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The ideal book for the AP* English Language course. The Language of Composition is the first textbook built from the ground up to help students succeed in the new AP English Language course. Written by a team of experts with experience in both high school and college, this text focuses on teaching students the skills they need to read, write, and think at the college level. With practical advice on reading and writing and an extensive selection of readings — including essays, poetry, fiction, and visual texts that are both interesting and appropriate for a high school audience — The Language of Composition helps students develop the key skills they must master to pass the course, to succeed on the AP Exam, and to prepare for a successful college career.
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Rhetoric: Using the “Available Means”
Key Elements of Rhetoric
The Rhetorical Triangle
Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
Visual Rhetoric
Rhetoric in Literature
Patterns of Development
When Rhetoric Misses the Mark
CHAPTER 2 Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Analysis
Analyzing Style
Talking with the Text
Annotation
Dialectical Journal
Graphic Organizer
Close Reading a Visual Text
From Analysis to Essay: Writing about a Close Reading
Glossary of Selected Tropes and Schemes
CHAPTER 3 Synthesizing Sources: Entering the Conversation
Types of Support
Writers at Work
The Relationship of Sources to Audience
The Synthesis Essay
Conversation Focus on Community Service
Identifying the Issues: Recognize Complexity
Formulating Your Position
Incorporating Sources: Inform Rather than Overwhelm
CHAPTER 4 EducationTo what extent do our schools serve the goals of a true education?
Central Essay Francine Prose, I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read
Classic Essay Ralph Waldo Emerson, Education
Sherman Alexie, Superman and Me
Margaret Talbot, Best in Class
James Baldwin, A Talk to Teachers
Kyoko Mori, School
Kyoko Mori on Writing
Billy Collins, The History Teacher (poetry)
Sandra Cisneros, Eleven (fiction)
Visual Text NEA, from Reading at Risk (tables)
Conversation Focus on the American High School
Horace Mann, from Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education
Leon Botstein, High School, an Institution Whose Time Has Passed
Todd Gitlin, from The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut
David S. Broder, A Model for High Schools
Floyd Norris, U.S. Students Fare Badly in International Survey of Math Skills (includes table)
Norman Rockwell, Spirit of Education (painting)
Student Writing Argument: Using Personal Experience as Evidence
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Appositives
Suggestions for Writing Education
CHAPTER 5 WorkHow does our work shape or influence our lives?
Central Essay Barbara Ehrenreich, from Serving in Florida
Barbara Ehrenreich on Writing
Classic Essay Booker T. Washington, from The Atlanta Exposition Address
Richard Selzer, The Surgeon as Priest
Thomas Carlyle, Labour
Claudia O’Keefe, The Traveling Bra Salesman’s Lesson
Annie Dillard, The Stunt Pilot
Ellen Goodman, In Praise of a Snail’s Pace
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing (fiction)
Jean Toomer, Harvest Song (poetry)
Visual Text J. Howard Miller, We Can Do It! (poster)
Visual Text Jeff Parker, The Great GAPsby Society (cartoon)
Conversation Focus on Working Parents
Marilyn Gardner, More Working Parents Play Beat the Clock
Claudia Wallis, The Case for Staying Home
Christopher Mele, Sick Parents Go to Work, Stay Home When Kids Are Ill
Amelia Warrne Tyagi, Why Women Have to Work
Kimberly Palmer, My Mother, Myself, Her Career, My Questions
Buzz McClain, Don’t Call Me Mr. Mom
Student Writing Close Reading: Analyzing Style in Paired Passages
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Short Simple Sentences and Fragments
Suggestions for Writing Work
CHAPTER 6 Community
What is the relationship of the individual to the community?
Central Essay Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
Eight Alabama Clergymen, Public Statement
Classic Essay Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived for
Jane Howard, In Search of the Good Family
Amitai Etzioni, The New Community
Anna Quindlen, from Being Perfect: Commencement Speech at Mt. Holyoke College
Lori Arviso Alvord, Walking the Path between Worlds
Edwidge Danticat, New York Day Women (fiction)
Edwidge Danticat on Writing
Aurora Levins Morales, Child of the Americas (poetry)
Visual Text Lee Teter, Reflections (painting)
Visual Text Frederick Hart, Three Servicemen (sculpture)
Conversation Focus on the Individual’s Responsibility to the Community
Bertrand Russell, The Happy Life
Peter Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor
John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey (poetry)
Student Writing Synthesis: Incorporating Sources into a Revision
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Parallel Structures
Suggestions for Writing Community
CHAPTER 7 Gender
What is the impact of gender roles that society creates and enforces?
