Overview

Incorporating readings that represent new voices and styles in nonfiction that will appeal to contemporary readers, this classic composition reader continues to provide engaging, instructive models of the rhetorical modes.

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Author:   Robert A. Schwegler
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   19th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.667kg
ISBN:  

9780205731770

ISBN 10:   0205731775
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   13 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780205220458
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents * mark sections new to this edition. 1. Reading for Writer 2. Ways of Writing Discovering Planning Drafting Revising 3. Example Andy Rooney, In and Of Ourselves We Trust Brent Staples, Just Walk On By ** Jonah Lehrer, The Uses of Reason Mary Karr, Dysfunctional Nation Issues and Ideas: Identities Wil Haygood, Underground Dads Alan Buczynski, Iron Bonding 4. Classification ** Matt Carmichael, Get Radical, Get Some Rest Michael Ventura, Don't Even Think About It! **Salman Akhtar, Remembering the Dead Issues and Ideas: Images of Sound and Sight Alissa Quart, Cinema of the In-Crowd Brenda Peterson, Life Is a Musical 5. Comparison Mark Twain, Two Waysof Seeing a River Bruce Catton, Grant and Lee, A Study of Contrasts Philip Lopate, A Nonsmoker with a Smoker ** Bill McKibben, Old Macdonald Had a Farmer's Market Alice Walker, Am I Blue? Issues and Ideas: Gender Differences Nicholas Wade, Method and Madness: How Men and Women Think Catherine Seipp, Meet Today's Dad 6. Analogy Lan Samantha Chang, Like Robinson Crusoe Issues and Ideas: Humans and Animals Tom Wolfe, O Rotten Gotham-Sliding Down into the Behavioral Sink Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson 7. Process Joe Buhler and Ron Graham, Give Juggling a Hand ** Jennifer Graham, How to Decorate a Dorm Room on a Budget Sridhar Pappu, Deranged Marriage ** Ian Frazier, How to Operate the Shower Curtain Issues and Ideas: Advertising and Appearances Jean E. Kilbourne, Beauty . . . And the Beast of Advertising Jessica Mitford, To Dispel Fears of Live Burial 8. Cause-Effect Susan Perry and Jim Dawson, What's Your Best Time of Day Mary Roach, My Father the Geezer William Severini Kowinski, Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled Issues and Ideas: Consuming Cullen Murphy, Hello Darkness ** Verlyn Klinkenborg, Our Vanishing Night 9. Definition John Berendt, The Hoax Dagoberto Gilb, Pride ** Anne Fadiman, Coffee Issues and Ideas: Defining Values and Roles Carter, The Insufficiency of Honesty Veronica Chambers, Mother's Day 10. Description Gary Soto, The Jacket George Simpson, The War Room at Bellevue Donna Tartt, A Garden Party ** Daniel Thomas Cook, Children of the Brand Issues and Ideas: Place and Person Barry Lopez, A Passage of the Hands E. B. White, Once More to the Lake 11. Narration Martin Gansberg, 38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police Geoffrey Canada, Pain ** Pat Conroy, Chili Cheese Dogs, My Father, and Me Issues and Ideas: Stories and Values George Orwell, A Hanging Wayne Worcester, Arms and the Man 12. Induction and Deduction Nancy Friday, The Age of Beauty Issues and Ideas: Digital Realities Maia Szalavitz, A Virtual Life J.C. Herz, Superhero Sushi 13. Argument Issues and Ideas: Current Controversies Christopher B. Daly, How the Lawyers Stole Winter Stephanie Mills, Could You Live with Less? Anna Quindlen, The Drug That Pretends It Isn't ** Andrew O'Hehir, The Myth of Media Violence ** Elizabeth Svoboda, I Am Not a Puzzle, I Am a Person Barbara Lawrence, Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You Sarah Min, Language Lessons 14. Further Readings ** Jason Kelly, The Great TV Debate Margaret Atwood, Pornography Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

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