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by Peterson,Linda H.

• ISBN13: 9780393931730
• ISBN10: 0393931730
• Edition: 12th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

With readings in a wide variety of genres, subjects, and styles, it offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosen collection of essays for composition students today. The Twelfth Edition has been carefully revised, with 25 percent of its readings new and an extensive new introduction to reading and writing with guidelines to all the elements cited in the WPA Outcomes Statement. Available in two editions: a full edition, with 206 readings; and a shorter edition, with 123.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction: Reading and Writing with The Norton Reader	p. xvi
Personal Report	p. 1
On Going Home	p. 1
A Hole in the Wall	p. 3
Graduation	p. 12
On Dumpster Diving	p. 21
On Being a Cripple	p. 30
The Knife	p. 40
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	p. 47
Once More to the Lake	p. 53
People, Places	p. 59
Under the Influence	p. 59
An American Childhood	p. 70
Strangers	p. 75
Sowers and Reapers	p. 79
More Room	p. 85
The Way to Rainy Mountain	p. 88
True North	p. 95
Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America	p. 105
Human Nature	p. 118
Looking at Women	p. 118
Between the Sexes, a Great Divide	p. 128
Love	p. 131
Excuse Me While I Explode: My Mother, Myself, My Anger	p. 142
Why Women Smile	p. 149
What Is a Homosexual?	p. 155
On the Fear of Death	p. 160
How to Know If You're Dead	p. 166
Cultural Critique	p. 180
Is America Falling Apart?	p. 180
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain	p. 186
Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!	p. 193
Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns	p. 198
Saudis in Bikinis	p. 200
The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China	p. 202
The Case for Single-Child Families	p. 212
Black Men and Public Space	p. 221
Who Shot Johnny?	p. 224
Education	p. 228
Learning to Read	p. 228
Learning to Write	p. 233
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading	p. 237
College Pressures	p. 245
College Is a Waste of Time and Money	p. 251
Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's	p. 260
The Gender Gap at School	p. 262
The Dean's Daughter Gets Thin Envelope	p. 264
Thinking as a Hobby	p. 266
Taking Women Students Seriously	p. 272
Language and Communication	p. 279
"Mommy, What Does 'Nigger' Mean?"	p. 279
Tongue-Tied	p. 282
Aria	p. 286
Always Living in Spanish	p. 292
How to Tame a Wild Tongue	p. 294
How to Write a Letter	p. 304
Postcards	p. 306
Notes on Punctuation	p. 308
Literature, the Arts, and Media	p. 625
One Writer's Beginnings	p. 625
Good Readers and Good Writers	p. 631
Does a Literary Canon Matter?	p. 636
In Search of a Room of One's Own	p. 643
A Century of Cinema	p. 654
Understanding Comics	p. 662
Moving Along	p. 668
The Sound of Music	p. 671
How We Listen	p. 678
Philosophy and Religion	p. 683
Salvation	p. 683
In a Double Exile	p. 685
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For	p. 688
The Death of the Moth	p. 697
Sight into Insight	p. 699
The Allegory of the Cave	p. 710
Parables of the Kingdom	p. 713
Muddy Road, A Parable, Learning to Be Silent	p. 717
The Mystery of Zen	p. 718
Existentialism	p. 726
Authors	p. 737
Permissions Acknowledgments	p. 757
Genres Index	p. 763
Rhetorical Index	p. 767
Thematic Index	p. 771
Index	p. 773
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