Cental Essay Stephen Jay Gould, Women’s Brains
Classic Essay Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women
John and Abigail Adams, Letters
Gretel Ehrlich, About Men
Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman
Judith Ortiz Cofer on Writing
Paul Theroux, Being a Man
Stephen Lewis, Aids Has a Woman’s Face
Deborah Tannen, There Is No Unmarked Woman
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat (fiction)
Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll (poetry)
Visual Text Cathy Guisewite, Cathy (cartoon)
Visual Text Bill Broadway, New and Newer Versions of Scripture (table)
Conversation Focus on Defining Masculinity
Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky, Why Johnny Won’t Read
Ann Hulbert, Boy Problems (includes table)
David Brooks, Mind over Muscle
Rebecca Walker, Putting down the Gun
Student Writing Argument: Supporting an Assertion
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Pronouns
Suggestions for Writing Gender
CHAPTER 8 Sports and Fitness
How do the values of sports affect the way we see ourselves?
Central Essay Gay Talese, The Silent Season of a Hero
Classic Essay Theodore Roosevelt, The Proper Place for Sports
John McMurtry, Kill ‘Em, Crush ‘Em, Eat ‘Em Raw
Kris Vervaecke, A Spectator’s Notebook
Frances Willard, from How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
Rick Reilly, The Real New York Giants
Samuel G. Freedman, For Fasting and Football, A Dedicated Game Plan
Samuel G. Freedman on writing
John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player (poetry)
Maxine Kumin, Prothalamion (poetry)
Visual Text Edward Koren, Untitled (cartoon)
Conversation Focus on Body Image
Donna Britt, A Unique Take on Beauty
Sports Illustrated, Little Sister, Big Hit (cover)
Natalie Angier, Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe
American College of Sports Medicine, Disordered Eating and Body Image Disturbances May Be Underreported in Male Athletes
Pennsylvania State University Health Services, Enhancing Male Body Image
Student Writing Rhetorical Analysis: Comparing Strategies
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Precise, Direct, and Active Verbs
Suggestions for Writing Sports and Fitness
CHAPTER 9 Language and Culture
How does the language we use reveal who we are?
Central Essay Richard Rodriguez, Aria Classic Essay George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
Amy Tan, Mother Tongue
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, from Decolonising the Mind
Marjorie Agosin, Always Living in Spanish
Peter Berkowitz and Michael McFaul, Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation
S.I. Hayakawa, Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Official Language
Lan Cao, from Monkey Bridge (fiction)
Chang-Rae Lee, from Native Speaker (fiction)
Naomi Shihab Nye, For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15 and Why I Could Not Accept Your Invitation (poetry)
Naomi Shihab Nye on Writing
Visual Text Mike Twohy, Rumors, Lies, Innuendo (cartoon)
Visual Text James Crawford, Census Data on Language Use in America (table)
Conversation Focus on Current Language Usage
Geoffrey Nunberg, How Much Wallop Can a Simple Word Pack?
Daniel Okrent, The War of Words: A Dispatch from the Front Lines
Letters to the Editor in response to Okrent
Courtland Milloy, Pride to One Is Prejudice to Another
Ray Magliozzi, Help Us Overthrow the Tall and Short Mafia
Student Writing Reflection: Reflecting on “Different Englishes”
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Concise Diction
Suggestions for Writing Language
CHAPTER 10 Science and Technology
How are advances in science and technology affecting the way we define our humanity?
Central Essay Loren Eiseley, The Bird and the Machine
Classic Essay Thomas Henry Huxley, The Method of Scientific Investigation
Jacob Bronowski, The Reach of Imagination
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Future of Happiness
Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker on Writing
Ursula Franklin, Silence and the Notion of the Commons
Sven Birkerts, Into the Electronic Millennium
Elizabeth Royte, Transsexual Frogs
Edgar Allan Poe, Sonnet – to Science (poetry)
Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (poetry)
Brian Aldiss, Supertoys Last All Summer (fiction)
Visual Text Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Calendar (tables)
Visual Text Gahan Wilson, Food Fight (cartoon)
Conversation Focus on The Ethics of Applied Genetics
Lewis Thomas, On Cloning a Human Being
Philip M. Boffey, Fearing the Worst Should Anyone Produce a Cloned Baby David Ewing Duncan, DNA as Destiny
Rick Weiss, Pet Clones Spur Call for Limits Marilynn Marchione and Lindsey Tanner, More Couples Screening Embryos for Gender
Student Writing Counterargument: Responding to a Newspaper Column
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Coordination in the Compound Sentence
Suggestions for Writing Science and Technology
CHAPTER 11 Popular Culture
To what extent does pop culture reflect our society’s values?
