The Riverside Reader

by Trimmer, Joseph F.; Hairston, Maxine

• ISBN13: 9780618433841
• ISBN10: 0618433848
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-19
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Top reader compiled by two leaders in the field of composition features works by distinguished essayists. This rhetorically arranged reader contains 71 selections representing diverse voices and views from some of the most respected professional essayists working in the English language, along with short stories and student examples. Carefully developed apparatus, including headnotes and post-reading material, analyzes each reading in a context that helps students better understand the craft of writing and then apply what they learn to their own writing. Expanded treatment of the writing process offers more guidance in planning, drafting, and revising. Visual texts, including one photograph per chapter and an eight-page color photo essay, emphasize the power of images to evoke insights and ideas and encourage new ways for students to create writing topics based on what they see. A thematic unit on "Discoveries" features eight selections, one for each rhetorical method plus a short story, by such writers as John Fleischman, Witold Rybczynski, H.W. Ruslander, Dava Sobel, Andrew Sullivan, and Arthur C. Clarke.

Table of Contents

Thematic Table of Contents	xvii
Preface	xxiii
Introduction	1	(6)
Guidelines for Reading an Essay	7	(2)
Sample Analysis of an Essay: Gloria Naylor Beginnings	9	(3)
Guidelines for Writing an Essay	12	(2)
Student Essay: Kristie Ferguson The Scenic Route	14	(7)
NARRATION AND DESCRIPTION	21	(74)
Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe (professional paragraph)	26	(1)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Deloris (student paragraph)	27	(2)
Lauren Briner
The Veil (visual text)	29	(1)
Marjane Satrapi
Digging	30	(11)
Andre Dubus
The Mullet Girls	41	(10)
Jill McCorkle
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	51	(9)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Memories of a Dead Man Walking	60	(8)
Sister Helen Prejean
Shooting an Elephant	68	(10)
George Orwell
Truth or Consequences (story)	78	(17)
Alice Adams
PROCESS ANALYSIS	95	(70)
The Book on the Bookshelf (professional paragraph)	100	(1)
Henry Petroski
Making Stained Glass (student paragraph)	101	(2)
Sara Temple
How Many It Takes (visual text)	103	(1)
James Stevenson
Scrubbing in Maine	104	(8)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Third World Driving Hints and Tips	112	(7)
P. J. O'rourke
Campus Racism 101	119	(6)
Nikki Giovanni
Grounds for Fiction	125	(15)
Julia Alvarez
Arranging a Marriage in India	140	(13)
Serena Nanda
The Golden Darters (story)	153	(12)
Elizabeth Winthrop
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST	165	(80)
FDR and Truman (professional paragraph)	170	(1)
David McCullough
Howard and Rush (student paragraph)	171	(2)
Nathan M. Harms
At Play, Tianzi Mountains (visual text)	173	(1)
Don Hong-Oai
Two Views of the River	174	(4)
Mark Twain
Cowboys v. Mounties	178	(8)
Sarah Vowell
Shop like a Man	186	(17)
Paco Underhill
A Tale of Two Divorces	203	(11)
Anne Roiphe
Shakespeare in the Bush	214	(15)
Laura Bohannan
His First Ball (story)	229	(16)
Witi Ihimaera
DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION	245	(230)
Conservation Is Good Work (professional paragraph)	250	(1)
Wendell Berry
Gentlemen! Start Your Engines (student paragraph)	250	(2)
Gareth Tucker
Cloud Chart (visual text)	252	(1)
Roz Chast
Four Kinds of Chance	253	(7)
James H. Austin
Shades of Black	260	(8)
Mary Mebane
Modern Friendships	268	(14)
Phillip Lopate
Democracy for All?	282	(11)
James Q. Wilson
The Dramaturgy of Death	293	(154)
Garry Wills
Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good	447	(16)
Eric Schlosser
Janus (story)	463	(12)
Ann Beattie
PERSUASION AND ARGUMENT	475	(96)
The Promised Land (professional paragraph)	481	(1)
Nicholas Lemann
Genetic Engineering (student paragraph)	482	(3)
Jim F. Saloman
Physicians Against Land Mines (visual text)	485	(1)
A Debate About Racism
I Have a Dream	486	(7)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream	493	(13)
Eric Liu
A Debate About Family Values
Stone Soup	506	(11)
Barbara Kingsolver
Women and the Future of Fatherhood	517	(9)
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
A Debate About Harry Potter
Under the Spell	526	(11)
Joan Acocella
Can 35 Million Book Buyers Be Wrong? Yes	537	(6)
Harold Bloom
A Debate About Human Nature
Genocide Without Apology	543	(9)
Francine Prose
Of Altruism, Heroism, and Evolution's Gifts	552	(7)
Natalie Angier
Harrison Bergeron (story)	559	(12)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
RESOURCES FOR WRITING	571	(74)
Discoveries---A Casebook
Virtually Normal (Narration and Description)	577	(14)
Andrew Sullivan
The Senses of Place: A Visual Essay
The Kelly Gang (Process Analysis)	591	(5)
Colin Evans
Imaginary Lines (Comparison and Contrast)	596	(8)
Dava Sobel
The Technology of Medicine (Division and Classification)	604	(7)
Lewis Thomas
One Good Turn: How Machine-Made Screws Brought the World Together (Definition)	611	(5)
Witold Rybczynski
Homer's Bones (Cause and Effect)	616	(13)
John Fleischman
First Principles and the ``Frist Principles'' (Persuasion and Argument)	629	(3)
Richard Doerflinger
Stem Cell Research: It's About Life and Death, Not Politics (Persuasion and Argument)	632	(4)
Peggy Prichard Ross
The Star (story)	636	(9)
Arthur C. Clarke
USING AND DOCUMENTING SOURCES	645	(34)
Student Research Paper Assessing Coffee's Health Problems	666	(13)
Blythe Rogers
Rhetorical Glossary	679	(20)
Acknowledgments	699	(6)
Index	705