READINGS FOR WRITERS, 9E

by McCuen, Charlotte

• ISBN13: 9780155038448
• ISBN10: 0155038443
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-29
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Thematic Table of Contents	xix
Guidelines for Critical Reading	xxv
Defining Rhetoric	I
Introduction: What Is Rhetoric?	1	(2)
Advice	3	(3)
What---and How---to Write When You Have No Time to Write	3	(3)
Donald Murray
Discussion	6	(12)
How I Write	6	(12)
Tilly Warnock
Examples	18	(11)
I Have a Dream	18	(5)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter to Fanny Brawne	23	(4)
John Keats
Editorial: Is There a Santa Claus?	27	(2)
Francis P. Church
Issue For Critical Thinking And Debate	29	(29)
Political Correctness	29	(1)
Painting: Toward the Tower	30	(2)
Remedios Varo
Are You Politically Correct?	32	(18)
John Taylor
What Campus Radicals? The PC Undergrad Is a Useful Specter	50	(8)
Rosa Ehrenreich
Student Corner	58	(9)
Sheer Confusion	58	(6)
Carlye Ketchum
How I Write
How I Wrote This Essay
My Writing Tip	64	(3)
Carlye Ketchum
The Writer's Voice	67	(74)
Introduction: What Is a Writer's Vocie?	67	(2)
Advice	69	(11)
How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words	69	(11)
Paul Roberts
Discussion	80	(11)
What Is Style?	80	(11)
F. L. Lucas
Examples	91	(19)
Remarks on the Life of Sacco and on His Own Life and Execution	91	(3)
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Salvation	94	(3)
Langston Hughes
A, B, and C: The Human Element in Mathematics	97	(5)
Stephen Leacock
Three Bears in Search of an Author	102	(5)
Dan Greenburg
In Praise of Dreams	107	(3)
Wislawa Szymborska
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	110	(18)
Aids	110	(1)
Painting: San la Muerte	111	(1)
Mirta Toledo
Who's Really at Risk for AIDS?	112	(12)
Amanda Bennett
Anita Sharpe
AIDS Is God's Punishment	124	(4)
Donna Ferentes
Student Corner	128	(13)
The Evolutionary Past and Future of AIDS	128	(9)
Scott Gavorsky
How I Write
How I Wrote This Essay
My Writing Tip	137	(4)
Scott Gavorsky
Purpose and Thesis	141	(58)
Introduction: What Is a Thesis?	141	(2)
Advice	143	(4)
The Thesis	143	(4)
Sheridan Baker
Discussion	147	(4)
The Controlling Concept	147	(4)
Harry Crosby
George Estey
Examples	151	(24)
The Grieving Never Ends	151	(7)
Roxanne Roberts
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	158	(15)
Flannery O'Connor
Spring	173	(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	175	(14)
Ageism	175	(1)
Painting: My Parents	176	(1)
Henry Koerner
The View from Eighty	177	(7)
Malcolm Cowley
Stay Young	184	(5)
Marya Mannes
Student Corner	189	(10)
Aging	189	(7)
Kimberly Caitlin Wheeler
How I Write
How I Wrote This Essay
My Writing Tip	196	(3)
Kimberly Caitlin Wheeler
Planning and Organizing	199	(56)
Introduction: Thinking Ahead	199	(2)
Advice	201	(4)
How to Write Clearly	201	(4)
Edward T. Thompson
Discussion	205	(5)
Take This Fish and Look at It	205	(5)
Samuel H. Scudder
Examples	210	(22)
My Wood	210	(4)
E. M. Forster
Why Western History Matters	214	(7)
Donald Kagan
The Catbird Seat	221	(9)
James Thurber
That Time of Year (Sonnet 73)	230	(2)
William Shakespeare
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	232	(13)
Drug Abuse	232	(1)
Painting: The Subway	233	(1)
George Tooker
Drugs	234	(3)
Gore Vidal
Don't Legalize Drugs	237	(8)
Morton M. Kondracke
Student Corner	245	(10)
Drug Use: The Continuing Epidemic	245	(6)
Linda Kunze
How I Write
How I Wrote This Essay
My Writing Tip	251	(4)
Linda Kunze
Developing Paragraphs	255	(44)
Introduction: Writing Paragraphs	255	(1)
