Title The Riverside Reader

by Trimmer, Joseph F.

• ISBN13: 9780618133802
• ISBN10: 0618133801
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-23
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Thematic Table of Contents	xv
Preface	xxi
Introduction	1	(7)
Guidelines for Reading an Essay	8	(3)
Sample Analysis of an Essay: ``The Problem with Hypertext''	11	(5)
David Shenk
Guidelines for Writing an Essay	16	(5)
NARRATION AND DESCRIPTION	21	(70)
Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe (professional paragraph)	26	(1)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Deloris (student paragraph)	27	(2)
Lauren Briner
My Name is Margaret	29	(8)
Maya Angelou
Keeping the Scorebook	37	(7)
Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Myth of the Latin Woman	44	(9)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Digging	53	(11)
Andre Dubus
Shooting an Elephant	64	(10)
George Orwell
Truth or Consequences (story)	74	(17)
Alice Adams
PROCESS ANALYSIS	91	(70)
The Book on the Bookshelf (professional paragraph)	96	(1)
Henry Petroski
Making Stained Glass (student paragraph)	97	(2)
Sara Temple
My Daily Dives in the Dumpster	99	(8)
Lars Eighner
Campus Racism 101	107	(6)
Nikki Giovanni
Dolphin Courtship: Brutal, Cunning, and Complex	113	(7)
Natalie Angier
Grounds for Fiction	120	(16)
Julia Alvarez
Arranging a Marriage in India	136	(13)
Serena Nanda
The Golden Darters (story)	149	(12)
Elizabeth Winthrop
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST	161	(78)
FDR and Truman (professional paragraph)	166	(1)
David McCullough
Howard and Rush (student paragraph)	167	(2)
Nathan M. Harms
Two Views of the River	169	(4)
Mark Twain
Mountain Music	173	(9)
Scott Russell Sanders
A Tale of Two Divorces	182	(11)
Anne Roiphe
Rapport-Talk and Report-Talk	193	(15)
Deborah Tannen
Shakespeare in the Bush	208	(15)
Laura Bohannan
His First Ball (story)	223	(16)
Witi Ihimaera
DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION	239	(86)
Conservation Is Good Work (professional paragraph)	244	(1)
Wendell Berry
Gentlemen! Start Your Engines (student paragraph)	244	(2)
Gareth Tucker
The Extendable Fork	246	(4)
Calvin Trillin
Four Kinds of Chance	250	(7)
James H. Austin
Shades of Black	257	(8)
Mary Mebane
Modern Friendships	265	(14)
Phillip Lopate
Five and a Half Utopias	279	(18)
Steven Weinberg
Revelation (story)	297	(28)
Flannery O'Connor
DEFINITION	325	(58)
When Tristram Met Isolde (professional paragraph)	330	(1)
Joyce Carol Oates
Personality (student paragraph)	331	(2)
Jason Utesch
One Good Turn	333	(5)
Witold Rybczynski
The Hoax	338	(5)
John Berendt
Growing Up in Los Angeles	343	(7)
Richard Rodriguez
The Tiger is God	350	(11)
Stephen Harrigan
Bobos: The New Upper Class	361	(9)
David Brooks
Everyday Use (story)	370	(13)
Alice Walker
CAUSE AND EFFECT	383	(64)
Elephant Evolution (professional paragraph)	388	(1)
Jonathan Weiner
Barrier-Free Design (student paragraph)	389	(3)
Emily Linderman
Science and Hope	392	(5)
Carl Sagan
Some Big Ideas Wash Up One Bulb at a Time	397	(6)
Andrew C. Revkin
Uniforms	403	(7)
Robert Coles
Peak Performance: Why Records Fall	410	(8)
Daniel Goleman
Keeping Women Weak	418	(16)
Cathy Young
One Holy Night (story)	434	(13)
Sandra Cisneros
PERSUASION AND ARGUMENT	447	(102)
The Promised Land (professional paragraph)	455	(1)
Nicholas Lemann
Genetic Engineering (student paragraph)	456	(2)
Jim F. Saloman
I Have a Dream	458	(7)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream	465	(13)
Eric Liu
Stone Soup	478	(11)
Barbara Kingsolver
Women and the Future of Fatherhood	489	(9)
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
Soul of a Citizen	498	(7)
Paul Rogat Loeb
Confessions of a Nonpolitical Man	505	(4)
Sven Birkerts
The Bird in Our Hand	509	(11)
Toni Morrison
In Defense of Prejudice	520	(17)
Jonathan Rauch
Harrison Bergeron (story)	537	(12)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
RESOURCES FOR WRITING (Thematic Unit---The Internet)	549	(102)
The Conversion (Narration and Description)	554	(11)
Wendy Lesser
The Keyboard (Process Analysis)	565	(10)
William Zinsser
The Golden Spike (Comparison and Contrast)	575	(9)
John Steele Gordon
Selected Web Sites (Division and Classification)	584	(15)
Dave Barry
Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier (Definition)	599	(13)
Laura Miller
Welcome to Cyberbia (Cause and Effect)	612	(7)
M. Kadi
Looking for Community on the Internet (Persuasion and Argument)	619	(8)
Evan I. Schwartz
Burning Chrome (Story)	627	(24)
William Gibson
Documenting Sources	651	(32)
Rhetorical Glossary	683	(20)
Acknowledgments	703	(6)
Index	709