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- Creator
- [edited by] Lynn Z. Bloom
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- Language
- English
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- 7th ed
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [2004]
- Physical Details
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- xxxiii, 633 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0618335919, 9780618335916, 0618335927, 9780618335923
- OCLC
- ocm53315207
- Part 1 -- On Writing 1 -- 1. Writers in Process-Speaking and Reading 1 -- Amy Tan, Mother Tongue 6 -- Georgina Kleege, Up Close, In Touch 12 -- Eudora Welty, In Love with Books 22 -- 2. The Essay, a vision: Definition and Reasons for Writing 27 -- E.B. White, The Essayist and the Essay 30 -- Louise Erdrich -- Leap Day, the Baby-sitter, Dream, Walking 33 -- Elie Wiesel, Why I Write: Making No Become Yes 38 -- 3. Getting Started 44 -- Stephen King, A door...you are willing to shut, from on writing 49 -- William Least Heat-Moon, A List of Nothing in Particular 52 -- Anne Lamott, Polaroids 56 -- Anne Fadiman, Mail 60 -- David Foster Wallace -- Lunchtime at the Illinois State Fair 69 -- Selections from Student Writer's Notebooks -- 74 -- 4. Writing: Re-Vision and Revision 84 -- Donald M. Murray, The Maker's Eye: Revisng Your Own Manuscripts 88 -- Garry Trudeau, The Draft: My Story/My Story: The Holes 98 -- Maxine Hong Kingston, On Discovery 101 -- John Trimbur, Guidelines for Collaborating in Groups 103 -- Mary Ruffin, Writer's Notebook Entries: The Evolution of "Mama's Smoke" 107 -- Part II Determining Ideas in a Sequence 117 -- 5. Narration 117 -- E.B. White, Once More to the Lake -- Anne Fadiman, Under Water -- 128 -- Frederick Douglass, Resurrection 133 -- Scott Russell Sanders, The Inheritance of Tools 139 -- Ann Upperco Dolman, Learning to Drive 146 -- 6. Process Analysis 153 -- Isaac Asimov, Those Crazy Ideas 158 -- Paul De Palma, http://www.when_is_enough_enough? .com 168 -- Tom and Ray Magliozzi, Inside the Engine 178 -- Ntozake Shange, What Is It We Really Harvestin' Here? 184 -- Ning Yu, Red and Black, or One English Major's Beginning 191 -- 7. Cause and Effect -- 205 -- Jonathan Kozol, The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society 210 -- Zitkala-Sa, from The School Days of an Indian Girl 218 -- Stephanie Coontz, Blaming the Family for Economic Decline 226 -- Atul Gawande, The Cancer-Cluster Myth -- 231 -- Leslie S. Moore, Framing My Father -- 239 -- Part III Clarifying Ideas 247 -- 8. Description 247 -- Garrett Hongo, Pahoehoe: Walking Over Lava 253 -- Linda Hogan, Dwellings 259 -- Spencer Nadler, Fat 265 -- Scott Russell Sanders, Under the Influence: Paying the Price of My Father's Booze 274 -- Asiya S. Tschannerl, One Remembers Most What One Loves 287 -- 9. Division and Classification 295 -- Natalie Angier, Why Men Don't Last: Self-Destruction as a Way of Life 299 -- Deborah Tannen, Fast Forward: Technologically Enhanced Aggression 304 -- Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place 314 -- Richard Rodriguez, None of This is Fair 322 -- Gelareh Asayesh -- Shrouded in Contradiction 327 -- Sumbul Khan, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Fairest of Them All? 330 -- 10. Definition 337 -- Charles Darwin, Understanding Natural Slection 342 -- Howard Gardner -- Who Owns Intelligence? 349 -- Judy Brady, I Want a Wife 361 -- Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple 364 -- Code Blue: Two Definitions 376 -- Jasmine Innerarity, Code Blue: The Process 376 -- Abraham Verghese, Code Blue: The Story 380 -- 11. Comparison and Contrast 386 -- Deborah Tannen, Communication Styles 391 -- Stewart Brand, Written on the Wind -- 397 -- Stephen Jay Gould, Evolution as Fact and Theory 401 -- Becoming an American: Two Contrasts for Comparison 410 -- Eric Liu, Notes of a Native Speaker 410 -- Esmeralda Santiago, Race...Other 420 -- Jenny Spinner, In Search of Our Past 424 -- Part IV -- Arguing Directly and Indirectly 435 -- 12. Appealing to Reason: Deductive and Inductive Arguments 435 -- Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence 441 -- Martin Luther King, JR., Letter from Birmingham Jail 445 -- Robert Reich, The Global Elite 461 -- Anna Quindlen, Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha 471 -- Amy Jo Keifer, The Death of a Farm 475 -- 13. Appealing to Emotion and Ethics 479 -- Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address 484 -- Gilbert Highet, The Gettysburg Address 486 -- Jonathan Swift -- A Modest Proposal 491 -- Lynda Barry, The Sanctuary of School 500 -- Charles M. Young, Losing: An American Tradition 504 -- Matt Nocton, Harvest of Gold, Harvest of Shame 515 -- Part 5 -- Controversey in Context: Implications of World Terrorism and World Peace -- An Argument Casebook 523 -- 14. Terrorism 523 -- Seamus Heaney, Horace and the Thunder 528 -- Laurie Fendrich, History Overcomes Stories 529 -- Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? 532 -- Mark Juergensmeyer, from Terror in theb Mind of God 538 -- Wendell Berry, Thoughts in the Presence of Fear 550 -- Mary Graham, The Information Wars 555 -- David Carr, The Futility of "Homeland Defense" 558 -- Susan Sontag, War? Real Battles and Empty Metaphors -- 15. World Peace: Nobel Peace Prize Awards and Speeches 567 -- Jimmy Carter, The Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 569 -- Kofi Annan, The United Nations in 21st Century 572 -- James Orbinski, M.D. and Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Humanitarianism 576 -- Yitzak Rabin, The One Radical Solution is Peace 579 -- and Yasser Arafat, The Crescent Moon of Peace 583 -- Nelson Mandela, The End of Apartheid 586 -- and Frederick Willem De Klerk, Reformation and Reconciliation in South Africa 590 -- Aung San Suu Kyi, The Revolution of Spirit 591 -- Rigoberta Menchu, Five Hundred Years of Mayan Oppression 595 -- The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, Inner Peace and Human Rights 598 -- Betty Williams, The Movement of the Peace People 602 -- Glossary 613 -- Credits 625 -- Index of Authors 631