Essay Connection (P)

by Bloom

• ISBN13: 9780395871072
• ISBN10: 0395871077
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-11
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Topical Table of Contents	xv
Preface	xxv
Acknowledgments	xxx
Part I On Writing	1	(136)
Writers in Process---Laughing, Speaking, and Reading	1	(35)
Excerpt:
The Sacred	6	(1)
Stephen Dunn
Excerpt:
The Page	7	(2)
Margaret Atwood
Laughing in English	9	(12)
Cathy N. Davidson
Mother Tongue	21	(8)
Amy Tan
In Love with Books	29	(7)
Eudora Welty
The Essay, a Vision: Definition and Reasons for Writing	36	(23)
The Essayist and the Essay	39	(3)
E. B. White
The Making of a Writer	42	(9)
Paule Marshall
Why I Write: Making No Become Yes	51	(8)
Elie Wiesel
Getting Started	59	(42)
Hearing Voices	64	(5)
Linda Hogan
Freewriting	69	(5)
Peter Elbow
A List of Nothing in Particular	74	(5)
William Least Heat-Moon
Writers' Notebooks	79	(1)
Aboard a Mississippi River Steamboat	80	(8)
Mark Twain
Sylvia Plath at Seventeen	88	(2)
Sylvia Plath
Selections from Student Writers' Notebooks	90	(11)
Writing: Re-Vision and Revision	101	(36)
The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts	106	(11)
Donald M. Murray
Return of the Cliche Expert	117	(4)
Roger Angell
Writer's Notebook Entries: The Evolution of ``Mama's Smoke''	121	(11)
Mary Ruffin
On Discovery	132	(5)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Part II Determining Ideas in a Sequence	137	(170)
Narration	137	(42)
Once More to the Lake	142	(8)
E. B. White
Resurrection	150	(7)
Frederick Douglass
A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood	157	(8)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Death of the Profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing)	165	(9)
Patricia J. Williams
Learning to Drive	174	(5)
Ann Upperco Dolman
Process Analysis	179	(59)
Those Crazy Ideas	184	(13)
Isaac Asimov
The Route to Normal Science	197	(12)
Thomas S. Kuhn
Inside the Engine	209	(7)
Tom
Ray Magliozzi
Exercise: A New Dietary Requirement	216	(13)
Jane Brody
The Turning Point	229	(4)
Craig Swanson
It's the Only Videogame My Mom Lets Me Chew	233	(5)
Craig Swanson
Cause and Effect	238	(69)
``I Just Wanna Be Average''	243	(11)
Mike Rose
The School Days of an Indian Girl	254	(10)
Zitkala-Sa
The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society	264	(11)
Jonathan Kozol
A Nation of Welfare Families	275	(7)
Stephanie Coontz
Framing My Father	282	(7)
Leslie S. Moore
Shiloh	289	(18)
Bobbie Ann Mason
Part III Clarifying Ideas	307	(256)
Description	307	(46)
Uncle John's Farm	312	(7)
Mark Twain
The Inheritance of Tools	319	(10)
Scott Russell Sanders
Marrying Absurd	329	(5)
Joan Didion
The Beautiful Place	334	(10)
Kathleen Norris
Why I write in a language my mother does not speak	344	(9)
Genevieve Brassard
Division and Classification	353	(52)
The Technology of Medicine	358	(6)
Lewis Thomas
Pomegranates and English Education	364	(11)
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
None of This Is Fair	375	(6)
Richard Rodriguez
University Days	381	(8)
James Thurber
Red and Black, or One English Major's Beginning	389	(16)
Ning Yu
Illustration and Example	405	(49)
The Power of Books	409	(11)
Richard Wright
Under the Influence: Paying the Price of My Father's Booze	420	(15)
Scott Russell Sanders
The Saints of Servitude	435	(5)
Patricia J. Williams
Shouting ``Fire!''	440	(8)
Alan M. Dershowitz
What's in a Name?	448	(6)
Seung Hee Suh
Definition	454	(47)
Signs and Symbols	460	(8)
Susanne K. Langer
I Want a Wife	468	(4)
Judy Brady
On Being a Cripple	472	(15)
Nancy Mairs
Understanding Natural Selection	487	(8)
Charles Darwin
Acid Rain	495	(6)
Kelly Shea
Comparison and Contrast	501	(62)
Communication Styles	505	(8)
Deborah Tannen
Evolution as Fact and Theory	513	(11)
Stephen Jay Gould
What's Wrong with Animal Rights?	524	(12)
Vicki Hearne
Mortality	536	(4)
Bailey White
Homes Away from Home	540	(7)
Leslie S. Moore
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love	547	(16)
Raymond Carver
Part IV Arguing Directly and Indirectly	563	(146)
Appealing to Reason: Deductive and Inductive Arguments	563	(67)
Letter from Birmingham Jail	569	(19)
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
The Tyranny of the Majority	588	(8)
Lani Guinier
How to Get the Poor off Our Conscience	596	(8)
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Global Elite	604	(13)
Robert Reich
The Struggle to Save Endangered Species	617	(13)
Janna L. Cunningham
Appealing to Emotion and Ethics	630	(38)
The Gettysburg Address	635	(2)
Abraham Lincoln
A Modest Proposal	637	(10)
Jonathan Swift
The Sanctuary of School	647	(6)
Lynda Barry
The Clan of One-Breasted Women	653	(9)
Terry Tempest Williams
The Death of a Farm	662	(6)
Amy Jo Keifer
Critical Argument: Textual Analysis	668	(41)
The Gettysburg Address	674	(7)
Gilbert Highet
Pidgin to da Max	681	(4)
Andrew Nakamura
Four Cinderellas	685	(1)
The Chinese ``Cinderella''	685	(3)
Tuan Ch'eng-Shih
The Dust Girl	688	(4)
Anonymous
Ning Yu
The Nurturing Woman Rewarded: A Study of Two Chinese Cinderellas	692	(8)
Ning Yu
Cinderella	700	(4)
Anne Sexton
Fiction: Happy Endings	704	(5)
Margaret Atwood
Glossary	709	(17)
Text Credits	726	(6)
Index of Authors	732