The Thomson Reader Conversations in Context (with Comp21: Composition in the 21st Century CD-ROM)

by Yagelski, Robert P.

• ISBN13: 9781413009989
• ISBN10: 1413009980
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-26
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Grounded in the belief that reading and writing always occur in context, THE THOMSON READER helps student writers improve their critical reading and writing skills by teaching them the value of contextual awareness. This first-ever, full color thematic reader teaches students to employ audience-centered writing strategies as they explore ongoing conversations about cultural, academic, political, and personal ideologies. THE THOMSON READER also provides students with a fully-integrated library, containing over 300 traditional, image, audio, and video "texts" that teaches them how to recognize, assess, and manage the rhetorical situations of a variety of engaging themes-regardless of the medium, or context.

Table of Contents

Preface to Instructors	xx
Introduction to Students	xxviii
PART 1 WRITING IN CONTEXT
Understanding the Contexts of Writing	3	(13)
What Is ``Good'' Writing?	3	(2)
Writing Depends on Context	3	(1)
``Good'' Writing Fits the Rhetorical Situation	4	(1)
Effective Writers Take Audience Into Account	4	(1)
Defining Context in Writing	5	(4)
Context as Conversation	5	(1)
The Right Timing: Understanding Historical Context	6	(4)
Context and Reading	10
Discourse and Why It Is Important	9	(3)
Words Acquire Meaning within Discourses	10	(1)
Writers Are Always ``within'' Discourse	11	(1)
Where Do Themes Come From?	12	(4)
Understanding Media as Contexts for Writing	16	(16)
``Reading'' Images	19	(5)
Images in Context	19	(2)
The Role of Background Knowledge	21	(1)
Perspective	22	(1)
Putting It All Together: Reading Complex Images	23	(1)
Using Images in Your Writing	24	(6)
Deciding to Use Images	24	(2)
Selecting Images	26	(1)
Considering Layout and Design	27	(3)
Combining Text and Image	30	(2)
Entering the Conversations	32	(13)
Theme Into Thesis	34	(3)
Assessing the Rhetorical Situation	37	(1)
Knowing Your Audience	38	(1)
Managing the Writing Process	39	(5)
Learning through Writing	41	(1)
Revising Is Not Editing	41	(3)
Using Technology	44	(1)
Engaging in Research and Inquiry	45	(18)
Writing as Inquiry	44	(2)
Conducting Research	46	(1)
Tools for Your Inquiry	47	(8)
The Library and the Internet	48	(1)
Using Indexes and Databases	48	(2)
Searching the Internet	50	(1)
Evaluating Internet Resources	51	(4)
Citing Sources	55	(8)
Parenthetical (In-Text) Citations Using MLA Style	55	(1)
Compiling a Bibliography or Works Cited Page	56	(1)
Sample MLA Citations	56	(7)
PART 2 THEMES FOR WRITING AND INQUIRY
Identity	63	(64)
Creating Our Selves	66	(16)
Ain't I a Woman?	67	(3)
Sojourner Truth
The Way to Rainy Mountain	70	(7)
N. Scott Momaday
Being Country	77	(5)
Bobbie Ann Mason
Defining Each Other	82	(22)
No Name Woman	83	(10)
Maxine Hong Kingston
You Know Him by His Labors, but Not His Face	93	(3)
Dagoberto Gilb
Who Invented White People?	96	(8)
Gregory Jay
Diverse Selves, Multiple Identities	104	(23)
Black Like I Thought I Was	105	(5)
Erin Aubry Kaplan
Crossing the Border without Losing Your Past	110	(4)
Oscar Casares
American Dreamer	114	(7)
Bharati Mukherjee
The Girl with the Red Dot	121	(6)
Ranjani Nellore
Comp21
image, Group Portrait of Elvis Impersonators
image, Paul Klee, Senecio
image, Red Tomato among Green Tomatoes
text, Maya Angelou, Champion of the World
text, W.E.B. Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk
text, Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived and What I Lived For
text, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
video, Terror Watch: Is Profiling Too Much
Understanding	127	(94)
Learning	129	(26)
The Day Language Came into My Life	130	(5)
Helen Keller
The Library Card	135	(8)
Richard Wright
Living Like Weasels	143	(5)
Annie Dillard
On Being Proved Wrong	148	(7)
Susan Sawyer
Schooling	155	(50)
Graduation	156	(10)
Maya Angelou
The Banking Concept of Education	166	(13)
Paulo Freire
The Achievement of Desire	179	(18)
Richard Rodriguez
Taking Women Students Seriously	197	(8)
Adrienne Rich
Knowing and Believing	205	(16)
Satisfying the Thirst of the Soul and the Needs of the Body	206	(4)
Thomas Moore
Salvation	210	(4)
Langston Hughes
Waterfall	214	(7)
Shunryu Suzuki
Comp21
image, 1960s College Classroom
image, Embossed Book Cover Illustration
image, Protests against School Segregation
text, Edmund Burke, from Beauty and the Sublime
text, Mike Rose, I Just Wanna Be Average
text, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
text, Brett Aronowitz, Can You Write Computerese?
