Readings for Writers

Résumé du livre

Features
One hundred twenty readings include poems, newspaper columns, diary entries, formal arguments, student essays, instructional texts, literary descriptions, personal letters, memoirs, speeches, and short stories.
Selections are grouped under a unique labeling system that show how each reading is meant to be used: Advice, Discussion, Example, and Issues for Critical Thinking and Debate.
The Student Corner, found at the end of each chapter, includes both first and final drafts of a student essay as well as a writing tip from that student writer.
Each Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate contains a related graphic, intended to get students thinking.
Pedagogy for each selection includes vocabulary and writing suggestions, plus questions that ask students to consider the facts, strategies and issues.
Each chapter ends with three types of writing assignments: general assignments; Writing Assignments for a Specific Audience; and Collaborative Writing Project.
Three full-length student papers, illustrating both the MLA and APA styles of documentation as well as the literary essay, are included.
New to the Tenth Edition
Twenty-three new reading include the works of instantly recognizable writers such as Oscar Wilde and Maya Angelou, as well as those by lesser-known voices such as Judy Mann and Gerald Larue.
Four of the Issues for Critical Thinking and Debate are new and explore teen violence, family values, the existence of God, and the status of women.
A new MLA paper is in the appendix on the research paper, and the APA sample paper has been updated.
Contents
1. Defining Rhetoric
Introduction: What Is Rhetoric?
Donald Murray, What--andHow--to Write When You Have No Time to Write
Discussion
William Zinsser, Simplicity Examples
Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream
Oscar Wilde, Letter to the Rev. J. Page Hopps
James Herrior, Have a Cigar
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: Teen Violence
Photo: Memorial Service at Columbine High School (CORBIS/AFP)
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Social Cesspool Polluting Youth
Judith Rich Harris, Don't Blame It on the Parents: It's Mainly the Peers
Student Corner
Michael Cotton, Miami University at Ohio, Violence Rampant among Teens
Michael Cotton, How I Write/How I Wrote This Essay/My Writing Tip
2. The Writer's Voice
Introduction: What Is a Writer's Voice
Advice
Paul Roberts, How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words
Discussion
F. L. Lucas, What Is Style?
Examples
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Remarks on the Life of Sacco and on His Own Life and Execution
Langston Hughes, Salvation
Stephen Leacock, A, B, and C: The Human Element in Mathematics
Dan Greenburg, Three Bears in Search of an Author
Sylvia Plath, Black Rock in Rainy Weather
Issue for Critical Thinking and Debate: Family Values
Painting: Honore Desmond Sharrer, Tribute to the American Working People
Etty Hillesum, An Argument against Hating Our Enemies
Gerald A. Larue, On Developing Human Values
Student Corner
Claudia Sanders, Glendale College, Family Values
Claudia Sanders, How I Write/How I Wrote This Essay/My Writing Tip
3. Purpose and Thesis
Introduction: What Is a Thesis?
Advice
Sheridan Baker, The Thesis
Discussion
Harry Crosby and George Estey, The Controlling Concept
Examples
Roxanne Roberts, The Grieving NeverEnds
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find