The Rinehart Reader

by Wyrick, Jean; Slaughter, Beverly

• ISBN13: 9780155055124
• ISBN10: 0155055127
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-13
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

THE RINEHART READER offers works that will challenge, inform, and simulate student writing. Many of the selections included are classics in the sense of being established works by many of our best writers, works that instructors have turned to as models of eloquence and power again and again. Within that standard of quality, the selections provide variety in voice and rhetorical categories. THE RINEHART READER provides ample material on reading and the writing process, the rhetorical organization that most instructors prefer, and an excellent selection of readings that have demonstrated their value both in literature and as models of effective writing.

Table of Contents

Part One Reading and Writing Essays	1	(122)
Why Read? How Can Reading These Essays Help Me?	3	(63)
Television and the American Family	8	(5)
Marie Winn
Reading as a Reader	13	(15)
Donald Murray
A Sweet Devouring	28	(5)
Eudora Welty
Discovering Books	33	(9)
Richard Wright
How Books Helped Shape My Life	42	(5)
Judith Viorst
A Homemade Education	47	(4)
Malcolm X
Wordstruck	51	(7)
Robert MacNeil
The Best Refuge for Insomniacs	58	(4)
Lance Morrow
In Defense of Literacy	62	(4)
Wendell Berry
The Writing Process	66	(57)
Why I Write	82	(7)
Joan Didion
Life at Close Range	89	(5)
Gretel Ehrlich
Freewriting	94	(4)
Peter Elbow
What Shall I Write?	98	(6)
Sheridan Baker
The Qualities of Good Writing	104	(7)
Jacqueline Berke
Style	111	(6)
William Zinsser
The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts	117	(6)
Donald Murray
Part Two Essays for Reading and Analysis	123	(523)
Narration	125	(53)
Salvation	128	(4)
Langston Hughes
The Discus Thrower	132	(6)
Richard Selzer
Sister Flowers	138	(5)
Maya Angelou
38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police	143	(5)
Martin Gansberg
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	148	(8)
Alice Walker
Chinese-American Silence	156	(8)
Maxine Hong Kingston
``Out, Out---''	164	(4)
Robert Frost
The Cask of Amontillado	168	(8)
Edgar Allan Poe
Writing Assignments for Chapter Three	176	(2)
Description	178	(60)
The Turle	183	(4)
John Steinbeck
Marrying Absurd	187	(4)
Joan Didion
The Way to Rainy Mountain	191	(7)
N. Scott Momaday
Once More to the Lake	198	(7)
E. B. White
An American Childhood	205	(8)
Annie Dillard
If Shakespeare Had Had a Sister	213	(12)
Virginia Woolf
We Real Cool	225	(3)
Gwendolyn Brooks
I Stand Here Ironing	228	(8)
Tillie Olsen
Writing Assignments for Chapter Four	236	(2)
Process	238	(50)
The Jeaning of America---And the World	241	(3)
Carin Quinn
The American Way of Death	244	(7)
Jessica Mitford
Attitude	251	(5)
Garrison Keillor
Nonviolent Resistance	256	(7)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
More than Just a Shrine: Paying Homage to the Ghosts of Ellis Island	263	(6)
Mary Gordon
Take This Fish and Look at It	269	(5)
Samuel H. Scudder
Those Winter Sundays	274	(3)
Robert Hayden
The Lottery	277	(9)
Shirley Jackson
Writing Assignments for Chapter Five	286	(2)
Definition	288	(53)
What Is Happiness?	291	(5)
John Ciardi
On Self-Respect	296	(5)
Joan Didion
Gobbledygook	301	(7)
Stuart Chase
Hispanic-American Culture	308	(5)
Richard Rodriguez
New Superstitions for Old	313	(6)
Margaret Mead
Discrimination	319	(8)
Ralph Ellison
Metaphors	327	(3)
Sylvia Plath
A Mystery of Heroism	330	(9)
Stephen Crane
Writing Assignments for Chapter Six	339	(2)
Illustration	341	(53)
Why Don't We Complain?	344	(7)
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Black Men and Public Space	351	(5)
Brent Staples
University Days	356	(7)
James Thurber
Mankind's Better Moments	363	(8)
Barbara Tuchman
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens	371	(9)
Alice Walker
A Dying Art: The Classy Exit Line	380	(4)
Lance Morrow
Richard Cory	384	(3)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	387	(5)
James Thurber
Writing Assignments for Chapter Seven	392	(2)
Comparison and Contrast	394	(49)
Two Ways of Looking at the River	398	(4)
Mark Twain
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts	402	(5)
Bruce Catton
A Good Scythe	407	(4)
Wendell Berry
Neat People vs. Sloppy People	411	(4)
Suzanne Britt
My Horse	415	(7)
Barry Lopez
A Slow Walk of Trees	422	(9)
Toni Morrison
Sonnet 130	431	(3)
William Shakespeare
Rope	434	(7)
Katherine Anne Porter
Writing Assignments for Chapter Eight	441	(2)
Division and Classification	443	(54)
The Plot Against People	447	(4)
Russell Baker
Three Boys	451	(5)
John Updike
College Pressures	456	(7)
William Zinsser
Friends, Good Friends, and Such Good Friends	463	(5)
Judith Viorst
Notes on Punctuation	468	(5)
Lewis Thomas
Thinking as a Hobby	473	(8)
William Golding
The Unknown Citizen	481	(3)
W. H. Auden
Two Kinds	484	(11)
Amy Tan
Writing Assignments for Chapter Nine	495	(2)
Cause and Effect	497	(58)
The Decisive Arrest	501	(3)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
My Wood	504	(5)
E. M. Forster
The Violence Is Fake, the Impact Is Real	509	(4)
Ellen Goodman
``This Is the End of the World'': The Black Death	513	(11)
Barbara Tuchman
How Do You Know It's Good?	524	(7)
Marya Mannes
Politics and the English Language	531	(13)
George Orwell
The Fish	544	(4)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Story of an Hour	548	(5)
Kate Chopin
Writing Assignments for Chapter Ten	553	(2)
Persuasion and Argument	555	(91)
The Obligation to Endure	568	(8)
Rachel Carson
I Have a Dream	576	(6)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Health-Care System	582	(4)
Lewis Thomas
None of This Is Fair	586	(5)
Richard Rodriguez
Professions for Women	591	(6)
Virginia Woolf
A Scientist: ``I Am the Enemy''	597	(4)
Ron Kline
I Want a Wife	601	(4)
Judy Brady
Drugs	605	(4)
Gore Vidal
The Right to Die	609	(4)
Norman Cousins
Declaration of Independence	613	(5)
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions	618	(6)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A Modest Proposal	624	(9)
Jonathan Swift
To His Coy Mistress	633	(4)
Andrew Marvell
Hills Like White Elephants	637	(6)
Ernest Hemingway
Writing Assignments for Chapter Eleven	643	(3)
Glossary of Rhetorical and Literary Terms	646	(3)
Literary Credits	649	(5)
Index	654