video, From Salvation by Langston Hughes
video, IQ and Race
video, Caught Cheating
Relationships	221	(74)
Exploring Love	224	(30)
Attila the Honey I'm Home	225	(10)
Kristin van Ogtrop
Love Sick	235	(4)
Richard Selzer
Sweet Chariot	239	(5)
Mark Doty
On Building a Community of Love	244	(10)
bell hooks
Complicating Relationships	254	(19)
Off Limits: Should Students Be Allowed to Hook Up with Professors?	255	(5)
Laura Kipnis
The Power of Marriage	260	(4)
David Brooks
Say Farewell to Pin Curls	264	(4)
Anna Quindlen
The Other L-Word	268	(5)
William Jelani Cobb
Rethinking Relationships	273	(22)
Why I Want a Wife	274	(4)
Judy Syfers Brady
Should I Have Asked John to Cool It?	278	(9)
Michael Berube
The Crows of War: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Relations of Species	287	(8)
Peter Sauer
Comp21
image, Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini
image, Brother and Sister
image, Child Holding Adult's Hand
image, Pro-Gay Marriage Rally in Boston
text, John J. Fraser, Jr., Dealing with The Parent Whose Judgment Is Impaired by Alcohol or Drugs text, Bette Sack, Families like Abigail's text, The Economist (US), Islam in the West
text, Dave Wann, Build Better Neighborhoods video, For Better or For Worse
Communication	295	(102)
The Politics of Language	298	(29)
Mother Tongue	299	(7)
Amy Tan
Sex, Lies and Conversation	306	(6)
Deborah Tannen
How to Tame a Wild Tongue	312	(11)
Gloria Anzaldua
Sleuthing Patriotic Slogans	323	(4)
Gary Sloan
Writing Matters	327	(41)
Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan	328	(15)
June Jordan
From Silence to Struggle	343	(13)
Min Zhan Lu
Solitude and the Fortress of Youth	356	(5)
Michael Chabon
Becoming a Poet	361	(7)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Beyond Words	368	(29)
In Praise of Woodie Guthrie	369	(5)
Steve Earle
Zapping	374	(12)
Beatriz Sarlo
The Challenge of Rap Music	386	(11)
Bakari Kitwana
Comp21
image, Buzz Aldrin Landing on the Moon
image, Dance with Death Cartoon
image, Dog Herding Sheep
image, Keep Abortion Legal
text, T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent
text, John F. Kennedy, Ich bin ein Berliner
text, William Lutz, Doublespeak
text, H. L. Mencken, The Diverging Streams of English
text, Emily Post, Pronunciation
video, English: Who Needs It?
