Overview

An exciting new full-color reader, OCCASIONS FOR WRITING provides a broad range of thematically organized readings, as well as unique 'Occasions for Writing' activities, which engage students in looking closely at written and visual texts to develop fresh ideas that lead to strong original essays. DiYanni and Hoy help students discover that anything they encounter in life is an occasion or reason to write. Many of the essays in the book's large selection are untraditional, helping students explore new perspectives on familiar themes. Also offering an in-depth focus on visual rhetoric, OCCASIONS FOR WRITING is accompanied by many technology resources that include a variety of media (video and audio, as well as print and visual texts) to explore, helping students to broaden their writing horizons. Students receive the most up-to-date information on MLA documentation with the enclosed tri-fold card providing NEW 2009 MLA Handbook formats.

Full Product Details

Author:   Robert Diyanni ,  Pat Hoy II
Publisher:   Cengage Learning, Inc
Imprint:   Heinle & Heinle Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   1.317kg
ISBN:  

9780495899945

ISBN 10:   0495899941
Pages:   864
Publication Date:   01 May 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Part I: A BRIEF GUIDE TO WRITING. 1. The Practice of Writing. Why Am I Writing Essays? An Occasion for Writing. Using Your Voice and Finding Your Character. Moving from Evidence to Idea to Essay. Evidence. Idea. Essay. How to Reveal the Discoveries? Analysis. Interpretation. Reflection and Meaning. Making Evidence and Discovery Work Together. 2. An Exploratory Essay: A Student""s Progress. Using Images and Experience as Evidence. 3. The Persuasive Essay: A Student""s Progress. Using Text and Experience as Evidence. 4. An Introduction to Visual Understanding. Keeping Your Eyes Open and Learning to See. A Strategy for Visual Understanding. Looking and Responding. Analyzing Images: Categorizing to Make Sense of What You See. Focal Point and Emphasis. Figure-Ground Contrast. Grouping: Proximity & Similarity. Color. Continuation. Line. Closure. Narration or Story. Context. The Whole Composition. Communicating What You See. A Sample Student Paper, Ryan Pollack, Visible Feelings. Part II: THEMES FOR WRITING. 5. Stories. Cluster 1: Mark Doty, Souls on Ice. Samuel Scudder, Look at Your Fish. John Berger, Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible. Cluster 2: Virginia Woolf, Portrait of a Londoner. Richard Rodriguez, Late Victorians. Jim Corder, Aching for a Self. Anthology Readings: Diane Ackerman, In the Memory Mines. Brian Doyle, Yes. Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point. Michael Paterniti, The Most Dangerous Beauty. 6. Identity. Cluster 1: Brent Staples, Just Walk on By. Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me. Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman. Cluster 2: Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation. N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain. James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village. Anthology Readings: Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time. Sojourner Truth, Ain""t I a Woman. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. 7. Gender. Cluster1: Susan Brownmiller, Femininity. Deborah Tannen, Men and Women Talking. Judy Ruiz, Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy. Cluster 2: Paul Fussell, Uniforms. Susan Sontag, A Woman""s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? Alice Walker, Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self. Anthology Readings: Bernard Cooper, Burl""s. Gretel Ehrlich, About Men. Paul Theroux, Being a Man. Sojourner Truth, Ain""t I a Woman. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. 8. Families. Cluster 1: Chang Rae Lee, Coming Home Again. Barbara Kingsolver, Stone Soup. Barbara Ehrenreich, Family Values. Cluster 2: David Sedaris, Cyclops. bell hooks, Inspired Eccentricity. Maxine Hong Kingston, No-Name Woman. Anthology Readings: Diane Ackerman, In the Memory Mines. Bernard Cooper, Burl""s. Brian Doyle, Yes. 9. Education. Cluster 1: Frederick Douglass: Learning to Read and Write. Maya Angelou, Graduation. Bernard Cooper, Labyrinthine. Cluster 2: Eudora Welty, Clamorous to Learn. Adrienne Rich, Claiming an Education. Paolo Freire, The Banking Concept of Education. Anthology Readings: Roland Barthes, Toys. E. M. Forster, On Not Looking at Pictures. Michael Lewis, The Curse of Talent. Plato, The Allegory of the Cave. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. 10. Nature and the Environment. Cluster 1: Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth. Roy Reed, Spring Comes to Hogeye. Annie Dillard, Transfiguration. Cluster 2: William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness. Ann Zwinger, The Desert World. Barry Lopez, The Stone Horse. Anthology Readings: Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point. Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time. Michael Paterniti, The Most Dangerous Beauty. Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature. 11. Science and Technology. Cluster 1: Jacob Bronowski, The Nature of Scientific Reasoning. Alan Lightman, The Art of Science. E.O. Wilson, The Bird of Paradise. Cluster 2: Sven Birkerts, Into the Electronic Millennium. Terry Tempest Williams, A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness. Lewis Thomas, Crickets, Bats, Cats, and Chaos. Anthology Readings: Diane Ackerman, In the Memory Mines. Roland Barthes, Toys. Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point. Michael Paterniti, The Most Dangerous Beauty. 12. Language and Thought. Cluster 1: Richard Rodriguez, Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood. George Orwell, Politics and the English Language. Suzanne K. Langer, Signs and Symbols. Cluster 2: Ursula LeGuin: Where Do You Get Your Ideas? Edward de Bono, Logical and Lateral Thinking. Matthew Goulish, Criticism. Anthology Readings: Diane Ackerman, In the Memory Mines. Brian Doyle, Yes. E. M. Forster, On Not Looking at Pictures. Thomas Jefferson et al., The Declaration of Independence. Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature. 13. Ethics and Values. Cluster 1: Joan Didion, On Self Respect. Henry David Thoreau, Why I Went Into the Woods. Sissela Bok, On Lying. Cluster 2: Langston Hughes, Salvation. Nancy Wilson Ross, An Introduction to Zen. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail. Anthology Readings: Thomas Jefferson et al., The Declaration of Independence. Plato, The Allegory of the Cave. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal. Lawrence Weschler, Vermeer in Bosnia. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. 14. Work and Working. Cluster 1: Ellen Goodman, The Company Man. George Orwell, Hotel Kitchens. Donald Hall, Lifework. Cluster 2: Ellen Gilchrist, The Middle Way. Tom Friedman, The World Is Flat. Christopher Clausen, Against Work. Anthology Readings: Gretel Ehrlich, About Men. Michael Lewis, The Curse of Talent. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Part III: ANTHOLOGY FOR FURTHER READING. Diane Ackerman, In the Memory Mines. Roland Barthes, Toys. Bernard Cooper, Burl""s. Brian Doyle, Yes. Gretel Ehrlich, About Men. E. M. Forster, On Not Looking at Pictures. Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point. Thomas Jefferson et al., The Declaration of Independence. Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time. Michael Lewis, The Curse of Talent. Michael Paterniti, The Most Dangerous Beauty. Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature. Plato, The Allegory of the Cave. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal. Paul Theroux, Being a Man. Sojourner Truth, Ain""t I a Woman. Lawrence Weschler, Vermeer in Bosnia. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women."

