Based on reviewers’ suggestions, we have included the following:

• More essays on contemporary technology; food production, distribution, and use; and cultural identity in America.

• New readings that add depth and diversity and that pique student interest:

  Louise Erdrich: Beneath My House
  Peter Elbow: Desperation Writing
  Richard Rodriguez: “Blaxicans” and Other Reinvented Americans
  Brandon Griggs: 12 Most Annoying Types of Facebookers
  Gary Soto: Like Mexicans
  Maxine Hong Kingston: Family Ghosts
  Carlo Petrini: The Value and Price of Food
  Rebecca Brown: Extreme Reading
  Janet Kornblum: Tapping into Text Messaging
  Michael Rubinkam: Texting in Class Is Rampant
  Jonathan Safran Foer: Let Them Eat Dog
  Sherman Alexie: Superman and Me
  

As before, 75 Readings Plus contains an eleventh chapter, which includes essays worth teaching because of the effective mix of rhetorical strategies they use.