Santi V. Buscemi,
Middlesex County College Charlotte Smith,
Adirondack Community College
ISBN: 0073405892 Copyright year: 2013
Table of Contents
* indicates new to the Twelfth Edition.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 NARRATION
George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant
Langston Hughes: Salvation
Maya Angelou: Grandmother’s Victory
Malcolm X: Coming to an Awareness of Language
Martin Gansberg: 37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police
Barbara Tuchman: The Plague
Chapter 2 DESCRIPTION
James Baldwin: Fifth Avenue, Uptown
E. B. White: Once More to the Lake
Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd
Judith Ortiz Cofer: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Michael Byers: Monuments to Our Better Nature
*Louise Erdrich: Beneath My House
Chapter 3 PROCESS ANALYSIS
Diane Ackerman: Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall
Richard Marius: Writing Drafts
John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes: Alone on the Hilltop
Gretel Ehrlich: Chronicles of Ice
*Peter Elbow: Desperation Writing
Chapter 4 DEFINITION
Jo Goodwin Parker: What Is Poverty?
Ellen Goodman: The Company Man
Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a Word
Joseph Epstein: The Green-Eyed Monster: Envy Is Nothing to Be Jealous Of
Dagoberto Gilb: Pride
*Richard Rodriguez: “Blaxicans” and Other Reinvented Americans
Chapter 5 DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION
Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood
Kesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in America
Judith Viorst: The Truth about Lying
William Lutz: Doublespeak
Luc Sante: What Secrets Tell
*Brandon Griggs: The 12 Most Annoying Types of Facebookers
Chapter 6 COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
Mark Twain: Two Views of the Mississippi
Scott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds
Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy People
Bharati Mukherjee: Two Ways to Belong in America
Henry Blodget: China’s Biggest Gamble: Can It Have Capitalism without Democracy? A Prediction
*Gary Soto: Like Mexicans
Chapter 7 EXAMPLE AND ILLUSTRATION
Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for Superstition
Brent Staples: Black Men and Public Space
William Zinsser: Clutter
Bailey White: Forbidden Things
John McPhee: Silk Parachute
Richard Wiseman: The Search for the World’s Funniest Joke
*Maxine Hong Kingston: Family Ghosts
Chapter 8 CAUSE AND EFFECT
Shelby Steele: White Guilt
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone?
Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably
K. C. Cole: The Arrow of Time
Paul Salopek: Shattered Sudan
Susan Casey: Our Oceans Are Turning into Plastic . . . Are We?
*Carlo Petrini: The Value and Price of Food
Chapter 9 ANALOGY
Plato: The Myth of the Cave
Horace Miner: Body Ritual among the Nacirema
Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic Prison
Annie Dillard: Living Like Weasels
*Rebecca Brown: Extreme Reading
Chapter 10 ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION
ARGUMENT Texting
*Janet Kornblum: Tapping into Text Messaging
*Michael Rubinkam: Texting in Class Is Rampant Free Speech
Nat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled?
Alan M. Dershowitz: Shouting “Fire!” Global Warming
Andrew C. Revkin: Global Warming Is Eroding Glacial Ice
Philip Stott: Cold Comfort for ‘Global Warming’
PERSUASION
Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream
Naomi Shihab Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists
Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife
Medicine Grizzlybear Lake: An Indian Father’s Plea
*Jonathan Safran Foer: Let Them Eat Dog
*John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Chapter 11 MIXED STRATEGIES
Stephen Jay Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs
Amy Tan: Mother Tongue
Lars Eighner: On Dumpster Diving
Sandra Cisneros: Only Daughter
Ian Frazier: Coyote v. Acme
Frank Bures: Test Day
*Sherman Alexie: Superman and Me
Index
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