Patterns of Reflection : A Reader

by Seyler, Dorothy U.

• ISBN13: 9780205314812
• ISBN10: 0205314813
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Patterns of Reflection is the only brief reader to provide engaging, readable selections organized by both rhetorical strategies or patterns and by themes. This reader contains more than eighty selections of varying length including essays, four of which are annotated student essays, short stories, poems, a cartoon, and six pages of four-color fine art to provide variety and to stimulate thinking. Each chapter is enriched by an introduction which provides specific guidelines for understanding the rhetorical pattern illustrated, by vocabulary studies and detailed questions with each reading, and by topics for writing.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
On Reading and Writing	1	(37)
The Challenges and Rewards of Writing	1	(1)
Good Reasons for Reading	2	(2)
Guidelines for Active Reading	4	(5)
Guided Reading: William Raspberry, ``An End to Our American Argot?''	9	(2)
Looking Ahead	11	(1)
Getting Started:
``The Writer''	12	(2)
Richard Wilbur
``I Think (and Write in a Journal), Therefore I Am''	14	(3)
Joseph Reynolds
``The Watcher at the Gates''	17	(4)
Gail Godwin
``On Reading and Becoming a Writer''	21	(6)
Terry McMillian
``How to Write with Style''	27	(5)
Kurt Vonnegut
``Little Red Riding Hood Revisited''	32	(4)
Russell Baker
Making Connections	36	(1)
Topics and Guidelines for Writing	36	(2)
Using Narration: Growing Up, Growing Wiser	38	(36)
When to Use Narration	38	(1)
How to Use Narration	39	(1)
Getting Started: Reflections on Growing Up	40	(31)
``Always Running''	41	(4)
Luis J. Rodriguez
``The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl''	45	(4)
Elizabeth Wong
``The End of My Childhood''	49	(3)
N. Scott Momaday
``By Any Other Name''	52	(8)
Santha Rama Rau
``Death of an Officer''	60	(7)
Gaye Wagner
``Eleven''	67	(4)
Sandra Cisneros
Making Connections	71	(1)
Topics and Guidelines for Writing	72	(2)
Using Description: Reflecting on People and Places	74	(47)
When to Use Description	74	(1)
How to Use Descriptive Details	75	(2)
Getting Started: Reflections on a Painting	77	(1)
Six Paintings: Goya, The Third of May, 1808; Vermeer, Young Girl with a Water Jug; Bazille, Young Woman with Peonies; Degas, The Dance Class; Picasso, Three Dancers; Dali, The Persistence of Memory
``Mrs. Zajac''	77	(4)
Tracy Kidder
``Lost Lives of Women''	81	(5)
Amy Tan
``Poetic Passage''	86	(4)
Maya Angelou
``Africa''	90	(7)
Lance Morrow
``The Autumn Garden''	97	(7)
Lauren Springer
``My Father''	104	(11)
Doris Lessing
Student Essay: ``A Relaxing Retreat''	115	(3)
Kim Lavecchia
Making Connections	118	(1)
Topics and Guidelines for Writing	118	(3)
Using Comparison and Contrast: Ways of Learning	121	(46)
When to Use Comparison and Contrast	121	(1)
How to Use Comparison and Contrast	122	(2)
Getting Started: Reflecting on Expectations of College	124	(34)
``Conversational Ballgames''	125	(5)
Nancy Masterson Sakamoto
``Education''	130	(4)
E. B. White
``A Tale of Two Schools''	134	(7)
Jonathan Kozol
``Girls Are Beneficiaries of Gender Gap''	141	(4)
Diane Ravitch
``Boys and Girls: Anatomy and Destiny''	145	(7)
Judith Viorst
``Pedestrian Students and High-Flying Squirrels''	152	(5)
Liane Ellison Norman
``Marks''	157	(1)
Linda Pastan
Student Essay: ``The Faded Stain''	158	(5)
Denisse M. Bonilla
Making Connections	163	(1)
Topics and Guidelines for Writing	164	(3)
Explaining and Illustrating: Examining Media Images	167	(48)
When to Use Examples	167	(1)
How to Use Examples	168	(1)
Getting Started: Thinking about Advertising	169	(43)
``To Be or Not to Be as Defined by TV''	170	(9)
Jack McGarvey
``Caution: Children Watching''	179	(9)
Suzanne Braun Levine
``Sex, Lies, and Advertising''	188	(6)
Gloria Steinem
``The Issue Isn't Sex, It's Violence''	194	(5)
Caryl Rivers
``In Fact, We're Dumbing Up''	199	(3)
Pico Iyer
``Lost In Cyberspace''	202	(6)
John Skow
``The Barbie Problem''	208	(4)
Dave Barry
Making Connections	212	(1)
Topics and Guidelines for Writing	213	(2)
Using Process Analysis: How We Work and Play	215	(48)
When to Use Process Analysis	215	(1)
How to Use Process Analysis	216	(1)
