The Language of Composition: Reading - Writing - Rhetoric

by Shea, Renee H.; Scanlon, Lawrence; Aufses, Robin Dissin

• ISBN13: 9780312450946
• ISBN10: 031245094X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-14
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

The Language of Composition is the first college-level textbook created specifically for the AP* English Language course. Inside, students will find everything they need to learn college-level reading, writing, and analysis skills: concise introductory chapters on rhetoric, close reading, and synthesizing sources; a rich collection of thematically arranged readings that includes essays, speeches, letters, newspaper columns, as well as fiction, poetry, and visual texts; carefully crafted assignments that reinforce the skills taught in the introductory chapters; and much more. The Language of Composition - designed to help students succeed in the AP English Language course and embark on a successful college career. Book jacket.

Author Biography

A unique team of authors who are AP English Language specialists. Renée H. Shea is a university professor who has directed freshman English programs; Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses are English department chairs at high schools where they also teach AP English. Both Renée Shea and Lawrence Scanlon have been involved with the AP program for many years as faculty consultants and workshop leaders for both the Language and Literature courses.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Rhetorical Contents	p. xxxiii
An Introduction to Rhetoric: Using the "Available Means"	p. 1
Key Elements of Rhetoric	p. 1
The Rhetorical Triangle	p. 3
Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos	p. 4
Ethos	p. 4
Logos	p. 5
Pathos	p. 6
Ethos, Logos, and Pathos in Practice	p. 6
Visual Rhetoric	p. 10
An Example of Rhetoric from Literature	p. 12
Arrangement	p. 13
The Classical Model	p. 13
Patterns of Develoment	p. 17
When Rhetoric Misses the Mark	p. 26
Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Analysis	p. 35
Analyzing Style	p. 37
Talking with the Text	p. 38
Annotation	p. 40
Dialectical Journal	p. 42
Graphic Organizer	p. 43
Analyzing a Visual Text	p. 49
From Analysis to Essay: Writing about Close Reading	p. 51
Glossary of Selected Tropes and Schemes	p. 58
Synthesizing Sources: Entering the Conversation	p. 61
Types of Support	p. 62
Writers at Work	p. 63
The Relationship of Sources to Audience	p. 69
The Synthesis Essay	p. 72
Conversation: Focus on Community Service	p. 74
Identifying the Issues: Recognizing Complexity	p. 81
Formulating Your Position	p. 82
Incorporating Sources: Inform Rather than Overwhelm	p. 84
Education: To what extent do our schools serve the goals of a true education?	p. 87
Central Essay
I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read	p. 89
Classic Essay
From Education	p. 102
Superman and Me	p. 110
Best in Class	p. 113
A Talk to Teachers	p. 123
School	p. 130
Kyoko Mori on Writing	p. 141
The History Teacher (poetry)	p. 143
Eleven (fiction)	p. 144
Visual Text
National Endowment for the Arts, From Reading at Risk (tables)	p. 147
Conversation: Focus on the American High School	p. 150
from Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education	p. 150
Let Teenagers Try Adulthood	p. 153
From The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut	p. 155
A Model for High Schools	p. 158
U.S. Students Fare Badly in International Survey of Math Skills (with table)	p. 160
Spirit of Education (painting)	p. 162
Student Writing: Argument: Using Personal Experience as Evidence	p. 164
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Appositives	p. 167
Suggestions for Writing: Education	p. 173
Work: How does our work shape or influence our lives?	p. 177
Central Essay
From Serving in Florida	p. 179
Barbara Ehrenreich on Writing	p. 183
Classic Essay
The Atlanta Exposition Address	p. 191
The Surgeon as Priest	p. 197
The Traveling Bra Salesman's Lesson	p. 205
From Labour	p. 209
From The Writing Life	p. 212
In Praise of a Snail's Pace	p. 221
I Stand Here Ironing (fiction)	p. 224
Harvest Song (poetry)	p. 230
Visual Text
We Can Do It! (poster)	p. 232
Visual Text
The Great GAPsby Society (cartoon)	p. 233
Conversation: Focus on Working Parents	p. 235
More Working Parents Play "Beat the Clock"	p. 235
Why Women Have to Work	p. 238
The Case for Staying Home	p. 240
Sick Parents Go to Work, Stay Home When Kids Are Ill	p. 242
My Mother, Myself, Her Career, My Questions	p. 243
