Readings for Writers

by McCuen-Metherell, Jo Ray

• ISBN13: 9780155074804
• ISBN10: 0155074806
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-26
• 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	v
Thematic Table of Contents	vii
Guidelines for Critical Reading	1	(8)
Defining Rhetoric	9	(42)
Introduction: What is Rhetoric?	9	(1)
Advice	10	(8)
What---and How---to Write When You Have No Time to Write	10	(4)
Donald Murray
Discussion	14	(1)
Simplicity	14	(4)
William Zinsser
Examples	18	(14)
I Have a Dream	18	(5)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter to the Rev. J. Page Hopps	23	(5)
Oscar Wilde
Have a Cigar	28	(4)
James Herriot
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	32	(9)
Teen Violence	32	(1)
Photo: Memorial Service at Columbine High School / CORBIS/AFP	33	(1)
Social Cesspool Polluting Youth	34	(4)
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Dont' Blame the Parents; It's Mainly the Peers	38	(3)
Judith Rich Harris
Student Corner	41	(10)
Violence Rampant among Teens	41	(6)
Michael Cotton
How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip	47	(4)
Michael Cotton
The Writer's Voice	51	(62)
Introduction: What is a Writer's Voice?	51	(1)
Advice	52	(11)
How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words	52	(11)
Paul Roberts
Discussion	63	(10)
What Is Style?	63	(10)
F. L. Lucas
Examples	73	(18)
Remarks on the Life of Sacco and on His Own Life and Execution	73	(3)
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Salvation	76	(3)
Langston Hughes
A, B, and C: The Human Element in Mathematics	79	(5)
Stephen Leacock
Three Bears in Search on an Author	84	(4)
Dan Greenburg
Black Rook in Rainy Weather	88	(3)
Sylvia Plath
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	91	(9)
Family Values	91	(1)
Painting: Tribute to the American Working People	92	(1)
Honore Desmond Sharrer
An Argument against Hating Our Enemies	93	(3)
Etty Hillesum
On Developing Human Values	96	(4)
Gerald A. Larue
Student Corner	100	(13)
Family Values	100	(10)
Claudia Sanders
How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip	110	(3)
Claudia Sanders
Purpose and Thesis	113	(56)
Introduction: What is a Thesis?	113	(1)
Advice
The Thesis	114	(4)
Sheridan Baker
Discussion	118	(3)
The Controlling Concept	118	(3)
Harry Crosby
George Estey
Examples	121	(23)
The Grieving Never Ends	121	(8)
Roxame Roberts
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	129	(13)
Flannery O'Connor
Spring	142	(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	144	(14)
Ageism	144	(1)
Painting: My Parents	145	(1)
Henry Koerner
The View from Eighty	146	(7)
Malcolm Cowley
Stay Young	153	(5)
Marya Mannes
Student Corner	158	(11)
Aging	158	(4)
Kimberly Caitlin Wheeler
How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writingg Tip	162	(7)
Kimberly Caitlin Wheeler
Planning and Organizing	169	(48)
Introduction: Thinking Ahead	169	(1)
Advice	170	(4)
How to Write Clearly	170	(4)
Edward T. Thompson
Discussion	174	(4)
Take This Fish and Look at It	174	(4)
Samuel H. Scudder
Examples	178	(17)
My Wood	178	(4)
E. M. Forster
Rules for Aging	182	(3)
Roger Rosenblatt
The Catbird Seat	185	(8)
James Thurber
That Time of Year (Sonnet 73)	193	(2)
William Shakespeare
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	195	(13)
Drug Abuse	195	(1)
Painting: The Subway	196	(1)
George Tooker
Drugs	197	(3)
Gore Vidal
Don't Legalize Drugs	200	(8)
Morton M. Kondracke
Student Corner	208	(9)
Drug Use: The Continuing Epidemic	208	(6)
Linda Kunze
How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip	214	(3)
Linda Kunze
Developing Paragraphs	217	(48)
