Patterns of Reflection: A Reader, 7th Edition

This engaging reader provides brief, readable selections organized by both rhetorical pattern and theme.

NEW CONTENTS ARE IDENTIFIED WITH AN ASTERISK

 

Preface

 

1.     On Reading and Writing

The Challenges and Rewards of Writing

Good Reasons for Reading

Guidelines for Active Reading

* Guided Reading: Andrew Sullivan, “Society Is Dead; We Have Retreated into the IWorld”

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”

* Communicating with Instructors and Peers: In Person and Online

* Participating in Peer Evaluations

* The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Students

Making Connections

Topics for WritingabitH

 

 

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

N. Scott Momaday, “The End of My Childhood”

Luis J. Rodriguez, “Always Running”

*  Sandra Cisneros, “Only Daughter”

*  Mansour Al-Nogardian, “Losing My Jihadism”

* Bob Kerr, “The Best Story Turned Out to Be No Story At All”

* Gaye Wagner, “Death of an Officer”

* Jeanne Marie Laskas, “Inconspicuous Consumption”

Making Connections

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

      *  Pablo Picasso, Three Dancers

      *  Mary Cassatt, Two Women Seated by a Woodland Stream

     *  Edward Hopper, Room in New York

                  Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory

Tracy Kidder, “Mrs. Zajac”

Amy Tan, “Lost Lives of Women”

Pat Mora, “Remembering Lobo”

* Josh Tyrangiel, “Trouble Woman”

Lance Morrow, “Africa”

* David Montgomery, “Snow: A Prism of More Than Frozen Water”

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 or Work

Nancy Masterson Sakamoto, “Conversational Ballgames”

Judith Viorst, “Boys and Girls: Anatomy and Destiny”

Amanda Ripley, “Who Says a Woman Can’t Be Einstein?”

* David Sadker, “Gender Games”

* Robin McKie, “Bring Back Stinks and Bangs!”

Colbert 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”

* Dimitri A. Christakis, “Smarter Kids, Brought to You by the Letter T and V”

* Jonetta Rose Barras, “We’re Our Own Worst Imuses”

* Shelby Steele, “Notes from the Hip-Hop Underground”

* Markus Prior, “The Real Media Divide”

Vincent P. Bzdek, “More Powerful Than . . . Ever: On Screen and Off, Superheroes Are a Force to Reckon With”

Lisa Mundy, “A Date to Remember”

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 Elgin, “Improving Your Body Language Skills”

Gail Saltz, “How to Get Unstuck Now”

* Jack Welch, “Five Stages of Crisis Management”

Carol Krucoff, “Restoring Recess”

Ernest Hemingway, “Camping Out”

* Tiffany Sharples, “Learning to Love”

Making Connections: Among the Writers and Online

Topics for Writing

A Checklist for Process Essays

 

7.   Using Division and Classification: Understanding Human Connections

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

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”

* David Brooks, “Human Capital”

* Carolyn Foster Segal, “The Dog Ate My Disk, and Other Tales of Woe”

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; Explaining Ideas and Values

When to Use Definition

How to Develop and Extended Definition

Writing Focus: Using Metaphors, Avoiding Cliches

Getting Started: Reflections on E. B. White’s Ideas of Democracy

John Ciardi, “Is Everybody Happy?”

Robert K. Miller, “Discrimination Is a Virtue”

Andrew Vachss, “The Difference Between ‘Sick’ and ‘Evil’”

David Hackett Fischer, “Freedom’s Not Just Another Word”

* Charles Krauthammer, “The Greatness Gap”

* Robin Givhan, “Glamour, That Certain Something”

Alastair Reid, “Curiosity” 

Student Essay–Definition: Laura Mullins, “Paragon or Parasite?”

Making Connections: Among the Writers and Online

Topics for Writing

A Checklist for Definition Essays

 

9.   Using Causal Analysis: Analyzing Family and Community Conflicts

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

Keith Ablow, “When Parents Are Toxic to Children”

Linda J. Waite, “Social Science Finds: ‘Marriage Matters’”

Amitai Etzioni, “Part-Time Fast-Food Jobs Do Teens More Harm Than Good”

* Patricia Dalton, “The Don’t Blame Me Generation”

* Ray Fisman, “Cos and Effect”

Judith D. Auerbach, “The Overlooked Victims of AIDS”

Langston Hughes, “Dream Deferred”

Making Connections: Among the Writers and Online

Topics for Writing

A Checklist for Causal Analysis Essays

 

10.   Using Argument and Persuasion: Supporting and Fair and Safe World

The Characteristics of Argument

How to Use Argument and Persuasion

Writing Focus: Logical Fallacies

Getting Started: Reflections on the Challenges Facing Our World

* Jack Ohman, King Cartoon

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Declaration of Sentiments

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”

* Anne Applebaum, “The Torture Myth”

*  Mark Bowden, “Waterboarding: A Clarification”     

* Joel Achenbach, “When Size Really Mattered”

* Tom Toles, Cartoon on Global Warming

Student Essay–Refutation: David M. Ouellette, “Blame It on the Media and Other Ways to Dress a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”

Making Connections

Topics for Writing

A Checklist for Argument Essays

 

Glossary

 

Credits

 

Index