The Macmillan Reader

by Nadell, Judith; Langan, John; Comodromos, Eliza A.

Edition:

6th

ISBN13:

9780205334636

ISBN10:

0205334636

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

7/1/2001

Publisher(s):

Pearson College Div

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Successful, and widely praised for its superior instructional apparatus and thought-provoking readings, The Macmillan Reader offers fresh examples of professional essays, separate chapters on reading and writing, detailed introductions to the patterns of development, and "before" and "after" essays for each pattern. This edition now contains 58 readings, a blend of classics and fresh new selections, chosen for their engaging and inspiring qualities. Two detailed introductory chapters discuss the reading and writing processes and illustrate the integration of these processes. Annotated essays, "before and after" versions, and commentaries illustrate the writing and revising process and highlight the kind of thinking necessary for revision. Detailed introductions to the rhetorical patterns, and uniquely thorough coverage of argumentation-persuasion includes sections on logic, refutation strategies, audience analysis, Toulmin logic, Rogerian argument, detecting bias, maintaining objectivity, and establishing common ground. Also new in this edition is coverage of c

Thematic Contents

xix

Preface

xxvii

The Reading Process

(12)

Get an Overview of the Selection

(1)

Deepen Your Sense of the Selection

(1)

Evaluate the Selection

(2)

Family Counterculture

(7)

Ellen Goodman

Parents are told to switch the dial if they don't want their kids watching something on TV. But what should parents do if the entire culture warrants being switched off?

The Writing Process

(70)

Prewrite

(17)

Identify the Thesis

(6)

Support the Thesis With Evidence

(9)

Organize the Evidence

(8)

Write the First Draft

(15)

Revise the Essay

(6)

Student Essay

(2)

Commentary

(6)

Description

(62)

What Is Description?

(1)

How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience

(2)

Suggestions for Using Description in an Essay

(4)

Student Essay

(2)

Commentary

(4)

Activities: Description

(2)

Flavio's Home

(10)

Gordon Parks

Having battled poverty and prejudice himself, writer-photographer Gordon Parks visits a Brazilian slum and finds, among the wretched thousands forgotten by the outside world, a dying yet smiling boy

In My Day

108

(8)

Russell Baker

The author visits his elderly mother in the hospital and muses on the entwining of lives within a family

Sister Flowers

116

(9)

Maya Angelou

Hidden deep within herself after the trauma of a rape, a young girl is escorted back into life by the grand lady of a small town

Once More to the Lake

125

(9)

E. B. White

Past, present, and future merge when White returns to a beloved boyhood spot

A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

134

(9)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

With wistful affection, the author recalls the laughter and lessons of the late-afternoon gathering of women in her family

Additional Writing Topics

143

(2)

Narration

145

(52)

What Is Narration?

145

(1)

How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience

146

(1)

Suggestions for Using Narration in an Essay

147

(6)

Student Essay

153

(2)

Commentary

155

(3)

Activities: Narration

158

(2)

The Fourth of July

160

(7)

Audre Lorde

On a Fourth of July trip to the nation's capital, a family is confronted by an ugly truth about American life

Shooting an Elephant

167

(9)

George Orwell

The author recounts a dramatic time when, under great pressure, he acted against his better instincts

The Chase

176

(7)

Annie Dillard

On a lazy winter morning, several children throw perfectly rounded snowballs at passing cars. Suddenly, one driver leaps from his car and gives chase

Salvation

183

(5)

Langston Hughes

In the course of being ``saved'' during a revival meeting, a young boy's life is changed forever

So Tsi-Fai

188

(7)

Sophronia Liu

The tragedy of a classmate's brief, hopeless life continues, more than twenty years later, to haunt the author

Additional Writing Topics

195

(2)

Exemplification

197

(62)

What Is Exemplification?

197

(1)

How Exemplification Fits Your Purpose and Audience

198

(3)

Suggestions for Using Exemplification in an Essay

201

(5)

Student Essay

206

(2)

Commentary

208

(4)

Activities: Exemplification

212

(2)

The ``Values'' Wasteland

214

(11)

Charles Sykes

In the quest to teach kids to be broad-minded and non-judgmental, have we compromised their ability to distinguish between right and wrong? A respected journalist thinks we have

Sexism and Language

225

(9)

Alleen Pace Nilsen

Language, it seems, can be as prejudiced and unfair as people

University Days

234

(8)

James Thurber

With irony and humor, Thurber portrays college as a struggle between diligent, well-meaning profs and innocent but dense students

Bombs Bursting In Air

242

(7)

Beth Johnson

Forced to share grim news with her children, the author reflects on life's fragility-and its beauty

What I've Learned From Men

249

(7)

Barbara Ehrenreich

Do men simper, smile, and chatter aimlessly in an effort to be ``nice''? No, says the author, and neither should women

Additional Writing Topics

256

(3)

Division-Classification

259

(66)

What Is Division-Classification?

