Chapter One- Reading To Explore, Analyze, and Evaluate
Explore
Analyze: Argument Structure
Claims
Randy Horick, Truer to the Game
Kenneth Rexroth, Cold Before Dawn
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro
William Blake, London.
Evidence WarrentsEvaluate: Audience Appeal and Tone Pathos Martin Espada, Federicos Ghost.
Logos William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18.
Ethos William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130. Jamaica Kincaid, Girl.
Rogerian Argument Structure Lucille Clifton, for deLawd. N. Scott Momaday, New World
Chapter Activities
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est
Visual Argument
Robert Crumb, A Short History of America
Paul Madonna, All Over Coffee
Chapter Two- Examining Thinking and Shaping an Argument
Examine Thinking
Inductive Reasoning
The Fallacy of Hasty Generalization
William Shakespeare, from Romeo and Juliet
Arthur Miller, from The Crucible.
Deductive Reasoning Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
Logical FallaciesShaping an Argument Martin Luther King, Jr., from Letter from Birmingham Jail
Sample Student Essays Shawn Mullin, Yes, the Future is Bright, but the Moment is Hell Daphne Beckham, Perspective on Men
Four-Part Written Exploration and Articulation Student Samples: Lisa Colletti, Super-Size It! Meredith Newman Blanco, Who Are the Victims of Alcoholism?
Literature: Jane Martin, Rodeo William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us Marge Piercy, To Be of Use Gary Snyder, After Work Molly Peacock, Say You Love Me
Chapter Activities Chapter Three- Participating in an Academic CommunityClarifying a Subject, Purpose, and AudienceOrganizing a Research- Based Argument The Heart of an Argument is its Claim: Claims on Fact, Value, and Policy The Body of an Argument is its Support: Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos Counter- argument: Concessions and Refutations Argument Outline Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay Annotated Student Essay, John Griep, Wild Captives: The Exotic Animal Trade
The Rogerian Argument Rogerian Argument Organizational Plan Sample Student Essay, Matt Morrision, 'Separating' the Arguments
Working with Sources Avoiding Plagiarism with Note- Taking Paraphrasing Direct Quotations Documentation System The Preliminary Bibliography
Crafting a Draft In-Text Parenthetical Citations Using Electronic Sources The Works Cited Page Sample Student Works Cited Page
Writing Projects Justice and Ethical Responsibilty Sample Student Wssay, Jeff Smith, The Power of Inaction
Knowledge and Individual PowerEssay Scoring Rubric- for Peer Reviews and Self- EvaluationEssay Scouring Rubric for Rogerian Argument- for Peer Review and Self-Evaluation Chapter Four- Individuality and Community Prewriting and DiscussionReadings
Fiction
Kate Chopin, Desirees Baby
Stephen Crane, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible
Laura Hendrie, Corsage
Edward P. Jones, The Store
Randall Kenan, The Foundations of the Earth
Maile Meloy, Ranch Girl
Ernesto Quinonez, from Bodega Dreams
Poetry
Sherman Alexie, The Reservation Cab Driver
Michael Cleary, Burning Dreams On The Sun
Countee Cullen, Incident
Emily Dickinson, Much madness is divinest sense
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Jack Gilbert, Trying to Sleep
Judy Grahn, Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80
Etheridge Knight, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
Don McKay, the lesson of the moth
Claude McKay, Outcast.
