Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, best-selling authors with more than twenty-five years' experience teaching college writing, know what works in the classroom. In Patterns for College Writing, they offer a balance of classic and contemporary essays by writers like Sandra Cisneros, Deborah Tannen, E. B.White, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., providing students with exemplary models for their writing--and instructors with excellent, class-tested selections. With extensive headnotes before each reading, abundant apparatus after, and more examples of student writing than any other reader, Patterns has always been an exceptional resource for students. In the tenth edition, a new chapter on editing and proofreading in Part One, "The Writing Process," gives students more help recognizing and correcting errors common in their writing, while Part Two, "Readings for Writers," offers a greater number of informative and argumentative essays, preparing students better than ever for the demands of college writing.
n.b. Each chapter in Part I includes numbered exercises, checklists, and "A Student Writer" feature. For the sake of brevity, those subheadings are not repeated in this abridged table of contents.
PREFACE
Thematic Guide to the Contents
PART I: THE WRITING PROCESS
1. READING TO WRITE: HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
Highlighting and Annotating
Reading the Essays in this Book
Henry Louis Gates Jr., "What's in a Name?"
Responding to an Essay
2. INVENTION
Understanding the Assignment
Setting Limits
Moving from Subject to Topic
Finding Something to Say
Grouping Ideas
Understanding Thesis and Support
Formulating A Thesis
3. ARRANGEMENT
Recognizing a Pattern
Understanding the Parts of the Essay
Constructing a Formal Outline
4. DRAFTING AND REVISING
Writing Your First Draft
Revising Your Essay
Points for Special Attention: First Draft
Points for Special Attention: Second Draft
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Laura Bobnak, The Price of Silence
*5. EDITING AND PROOFREADING
Editing for Grammar
Editing for Punctuation
Editing for Sentence Style and Word Choice
Proofread your Paper
Manuscript Format
PART II. READINGS FOR WRITERS
n.b. Each chapter in Part II follows the same basic structure highlighted below in Chapter 6. For the sake of brevity, these elements are not repeated after Chapter 6. However, because the Grammar in Context sections vary from chapter to chapter, we have included these headings in the contents for Chapters 6-15.
6. NARRATION
What is Narration?
Using Narration
Planning a Narrative Essay
Including Enough Detail
Varying Sentence Structure
Maintaining Clear Narrative Order
Structuring a Narrative Essay
Revising a Narrative Essay
REVISION CHECKLIST: Narration
Editing a Narrative Essay
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: Avoiding Run-on Sentences
EDITING CHECKLIST: Narration
A STUDENT WRITER: NARRATION
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Tiffany Forte, My Field of Dreams
Points for Special Attention
Focus on Revision
* PEER-EDITING WORKSHEET: Narration
Visual Text: Marvel Comics, from Spider-Man (Cartoon)
Sandra Cisneros, Only Daughter
Maya Angelou, Finishing School
Bonnie Smith-Yackel, My Mother Never Worked
*Daniel Gross, Playing by the Rules
Martin Gansberg, Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
Sherman Alexie, Indian Education (Fiction)
Writing Assignments for Narration
Collaborative Activity for Narration
Internet Assignment for Narration
7. DESCRIPTION
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: Avoiding Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: James Greggs, Buidling and Learning
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Mary Lim, The Valley of the Windmills
Visual Text: Vincent LaForet, Girls in Front of 911 Mural (Photo)
Suzanne Berne, Ground Zero
Leah Hager Cohen, Words Left Unspoken
*Isabel Allende, The Amazon Queen
N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
E. B. White, Once More to the Lake
Kate Chopin, The Storm (Fiction)
8. EXEMPLIFICATION
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: Using Commas in a Series
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Kristy Bredin, Job Application Letter
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Grace Ku, Midnight
Visual Texts: FOUR TATTOOS (Photos): Alex Williams, "Lisa Karen," Joel Gordon, "Rose," Bob Daemmrich, "Jiminy Cricket," Charles Gatewood, "Body Art"
Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, The Peter Principle
David J. Birnbaum, The Catbird Seat
Phil Patton, Innovation
Brent Staples, Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space
*Dick Teresi, Star-Spangled Stupidity
Jonathan Kozol, The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society
Grace Paley, Samuel (Fiction)
9. PROCESS
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: Avoiding Unnecessary Shifts
*SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Eric McGlade, The Search
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Melany Hunt, Medium Ash Brown
*Visual Text: Nigel Holmes, How to Cover Scratches on Furniture (Illustration)
Malcolm X, My First Conk
Marcia Muller, Creating a Female Sleuth
Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht, and Jennifer Worick, How to Escape from a Bad Date
*Arthur Miller, Get it Right: Privatize Executions
Jessica Mitford, The Embalming of Mr. Jones
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery (Fiction)
10. CAUSE AND EFFECT
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: Avoiding Faulty Constructions; Affect and Effect
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Evelyn Pellicane, The Irish Famine, 1845-1849
Visual Text: Louis Requena, Major League Baseball Brawl (Photo)
Norman Cousins, Who Killed Benny Paret?