Getting Started: Reflections on Your Favorite Game	217	(42)
``Putting Your Job Interview into Rehearsal''	218	(5)
John P. Aigner
``How to Give Orders Like a Man''	223	(11)
Deborah Tannen
``Improving Your Body Language Skills''	234	(11)
Suzette H. Elgin
``Restoring Recess''	245	(4)
Carol Krucoff
``Camping Out''	249	(6)
Ernest Hemingway
``The Day That I Sensed a New Kind of Intelligence''	255	(3)
Garry Kasparov
``Plus C'est la Meme Chose''	258	(1)
Katherine McAlpine
Making Connections	259	(1)
Topics and Guidelines for Writing	260	(3)
Using Division and Classification: Examining Human Connections	263	(50)
When to Use Division and Classification	263	(1)
How to Use Division and Classification	264	(2)
Getting Started: Classifying Recent Reading or Viewing	266	(43)
``Friends, Good Friends---and Such Good Friends''	266	(7)
Judith Viorst
``The Roles of Manners''	273	(6)
Judith Martin
``Hot Boxes for Ex-Smokers''	279	(5)
Franklin E. Zimring
``The Science and Secrets of Personal Space''	284	(6)
Curt Suplee
``There's Three Kinds of Teams''	290	(6)
Peter Drucker
Jr., ``Class Acts: America's Changing Middle Class''	296	(6)
Ralph Whitehead
``The Secret Life of Walter Mitty''	302	(7)
James Thurber
Making Connections	309	(1)
Topics and Guidelines for Writing	310	(3)
Using Definition: Understanding Ideas and Values	313	(37)
When to Use Definition	313	(1)
How to Develop an Extended Definition	314	(1)
Getting Started: Reflections on E. B. White's Ideas of Democracy	315	(28)
``On Friendship''	316	(6)
Margaret Mead
Rhoda Metraux
``Is Everybody Happy?''	322	(5)
John Ciardi
``Entropy''	327	(5)
K. C. Cole
``Discrimination Is a Virtue''	332	(5)
Robert Keith Miller
Jr., ``Personal Worth''	337	(3)
E. J. Dionne
``Curiosity''	340	(3)
Alastair Reid
Student Essay: ``Everyday Heroes''	343	(4)
Kiki Sorovacu
Making Connections	347	(1)
Topics and Guidelines for Writing	347	(3)
Using Causal Analysis: Examining Social and Political Issues	350	(50)
When to Use Causal Analysis	350	(1)
How to Use Causal Analysis	351	(2)
Getting Started: Reflections on Why You Are in College	353	(44)
``Why We Crave Horror Movies''	353	(5)
Stephen King
``Duty: The Forgotten Virtue''	358	(6)
Amitai Etzioni
``To Lift All Boats''	364	(7)
Robert B. Reich
``Enough Blame to Go Around''	371	(4)
Robert J. Samuelson
``Family Values Go to Work''	375	(3)
Rosalind C. Barnett
Caryl Rivers
``When Parents Are Toxic to Children''	378	(6)
Keith Ablow
``Social Science Finds: `Marriage Matters'''	384	(11)
Linda J. Waite
``Dream Deferred''	395	(2)
Langston Hughes
Making Connections	397	(1)
Topics and Guidelines for Writing	397	(3)
Using Argument and Persuasion: Preserving the Health of Our World	400	(43)
The Characteristics of Argument	400	(2)
Causes of Bad Argument: Logical Fallacies	402	(1)
How to Use Argument and Persuasion	403	(3)
Getting Started: Reflections on the Challenges Facing Ourselves, Our Society, Our World	406	(31)
``Border Hazards: An Obsession to Become Unhealthy''	406	(5)
Richard Rodriguez
``SUVs: Killer Cars''	411	(3)
Ellen Goodman
``Save the Kids, Fight Tobacco''	414	(4)
David Satcher
``Ban the Things. Ban Them All''	418	(4)
Molly Ivins
``Gun Registration: It's Common Sense''	422	(3)
Sarah Brady
``As Temperatures Rise''	425	(4)
David Ignatius
``Dolly's False Legacy''	429	(5)
Ian Wilmut
``In the Death of a Friend, A Lesson for the Living''	434	(3)
Patti Davis
Student Essay: ``Blame It on the Media and Other Ways to Dress a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing''	437	(3)
David M. Ouellette
Making Connections	440	(1)
Topics and Guidelines for Writing	441	(2)
Works for Further Reading and Analysis	443	(35)
Responses to Reading: Summary, Analysis, Synthesis	443	(33)
``The Story of an Hour''	449	(3)
Kate Chopin
``A Hanging''	452	(4)
George Orwell
``Science and the Sense of Wonder''	456	(4)
Isaac Asimov
``Declaration of Sentiments''	460	(3)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
``Patterns''	463	(4)
Amy Lowell
``Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts''	467	(4)
Bruce Catton
``A Game of Catch''	471	(3)
Roger Rosenblatt
``Learning to Brake for Butterflies''	474	(2)
Ellen Goodman
Topics and Guidelines for Writing	476	(2)
Glossary	478	(6)
Index	484	(4)
Acknowledgments	488