The Brief Pocket Reader

by Munger, David

• ISBN13: 9780321076694
• ISBN10: 0321076699
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The Brief Pocket Reader offers a collection of engaging and timely selections arranged according to the key rhetorical strategies employed by the student writers and well-known professional writersat less than half the price of most other readers!

Table of Contents

Narration.

Annie Dillard, The Chase.

Russell Baker, from Growing Up.

Amy Tan, Fish Cheeks.

Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space.

Katherine Crane (student), Handling Room 15.

Description.

Martin Gansberg, 38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police.

George Simpson, The War Room at Bellevue.

Adam Burrell (student), Time Torture.

Lani Kwon Meilgaard, The "Other" American: On Being Multiracial-American.

Gordon Parks, Flavio's Home.

Example.

Barbara Ehrenreich, In Defense of Talk Shows.

Stephanie A. Crockett, 'Haven't We Met . . . ?': The Pickup Line Just Goes On and On.

Donald M. Murray, The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscript.

Alleen Pace Nilsen, Sexism and Language.

Eleanor Belgin (student), Pets and Their Humans.

Comparison and Contrast.

Mark Twain, Two Views of the Mississippi.

David M. Kennedy, Can We Still Afford to be a Nation of Immigrants?.

Patricia Kean, Blowing Up the Tracks.

Judith Ortiz Cofer, Advanced Biology.

Benjamin James (student), Complaining Through College.

Process Analysis.

Sarah Pennington Doud (student), Changing Kyle.

Kurt Vonnegut, How to Write with Style.

Peter Elbow, Desperation Writing.

Jessica Mitford, Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain.

Classification.

Judith Viorst, Friends, Good Friends-and Such Good Friends.

William Zinsser, College Pressures.

Mary Austin, Water Trails of the Ceriso.

Diana Peck (student), The Shellfish of Arey's Pond.

Cause and Effect.

Chief Seattle, Address.

W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of White Folk.

Susan Scarbek (student), Monkey See, Monkey Do.

Barbara Carton, Why Does "Everybody" Now Put "Everything" in Quotation Marks?.

Cathy Young, Keeping Women Weak.

Analogy.

Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson.

John Muir, A Wind-Storm in the Forests.

Olive Schreiner, Sex-Parasitism.

Henry David Thoreau, An Immoral Law.

Maurice Johnson (student), Modern-Day Mobsters.

Definition.

D. H. Lawrence, Pornography.

Margaret Atwood, Pornography.

Marie Winn, TV Addiction.

William Raspberry, The Handicap of Definition.

Jason Gray (student), Questioning the Nature of Intelligence.

Argument.

Virginia Woolf, If Shakespeare Had Had a Sister.

Anita K. Blair, Shattering the Myth of the Glass Ceiling.

Susan Bianchi-Sand, The Glass Ceiling Hurts Business Too.

Patricia Curtis, The Argument Against Animal Experimentation.

Linda Hasselstrom, The Cow versus the Animal Rights Activist.

Eileen Williams (student), Mandatory AIDS Testing for Job Applicants.

James Zigarelli, Hand It Over.