Introduction: Writing Paragraphs	217	(1)
Advice	218	(3)
Writing Successful Paragraphs	218	(3)
A. M. Tibbetts
Charlene Tibbetts
Discussion	221	(2)
The Function of the Paragraph	221	(2)
Richard M. Weaver
Examples	223	(10)
Paragraphs with the Topic Sentence and the Beginning	223	(1)
From The Lessons of the Past	223	(2)
Edith Hamilton
Pain	225	(1)
William Somerset Maugham
I Am Tired of Fighting (Surrender Speech) / Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce	226	(1)
Paragraphs with the Topic Sentence at the End	227	(1)
Man against Darkness	227	(2)
W. T. Stace
What Is a Poet?	229	(1)
Mark Van Doren
On Disease	230	(1)
Lewis Thomas
The Flood	231	(2)
Robert Frost
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	233	(11)
Ecology	233	(1)
Painting: Detroit Industry	234	(1)
Diego M. Rivera
Our Values Hurt the Environment	235	(4)
Joseph W. Krutch
Economic Growth Requires Environmental Compromises	239	(5)
Lester C. Thurow
Student Corner	244	(15)
Saving Life on Earth---It Doesn't Take an Education	244	(11)
Michele Izzo
How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip	255	(4)
Michele Izzo
Introduction to the Patterns of Development	259	(6)
Patterns of Development for the Subject ``Guilt'' / The Editors	260	(5)
Reporting: Narration, Description, and Process Analysis	265	(98)
Advice	265	(3)
How to Write a Narration	265	(3)
Examples	268	(24)
Shooting an Elephant	268	(7)
George Orwell
My Name Is Margaret	275	(7)
Maya Angelou
Shame	282	(4)
Dick Gregory
The Odour of Cheese	286	(4)
Jerome K. Jerome
Those Winter Sundays	290	(2)
Robert Hayden
Advice	292	(3)
How to Write a Description	292	(3)
Examples	295	(27)
The Libido for the Ugly	295	(5)
H. L. Mencken
Once More to the Lake	300	(7)
E. B. White
Hell	307	(4)
James Joyce
A Worn Path	311	(8)
Eudora Welty
Pigeon Woman	319	(3)
May Swenson
Advice	322	(2)
How to Write a Process Analysis	322	(2)
Examples	324	(22)
Hunting Octopus in the Gilbert Islands	324	(5)
Sir Arthur Grimble
In an Assassin's Footsteps	329	(8)
David Montgomery
Hilter's Workday	337	(2)
William Shirer
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby	339	(5)
Donald Barthelme
How to Be an Army	344	(2)
Kenneth Patchen
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	346	(10)
The Existence of God	346	(2)
Painting: Creation of Adam	348	(1)
Michelangelo
Where Was God?	348	(4)
Elie Wiesel
What Did Carl Sagan See at the Moment of His Death?	352	(4)
Eric Ringham
Student Corner	356	(7)
The Existence of God	356	(4)
Ara Babaian
How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip	360	(3)
Ara Babaian
Explaining: Illustration and Definition	363	(82)
Advice	363	(3)
How to Write with Examples	363	(3)
Examples	366	(17)
The Buck Stops Where?	366	(4)
Barry Parr
``Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall...''	370	(4)
John Leo
A Diarist on Diarists	374	(7)
Gail Godwin
Living in Sin	381	(2)
Adrienne Rich
Advice	383	(3)
How to Write a Definition	383	(3)
Examples	386	(30)
Keep the Factoids and Just Stick to the Facts	386	(2)
Dennis Baron
We Do Abortions Here	388	(9)
Sallie Tisdale
The Company Man	397	(4)
Ellen Goodman
In Praise of the Humble Comma	401	(3)
Pico Iyer
Kitsch	404	(9)
Gilbert Highet
Ars Poetica	413	(3)
Archibald MacLeish
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	416	(16)
Racism	416	(1)
Panting: Mexico, Chile, Soweto	417	(1)
Rupert Garcia
Warriors Don't Cry	418	(5)
Melba Patillo Beals
The End of Racism	423	(9)
Dinest D'Souza
Student Corner
Racism: How Far Have We Come?	432	(8)
Nancy Phillips
How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip	440	(5)
Nancey Phillips