Advice	256	(4)
Writing Successful Paragraphs	256	(4)
A. M. Tibbetts
Charlene Tibbetts
Discussion	260	(2)
The Function of the Paragraph	260	(2)
Richard M. Weaver
Examples	262	(10)
Paragraphs with the Topic Sentence at the Beginning	262	(1)
From The Lessons of the Past	262	(1)
Edith Hamilton
Pain	263	(2)
William Somerset Maugham
I Am Tired of Fighting (Surrender Speech) / Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce	265	(1)
Paragraphs with the Topic Sentence at the End	266	(1)
Man Against Darkness	266	(2)
W. T. Stace
What Is a Poet?	268	(1)
Mark Van Doren
On Disease	269	(2)
Lewis Thomas
The Flood	271	(1)
Robert Frost
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	272	(12)
Ecology	272	(1)
Painting: Detroit Industry	273	(1)
Diego M. Rivera
Our Values Hurt the Environment	274	(5)
Joseph W. Krutch
Economic Growth Requires Environmental Compromises	279	(5)
Lester C. Thurow
Student Corner	284	(15)
Saving Life on Earth---It Doesn't Take an Education	284	(12)
Michele Izzo
How I Write
How I Wrote This Essay
My Writing Tip	296	(3)
Michele Izzo
INTRODUCTION TO THE PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT	299	(442)
Patterns of Development for the Subject ``Guilt'' / The Editors	300	(5)
Reporting: Narration, Description, and Process Analysis	305	(132)
Advice	305	(1)
How to Write a Narration	305	(4)
Examples	309	(34)
Shooting an Elephant	309	(8)
George Orwell
The Red Candle	317	(15)
Amy Tan
Shame	332	(5)
Dick Gregory
The Odour of Cheese	337	(4)
Jerome K. Jerome
Those Winter Sundays	341	(2)
Robert Hayden
Advice	343	(1)
How to Write a Description	343	(3)
Examples	346	(34)
The Deception of Hitler	346	(6)
Albert Speer
The Libido for the Ugly	352	(5)
H. L. Mencken
Once More to the Lake	357	(7)
E. B. White
Hell	364	(5)
James Joyce
A Worn Path	369	(9)
Eudora Welty
Pigeon Woman	378	(2)
May Swenson
Advice	380	(1)
How to Write a Process Analysis	380	(3)
Examples	383	(27)
Sharks	383	(8)
Sir Arthur Grimble
Used Cars: Finding a Good Buy / Consumer Reports	391	(7)
An Open Window on My Private World	398	(5)
Jane Elizabeth Lemke
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our-Friend Colby	403	(5)
Donald Barthelme
How to Be an Army	408	(2)
Kenneth Patchen
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	410	(17)
Education	410	(1)
Painting: Booker T. Washington Legend	411	(1)
William H. Johnson
Teaching College English as a Woman	412	(10)
Lynn Z. Bloom
The Right to Fail	422	(5)
William Zinsser
Student Corner	427	(10)
Finding the Force	427	(8)
Rebecca Schlafer
How I Write
How I Wrote This Essay
My Writing Tip	435	(2)
Rebecca Schlafer
Explaining: Illustration and Definition	437	(82)
Advice	437	(1)
How to Write with Examples	437	(3)
Examples	440	(19)
The Buck Stops Where?	440	(5)
Barry Parr
``Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall...''	445	(4)
John Leo
A Diarist on Diarists	449	(7)
Gail Godwin
Living in Sin	456	(3)
Adrienne Rich
Advice	459	(1)
How to Write a Definition	459	(3)
Examples	462	(26)
Putting in a Good Word for Guilt	462	(5)
Ellen Goodman
In Praise of the Humble Comma	467	(4)
Pico Iyer
Kitsch	471	(9)
Gilbert Highet
Cystic Fibrosis	480	(6)
Frank Deford
Ars Poetica	486	(2)
Archibald MacLeish
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	488	(18)
Racism	488	(1)
Painting: Mexico, Chile, Soweto...	489	(2)
Rupert Garcia
Warriors Don't Cry	491	(5)
Melba Patillo Beals
The End of Racism	496	(10)
Dinesh D'Souza
Student Corner	506	(13)
Racism: How Far Have We Come?	506	(8)
Nancey Phillips
How I Write
How I Wrote This Essay
