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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Encounters : Readings and the World (2ND 00 Edition)by Pat C. Hoy
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Publisher Comments:With pedagogy that encourages students to respond to print and visual texts, Encounters provides a spectrum of provocative and beatifully written student and professional essays. Alphabetically organized, this versatile reader for first year writing courses offers a strong selection of student essays. The approach emphasizes the writing process and the craft of writing. Professional readings are organized to build from the informal essay to formal academic and argument writing. There is a section on reading and writing about artwork and photography that explains how to analyze paintings and photographs. Synopsis:With pedagogy that encourages students to respond to print and visual texts, Encounters provides a spectrum of provocative and beatifully written student and professional essays. Alphabetically organized, this versatile reader for first year writing courses offers a strong selection of student essays. The approach emphasizes the writing process and the craft of writing. Professional readings are organized to build from the informal essay to formal academic and argument writing. There is a section on reading and writing about artwork and photography that explains how to analyze paintings and photographs. Table of Contents * - indicates reading new to this edition Robynn Stacy Maines: On Gretel Ehrlich¿s Looking for a Lost DogExploratory Essays: Conducting an Inquiry through Analysis of Experience*China Forbes: NakedMid-Spectrum Essays: Veering toward Argument by Combining Analysis of Texts and ExperienceDavid Reich, "Mother Tongue" and Standard English: Amy Tan's Literary Fusion and OursA Spectrum of Professional WritingGloria Anzaldua: How to Tame a Wild TongueRoland Barthes: ToysSven Birkerts: The Idea of the Internet*Jane Brox: Influenza 1918Judith Ortiz Cofer: Silent Dancing*William Cronon: The Trouble with WildernessJoan Didion: On Self-RespectAndre Dubus, Giving Up the GunGretel Ehrlich: Looking for a Lost DogLoren Eiseley: The Dance of the FrogsPaul Fussell: IndyDiane Hume George: Wounded Chevy at Wounded KneeMary Gordon: Mary Cassatt*Gordon Grice: The Black WidowPat C. Hoy II: War ElegyLangston Hughes: SalvationJune Jordan: Many Rivers to CrossMartin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham JailBarry Lopez: The Stone HorseN. Scott Momaday: A First American Views His LandTim O¿Brien: How To Tell a True War StoryGeorge Orwell: Shooting and the ElephantSam Pickering: PatternsRichard Rodriguez: The Achievement of DesirePhyllis Rose: Tools of TortureScott Russell Sanders: WaylandRandy Shilts: Talking AIDS to DeathSusan Sontag: AIDS and Its MetaphorsMargaret Talbot: Les Tres Riches Heures de Martha StewartLewis Thomas: The Corner of the EyeAlice Walker: Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the SelfVirginia Woolf: Old Mrs. GreyStudents Respond to Three Professional Writers in DepthNo Name WomanOn DiscoveryMichelle Bowman: Gender SwitchingDennis Son, Men at the Mercy of WomenThe KnifeImeldaNeeraj Gupta, Sexual Imagery in Selzer's 'The Knife'E.B. WhiteThe Ring of TimeStudent Essays on the work of E.B. WhiteRadhika Jones, Essentially Egg-Shaped: E.B. White¿s Image of LifePaintings and Photographs for Thinking and Writing*Edgar Degas, The Bellelli Family Jean A. Ingres, La Grande Oalisque Georgia O'Keeffe, Sky Above Clouds Pablo Picasso, Guernica *Georges de la Tour The Penitent Magdalen Photographs*Keith Carter, Garlic, Robert Adams*Anna Norris, Spectators at the African-American Day Parade, Harlem, 1998 *Alfred Stieglitz, 1931 | |||||||||
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