Don't Call Me Mr. Mom	p. 246
Student Writing: Close Reading: Analyzing Style in Paired Passages	p. 248
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Short Simple Sentences and Fragments	p. 252
Suggestions for Writing: Work	p. 256
Community: What is the relationship of the individual to the community?	p. 259
Central Essay
Letter from Birmingham Jail	p. 260
Classic Essay
Where I Lived, and What I Lived for	p. 276
All Happy Clans Are Alike: In Search of the Good Family	p. 283
The New Community	p. 289
Commencement Speech at Mount Holyoke College	p. 296
Walking the Path between Worlds	p. 300
New York Day Women (fiction)	p. 307
Edwidge Danticat on Writing	p. 312
Child of the Americas (poetry)	p. 313
Visual Text
Reflections (painting)	p. 314
Visual Text
Three Servicemen (sculpture)	p. 315
Conversation: Focus on the Individual's Responsibility to the Community	p. 317
The Happy Life	p. 317
The Singer Solution to World Poverty	p. 319
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor	p. 324
In Westminster Abbey (poetry)	p. 333
Student Writing: Synthesis: Incorporating Sources into a Revision	p. 335
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Parallel Structures	p. 339
Suggestions for Writing: Community	p. 345
Gender: What is the impact of the gender roles that society creates and enforces?	p. 347
Central Essay
Women's Brains	p. 349
Classic Essay
Professions for Women	p. 356
Letters	p. 363
About Men	p. 367
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	p. 370
Judith Ortiz Cofer on Writing	p. 376
Being a Man	p. 378
AIDS Has a Woman's Face	p. 382
There Is No Unmarked Woman	p. 388
Sweat (fiction)	p. 393
Barbie Doll (poetry)	p. 403
Visual Text
Cathy (cartoon)	p. 404
Visual Text
New and Newer Versions of Scripture (table)	p. 405
Conversation: Focus on Defining Masculinity	p. 408
Why Johnny Won't Read	p. 408
Mind over Muscle	p. 410
Putting Down the Gun	p. 412
Boy Problems (with table)	p. 414
Student Writing: Argument: Supporting an Assertion	p. 418
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Pronouns	p. 420
Suggestions for Writing: Gender	p. 426
Sports and Fitness: How do the values of sports affect the way we see ourselves?	p. 429
Central Essay
The Silent Season of a Hero	p. 431
Classic Essay
The Proper Place for Sports	p. 449
Kill 'Em, Crush 'Em, Eat 'Em Raw!	p. 453
From How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle	p. 459
A Spectator's Notebook	p. 461
The Real New York Giants	p. 471
For Fasting and Football, a Dedicated Game Plan	p. 473
Samuel G. Freedman on Writing	p. 476
Ex-Basketball Player (poetry)	p. 478
Prothalamion (poetry)	p. 479
Visual Text
Untitled (cartoon)	p. 480
Conversation: Focus on Body Image	p. 482
A Unique Take on Beauty	p. 482
Little Sister, Big Hit (cover)	p. 484
Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe	p. 486
Disordered Eating and Body Image Disturbances May Be Underreported in Male Athletes	p. 489
Enhancing Male Body Image	p. 491
Student Writing: Rhetorical Analysis: Comparing Strategies in Paired Passages	p. 493
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Precise, Direct, and Active Verbs	p. 498
Suggestions for Writing: Sports and Fitness	p. 503
Language: How does the language we use reveal who we are?	p. 507
Central Essay
Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood	p. 509
Classic Essay
Politics and the English Language	p. 529
Mother Tongue	p. 542
From Decolonising the Mind	p. 547
Always Living in Spanish	p. 556
Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation	p. 559
Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Official Language	p. 562
From Monkey Bridge (fiction)	p. 568
From Native Speaker (fiction)	p. 569
For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15 and Why I Could Not Accept Your Invitation (poetry)	p. 571
Naomi Shihab Nye on Writing	p. 574
Visual Text
Rumors, Lies, Innuendo (cartoon)	p. 575
Visual Text
Census Data on Language Use in the United States (table)	p. 576
Conversation: Focus on Current Language Usage	p. 579
How Much Wallop Can a Simple Word Pack?	p. 579
The War of Words: A Dispatch from the Front Lines	p. 581
Letters to the Editor in response to The War of Words	p. 584
Pride to One Is Prejudice to Another	p. 586
Help Us Overthrow the Tall/Short Mafia	p. 588
Student Writing: Reflection: Reflecting on "Different Englishes"	p. 590
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Concise Diction	p. 592
Suggestions for Writing: Language	p. 595