259

(2)

How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience

261

(2)

Suggestions for Using Division-Classification in an Essay

263

(5)

Student Essay

268

(4)

Commentary

272

(3)

Activities: Division-Classification

275

(3)

Friends, Good Friends---and Such Good Friends

278

(7)

Judith Viorst

If you have a neighborhood friend, an on-the-job friend, a childhood friend, and a best friend, you'll enjoy Viorst's essay on degrees of intimacy

College Pressures

285

(11)

William Zinsser

According to Zinsser, many students concentrate almost exclusively on the practical-and miss some of the most important parts of college life

Doublespeak

296

(8)

William Lutz

What do you call language that is specifically designed not to communicate? William Lutz has a name for it-doublespeak

Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising

304

(9)

Ann McClintock

Propaganda is not just a tool of totalitarian states. American advertisers also use propaganda to get us to buy their products

But What do You Mean?

313

(10)

Deborah Tannen

Could the way women communicate on the job ever work to their disadvantage? Absolutely, says this professor of linguistics

Additional Writing Topics

323

(2)

Process Analysis

325

(64)

What Is Process Analysis?

325

(1)

How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience

326

(2)

Suggestions for Using Process Analysis in an Essay

328

(6)

Student Essay

334

(3)

Commentary

337

(3)

Activities: Process Analysis

340

(3)

Your New Computer

343

(7)

Bill Bryson

Anyone who has ever read a computer manual, trying to figure out whether to insert the red wire into the blue slot or the blue wire into the red slot, will sympathize with Bryson's humorous exasperation

Campus Racism 101

350

(7)

Nikki Giovanni

The advice that Giovanni gives Black students for succeeding at predominantly white institutions has relevance for nonminorities, too

The American Way of Death

357

(8)

Jessica Mitford

The funeral industry says more about our attitudes toward death than we care to admit

How to Say Nothing in 500 Words

365

(15)

Paul Roberts

An English professor analyzes a student essay, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

The Fine Art of Complaining

380

(7)

Caroline Rego

Shoddy service and malfunctioning products afflict us all, but some of us complain more effectively than others

Additional Writing Topics

387

(2)

Comparison-Contrast

389

(48)

What Is Comparison-Contrast?

389

(1)

How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience

390

(1)

Suggestions for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay

391

(6)

Student Essay

397

(2)

Commentary

399

(4)

Activities: Comparison-Contrast

403

(2)

A Fable for Tomorrow

405

(4)

Rachel Carson

Ecologist Rachel Carson warns us that what seems like a nightmare will become all too real if we fail to protect the earth

That Lean and Hungry Look

409

(5)

Suzanne Britt

Beware the bony clutches of the thin person, says the author. Anyone who doesn't appreciate double-fudge brownies can't possibly understand the mysteries of life

Workers

414

(8)

Richard Rodriguez

A summer job teaches a college student some important things about himself and the world of work

The Ugly Truth About Beauty

422

(5)

Dave Barry

Why do men tend to be unconcerned about their appearance while women seem obsessed with how they look? Humorist Dave Barry advances an interesting theory

The Prisoner's Dilemma

427

(8)

Stephen Chapman

Which, the author asks, is a more effective approach to punishment-a few moments of pain or many years of imprisonment? You decide

Additional Writing Topics

435

(2)

Cause-Effect

437

(52)

What Is Cause-Effect?

437

(1)

How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience

438

(1)

Suggestions for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay

439

(8)

Student Essay

447

(2)

Commentary

449

(4)

Activities: Cause-Effect

453

(2)

Why We Crave Horror Movies

455

(5)

Stephen King

Who should know more about our appetite for horror than Stephen King? This maestro of the macabre shares his thoughts on why moviegoers eagerly pay to be terrified

Showing What is Possible

460

(7)

Jacques D'Amboise

By taking control of one's body, this celebrated dancer explains, it is possible to take control of one's life

Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self

467

(10)

Alice Walker

A disfiguring eye injury leads the author to some insights about beauty, self-image, and identity

The Lie Detector

477

(5)

Lewis Thomas

Buried deep within us, Thomas believes, is something that hates a lie

Is Technology Making Us Intimate Strangers?

482

(5)

Jonathan Coleman

Cell phones and beepers, e-mail and fax machines. We're electronically connected, every day, all day. So why, wonders Coleman, do we seem so isolated from others-and from ourselves?

Additional Writing Topics

487

(2)

Definition

489

(48)

What Is Definition?