Marie Winn, Television: The Plug-In Drug
Katha Pollitt, Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls
Lawrence Otis Graham, The "Black Table" Is Still There
Linda M. Hasselstrom, A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun
*Robin Lakoff, The Power of Words in Wartime
Janice Mirikitani, Suicide Note (Poetry)
11. COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: Using Parallelism
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Mark Cotharn, Brains versus Brawn
*SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Maria Tecson, A Comparison of Two Web Sites on Attention Deficit Disorder
Visual Texts: Auguste Rodin, The Kiss and Robert Indiana, LOVE (Sculptures)
Bruce Catton, Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America
*Yi-Fu Tuan, Chinese Space, American Space
*John De Graaf, David Wann and Thomas H. Naylor, Swollen Expectations
Ian Frazier, Dearly Disconnected
Deborah Tannen, Sex, Lies, and Conversation
Gwendolyn Brooks, Sadie and Maud (Poetry)
12. CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: Using a Colon to Introduce Your Categories
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Josie Martinez, What I Learned (and Didn't Learn) in College
*Visual Text: Ellis Island Immigration Museum/NPS, Key to Chalk Marks Designating Medical Conditions of Immigrants, Ellis Island (Chart)
*Visual Text: Office of the Public Health Service Historian Eye Exam Administered to Immigrants, Ellis Island, 191 (Photo)
William Zinsser, College Pressures
*Carolyn Foster Segal, The Dog Ate my Disk, and Other Tales of Woe
Scott Russell Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds
Amy Tan, Mother Tongue
Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We Lie
Edwin Brock, Five Ways to Kill a Man (Poetry)
13. DEFINITION
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: Avoiding is when and is where
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Ajoy Mahtab, The Untouchable
Visual Text: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Census form (Questionnaire)
Judy Brady, I Want a Wife
José Antonio Burciaga, Tortillas
Gayle Rosenwald Smith, The Wife-Beater
*Rebecca Blood, What Is a Weblog?
*Paul Fussell, Stigmatic Uniforms
*Phillip Levine, What Work Is (Poetry)
14. ARGUMENTATION
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: Using Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Matt Daniels, An Argument Against the Anna Todd Jennings Scholarship
Visual Text: American Civil Liberties Union, Thanks to Modern Science (Ad)
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
DEBATE: SHOULD U.S. CITIZENS BE REQUIRED TO CARRY NATIONAL IDENTITY CARDS?
William Safire, The Threat of National ID
Alan M. Dershowitz, Why Fear National ID Cards?
DEBATE: SHOULD GAY AND LESBIAN COUPLES BE ALLOWED TO ADOPT?
Tom Adkins, Traditional Mother and Father: Still the Best Choice for Children
Becky Birtha, Laws Should Support Loving Households, Straight or Not
* DEBATE: SHOULD THE DRAFT BE REINSTATED IN THE UNITED STATES?
* William Broyles Jr., A War for Us, Fought by Them
* Rick Jahnkow, For Those who Believe we Need a Draft
* DEBATE: IS WAL-MART GOOD FOR AMERICA?
* Karen De Coster and Brad Edmonds, The Case for Wal-Mart
* Liza Featherstone, Down and Out in Discount America
DEBATE CASEBOOK: DOES MEDIA VIOLENCE CAUSE SOCIETAL VIOLENCE?
* Sissela Bok, Sizing Up the Effects
* Gerard Jones, Violent Media is Good for Kids
Oliver Stone, Memo to John Grisham: What's Next--"A Movie Made Me Do It"?
Michael Zimecki, Violent Films Cry "Fire" in Crowded Theaters
15. COMBINING THE PATTERNS
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns
SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: Michael Huu Truong, The Park
Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
* Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth
Richard Rodriguez, Strange Tools
APPENDIX: USING RESEARCH IN YOUR WRITING
Step 1 : Choosing A Topic
Step 2: Test Your Topic
Step 3: Doing Research
Step 4: Taking Notes
*Step 5: Watching Out for Plagiarism
Step 6: Drafting a Thesis Statement
Step 7: Making an Outline
Step 8: Writing Your Paper
Step 9: Documenting Your Sources
SAMPLE STUDENT RESEARCH ESSAY IN MLA STYLE: Caitlin Byrne, Airport Insecurity
Glossary
Index
* new to this edition