Patterns of Reflection: A Reader, 6/E
ISBN-10: 0321355636
ISBN-13: 9780321355638
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 512 pp
Published: 01/18/2006
Description
This engaging reader provides brief, readable selections organized by both rhetorical pattern and theme.
Featuring seventy-two brief selections, this accessible compilation features a dual organization with readings that illustrate a specific rhetorical pattern while exploring the chapter’s theme. Selections range from professional essays to annotated student essays, short stories, and poems. The text also includes full-color fine art as well as advertisements and photographs. Each chapter is enriched by an introduction that provides specific guidelines for understanding the rhetorical pattern illustrated and a detailed checklist for writing in that rhetorical mode. Selections are followed by vocabulary work, detailed questions for reading and analysis, and topics for writing.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. On Reading and Writing
The Challenges and Rewards of Writing
Good Reasons for Reading
Guidelines for Active Reading
Guided Reading: Ellen Goodman, “Learning to Brake for Butterflies”
Writing Focus: Using Summary, Analysis, and Synthesis
Getting Started: Richard Wilbur, “The Writer”
Gail Godwin, “The Watcher at the Gates”
Terry McMillan, “On Reading and Becoming a Writer”
Kurt Vonnegut, “How to Write with Style”
*Gretel Ehrlich, “Santa Rosa Island, 1998” (Journal)
Making Connections: Among the Writers and Online
Communicating with Instructors and Peers–In Person and Online
Topics for Writing
2. Using Narration: Growing Up, Growing Wiser
When to Use Narration
How to Use Narration
Writing Focus: Preparing Your Essay for Readers
Getting Started: Reflections on Growing Up or Growing Wiser
Santha Rama Rau, “By Any Other Name”
Luis J. Rodriguez, “Always Running”
N. Scott Momaday, “The End of My Childhood”
Barbara Kingsolver, “How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life”
Gaye Wagner, “Death of an Officer”
*Meredith F. Small, “Captivated”
Making Connections: Among the Writers and Online
Topics for Writing
A Checklist for Narration Essays
3. Using Description: Reflecting on People and Places
When to Use Description
How to Use Description
Writing Focus: It’s All about Words
Getting Started: Reflections on a Painting
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, The Third of May, 1808
Edgar Degas, The Dance Class
Vincent Van Gogh, The Night Café
Pablo Picasso, Three Dancers
* Georgia O’Keeffe, Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory
Tracy Kidder, “Mrs. Zajac”
Amy Tan, “Lost Lives of Women”
Pat Mora, “Remembering Lobo”
Diane Ackerman, “Let It Snow”
Lance Morrow, “Africa”
*Jonathan Schell, “Ground Zero”
Student Essay–Description: Alexa Skandar, “Time’s Trophy”
Making Connections: Among the Writers and Online
Topics for Writing
A Checklist for Description Essays
4. Using Comparison and Contrast: Ways of Learning
When to Use Comparison and Contrast
How to Use Comparison and Contrast
Writing Focus: Coherence Is Crucial
Getting Started: Reflecting on Expectations of College
Nancy Masterson Sakamoto, “Conversational Ballgames”
E. B. White, “Education”
*Brent Staples, “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace”
Judith Viorst, “Boys and Girls: Anatomy and Destiny”
*Amanda Ripley, “Who Says a Woman Can’t Be Einstein?”
*Colbert I. King, “Surveying the Damage on Campus USA”
Linda Pastan, “Marks”
Student Essay–Contrast: Denisse M. Bonilla, “The Faded Stain”
Making Connections: Among the Writers and Online
Topics for Writing
A Checklist for Comparison and Contrast Essays
5. Explaining and Illustrating: Examining Media Images
When to Use Examples
How to Use Examples
Writing Focus: Vary Your Sentences
Getting Started: Thinking About Advertising
Four Ads: Fila, Got Milk?, Council for Biotechnology Information, Expedia.com
Jack McGarvey, “To Be or Not to Be as Defined by TV”
Gloria Steinem, “Sex, Lies, and Advertising”
*Vincent P. Bzdek, “More Powerful Than . . . Ever: On-Screen and Off, Superheroes Are a Force to Reckon With”
Stephanie Mencimer, “Violent Femmes”
Suzanne Fields, “Bad Raps: Music Rebels Revel in Their Thug Life”
Dave Barry, “Call Hating”
*Student Essay–Explaining and Illustrating: Michael King, “Rap’s Refusal of Injustice”
Making Connections: Among the Writers and Online
Topics for Writing
A Checklist for Essays Using Examples
6. Using Process Analysis: How We Work and Play
When to Use Process Analysis
How to Use Process Analysis
Writing Focus: Punctuating Properly
Getting Started: Reflections on Your Favorite Game
John P. Aigner, “Putting Your Job Interview into Rehearsal”
Suzette H. Elgin, “Improving Your Body Language Skills”
*Caroline Hwang, “How to Turn No into Yes!”
