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75 Readings: An Anthology
by Santi V Buscemi
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Synopses & Reviews 75 Readings and 75 Readings Plus offer an outstanding collection of the most popular essays for first-year writing, at an affordable price. This edition boasts new readings about social issues and the environment, expanded argumentation coverage, and a section on mixed strategiesreadings employing multiple rhetorical modes. Synopsis: 75 Readings offers an outstanding collection of the most popular essays for first-year writing, at an affordable price. The readings represent a wide variety of authors, disciplines, issues, and interests, and at less than $20 net (half the price of most readers), 75 Readings offers an excellent value for students. About the Author Santi V. Buscemi is professor of English and chair of the Department of English at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, where he teaches reading and writing. He received his B.A. from St. Bonaventure University, and completed studies for the doctorate at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of A READER FOR DEVELOPING WRITERS (McGraw-Hill), now in its third edition; AN ESL WORKBOOK (McGraw-Hill); and coauthor with Charlotte Smith of 75 READINGS PLUS (McGraw-Hill). He is also chief author of McGraw-Hill's ALLWRITE!, an interactive computer software program in rhetoric, grammar, and research. Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1NARRATION 1George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant Langston Hughes: Salvation Maya Angelou: Grandmothers Victory Malcolm X: Coming to an Awareness of Language David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day Martin Gansberg: Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder Didnt Call the PoliceChapter 2DESCRIPTION James Baldwin: Fifth Avenue, Uptown E.B. White: Once More to the Lake Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd Judith Ortiz Cofer: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood F. Scott Momaday: Revisiting Sacred GroundMichael Byers: Monuments to Our Better NatureChapter 3PROCESS ANALYSIS Diane Ackerman: Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall Jessica Mitford: Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain Richard Marius: Writing Drafts John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes: Alone on the HilltopEdward Abbey: The Serpents of ParadiseAlan Lightman: SmileChapter 4DEFINITION Susan Sontag: Womens Beauty: Put Down or Power Source? Jo Goodwin Parker: What Is Poverty? Ellen Goodman: The Company Man Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a Word Tom Haines: Facing FamineJoe Epstein: The Green-Eyed MonsterChapter 5CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood Donald Hall: Four Kinds of ReadingKesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in America Judith Viorst: The Truth about Lying William Lutz: Doublespeak Jonathan Lethem: 9 Failures of the Imagination Chapter 6COMPARISON AND CONTRAST Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts Deborah Tannen: Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers Mark Twain: Two Views of the Mississippi Scott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy PeopleVirginia Woolf: Shakespeares SisterBharati Mukherjee: Two Ways to Belong in AmericaChapter 7EXAMPLE AND ILLUSTRATION Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for Superstition Edward T. Hall: The Anthropology of Manners Brent Staples: Black Men and Public Space Franz Kafka: Letter to His Father William Zinsser: ClutterBailey White: Forbidden ThingsJohn McPhee: Silk ParachuteChapter 8CAUSE AND EFFECT Norman Cousins: Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone? Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably K. C. Cole: The Arrow of Time Paul Salopek: Shattered SudanDavid Ewing Duncan: DNA as DestinyChapter 9ANALOGY Plato: The Myth of the Cave Alice Walker: Am I Blue? Horace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic Prison Annie Dillard: Living Like WeaselsChapter 10ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION ARGUMENT Economics and Social ResponsibilityBarbara Ehrenreich: A Step Back to the Workhouse? Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor Jonathan Kozol: The Details of Life Free SpeechNat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled? Alan M. Dershowitz: Shouting “Fire!” CloningBrendan I. Koerner: Embryo PoliceJames Greenwood and Sam Brownback: Symposium: Should Congress Use Tax Dollars to Fund Therapeutic Cloning? PERSUASIONJonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream Richard Rodriguez: Bilingual Education: Outdated and UnrealisticNaomi Shahib Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife Medicine Grizzlybear Lake: An Indian Fathers PleaBill McKibben: Designer GenesChapter 11MIXED STRATEGIES Stephen J. Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs Amy Tan: Mother Tongue Lars Eighner: On Dumpster Diving Andrew Sullivan: This Is a Religious War Sandra Cisneros: Only Daughter Ian Frazier: Coyote vs. Acme Frank Bures: Test Day
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780072465426
- Subtitle:
- An Anthology
- Other:
- Buscemi, Santi V.
- Other:
- Buscemi, Santi V.
- Author:
- Buscemi, Santi V.
- Author:
- Buscemi, Santi
- Author:
- Smith, Charlotte
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- English language
- Subject:
- Rhetoric
- Subject:
- Readers
- Subject:
- College readers
- Subject:
- buscemi, 75 readings, literature, english, language arts, reader, honors, grade 11, grade 12
- Subject:
- English language -- Rhetoric.
- Copyright:
- 2004
- Edition Number:
- 9
- Series Volume:
- OP-76
- Publication Date:
- June 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- College/higher education:
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 464
- Dimensions:
- 7.98x5.30x.69 in. .96 lbs.
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