Ways of Reading An Anthology for Writers

by Bartholomae, David; Petrosky, Anthony; Waite, Stacey

• ISBN13: 9781319195809
• ISBN10: 1319195806
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781319253974
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781319040147
• Edition: 12th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-09-20
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

Reading and writing is difficult, messy work. Ways of Reading embraces this challenge by inviting students into the process and treating them with respect. Based on the concept that texts should be considered in relation to each other, Ways of Reading fosters academic habits of mind as it carefully walks students through analyzing and writing about complicated ideas. With deeply thought-provoking readings from writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Judith Butler, and Anna Tsing, combined with a supporting structure of sequenced questions for rereading, discussion, and writing, Ways of Reading empowers students to engage with complex material and difficult concepts.

A robust introduction to critical reading, coverage of writing beyond the traditional essay, and assignment sequences all help instructors make the classroom a place of intellectual exploration. This is a book that asks instructors and students to do more — to approach difficulty as multi-dimensional, in conceptual, historical, narrative, and practical aspects. And especially in this edition, with new readings on topics such as white rage, ethical relationships, and sexual violence, this work pays off, preparing students to address (as community members, citizens, and future leaders) the urgent problems that cannot be ignored, and that soon will be theirs alone to solve.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ways of Reading
Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Racial Identities
Alison Bechdel, The Ordinary Devoted Mother
Ruth Behar, The Vulnerable Observer
John Berger, Ways of Seeing, On Rembrandt's Woman in Bed, On Carvaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Gloria Bird, Autobiography as Spectacle
Judith Butler, Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy
Joy Castro, Hungry
*Jeff Chang, Is Diversity for White People?
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
*Jennine Capó Crucet, Going Cowboy
W. E. B. Du Bois, Of the Training of Black Men
Michel Foucault, Panopticism
Atul Gawande, Slow Ideas
*Roxane Gay, How to Be Friends with Another Woman
Susan Griffin, Our Secret
*Aubrey Hirsch, Fragments
*June Jordan, Nobody Mean More to Me than You
*Saachi Koul, Hunting Season
Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature
Mary Louise Pratt, Arts of the Contact Zone
*Jenny Price, 13 Ways of Seeing Nature in LA
*Claudia Rankine, Citizen
Edward Said, States
*Solmaz Sharif, Poems
*Layli Long Soldier, 38
*Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World
John Edgar Wideman, Our Time
Sequences
SEQUENCE ONE EXPLORING IDENTITY, EXPLORING THE SELF
SEQUENCE TWO THE AIMS OF EDUCATION
SEQUENCE THREE THE ARTS OF THE CONTACT ZONE
SEQUENCE FOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATIONS
SEQUENCE FIVE EXPERTS AND EXPERTISE
*SEQUENCE SIX LISTENING IN OUR PRESENT
*SEQUENCE SEVEN EXAMINATIONS OF RACE AND RACISM 
SEQUENCE EIGHT ON DIFFICULTY
SEQUENCE NINE THE ART OF ARGUMENT
*SEQUENCE TEN Beyond the Essay