COLLEGE WRITING ESSENTIALS Rhetoric, Readings, Research Guide, and Handbook
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College Writing Essentials: Rhetoric, Readings, Research Guide, and Handbook by Harvey S. Wiener is the first brief rhetorically organized writing guide of its kind. Prewriting, drafting, revising, and research writing receive thorough and complete coverage, but only the most frequently taught methods of development–description, example, process, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and argument–are included. Coverage of these methods of development is comprehensive, but the least frequently assigned methods have been eliminated. You benefit from essential content at a reasonable price.
Among other features, you will find in College Writing Essentials:
- Over 25 student essays–one third of which are annotated to help you recognize the decisions other student writers have made.
- More than 40 professional selections–which include classic and contemporary essays, photographs, cartoons, and Web sites–providing you with content for response as well as models for using different rhetorical strategies in your own papers.
- Argument writing prompts, “Having Your Say,” that ask you to consider a high-interest or controversial topic and argue your position. These prompts appear throughout the text–not just in an argument chapter–so that you can strengthen argumentation skills throughout the course.
- Coverage of essay exams, research, source-based writing, literary analysis, and style.
Section I: Founders’ Dream/Dreamers Found
Introduction
The Origin of the Longhouse—Seneca Legend, Arthur Parker
The Mayflower Compact
A Model of Christian Charity (“City on a Hill”) excerpt, John Winthrop
“Give Me Liberty or Give me Death!” Patrick Henry
The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson
“Common Sense,” Thomas Paine,
Letter to John Adams: Remember the Ladies, Abigail Adams
Response to “Remember the Ladies,” John Adams
Constitution of the Iroquois Nations, Dekanawidah
“Star Spangled Banner,” Francis Scott Key
“My Country ‘Tis of Thee,” Samuel F. Smith
Walker ’s Appeal in Four Articles (excerpt), David Walker
Democracy in America (excerpt), Alexis de Toqueville
“Simple Gifts,” Elder Joseph Bracker
“America the Beautiful,” Katherine Lee Bates
“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” James W. Johnson
“This Land is Your Land,” Woody Guthrie
For Further Research and Writing
Section II: Dreams Deferred
Introduction
Seneca Falls Declaration, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Chief Seattle’s Speech of 1851
“What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” Frederick Douglass
The Planter’s Northern Bride, Caroline Lee Hentz
China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston
“Graduating Address at Yale College,” Yan Phou Lee
How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois
“Eyes on the Prize,”
“New York Fire Kills 148: Girl Victims Leap to Death From Factory”
Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
“The Ballot or the Bullet,” Malcolm X
“The American Dream,” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The Ten-Point Program,” The Black Panther Party
The National Organization for Women’s 1966 Statement of Purpose, Betty Friedan
"Trail of Broken Treaties – 20-Point Proposal,” American Indian Movement
“America,” Dr. Tolbert Small
For Further Research and Writing
Section III: Streets Paved With Gold
Introduction
A New Home—Who’ll Follow? Caroline Kirkland
“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus
“The Road to Business Success,” Andrew Carnegie
“The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” Frederick Jackson Turner
I Came a Stranger, Hilda Satt Polachuck
“Trans-National America,” Randolph Bourne
The Promised Land, Mary Antin
Black Boy, Richard Wright
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez
Messages From My Father, Calvin Trillin
“Stuck in Between,” Pao Her (pseud.)
“The Pineros,” Tom Knudson
“The Day an Immigrant Refugee Can Say “I’m an American,” Helene Cooper
For Further Research and Writing
Section IV: Sustaining the Dream
Introduction
“Little Boxes,” Malvina Reynolds
“Address at Rice University on the Space Effort,” John F. Kennedy
Great Society Speech, Lyndon B. Johnson
“On Being Asian-American,” Lawson Inada
“My American Dream,” Rafael Rosa
“Take Back the Power,” Rage Against the Machine
“Kids in the Mall,” William Severini Kowinski
“Argument in Favor of Proposition 227”
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
“What Sacagawea Means to M,” Sherman Alexie
“The Death of Horatio Alger,” Paul Krugman
“All Falls Down,” Kanye West
“Superman’s an Illegal,” Jorge Lerma
“The Power of our Pastime,” Marc Gellman
“Special Comment of October 18, 2006,” Keith Olbermann
“I Have a Dream,” Common (Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr)
For Further Research and Writing