Expectations A Reader for Developing Writers

by Ingalls, Anna; Moody, Dan

• ISBN13: 9780321142900
• ISBN10: 032114290X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-11-12
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Expectations is a collection of popular readings for developmental writing students, with questions, discussion topics, and assignments to develop writing, reading, and critical thinking skills. The forty readings from magazines, newspapers, textbooks, and other contemporary books illustrate a broad range of writing styles and techniques, and are organized by the following themes: Social and Cultural Issues, Media and Popular Culture, Fitness and Health, Education and Career, The Outdoors, and Values and Choices. Within each theme, readings are organized in order of difficulty, with easier readings first.

Table of Contents

RHETORICAL	XI
PREFACE	XIV
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	XXV
PART ONE Strategies for Active Reading	1	(10)
Tourist Trap	3	(8)
JAMES HEBERT
PART TWO Cultural and Social Issues	11	(52)
American Fish	12	(9)
R.A. SASAKI
Listen to Me Good	21	(7)
MARGARET CHARLES SMITH AND LINDA JANET HOLMES
Boomer Parents	28	(6)
SANDY BANKS
Spanglish Spoken Here	34	(7)
JANICE CASTRO
Saffron Sky	41	(6)
GELAREH ASAYESH
A Song Flung Up to Heaven	47	(10)
MAYA ANGELOU
Suspect Policy	57	(6)
RANDALL KENNEDY
PART THREE Education and Career	63	(50)
Stop!	64	(6)
SAM QUINONES
One Man's Kids	70	(6)
DANIEL MEIER
How to Write with Style	76	(8)
KURT VONNEGUT, JR.
Possible Lives	84	(8)
MIKE ROSE
Breaking Through the Barriers	92	(6)
JAMES M. HENSLIN
Online Schools Provide New Education Options	98	(7)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
How to Win the College Game	105	(8)
BARBARA KANTROWITZ
PART FOUR Media and Popular Culture	113	(42)
Taking Potluck	114	(6)
TOM BODETT
Breaking the Habit	120	(8)
MIKE DUFFY
Shoeless Joe	128	(6)
W.P. KINSELLA
Wolfman in Farsi?	134	(7)
DAN GILGOFF
Elvis Culture	141	(6)
ERIKA DOSS
Dressing Down	147	(8)
JOHN BROOKS
PART FIVE Fitness and Health	155	(30)
Strive to Be Fit, Not Fanatical	156	(6)
TIMOTHY GOWER
Procrastination and Stress	162	(6)
LESTER A. LEFTON
Managing Time	168	(5)
REBECCA J. DONATELLE AND LORRAINE G. DAVIS
Computer Addiction Is Coming Online	173	(7)
WILLIAM J. CROMIE
Playing for Keeps	180	(5)
ANDY STEINER
PART SIX Nature and the Outdoors	185	(48)
Journey of the Pink Dolphins	186	(7)
SY MONTGOMERY
In the Shadow of Man	193	(6)
JANE GOODALL
Life in the Treetops	199	(7)
MARGARET D. LOWMAN
Nature's RX	206	(5)
JOEL L. SWERDLOW
The Wild Within	211	(9)
PAUL REZENDES
Heavy Traffic on the Everest Highway	220	(6)
GEOFFREY TABIN
Death Valley	226	(7)
DOUG AND BOBBE TATREAU
PART SEVEN Values and Choices	233	(56)
The Good Old Summertime	234	(8)
CAROL TANNEHILL
The Toll Road	242	(6)
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
They Know Where You Are	248	(8)
DAVID LAGESSE
Do Tell and Beware of Gossip That Knows No Bounds	256	(8)
R.J. IGNELZI
Choosing Virginity	264	(10)
LORRAINE ALI AND JULIE SCELFO
The Ambitious Generation	274	(6)
BARBARA SCHNEIDER AND DAVID STEVENSON
The World After Cloning	280	(9)
WRAY HERBERT, JEFFERY L. SHELER, AND TRACI WATSON
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	289	(5)
INDEX	294