Dwight Okita, In Response to Executive Order 9066
Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
E. A. Robinson, Richard Cory
Muriel Rukeyser, The Lost Romans
Cathy Song, Lost Sister
Gary Soto, Mexicans Begin Jogging
Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten OClock
Alma Luz Villanueva, Crazy Courage
Nonfiction
Sherman Alexie, Superman and Me
John Hope Franklin, The Train from Hate
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
Plato, from Crito
Richard Rodriguez, The Chinese in All of Us
Fred Setterberg, The Unusal Story
Jonahan Swift, A Modest Proposal
Studs Terkel, Frank Chin
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Chapter Activities and Topics for Writing Arguments
Collaboration Activity: Creating a Rogerian Argument
Sample Issue: Immigration Policy
Making Connections
Cross-Chapter Connections
Chapter Five-Nature
and Place
Prewriting and Discussion
Readings
Fiction
Rick Bass, Antlers
James Fenimore Cooper, The Slaughter of the Pigeons, from Pioneers
Pam Houston, A Blizzard under Blue Sky
Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron
Ursula K. Le Guin, Mays Lion
Jack London, To Build a Fire
Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send the Rain Clouds
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens
Poetry
Lucille Clifton, for deLawd
James Dickey, Deer Among Cattle
Carolyn Forche, Dulcimer Maker
Robert Frost, A Young Birch
Linda Hogan, Heartland
Galway Kinnell, Saint Francis and the Sow
Denise Levertov, The Victors
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Panther
Theodore Roethke, Meditation at Oyster River
Pattiann Rogers, Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew
Carl Sandburg, Chicago
Anne Sexton, The Fury of Flowers and Worms
Gary Snyder, The Call of the Wild
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
Robert Penn Warren, Excerpts from Audubon
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 14
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 31
William Wordsworth, To My Sister
James Wright, A Blessing
Nonfiction
Edward Abbey, Eco-Defense
Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure, from Silent Spring
Annie Dillard, The Present, chapter excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Ralph Waldo Emerson, excerpts from Nature
Aldous Huxley, Time and the Machine, from The Olive Tree
Verlyn Klinkenborg, At the Edge of the Visible
Aldo Leopold, Thinking Like a Mountain
Joyce Carol Oates, Against Nature
N. Scott Momaday, Excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain
Janisse Ray, Forest Beloved, from Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Henry David Thoreau, Solitude, from Walden
Chapter Activities and Topics for Writing Arguments
Collaboration Activity: Creating a Rogerian Argument
Sample Issue: Energy Exploration
Making Connections
Cross-Chapter Connections
Chapter Six-Family and Identity
Prewriting and Discussion
Readings
Fiction
Kate Chopin, The Storm
Lydia Davis, Break It Down
Genaro Gonzalez, Too Much His Fathers Son
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
Cherylene Lee, Safe
Fae Myenne Ng, A Red Sweater
Grace Paley, A Conversation with My Father
John Updike, Separating
Alice Walker, Everyday Use.
Poetry
Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother
Gwendolyn Brooks, Ulysses
Michael Cleary, Boss's Son
Gregory Corso, Marriage
Nikki Giovanni, Mothers
Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid
Seamus Heaney, Digging
Peter Meinke, Advice to My Son
Naomi Shihab Nye, Arabic Coffee
Sharon Olds, I Go Back to May, 1937
Mary Oliver, The Black Walnut Tree
Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham
Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifers Tigers
Adrienne Rich, Delta
Anne Sexton, Cinderella
Gary Snyder, Not Leaving the House
Mark Strand, The Continuous Life
Margaret Walker, Lineage
Richard Wilbur, The Writer.
Drama
Harvey Fierstein, On Tidy Endings
Nonfiction
Sullivan Ballou, Major Sullivan Ballous Last Letter to His Wife
Peter D. Kramer, Divorce and Our National Values
Pauli Murray, The Inheritance of Values
Scott Russell Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds
Chapter Activities and Topics for Writing Arguments
Collaboration Activity: Creating a Rogerian Argument
Sample Issue: Same Sex Marriage
Making Connections
Cross-Chapter Connections
Chapter Seven-Power and Responsibility
Prewriting and Discussion
Readings
Fiction
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson
Raymond Carver, Cathedral
Nadine Gordimer, Terminal
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birth-Mark.
Tim OBrien, The Things They Carried
Brady Udall, He Becomes Deeply and Famously Drunk
Ed Vega, Spanish Roulette
Poetry
Gwendolyn Brooks, The Boy Died in My Alley
Martin Espada, Bully
Carolyn Forche, The Colonel
Robert Frost, Mending Wall
Langston Hughes, Democracy
Langston Hughes, Theme for English B
Claude McKay, America
James Merrill, Casual Wear
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Apostrophe to Man
John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous
Sharon Olds, The Promise
Linda Pastan, Ethics
Public Enemy, Fight the Power
Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!.
Drama
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
Nonfiction
Francis Bacon, Of revenge
Cochise, [I am alone]
John Crawford, Lies from The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell
Aaron Epstein and Yaron Brook, The Evil of Animal Rights
Allan Gurganus, Captive Audience
Constance L. Hays, What Wal-Mart Knows about Customers' Habits
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
George Orwell, A Hanging
Katherine Anne Porter, Letter to Dr. Ross
Tom Regan, Religion and Animal Rights.
Frank Schaeffer and John Schaeffer, My Son the Marine? from Keeping Faith: A Father Son
Story about Love and the U.S. Marine Corps.
Richard Wright, from Black Boy
Suzanne Winckler, A Savage Life
Richard Wright, from Black Boy
Chapter Activities and Topics for Writing Arguments
Collaboration Activity: Creating a Rogerian Argument
Sample Issue: The Justice or Injustice of Reparations
Making Connections
Cross-Chapter Connections
Appendices
A. Glossary
B. Authors' Biographical Notes
C. Author Title Index
D. Subject Index
Credits