489

(1)

How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience

490

(1)

Suggestions for Using Definition in an Essay

491

(4)

Student Essay

495

(3)

Commentary

498

(3)

Activities: Definition

501

(2)

Entropy

503

(6)

K. C. Cole

A noted science writer observes that disorder is the natural order of things-in her life and in the universe at large

Life as Type A

509

(7)

James Gleick

Since they were first identified in a 1959 study, ``Type A'' people-those hurried, hassled, heart-attack-prone folks-have become part of our cultural landscape. But, says Gleick, there's a problem: The study was worthless

``Mommy, What Does `Nigger' Mean?''

516

(6)

Gloria Naylor

The author contemplates the question she asked her mother as a child and arrives at a surprisingly complex answer

TV Addiction

522

(7)

Marie Winn

You don't have to abuse drugs or alcohol to be an addict. Such a label may apply if you have trouble turning off the television set

The Handicap of Definition

529

(5)

William Raspberry

Raspberry looks at the expectations that many of his fellow African-Americans have for themselves-and sees a serious problem

Additional Writing Topics

534

(3)

Argumentation-Persuasion

537

(122)

What Is Argumentation-Persuasion?

537

(1)

How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience

538

(5)

Suggestions for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay

543

(19)

Student Essay

562

(7)

Commentary

569

(4)

Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion

573

(3)

In Praise of the ``F'' Word

576

(5)

Mary Sherry

The fear of receiving a failing grade can go a long way toward getting the attention of non-achieving students

Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures

581

(6)

Yuh Ji-Yeon

In school, the author's history books taught about the settling of the West but not about the massacre of the native peoples living there; about the American belief in equality, but not about Americans denied citizenship because of their race

The Damned Human Race

587

(8)

Mark Twain

With scathing irony, this celebrated writer exposes the violent nature of the lowest creature on earth

A Modest Proposal

595

(11)

Jonathan Swift

One of the world's great satirists proposes an outrageous solution to his country's economic problems

Free Speech on Campus

606

(9)

Nat Hentoff

Are America's campuses still havens for political debate, or has the prevailing mood silenced all views except those that are ``politically correct''?

Examining an Issue: Date Rape

Rape: A Bigger Danger Than Feminists Know

615

(7)

Camille Paglia

The widespread prevalence of date rape, says the author, is evidence that feminism has failed young women

Common Decency

622

(6)

Susan Jacoby

According to Jacoby, a man who forces himself on a woman is neither misled nor confused; he's simply a rapist

Examining an Issue: Cloning

Study Cloning, Don't Ban It

628

(5)

Daniel Kevles

Although the cloning of Dolly the sheep created widespread alarm about the possibility of human cloning, the author claims that the technology will eventually become-if not common-place-at least accepted

Of Headless Mice . . . And Men

633

(5)

Charles Krauthammer

The ability to produce headless humans-not exactly alive, but possessing fully functioning organs-is within scientists' grasp. Krauthammer is horrified by the prospect

Examining an Issue: Affirmative Action

Racism has Its Privileges

638

(11)

Roger Wilkins

A longtime civil rights activist argues that the call to eliminate affirmative-action programs is rooted in wrongheaded thinking, willful ignorance, even outright lies

Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference

649

(8)

Shelby Steele

Black writer and scholar Shelby Steele describes the discomfort he experiences at the prospect of his own children being offered preferential treatment because of their color

Additional Writing Assignments

657

(2)

Combining the Patterns

659

(32)

The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process

659

(1)

The Patterns in Action: In an Essay

660

(2)

The Death of the Moth

662

(7)

Virginia Woolf

Watching the death throes of a moth leads Woolf to wonder at the mystery of life and at the force that opposes it

Professions for Women

669

(6)

Virginia Woolf

A celebrated writer describes whom she had to kill in order to succeed in her chosen work

Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos?

675

(5)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

America's most influential civil rights leader pleads eloquently for a drastic change in the way that governments pursue world peace

The World House

680

(5)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Despite revolutions in science, technology, medicine, and politics, the greatest challenge of all still faces the human race

On Going Home

685

(3)

Joan Didion

Taking her baby daughter to visit her parents, Didion contemplates the distinctions between the two places she claims as ``home.''

The Santa Ana

688

(3)

Joan Didion

Living within reach of the Santa Ana-a fierce, hot, unpredictable wind-teaches us how tenuous our hold on life can be

APPENDIX: A CONCISE GUIDE TO FINDING AND DOCUMENTING SOURCES

691

(28)

Using the Library to Find Books on Your Subject

691

(3)

Using the Library to Find Reference Works on Your Subject

694

(1)

Using the Library to Find Articles on Your Subject

695

(4)

Using the Internet to Research Your Subject

699

(6)

Documenting Sources

705

(1)

What to Document

706

(1)

How to Document

706

(5)

List of Works Cited

711

(8)

Glossary

719

(18)

Acknowledgments

737

(6)

Index

743

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