Analyzing: Comparison/Contrast, Division/Classification, and Causal Analysis	445	(100)
Advice	445	(2)
How to Write a Comparison or Contrast	445	(2)
Examples	447	(26)
From Conservatism and Liberalism	447	(4)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That Lean and Hungry Look	451	(3)
Suzanne Jordan
Diogenes and Alexander	454	(6)
Gilbert Highet
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts	460	(5)
Bruce Catton
Bricklayer's Boy	465	(6)
Alfred Lubrano
Curiosity	471	(2)
Alastair Reid
Advice	473	(2)
How to Write a Division and Classification	473	(2)
Examples	475	(17)
Thinking as a Hobby	475	(7)
William Golding
Kinds of Discipline	482	(5)
John Holt
The Idols	487	(3)
Francis Bacon
English	490	(2)
Bart Edelman
Advice	492	(3)
How to Write a Causal Analysis	492	(3)
Examples	495	(28)
Why Tigers Become Man-Eaters	495	(6)
Jim Corbett
Books	501	(7)
Allan Bloom
Why I Went to the Woods	508	(7)
Henry David Thoreau
The Storm	515	(6)
Kate Chopin
Design	521	(2)
Robert Frost
Issue For Critical Thinking and Debate	523	(11)
The Status of Women	523	(1)
On Sexual Separatism	524	(1)
Diana Trilling
Photo: Woman Conducts a Business Meeting	525	(4)
Loren Santow
How We Raise Boys and Girls Differently---and Why It's Wrong	529	(5)
Judy Mann
Student Corner	534	(11)
``Woman'' Is a Noun	534	(6)
Paula Rewa
How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip	540	(5)
Paula Rewa
Argumentation	545	(62)
Introduction to Argumentation	545	(1)
Advice	546	(8)
Obstacles to Clear Thinking	546	(8)
Richard D. Altick
Discussion	554	(6)
Introduction to Logic	554	(6)
John C. Sherwood
Examples	560	(25)
A Modest Proposal	560	(8)
Jonathan Swift
I Want a Wife	568	(3)
Judy Syfers
Sex Predators Can't Be Saved	571	(5)
Andrew Vachss
If We Keep on Doing What We're Doing, We're Gonna Keep Getting What We Got	576	(6)
Francena Thomas
Dooley Is a Traitor	582	(3)
James Michie
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	585	(11)
Homelessness	585	(1)
Print: Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley	586	(1)
Dorothea Lange
Homeless: Expose the Myths	587	(3)
Joseph Perkins
How She Became Homeless	590	(6)
Linda Weltner
Student Corner	596	(11)
People Out on a Limb	596	(6)
Antoinette Poodt
How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip	602	(5)
Antoinette Poodt
The Meaning of Words	607	(64)
Introduction to the Meaning of Words	607	(1)
Advice	608	(4)
A Brief Lexicon of Jargon	608	(4)
Richard K. Redfern
Discussion	612	(13)
Words: Our Most Important Tools	612	(6)
Bergen Evans
Change in the English Language	618	(6)
Bill Bryson
Baffle-Gab Thesaurus / Time	624	(1)
Examples	625	(20)
Shakespeare in the Bush	625	(11)
Laura Bohannan
Coming into Language	636	(7)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Threes	643	(2)
Carl Sandburg
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate	645	(15)
Affirmative Action	645	(1)
Painting: The Problem We All Live With	646	(1)
Norman Rockwell
The Great White Myth	647	(3)
Anna Quindlen
Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference	650	(10)
Shelby Steele
Student Corner	660	(11)
Affirmative Action and Women	660	(6)
Becky Winkler
How I Write / How I Wrote This Essay / My Writing Tip	666	(5)
Becky Winkler
Appendix Optional Assignments	671	(82)
Assignment 1	671	(66)
The Research Paper	671	(8)
Choosing Single Motherhood: A Sign of Modern Times?	679	(30)
Stephanie Hollingsworth
Dian Fossey: A Scientist Who Stopped Caring About Science	709	(28)
Margie Vickers
Assignment 2	737	(16)
The Literary Paper	737	(5)
A Worn, but Lightly Traveled Path	742	(11)
Douglas B. Inman
Glossary	753	(10)
Literary Credits	763	(6)
Index	769