Power	397	(96)
The Process of Power	400	(29)
Politics and the English Language	401	(11)
George Orwell
The Tyranny of the Majority	412	(6)
Lani Guinier
I Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident	418	(5)
Donna Ladd
Thoughts in the Presence of Fear	423	(6)
Wendell Berry
The Consequences of Power	429	(19)
Where I Come From Is Like This	430	(8)
Paula Gunn Allen
Every Dictator's Nightmare	438	(6)
Wole Soyinka
The Onion, Bill of Rights Pared Down to a Manageable Six	444	(4)
Challenging Power	448	(45)
Resistance to Civil Government	449	(17)
Henry David Thoreau
Letter from Birmingham Jail	466	(14)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Talking Back	480	(6)
bell hooks
American Splendor	486	(7)
Chisun Lee
Comp21
image, Adolf Hitler Addressing a Crowd
image, Antiwar Protestors, 1967
image, Civil Rights March on Washington
image, Vote Here Sign beside American Flag
text, Samuel Adams, On American Independence
text, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
text, Niccolo Machiavelli, from The Prince
text, Adam Smith, The Division of Labour
text, Bill Berkeley, Is America An Empire?
video, Homeland Security at Any Cost
Spaces	493	(78)
Creating Spaces	496	(25)
Economic Nature	497	(15)
Jack Turner
Minimalist Memorial Can Do Justice to 9/11	512	(4)
Rhonda Chriss Lokeman
Ridding the American Landscape of Lawn	516	(5)
Will Yandik
Using Spaces	521	(22)
Stillness	522	(9)
Scott Russell Sanders
Keeping a Lost World Alive	531	(4)
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Uncommon Buffalo and the Buffalo Commons	535	(4)
Diane Dufva Quantic
Disconnected Urbanism	539	(4)
Paul Goldberger
Valuing Place	543	(28)
The Sense of Place	544	(7)
Wallace Stegner
Once More to the Lake	551	(7)
E. B. White
Remembering Water	558	(5)
Karen Piper
Where Nothing Says Everything	563	(8)
Suzanne Berne
Comp21
image, Ceiling Paintings in the Strahov Library
image, A Chinese Garden
image, Fence over Hill
image, New York City Street Scene
text, Joan Didion, from Los Angeles Notebook
text, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
text, How to Share the Earth
text, Maya Lin, Between Art and Architecture
video, Suburban Sprawl
Resources	571	(70)
Necessities	574	(24)
Growing Up Game	575	(5)
Brenda Peterson
A Good Farmer	580	(8)
Barbara Kingsolver
Should We All Be Vegetarians?	588	(10)
Richard Corliss
The Politics of Consumption	598	(20)
The March of the Monoculture	599	(9)
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Fat and Politics: Suing Fast Food Companies	608	(5)
Michael Stephens
Privatising Water Will Lead to War	613	(5)
Vandana Shiva
Use and Consequences	618	(23)
The Seeds of a Summer Revolt	619	(3)
David Margolick
Sowers and Reapers: The Unquiet World of a Flower Bed	622	(8)
Jamaica Kincaid
When a Crop Becomes King	630	(4)
Michael Pollan
The Ski Store and the Real Cost of Fun	634	(7)
Donella Meadows
Comp21
image, Compactor Burying Trash at Landfill Site
image, Cougar
image, Earth from Space
image, Wave
text, John Carey, Global Warming
text, Chris Fordney, Water Woes
text, Imagining A Cleaner, Greener Tomorrow
video, Suburban Sprawl
Change	641	(64)
Living With Change	644	(24)
Connections	645	(5)
Deborah Tannen
In America, It's Work First and Play Never	650	(4)
Ellen Goodman
Anger	654	(14)
Judith Levine
Progress	668	(17)
The Myth of Progress	669	(8)
Kirkpatrick Sale
A Shock to the System	677	(4)
Anna Quindlen
Ecological Destruction and a Vermont Farm in May	681	(4)
Donella Meadows
Where Are We Now?	685	(20)
Pursuing Happiness in Our Time	686	(5)
John Leland
A Shirt Full of Bees	691	(6)
Bill McKibben
Ironies	697	(8)
Harriet Epstein
Comp21
image, The Colosseum
image, First Successful Powered Wright Brothers Flight
image, Ford Motor Company Assembly Line
image, Suffragist Marching, 1912
text, John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Speech
text, Erik L. Goldman, Roe v. Wade at 30 Years
text, Samuel P. Huntington, The Hispanic Challenge
text, Richard Lowry, Profiles in Cowardice
text, Women's Lives and Post-Abortion Syndrome, 30 Years Later: A Long, Cold Journey to the Truth video, For Better or Worse
Comp21	705	(4)
Credits	709	(6)
Index	715