Synopses & Reviews
This alternate edition of The Riverside Reader includes 48 pages on the writing process adapted from Joseph Trimmer's Writing with a Purpose. This collection of expository essays and short stories is arranged by rhetorical modes with a final thematic unit illustrating all of the modes.
About the Author
Joseph F. Trimmer is the professor of English and director of The Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry at Ball State University. The author of numerous articles on literature, culture and literacy, Professor Trimmer's books include THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS (1978), UNDERSTANDING OTHERS: CULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE (1992), and NARRATION AS KNOWLEDGE: TALES OF THE TEACHING LIFE (1997). Professor Trimmer has also worked on 20 documentary films for PBS including the six-part series, "Middletown" (1982). His textbooks include WRITING WITH A PURPOSE, 14th Edition (2004), THE RIVERSIDE READER 9th Edition (2008), and eFICTIONS (2002). Trimmer's A GUIDE TO MLA DOCUMENTATION, 8th Edition (2009) is a perennial bestseller.
Table of Contents
Introduction Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare's Sister (Sample Analysis of an Essay) Visual Strategies: A Visual Essay Student Essay: Kristie Ferguson, The Scenic Route Narration and Description Marjane Satrapi, The Veil (visual text) Maya Angelou, My Name Is Margaret Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria Terry Tempest Williams, The Village Watchman N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain E.B. White, Once More to the Lake Katherine Ann Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (story) Process Analysis James Stevenson, How Many It Takes (visual text) Lars Eighner, My Daily Dives into the Dumpster Nikki Giovanni, Campus Racism 101 Gretel Ehrlich, Rules of the Game: Rodeo Edward Hoagland, In the Toils of the Law Richard Selzer, The Knife Eudora Welty, The Worn Path (story) Comparison and Contrast Smoking Prevalence in American Cinema (visual text) Mark Twain, Two Views of the River Barry Lopez, The Raven Bruce Catton, Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts (professional paragraph) Deborah Tannen, Rapport-Talk and Report-Talk Laura Bohannan, Shakespeare in the Bush Alice Walker, Everyday Use (story) Division and Classification Roz Chast, Cloud Chart (visual text) Calvin Trillin, The Extendable Fork Russell Baker, The Plot Against People James H. Austin, Four Kinds of Chance Lewis Thomas, The Technology of Medicine George Orwell, Politics and the English Language Flannery O'Connor, Revelation (story) Definition Shannon Mendes, Adbusters (visual text) Gloria Naylor, A Word's Meaning Can Often Depend on Who Says It Joan Didion, In Bed Richard Rodriguez, Growing Up Old in Los Angeles Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff Susan Sontag, Beauty Jamaica Kincaid, Girl (story) Cause and Effect Projected Changes in Global Temperature (visual text) Ellen Goodman, The Chem 20 Factor E.M. Forster, My Wood Loren Eisley, How Flowers Changed the World Stephen Jay Gould, Carrie Buck's Daughter Terry McMillan, The Movie That Changed My Life Arthur C. Clarke, The Star (story) Persuasion and Argument Family Dinners: A Visual Essay Physicians Against Land Mines (visual text) A Debate About Family Barbara Kingsolver, Stone Soup Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Women and the Future of Fatherhood Juruby Moreno, Redefining Family (student writing) A Debate About Windmills Robert F. Kennedy Jr., An Ill Wind Off Cape Cod Francis Broadhurst, Cape Wind Is Sound for the Sound Possible Site for Cape Wind Farm (visual text) Sean Tansley, Wind Energy: An Effective Alternative? (student writing) A Debate About Harry Potter Joan Acocella, Under the Spell Harold Bloom, Can 35 Million Book Buyers Be Wrong? Yes Classical Arguments Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure H.L. Mencken, The Penalty of Death Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Harrison Bergeron (story) Using and Documenting Sources Ashley Keith, Video Games Redefining Education (student research paper)