The Resourceful Reader Text Readings to Accompany the Writer’s Harbrace Handbook

by Webb, Suzanne Strobeck

• ISBN13: 9780155069794
• ISBN10: 0155069799
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-09
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Contents Arranged by Subject	xviii
Introduction: Reading to Write, Writing to Be Read	3	(10)
Example	13	(30)
Introduction with Analysis of Student Essay	13	(4)
``Stressed to the Max?''	14	(3)
Jackie Nye
``My Friend, Albert Einstein''	17	(7)
Banesh Hoffman
``Thrills and Chills''	24	(6)
Eric Minton
``Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space''	30	(5)
Brent Staples
``The Myth of College''	35	(4)
Dave Barry
``The Hidden Life of SUVs''	39	(4)
Jack Hitt
Narration	43	(42)
Introduction with Analysis of Student Essay	43	(5)
``Roadblocks''	44	(4)
Roy Fowler
``Beating Coasterphobia''	48	(4)
Eric Minton
``The Hockenberry File''	52	(4)
John Hockenberry
``Momma, the Dentist, and Me''	56	(7)
Maya Angelou
``God in the Doorway''	63	(4)
Annie Dillard
``Writing `God in the Doorway'''	67	(4)
Annie Dillard
``The Harlem Renaissance: One Facet of an Unturned Kaleidoscope''	71	(14)
Darwin Turner
Description	85	(36)
Introduction with Analysis of Student Essay	85	(4)
``The Fragility of Natural Wonders''	86	(3)
Lisa Garrett
``The Way to Rainy Mountain''	89	(6)
N. Scott Momaday
``The Courage of Turtles''	95	(7)
Edward Hoagland
``The Blobs''	102	(3)
Patricia Brady
``Singing with All the Saints''	105	(4)
Aaron McCarroll Gallegos
``Excerpt from Assembling California''	109	(12)
John McPhee
Process	121	(36)
Introduction with Analysis of Student Essay	121	(6)
``Playing the Irish Bagpipes''	122	(5)
Maya Ramirez
``How to Write a Letter''	127	(4)
Garrison Keillor
``Mummy Arts''	131	(3)
Adam Goodheart
``Sugaring''	134	(5)
Margery Guest
``The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts''	139	(6)
Donald M. Murray
``The Spider and the Wasp''	145	(6)
Alexander Petrunkevitch
``Zoo Medicine''	151	(6)
Michael Kernan
Cause and Effect	157	(32)
Introduction with Analysis of Student Essay	157	(6)
``Control''	158	(5)
Nandina Brownell
``Scaring Up Business''	163	(4)
Eric Minton
``The Price of Hate: Thoughts on Covering a Ku Klux Klan Rally''	167	(5)
Rachel L. Jones
``On Warts''	172	(5)
Lewis Thomas
``And Here's the Pitch''	177	(6)
John M. Williams
``Growing Up in Black and White''	183	(6)
Jack E. White
Comparison and Contrast	189	(32)
Introduction with Analysis of Student Essay	189	(5)
``The Real Truth About Cats and Dogs''	191	(3)
Keisha Jackson
``Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts''	194	(5)
Bruce Catton
``Columbus and the Moon''	199	(4)
Tom Wolfe
``And Now, the Salmon Wars''	203	(3)
Robert Sullivan
``Small Is Still Beautiful''	206	(5)
David Morris
``Cyberpunk R.I.P.''	211	(4)
Paul Saffo
``Anglo vs. Chicano: Why?''	215	(6)
Arthur L. Campa
Classification and Division	221	(50)
Introduction with Analyses of Student Essays	221	(9)
``A House Is Not a Home''	224	(2)
Lauren Reismann
``A Brief Beginner's Guide to Reference Sources''	226	(4)
Timothy Ellis
``Three Types of Resistance to Oppression''	230	(5)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``Territorial Behavior''	235	(9)
Desmond Morris
``Which Stooge Are You?''	244	(6)
Ron Geraci
``Computer Skills Mean Sex Appeal''	250	(4)
Scott Adams
``The Plot against People''	254	(4)
Russell Baker
``The Qualities of Good Writing''	258	(6)
Jacqueline Berke
``How We Listen to Music''	264	(7)
Aaron Copland
Definition	271	(36)
Introduction with Analysis of Student Essay	271	(4)
``What Is a Feminist?''	272	(3)
Carol Johnson
``The `Perfect' Trap''	275	(7)
Monica Ramirez Basco
``Is It Reverse Discrimination?''	282	(4)
Ruben Navarrette, Jr.
``Land of Identities''	286	(5)
Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron
``What Is a Cowboy?''	291	(6)
John R. Erickson
``The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Clint Eastwood as Romantic Hero''	297	(10)
Kathleen Murphy
Argument	307	(46)
Introduction with Analysis of Student Essay	307	(4)
``Death Penalty''	309	(2)
Oshunkentan Solomon
``Cinderella's Stepsisters''	311	(4)
Toni Morrison
``The Horse as Heater''	315	(4)
Roxana Barry Robinson
``Liberation Genealogy''	319	(4)
Aurora Levins Morales
``You Can't Judge a Crook by His Color''	323	(6)
Randall Kennedy
```We can't dance together'''	329	(11)
Maria Rosa Menocal
``The Wrong Spin''	340	(7)
Mike Godwin
``The Gift of Wilderness''	347	(6)
Wallace Stegner
A Life-and-Death Issue Debated: The Environment	353	(32)
``Confessions of a Nature Hater''	354	(3)
Eugene V. Weinstock
``Buying In''	357	(5)
Eve Pell
``Toward a Land Ethic''	362	(8)
Aldo Leopold
``Environment for Sale''	370	(4)
Brain Tokar
``Government Intervention Can Protect the Environment''	374	(7)
Robert Gottlieb
Helen Ingram
``The Environmental Mindset''	381	(4)
Rush Limbaugh III
The Essay Examination: A Student Writer across the Disciplines	385	(12)
Examination 1: American Intellectual History What makes one thinker set out in a new direction while another continues to embody the prevailing ideas of his time? Writing under pressure, student Anne Nishijima considers causes and effects in the case of William James and Henry Adams	388	(3)
Anne Nishijima
Examination 2: Introduction to Shakespeare	391	(3)
Anne Nishijima
Examination 3: Vertebrate Zoology	394	(3)
Anne Nishijima
Writing from Research	397	(14)
``J. R. R. Tolkien's Mythology''	400	(5)
Bill Wallace
``America's Forgotten People''	405	(6)
Barbara Kiger
For Further Reading: Some Classic Essays	411	(1)
``The Allegory of the Cave''	411	(8)
Plato
``A Modest Proposal''	419	(7)
Jonathan Swift
``Liberty or Death''	426	(3)
Patrick Henry
``The Declaration of Independence''	429	(6)
Thomas Jefferson
``The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed''	435	(3)
Mary Wollstonecraft
``Where I Lived, and What I Lived For''	438	(5)
Henry David Thoreau
``The Death of the Moth''	443
Virginia Woolf