Cuprins
* - indicates selection new to this edition
Chapter One: Narration
*George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant
Langston Hughes: SalvationRelated Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1
Maya Angelou: Grandmother's Victory
Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance, Ch 2
Noda, Growing Up Asian in America, Ch 5Maxine Hong Kingston: No Name Woman
*Macolm X: Coming to an Awareness of LanguageRelated Reading: Naylor, Meanings of a Word Ch 4
Steele, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7*David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Chapter Two: Description
James Baldwin: Fifth Avenue, Uptown
Related Reading: Steele, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7
Virginia Woolf: The Death of the Moth
N. Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy MountainRelated Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1
E.B. White: Once More to the Lake
Joan Didion: Marrying AbsurdRelated Reading: Fox, Gawk Shows, Ch 9
*Judith Ortiz Cofer: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1
Hughes: Salvation, Ch 1Chapter Three: Process Analysis
Alexander Petrunkevitch: The Spider and the Wasp
Jessica Mitford: Behind the Formaldehyde CurtainSue Hubbell: Honey Harvest
Richard Marius: Writing DraftsAdam Goodheart: How to Paint a Fresco
*Diane Ackerman: Why Leaves Turn Color in the FallRelated Reading: Petrunkevitch, The Spider and the Wasp, Ch 3
Cole, The Arrow of Time, Ch 8Chapter Four: Definition
Susan Sontag: Women's Beauty: Put Down of Power Source?
Jo Goodwin Parker: What is Poverty?Related Reading: Ehrenreich, A Step Back to the Workhouse? Ch 10
Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics, Ch 10Gloria Steinem: Erotica and Pornography
Nancy Mairs: On Being a Cripple*Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a Word
Related Reading: Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness, Ch 1
*Ellen Goodman: The Company Man
Related Reading: Lutz, Doublespeak Ch 5
Chapter Five: Classification and Division
Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood
Donald Hall: Four Kinds of ReadingKesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in America
Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory Ch 1
Judity Viorst: The Truth about Lying
William Lutz: Doublespeak*Jonathan Lethem: 9 Failures of the Imagination
Chapter Six: Comparison and Contrast
May Sarton: The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life
Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: As Study in ContrastsDeborah Tannen: Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers
Mark Twain: Two Views of the MississippiScott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds
Related Reading: Staples, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7
Goodman, The Company Man, Ch 4*Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy People
Chapter Seven: Example and Illustration
Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for Supersition
Peter Farb and George Armelagos: Patterns of EatingEdward T. Hall: The Anthropology of Manners
Barbara Huttman: A Crime of CompassionBrent Staples: Black men and Public Space
Related Reading: Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Ch 6
*Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father
Chapter Eight: Cause and Effect
Norman Cousins: Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy
Shelby Steele: White GuiltBarbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone?
Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance., Ch 2
Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Strange, Would You? Probably
*K.C. Cole: The Arrow of TimeRelated Reading: Ackerman, Why Leaves Turn Color, Ch 3 *Calvin Trillin: It's Just Too Late
Chapter Nine: Analogy
Plato: The Myth of the Cave
Albert Camus: The Myth of SisyphusAlice Walker: Am I Blue?
Nicols Fox: Gawk ShowHarace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic PrisonChapter Ten: Argument and Persuasion
ARGUMENT
Welfare Reform
Barbara Ehrenreich: A Step Back to the Workhouse?Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor
Related Reading: Whitehead, Where Have All the Parents Gone? Ch 8
Free Speech
Nat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled?Alan M. Dershowiz: Shouting 'Fire!'
*Wendy Kaminer: Virtual RapeRape
Camille Paglia: Rape and Modern Sex WarSusan Jacoby: Common Decency
PERSUASION
Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
Related Reading: Parker, What Is Poverty? Ch 4
Marine Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream
Related Reading: Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness, Ch 1
Debra Dickerson: Who Shot Johnny?
Richard Rodriguez: Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic*Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife
*Naomi Shahib Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists*Jonathan Kozol: The Details of Life
Chapter Eleven: Mixed Strategies
Stephen J. Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs <h3>Jo Goodwin Parker: What is Poverty?
Related Reading: Ehrenreich, A Step Back to the Workhouse? Ch 10
Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics, Ch 10Gloria Steinem: Erotica and Pornography
Nancy Mairs: On Being a Cripple*Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a Word
Related Reading: Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness, Ch 1
*Ellen Goodman: The Company Man
Related Reading: Lutz, Doublespeak Ch 5
Chapter Five: Classification and Division
Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood
Donald Hall: Four Kinds of ReadingKesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in America
Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory Ch 1
Judity Viorst: The Truth about Lying
William Lutz: Doublespeak*Jonathan Lethem: 9 Failures of the Imagination
Chapter Six: Comparison and Contrast
May Sarton: The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life
Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: As Study in ContrastsDeborah Tannen: Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers
Mark Twain: Two Views of the MississippiScott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds
Related Reading: Staples, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7
Goodman, The Company Man, Ch 4*Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy People
Chapter Seven: Example and Illustration
Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for Supersition
Peter Farb and George Armelagos: Patterns of EatingEdward T. Hall: The Anthropology of Manners
Barbara Huttman: A Crime of CompassionBrent Staples: Black men and Public Space
Related Reading: Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Ch 6
*Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father
Chapter Eight: Cause and Effect
Norman Cousins: Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy
Shelby Steele: White GuiltBarbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone?
Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance., Ch 2
Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Strange, Would You? Probably
*K.C. Cole: The Arrow of TimeRelated Reading: Ackerman, Why Leaves Turn Color, Ch 3 *Calvin Trillin: It's Just Too Late
Chapter Nine: Analogy
Plato: The Myth of the Cave
Albert Camus: The Myth of SisyphusAlice Walker: Am I Blue?
Nicols Fox: Gawk ShowHarace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic PrisonChapter Ten: Argument and Persuasion
ARGUMENT
Welfare Reform
Barbara Ehrenreich: A Step Back to the Workhouse?Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor
Related Reading: Whitehead, Where Have All the Parents Gone? Ch 8
Free Speech
Nat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled?Alan M. Dershowiz: Shouting 'Fire!'
*Wendy Kaminer: Virtual RapeRape
Camille Paglia: Rape and Modern Sex WarSusan Jacoby: Common Decency
PERSUASION
Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
Related Reading: Parker, What Is Poverty? Ch 4
Marine Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream
Related Reading: Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness, Ch 1
Debra Dickerson: Who Shot Johnny?
Richard Rodriguez: Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic*Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife
*Naomi Shahib Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists*Jonathan Kozol: The Details of Life
Chapter Eleven: Mixed Strategies
Stephen J. Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs <
