God?

348

(4)

Elie Wiesel

What Did Carl Sagan See at the Moment of His Death?

352

(4)

Eric Ringham

Student Corner

356

(7)

The Existence of God

356

(4)

Ara Babaian

How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip

360

(3)

Ara Babaian

Explaining: Illustration and Definition

363

(82)

Advice

363

(3)

How to Write with Examples

363

(3)

Examples

366

(17)

The Buck Stops Where?

366

(4)

Barry Parr

``Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall...''

370

(4)

John Leo

A Diarist on Diarists

374

(7)

Gail Godwin

Living in Sin

381

(2)

Adrienne Rich

Advice

383

(3)

How to Write a Definition

383

(3)

Examples

386

(30)

Keep the Factoids and Just Stick to the Facts

386

(2)

Dennis Baron

We Do Abortions Here

388

(9)

Sallie Tisdale

The Company Man

397

(4)

Ellen Goodman

In Praise of the Humble Comma

401

(3)

Pico Iyer

Kitsch

404

(9)

Gilbert Highet

Ars Poetica

413

(3)

Archibald MacLeish

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

416

(16)

Racism

416

(1)

Panting: Mexico, Chile, Soweto

417

(1)

Rupert Garcia

Warriors Don't Cry

418

(5)

Melba Patillo Beals

The End of Racism

423

(9)

Dinest D'Souza

Student Corner

Racism: How Far Have We Come?

432

(8)

Nancy Phillips

How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip

440

(5)

Nancey Phillips

Analyzing: Comparison/Contrast, Division/Classification, and Causal Analysis

445

(100)

Advice

445

(2)

How to Write a Comparison or Contrast

445

(2)

Examples

447

(26)

From Conservatism and Liberalism

447

(4)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That Lean and Hungry Look

451

(3)

Suzanne Jordan

Diogenes and Alexander

454

(6)

Gilbert Highet

Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts

460

(5)

Bruce Catton

Bricklayer's Boy

465

(6)

Alfred Lubrano

Curiosity

471

(2)

Alastair Reid

Advice

473

(2)

How to Write a Division and Classification

473

(2)

Examples

475

(17)

Thinking as a Hobby

475

(7)

William Golding

Kinds of Discipline

482

(5)

John Holt

The Idols

487

(3)

Francis Bacon

English

490

(2)

Bart Edelman

Advice

492

(3)

How to Write a Causal Analysis

492

(3)

Examples

495

(28)

Why Tigers Become Man-Eaters

495

(6)

Jim Corbett

Books

501

(7)

Allan Bloom

Why I Went to the Woods

508

(7)

Henry David Thoreau

The Storm

515

(6)

Kate Chopin

Design

521

(2)

Robert Frost

Issue For Critical Thinking and Debate

523

(11)

The Status of Women

523

(1)

On Sexual Separatism

524

(1)

Diana Trilling

Photo: Woman Conducts a Business Meeting

525

(4)

Loren Santow

How We Raise Boys and Girls Differently---and Why It's Wrong

529

(5)

Judy Mann

Student Corner

534

(11)

``Woman'' Is a Noun

534

(6)

Paula Rewa

How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip

540

(5)

Paula Rewa

Argumentation

545

(62)

Introduction to Argumentation

545

(1)

Advice

546

(8)

Obstacles to Clear Thinking

546

(8)

Richard D. Altick

Discussion

554

(6)

Introduction to Logic

554

(6)

John C. Sherwood

Examples

560

(25)

A Modest Proposal

560

(8)

Jonathan Swift

I Want a Wife

568

(3)

Judy Syfers

Sex Predators Can't Be Saved

571

(5)

Andrew Vachss

If We Keep on Doing What We're Doing, We're Gonna Keep Getting What We Got

576

(6)

Francena Thomas

Dooley Is a Traitor

582

(3)

James Michie

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

585

(11)

Homelessness

585

(1)

Print: Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley

586

(1)

Dorothea Lange

Homeless: Expose the Myths

587

(3)

Joseph Perkins

How She Became Homeless

590

(6)

Linda Weltner

Student Corner

596

(11)

People Out on a Limb

596

(6)

Antoinette Poodt

How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip

602

(5)

Antoinette Poodt

The Meaning of Words

607

(64)

Introduction to the Meaning of Words

607

(1)

Advice

608

(4)

A Brief Lexicon of Jargon

608

(4)

Richard K. Redfern

Discussion

612

(13)

Words: Our Most Important Tools

612

(6)

Bergen Evans

Change in the English Language

618

(6)

Bill Bryson

Baffle-Gab Thesaurus / Time

624

(1)

Examples

625

(20)

Shakespeare in the Bush

625

(11)

Laura Bohannan

Coming into Language

636

(7)

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Threes

643

(2)

Carl Sandburg

Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate

645

(15)

Affirmative Action

645

(1)

Painting: The Problem We All Live With

646

(1)

Norman Rockwell

The Great White Myth

647

(3)

Anna Quindlen

Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference

650

(10)

Shelby Steele

Student Corner

660

(11)

Affirmative Action and Women

660

(6)

Becky Winkler

How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip

666

(5)

Becky Winkler

Appendix Optional Assignments

671

(82)

Assignment 1

671

(66)

The Research Paper

671

(8)

Choosing Single Motherhood: A Sign of Modern Times?

679

(30)

Stephanie Hollingsworth

Dian Fossey: A Scientist Who Stopped Caring About Science

709

(28)

Margie Vickers

Assignment 2

737

(16)

The Literary Paper

737

(5)

A Worn, but Lightly Traveled Path

742

(11)

Douglas B. Inman

Glossary

753

(10)

Literary Credits

763

(6)

Index

769

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Readings for Writers

Summary

Table of Contents

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