Between Worlds : A Reader Rhetoric and Handbook

by Bachmann, Susan; Barth, Melinda

• ISBN13: 9780205693023
• ISBN10: 0205693024
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This immediately engaging composition resource features a thematically-organized collection of readings, a modes-based rhetoric, and a concise handbook.

Between Worlds opens with more than 75 multi-genre readings reflecting the human condition of being “in between”—generations, cultures, genders, perceptions, points of view. A research chapter with information on using and documenting sources in MLA and APA style and a brief handbook section are also included.

Between Worlds emphasizes the importance of reading, critical thinking, and analysis in all writing.

Table of Contents

New readings and sections are marked with an asterisk

Rhetorical Contents

Preface

The Reader

Getting the Most from Your Reading Active Reading

Thanksgiving

Discussion of Active Reading Active Reading as Prewriting

Practicing Active Reading

Between Generations

ldquo;My Son, My Compass,rdquo;

ldquo;The Good Daughter,rdquo;

ldquo;The Color of Love,rdquo;

ldquo;Breaking Traditionrdquo;(poem),

ldquo;On Teenagers and Tattoos,rdquo;

ldquo;Under My Skin,rdquo;

ldquo;The Only Child,rdquo;

ldquo;Are Families Dangerous?rdquo;

ldquo;The Lanyardrdquo;(poem)

ldquo;Your Place is Emptyr

ldquo;(fiction)

Between Genders

ldquo;Boy Friend: Between Those Two Words, A Guy Can Get Crushed,rdquo;

ldquo;Modern Romance,rdquo;

ldquo;Virtual Love,rdquo;

ldquo;Whorsquo;s Cheap?rdquo;

ldquo;Peachesrdquo;(fiction),

ldquo;Blue Sprucerdquo;(poem)

ldquo;Watching My Back,rdquo;

ldquo;Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain,rdquo;

Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.