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Part I RHETORIC
1. The Literature and Argument Connection
Academic Argument and Critical Inquiry
Reading Literature to Expand Thinking
Reading Literature to Explore an Issue
Reading Literature to Analyze Argument
2. Reading Literature
Improving Reading Skills
William Carlos Williams’s, “The Red Wheelbarrow”
Expanding Thinking
Theodore Roethke’s, “My Papa’s Waltz”
Raymond Carver’s, from “Cathedral”
William Shakespeare’s, “Sonnet 130”
Exploring Issues
Arthur Miller, from The Crucible
Activities
Marge Piercy, “Barbie Doll”
Student Essay by Simone Weatherly, “Life as Plastic”
J. G. Ballard, “The Subliminal Man”
3. Analyzing Argument
Argument/Critical Thinking Connection
Components of an Argument
Claims
Kenneth Rexroth, “Cold before Dawn”
Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”
William Blake, “London”
Evidence
Assumptions
Counterarguments: Concessions and Refutations
Logical Fallacies
Audience Appeal and Tone: Pathos, Logos, Ethos
Aristotle’s Basic Argument Model
Martín Espada, “Federico’s Ghost”
William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”
Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl”
Visual Argument
Activities
Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays”
Wilfred Owen, “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
Randy Horick, “Truer to the Game”
4. Researching and Documenting an Argument Essay
Working with Sources
Finding Credible Sources
Avoiding Plagiarism
Documentation Systems
The Preliminary Bibliography
The Annotated Bibliography
Incorporating Sources
Paraphrasing and Summarizing
Direct Quotations
InText Parenthetical Citations
Print Sources
Electronic Sources
The Works Cited Page
Annotated Student Essay
Josh Griep, “Wild Captives: The Exotic Animal Trade”
5. Creating an Argument
Planning an Argument
Creating an Informal Outline
Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay
Creating a Draft
Writing a Thesis/Claim Statement
Activity
From Claim to Draft
Basic Tools for Designing Your Argument
Clarifying a Subject, Purpose, and Audience
Annotated Student Essay by Cale Blount, “The Last Words of Power”
Rogerian Argument: Creative Problem Solving
Rogerian Argument Organizational Plan
Annotated Student Essay by Christian Garcia, “A Bull’s Life”
Activities: Finding Ideas and Planning an Academic Argument
Part II ANTHOLOGY
6. Individuality and Community
Fiction
Truman Capote, “Jug of Silver”
Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible”
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
Randall Kenan, “The Foundations of the Earth”
Ernesto Quiñonez, from Bodega Dreams
Poetry
Michael Cleary, “Burning Dreams on the Sun”
Countee Cullen, “Incident”
Emily Dickinson, “Much Madness is divinest Sense”
T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Jack Gilbert, “Trying to Sleep”
Judy Grahn, “Ella, in a Square Apron, Along Highway 80”
Joy Harjo, “Everybody Has a Heartache: A Blues”
Claude McKay, “Outcast”
Dwight Okita, “In Response to Executive Order 9066”
Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”
Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory”
Muriel Rukeyser, “The Lost Romans”
Cathy Song, “Lost Sister”
Gary Soto, “Mexicans Begin Jogging”
Wallace Stevens, “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”
Alma Luz Villanueva, “Crazy Courage”
Nonfiction
John Hope Franklin, “The Train from Hate”
Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Richard Rodriguez, “The Chinese in All of Us”
Fred Setterberg, “The Usual Story”
Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
Chapter Activities and Topics for Writing Arguments
Global Perspectives Research/Writing Topics
Collaboration Activity: Creating a Rogerian Argument
Arguing Themes from Literature
7. Crime and Punishment
Fiction
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
Kevin Crossley-Holland, “The Lay of Thrym”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Speckled
Band”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
Edgar Allen Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”
Edith Wharton, “The Choice”
Poetry
A. E. Housman, “The Use and Abuse of Toads”
Etheridge Knight, “Hard Rock Returns to Prison”
Don Marquis, “A Communication from Archy the Cockroach”
D. H. Lawrence, “Snake”
Drama
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Nonfiction
George Orwell, “A Hanging”
Edward Abbey, “Eco-Defense”
Francis Bacon, “Of Revenge”
Rhett Morgan, “Scene of the Crime: House’s History Stuns New Owner”
Courts Today, “The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases at Enormous Costs to All”
George G. Vest, “Eulogy of the Dog”
Chapter Activities and Topics for Writing Arguments
Global Perspectives Research/Writing Topics
Collaboration Activity: Creating a Rogerian Argument
Sample Issue: Mandatory Sentencing for Distracted Drivers
Arguing Themes from Literature
8. Family and Identity
Fiction
Kate Chopin, “The Storm”
Lydia Davis, “Break It Down”
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
O. Henry, “The Gift of the Magi”
Katherine Mansfield, “The Garden Party”
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
Poetry
Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Mother”
Michael Cleary, “Boss’s Son”
Gregory Corso, “Marriage”
Nikki Giovanni, “Mothers”
Thomas Hardy, “The Ruined Maid”
Seamus Heney, “Mid-term Break”
Peter Meinke, “Advice to My Son”
Sharon Olds, “I Go Back to May, 1937”
Mary Oliver, “The Black Walnut Tree”
Dudley Randall, “Ballad of Birmingham”
Adrienne Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
Adrienne Rich, “Delta”
Anne Sexton, “Cinderella”
Gary Snyder, “Not Leaving the House”
Mark Strand, “The Continuous Life”
Margaret Walker, “Lineage”
Richard Wilbur, “The Writer”
Nonfiction
Sullivan Ballou, “Major Sullivan Ballou’s Last Letter to His
Wife”
Robin D. G. Kelley, “The People in Me”
Scott Russell Sanders, “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”
Amy Schalet, “The Sleepover Question”
George Will, “The Tangled Web of Conflicting Rights”
Chapter Activities and Topics for Writing Arguments
Global Perspectives Research/Writing Topics
Collaboration Activity: Creating a Rogerian Argument
Sample Issue: Same-Sex Marriage
Arguing Themes from Literature
9. Power and Responsibility
Fiction
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birth-Mark”
Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”
Virgil Suarez, “Bombardment”
Ed Vega, “Spanish Roulette”
Poetry
Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Boy Died in My Alley”
Martín Espada, “Bully”
Carolyn Forché, “The Colonel”
Robert Frost, “Mending Wall”
Langston Hughes, “Democracy”
Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B”
Claude McKay, “America”
James Merrill, “Casual Wear”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Apostrophe to Man”
John Milton, “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent”
Naomi Shihab Nye, “Famous”
Sharon Olds, “The Promise”
Linda Pastan, “Ethics”
Drama
Susan Glaspell, “Trifles”
Nonfiction
Chief Joseph,“I Will Fight No More Forever”
Allan Gurganus, “Captive Audience”
John F. Kennedy, “Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961”
Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have A Dream”
Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865”
Katherine Anne Porter, “To Dr. William Ross”
Frank Schaeffer and John Schaeffer, “My Son the Marine?”
Richard Wright, from Black Boy
Chapter Activities and Topics for Writing Arguments
Global Perspectives Research/Writing Topics
Collaboration Activity: Creating a Rogerian Argument
Sample Issue: The Justice or Injustice of Reparations
Arguing Themes from Literature
Glossary
Authors’ Biographical Notes
Text Credits
Author/Title Index
Subject Index
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