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"Pat C. Hoy, II, director of the Expository Writing Program and professor of English at New York University, has held appointments at the U.S. Military Academy and Harvard. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hoy regularly teaches freshman composition and is the author of numerous textbooks and articles, including THE SCRIBNER HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS, Fourth Edition (with Robert DiYanni). His essays have appeared in SEWANEE REVIEW, VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, AGNI, TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE, SOUTH ATLANTIC REVIEW, and THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Eight of his essays have been selected as ""Notables"" in Best American Essays. INSTINCT FOR SURVIVAL: ESSAYS BY PAT C. HOY II was selected as a ""Notable"" collection in Best American Essays of the Century. He was awarded the 2003 Cecil Woods, Jr., Prize for Nonfiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Robert DiYanni, who has taught English and Humanities at Harvard, Pace, and the City University of New York, is Director of International Services at the College Board. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York. A professor of English and Humanities at New York University, Dr. DiYanni has lectured and conducted workshops in the United States and abroad, especially in Europe and Asia. He has written and edited numerous textbooks, including OCCASIONS FOR WRITING (with Pat C. Hoy, II), THE MCGRAW-HILL BOOK OF POETRY, THE MCGRAW-HILL BOOK OF FICTION, THE SCRIBNER HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS (with Pat C. Hoy, II), WRITING ABOUT THE HUMANITIES, LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION, MODERN AMERICAN PROSE, and, among others MODERN AMERICAN POETS: THEIR VOICES AND VISIONS (a text to accompany the PBS television series). He updated the fourth edition of Strunk and White's classic ELEMENTS OF STYLE, and he has co-authored ARTS AND CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HUMANITIES (Prentice Hall), the basis for their lecture series on art and literature given at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art."

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