My Writing Tip	514	(5)
Nancey Phillips
Analyzing: Comparison/Contrast, Division/Classification, and Causal Analysis	519	(102)
Advice	519	(1)
How to Write a Comparison or Contrast	519	(2)
Examples	521	(28)
From Conservatism and Liberalism	521	(4)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That Lean and Hungry Look	525	(4)
Suzanne Britt
Diogenes and Alexander	529	(6)
Gilbert Highet
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts	535	(5)
Bruce Catton
Bricklayer's Boy	540	(6)
Alfred Lubrano
Curiosity	546	(3)
Alastair Reid
Advice	549	(1)
How to Write a Division and Classification	549	(2)
Examples	551	(19)
Thinking as a Hobby	551	(8)
William Golding
Kinds of Discipline	559	(5)
John Holt
The Idols	564	(3)
Francis Bacon
English 101	567	(3)
Bart Edelman
Advice	570	(1)
How to Write a Causal Analysis	570	(3)
Examples	573	(29)
Why Tigers Become Man-Eaters	573	(6)
Jim Corbett
Books	579	(7)
Allan Bloom
Why I Went to the Woods	586	(7)
Henry David Thoreau
The Storm	593	(7)
Kate Chopin
Design	600	(2)
Robert Frost
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	602	(9)
The Values of the New Generation	602	(1)
Painting: Picasso 2	603	(1)
Duane Palyka
A Good War Will Wet Gen X Straight	604	(3)
Brian Gabriel
One Delightful Hour Spent with the Generation We Have Betrayed	607	(4)
Ted Byfield
Student Corner	611	(10)
Generation X	611	(6)
Sean Cotton
How I Write
How I Wrote This Essay
My Writing Tip	617	(4)
Sean Cotton
Argumentation	621	(64)
Introduction to Argumentation	621	(2)
Advice	623	(8)
Obstacles to Clear Thinking	623	(8)
Richard D. Altick
Discussion	631	(7)
Introduction to Logic	631	(7)
John C. Sherwood
Examples	638	(26)
A Modest Proposal	638	(8)
Jonathan Swift
I Want a Wife	646	(4)
Judy Syfers
Sex Predators Can't Be Saved	650	(5)
Andrew Vachss
How the Superwoman Myth Puts Women Down	655	(5)
Sylvia Rabiner
Dooley Is a Traitor	660	(4)
James Michie
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	664	(12)
Homelessness	664	(1)
Print: Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley	665	(1)
Dorothea Lange
Homeless: Expose the Myths	666	(3)
Joseph Perkins
How She Became Homeless	669	(7)
Linda Weltner
Student Corner	676	(9)
People Out on a Limb	676	(6)
Antoinette Poodt
How I Write
How I Wrote This Essay
My Writing Tip	682	(3)
Antoinette Poodt
The Meaning of Words	685	(56)
Introduction to the Meaning of Words	685	(1)
Advice	686	(4)
A Brief Lexicon of Jargon	686	(4)
Richard K. Redfern
Discussion	690	(10)
Change in the English Language	690	(6)
Bill Bryson
Cleaning a Catalog of Ills	696	(3)
Deb Price
Baffle-Gab Thesaurus / Time	699	(1)
Examples	700	(22)
Shakespeare in the Bush	700	(12)
Laura Bohannan
Coming into Language	712	(8)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Threes	720	(2)
Carl Sandburg
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	722	(10)
Affirmative Action	722	(1)
Painting: The Problem We All Live With	723	(1)
Norman Rockwell
The Great White Myth	723	(4)
Anna Quindlen
The Route to 9066	727	(5)
Wilma J. Moore
Student Corner	732	(9)
Affirmative Action and Women	732	(6)
Becky Winkler
How I Write
How I Wrote This Essay
My Writing Tip	738	(3)
Becky Winkler
Appendix Optional Assignments	741	(80)
Assignment 1	741	(63)
The Research Paper	741	(8)
The Bilingually Handicapped Child	749	(26)
Elynor Baughman
Dian Fossey: A Scientist Who Stopped Caring About Science	775	(29)
Margie Vickers
Assignment 2	804	(17)
The Literary Paper	804	(5)
A Worn, but Lightly Traveled Path	809	(12)
Douglas B. Inman
Glossary	821	(10)
Literary Credits	831	(6)
Index	837