*Gail Saltz, “How to Get Unstuck Now!”
Carol Krucoff, “Restoring Recess”
Ernest Hemingway, “Camping Out”
Making Connections: Among the Writers and Online
Topics for Writing
A Checklist for Process Essays
7. Using Division and Classification: Examining Ways We Connect--or Fail to Connect–to Others
When to Use Division and Classification
How to Use Division and Classification
Writing Focus: Words to Live Without!
Getting Started: Classifying Recent Reading or Viewing
Russell Baker, “The Plot Against People”
Judith Martin, “The Roles of Manners”
Franklin E. Zimring, “Hot Boxes for Ex-Smokers”
Curt Suplee, “The Science and Secrets of Personal Space”
*Stephanie Ericsson, “The Ways We Lie”
Ralph Whitehead, Jr., “Class Acts: America’s Changing Middle Class”
Student Essay–Division and Classification: Garrett Berger, “Buying Time”
Making Connections: Among the Writers and Online
Topics for Writing
A Checklist for Division and Classification Essays
8. Using Definition: Understanding Ideas and Values
When to Use Definition
How to Develop an Extended Definition
Writing Focus: Using Metaphors, Avoiding Cliches
Getting Started: Reflections on E. B. White’s Ideas of Democracy
Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux, “On Friendship”
John Ciardi, “Is Everybody Happy?”
Robert Keith Miller, “Discrimination Is a Virtue”
*William Lutz, “Doubts about Doublespeak”
Andrew Vachss, “The Difference Between ‘Sick’ and ‘Evil’”
*David Hackett Fischer, “Freedom’s Not Just Another Word”
Alistair Reid, “Curiosity”
Student Essay–Definition: Laura Mullins, “Paragon or Parasite?”
Making Connections: Among Writers and Online
Topics for Writing
A Checklist for Definition Essays
9. Using Causal Analysis: Examining Family and Community Issues
When to Use Causal Analysis
How to use Causal Analysis
Writing Focus: References to Authors, Works, and the Words of Others
Getting Started: Reflections on Why You Are in College or Why You Have a Particular Trait/Interest
Amitai Etzioni, “Duty: The Forgotten Virtue”
Keith Ablow, “When Parents Are Toxic to Children”
Linda J. Waite, “Social Science Finds: ‘Marriage Matters’”
Stephanie Coontz, “Not Much Sense in Those Census Stories”
*Judith D. Auerbach, “The Overlooked Victims of AIDS”
*David Ropeik, “What Really Scares Us?”
Langston Hughes, “Dream Deferred”
Making Connections: Among Writers and Online
Topics for Writing
A Checklist for Causal Analysis Essays
10. Using Argument and Persuasion: Preserving a Safe and Sane World
The Characteristics of Argument
How to Use Argument and Persuasion
Writing Focus: Logical Fallacies
Getting Started: Reflections on the Challenges Facing our World
Molly Ivins, “Ban the Things. Ban Them All”
Ned Andrews, “Why Guns Matter”
Linda J. Collier, “Adult Crime, Adult Time”
Richard Cohen, “Kids Who Kill Are Still Kids”
*John Borneman and Laurie Kain Hart, “An Elastic Institution”
*Michael Kinsley, “Abolish Marriage”
*Laura W. Murphy, “No Safer and Less Free”
*Robert Kuttner, “Try National ID Card–You Might Like It”
*Andrew Sullivan, “The Case for Compromise on Abortion”
Student Essay–Refutation: David M. Ouellette, “Blame It on the Media and Other Ways to Dress a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”
Making Connections: Among the Writers and Online
Topics for Writing
A Checklist for Argument Essays
11. Works for Further Reading and Analysis
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Declaration of Sentiments”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
*Amy Lowell, “Taxi”
Richard Rodriguez, “Border Hazards: An Obsession to Become Unhealthy”
Suzanne Britt, “Neat People vs. Sloppy People”
Lisa Mundy, “A Date to Remember”
Glossary
Credits
Index
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