Science and Technology: How are advances in science and technology affecting the way we define our humanity?	p. 599
Central Essay
The Bird and the Machine	p. 601
Classic Essay
The Method of Scientific Investigation	p. 609
The Reach of Imagination	p. 616
The Future of Happiness	p. 623
The Blank Slate	p. 630
Steven Pinker on Writing	p. 640
Silence and the Notion of the Commons	p. 641
Into the Electronic Millennium	p. 647
Transsexual Frogs	p. 655
Sonnet - to Science (poetry)	p. 663
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer (poetry)	p. 664
Super- Toys Last All Summer Long (fiction)	p. 665
Visual Text
The Cosmic Calendar	p. 671
Visual Text
Food Fight (cartoon)	p. 675
Conversation: Focus on the Ethics of Genetics Technology	p. 678
On Cloning a Human Being	p. 678
Fearing the Worst Should Anyone Produce a Cloned Baby	p. 681
DNA as Destiny	p. 683
Pet Clones Spur Call for Limits	p. 691
More Couples Screening Embryos for Gender	p. 693
Student Writing: Counterargument: Responding to a Newspaper Column	p. 696
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Coordination in the Compound Sentence	p. 698
Suggestions for Writing: Science and Technology	p. 705
Popular Culture: To what extent does pop culture reflect our society's values?	p. 707
Central Essay
High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies	p. 709
Classic Essay
Corn-Pone Opinions	p. 717
Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors: Cutting the Antiwar Heart Out of a Classic	p. 723
Brent Staples on Writing	p. 725
We Talk, You Listen	p. 727
Dreaming America	p. 734
Show and Tell (graphic essay)	p. 737
Popular Culture in the Aftermath of September 11 is a Chorus without a Hook, A Movie without an Ending	p. 751
Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven (poetry)	p. 759
Sanctuary: For Harry Potter the Movie	p. 760
Visual Text
The Innocent Eye Test (painting)	p. 764
Conversation: Focus on Television	p. 766
Watching TV Makes You Smarter	p. 766
The Argument against TV	p. 777
He Doesn't Like to Watch	p. 779
TV Turnoff Week (detail from a poster)	p. 782
Is Media Violence Free Speech? (debate)	p. 783
Student Writing: Visual Rhetoric: Interpreting a Painting	p. 788
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Modifiers	p. 790
Suggestions for Writing: Popular Culture	p. 795
Nature: What is our responsibility to nature?	p. 797
Central Essay
From Silent Spring	p. 798
Classic Essay
From Nature	p. 807
The Clan of One-Breasted Women	p. 816
Message to President Franklin Pierce	p. 823
An Entrance to the Woods	p. 825
2004 Nobel Peace Prize Speech	p. 834
Against Nature	p. 840
A White Heron (fiction)	p. 848
The Tables Turned (poetry)	p. 856
Visual Text
Cloud the Issue or Clear the Air? (advertisement)	p. 857
Visual Text
Kindred Spirits (painting)	p. 860
Conversation: Focus on Climate Change	p. 862
It's Easy Being Green	p. 862
From Counting Carbons (with table)	p. 867
From The Future of Life	p. 873
Ice Blankets (photograph with caption)	p. 876
Is Climate Change the 21st Century's Most Urgent Environmental Problem?	p. 877
GeoSigns: The Big Thaw	p. 881
Daniel Glick on Writing	p. 888
Student Writing: Visual Rhetoric: Analyzing a Political Cartoon	p. 891
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences	p. 893
Suggestions for Writing: Nature	p. 900
Politics: What is the nature of the relationship between the citizen and the state?	p. 903
Central Essay
On Seeing England for the First Time	p. 904
Classic Essay
A Modest Proposal	p. 914
From The Destruction of Culture	p. 922
Chris Hedges on Writing	p. 929
National Prejudices	p. 932
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid	p. 935
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience	p. 939
Every Dictator's Nightmare	p. 957
On the Rainy River (fiction)	p. 961
Conversation with an American Writer (poetry)	p. 974
Visual Text
Guernica (painting)	p. 975
Visual Text
March 17, 2003 (cover)	p. 976
Visual Text
April 2003 (cover)	p. 976
Conversation: Focus on the Politics of Imperialism	p. 979
Shooting an Elephant	p. 979
The Empire Fights Back	p. 985
In Which the Ancient History I Learn Is Not My Own (poetry)	p. 989
Christiansted: Official Map and Guide	p. 991
What Part of You Lives in Bombay? (advertisement)	p. 994
Student Writing: Argument: Responding to a Quotation	p. 996
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Subordination in the Complex Sentence	p. 999
Suggestions for Writing: Politics	p. 1005
Glossary	p. 1009
Acknowledgments	p. 1015
Index	p. 1023
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