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Table of Contents* New to this edition
1. On Writing
* Russell Baker: On Becoming a Writer
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: How to Write with Style
Amy Tan: Mother Tongue
William Zinsser: Simplicity
2. On Reading
Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
*Judith Ortiz Cofer: Volar
Malcolm X: Prison Studies
Ellen Tashie Frisina: "See Spot Run": Teaching My Grandmother to Read
3. Description
* Annie Dillard: In the Jungle
Maxine Hong Kingston: Catfish in the Bathtub
Richard Selzer: The Discus Thrower
* Virginia Woolf: The Death of the Moth
4. Narration
Elizabeth Wong: The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl
Langston Hughes: Salvation
George Orwell: A Hanging
Grace Paley: Travelling
5. Illustration
Brent Staples: Night Walker
Barbara Ehrenreich: What I've Learned from Men
* Amartya Sen: A World not Neatly Divided
Lewis Thomas: Death in the Open
6. Comparison and Contrast
Rachel Carson: A Fable for Tomorrow
* Katha Pollitt: Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls
Ellen Goodman: The Tapestry of Friendships
Michele Ingrassia: The Body of the Beholder
7. Definition
Janice Castro with Dan Cook and Christina Garcia: Spanglish
Suzanne Britt Jordan: Fun, Oh Boy, Fun. You Could Die from It
Gloria Naylor: A Word's Meaning
* David Brooks: The Organization Kid
8. Classification
Judith Viorst: Friends, Good Friends - and Such Good Friends
E.B. White: The Three New Yorks
James T. Baker: How Do We Find the Student in a World of Academic Gymnasts and Worker Ants?
* Amy Rashap: The American Dream for Sale
9. Process Analysis
Jerrold G. Simon: How to Write a Resume
* John Lantos: Life and Death in Neonatal Intensive Care
Ernest Hemingway: Camping Out
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: In the Kitchen
10. Cause-and-Effect Analysis
Stephen King: Why We Crave Horror Movies
Anne Roiphe: Why Marriages Fail
* Harry Crews: Why I Live Where I Live
Susan Jacoby: When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is "a Waste of Time"
11. Argumentation and Persuasion
Reparations for Slavery: Pro and Con
* Manning Marable: An Idea Whose Time Has Come…
* Shelby Steele: …Or a Childish Illusion of Justice
The Death Penalty: Pro and Con
* Bob Herbert: Death-Penalty Dissenters
* James Q. Wilson: What Death Penalty Errors?
Issues of Identity?
Judy Brady: I Want a Wife
Jonathan Kozol: Are the Homeless Crazy?
* Robert Spitzer: Psychiatry and Homosexuality
* Ronald Takaki: The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority
Anna Quindlen: Women Are Just Better
Issues of Political Rights
Molly Ivins: Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns
* Julie Bosman: The (No) Free Speech Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream |
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