Preface. Introduction—General Purpose and Audience for Text. 1. Introduction to the Combined Reading/Writing Process.
Rationale.
Common Features of Reading and Writing.
Two Successful Essays.
Reading: David Nyhan, Turn off the TV Before it Ruins Us.
Our future is rotting, one channel at a time.
Responses. Danielle.
Nyhan's Marked-Up Essay.
Danielle's Outline.
Danielle's First Draft.
Danielle's Final Essay.
Responses: Cliff.
Cliff's First Draft.
Cliff's Final Draft.
Review.
Conclusion.
I. THE ACT OF READING.
2. Reading Defined.
Definition.
Components.
Literal Level.
Identifying the Topic.
Confessions of a Former Smoker.
The Fashionable Body.
Identifying the Main Idea.
Women and Men.
Role Models, Bogus & Real.
Rationality About the Mentally Ill.
Street Smart.
Jeff Jacoby, Kennedy's Destructive Hate Crimes Bill.
George Orwell, Poverty.
Identifying the Major Support.
Unmacho Father.
The Case of Philip Becker.
Equal Before the Law.
Locating the Minor Details.
The Three New Yorks.
Interpretive Level.
Purpose.
75 Years of Understanding Calvin Coolidge.
Self-Serving Society.
Save the Cape from Overdevelopment.
Hard Times.
Bob Greene, It Took This Night to Make Us Know.
Ellen Goodman, Flying into Air Rage.
Michael Golden, Don't Rewrite the Bible.
Judy Brady, I Want a Wife.
Analytical Level.
Critical Level.
Creative Level.
3. Reading Improved and Reading Acquired.
Reading Improved.
Reading Acquired.
Malcolm X, Learning to Read.
Thomas H. Kean, The Crisis Coming to Campus.
4. Responding to Reading.
The Socratic Method.
Analytical and Critical Reading Practice.
Facts, Logic, and Emotion.
Facts.
Logic.
Emotion.
Separating Fact and Opinion.
Robert J. Samuelson, Can America Assimilate?
Barbara Ehrenreich, “In Defense of Splitting Up.”
II. THE ACT OF WRITING.
5. Writing Defined.
Definition.
Student Essay, Alcohol Abuse.
The Speaking/Writing Connection.
Private vs. Public Writing.
6. Introduction to the Writing Process.
7. Prewriting.
Considerations.
Purposes.
Audience.
Techniques.
Active Reading.
Brent Staples, Role Models, Bogus and Real.
Brainstorming.
Freewriting.
Clustering or Mapping.
Outlining.
Journals.
8. Writing Paragraphs.
Definition and Examples.
Introductory Paragraphs.
Developing Body Paragraphs.
Concluding Paragraphs.
9. Narration, Description, Exemplification.
Narration.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Martin Gansburg, 38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police.
Leigh Montville, Requiem for a Super Featherweight.
John Updike, The Movie House.
Description.
The Potwell Inn.
Toshio Mori, The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts.
Nelson George, Rare Jordan.
William Least Heat Moon, Arizona 87.
Gilbert Highet, The Subway Station.
Exemplification.
The Woodstock Wars.
James Gorman, What the Nose Knows.
Ellen Goodman, In the New Wave of Chick Flicks, a New Kind of Man.
Tara Parker-Pope, Custom Made.
10. Process, Comparison/Contrast, Classification/Division.
Process.
Carin C. Quinn, The Jeaning of America.
Comparison and Contrast.
Men, Women and Conversations.
What if JFK Had Survived?
Student Essay, Bob and Warren.
Andrew Lam, They Shut My Grandmother's Door.
Leanita McClain, The Middle-Class Black's Burden.
Classification and Division.
How to Mark a Book.
From Cakewalks to Concert Halls.
Judith Viorst, Friends, Good Friends, and Such Good Friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Three Types of Resistance to Oppression.
11. Cause and Effect, Definition, Argument, Persuasion.
Cause and Effect.
Rosa Parks.
Why East Junk Food?
Anna Quindlen, The Old Block.
David Nyhan, The Prison Population Is Rising.
Definition.
Love.
Prejudice.
Gloria Naylor, The Meanings of a Word.
Randall Williams, Daddy Tucked the Blanket.
Argument.
Restoration of a Terrestrial Environment.
People of the Ruined Hills.
John Fleeger, Why Isn't Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame?
Anne Bookman, Family Leave Act, Five Years Later.
Mariah Burton Nelson, Who Wins? Who Cares?
Persuasion
Gore Vidal, Drugs.
Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream.
12. Responding to Text.
Summary.
Barbara Mikulski, A Polish American Speaks Up: The Myth of the Melting Pot.
Paraphrase.
Role Models, Bogus and Real.
The Fashionable Body.
Quotation.
The Sea Around Us.
Analysis.
The Voyage Continues.
Arthur Tennies, In Defense of Deer Hunting and Killing.
Formula for Writing a Successful Analysis.
Phil Mushnick, The Hall Is Now Ready for Rose.
13. Revising and Editing.
Revision.
Unity.
Coherence.
Diction.
Editing and Proofreading.
III. GRAMMAR.
Preface.
14. Form and Function
Parts of Speech.
Summary.
Exercises.
15. Sentence Patterns.
Simple Sentences.
Compound Sentences.
Coordinating Conjunctions.
Complex Sentences.
Subordinating Conjunctions.
Conjunctive Adverbs.
Compound-Complex Sentences.
Summary.
Exercises.
16. Pronoun Problems.
Agreement.
Reference.
Case.
Exercises.
17. Punctuation.
Commas.
Exercises.
Apostrophes.
Exercises.
Quotation Marks.
Exercises.
18. Sentence Problems.
Fragments.
Spliced and Fused Sentences.
Exercises.
19. Homonyms and Other Commonly Confused Words.
20. Editing Checklist.
21. Some Notes For ESL Writers (many of which are appropriate for non-ESL writers as well!).
Glossary of Terms.