Central Essay David Denby, High School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies
Classic Essay Mark Twain, Corn-pone Opinions
Brent Staples, Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors: Cutting the Antiwar Heart Out of a Classic
Brent Staples on Writing
Vine Deloria Jr., We Talk, You Listen
Danyel Smith, Dreaming America
Scott McCloud, Show and Tell (graphic essay)
Teresa Wiltz, Popular Culture in the Aftermath of September 11 is a Chorus without a Hook, A Movie without an Ending
Hans Ostrom, Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven (poetry)
Nikki Giovanni, Sanctuary: For Harry Potter the Movie (poetry)
Visual Text Mark Tansey, The Innocent Eye Test (painting)
Conversation Focus on Television
Steven Johnson, Watching TV Makes You Smarter
Corbett Trubey, The Argument against TV
Julia Scott, He Doesn’t Like to Watch
Anthony DiVivo, TV Turnoff Week (detail from poster)
George Gerbner and Todd Gitlin, Is Media Violence Free Speech? (debate)
Student Writing Visual Rhetoric: Interpreting a Painting
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Modifiers
Suggestions for Writing Pop Culture
CHAPTER 12 Nature
What is our responsibility to nature?
Central Essay Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring
Classic Essay Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature
Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women
Chief Seattle, Message to President Franklin Pierce
Wendell Berry, An Entrance to the Woods
Wangari Muta Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Speech
Joyce Carol Oates, Against Nature
William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned (poetry)
Visual Text Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits (painting)
Visual Text Royal Dutch Shell, Cloud the Issue or Clear the Air (advertisement)
Conversation Focus on Climate Change
Bill McKibben, It’s Easy Being Green
Richard Conniff, from Counting Carbons (includes visual)
E.O. Wilson, from The Future of Life
Daniel Glick, GeoSigns: The Big Thaw
Daniel Glick on Writing
Student Writing Visual Rhetoric: Analyzing a Political Cartoon
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences
Suggestions for Writing Nature
CHAPTER 13 Politics
What is the nature of the relationship between the citizen and the state?
Central Essay Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time
Classic Essay Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
Chris Hedges, from The Destruction of Culture
Chris Hedges on Writing
Oliver Goldsmith, National Prejudices
Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace during an Air Raid
Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Wole Soyinka, Every Dictator’s Nightmare
Tim O’Brien, On the Rainy River (fiction)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Conversation with an American Writer (poetry)
Visual Text Pablo Picasso, Guernica (painting)
Visual Text The New Yorker, March 17, 2003 (cover)
Visual Text Harper’s, April, 2003 (cover)
Conversation Focus on the politics of imperialism
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
Chinua Achebe, The Empire Fights Back
National Park Service, Christiansted: Official Map and Guide (travel brochure)
Eavan Boland, In Which the Ancient History I Learn Is Not My Own (poetry)
Bombay Furniture Co., What Part of You Lives in Bombay? (advertisement)
Student Writing Argument: Responding to a Quotation
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Subordination in the Complex Sentence
Suggestions for Writing Politics
Key Elements of Rhetoric
The Rhetorical Triangle
Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
Visual Rhetoric
Rhetoric in Literature
Patterns of Development
When Rhetoric Misses the Mark
CHAPTER 2 Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Analysis
Analyzing Style
Talking with the Text
Annotation
Dialectical Journal
Graphic Organizer
Close Reading a Visual Text
From Analysis to Essay: Writing about a Close Reading
Glossary of Selected Tropes and Schemes
CHAPTER 3 Synthesizing Sources: Entering the Conversation
Types of Support
Writers at Work
The Relationship of Sources to Audience
The Synthesis Essay
Conversation Focus on Community Service
Identifying the Issues: Recognize Complexity
Formulating Your Position
Incorporating Sources: Inform Rather than Overwhelm
CHAPTER 4 EducationTo what extent do our schools serve the goals of a true education?
Central Essay Francine Prose, I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read
Classic Essay Ralph Waldo Emerson, Education
Sherman Alexie, Superman and Me
Margaret Talbot, Best in Class
James Baldwin, A Talk to Teachers
Kyoko Mori, School
Kyoko Mori on Writing
Billy Collins, The History Teacher (poetry)
Sandra Cisneros, Eleven (fiction)
Visual Text NEA, from Reading at Risk (tables)
Conversation Focus on the American High School
Horace Mann, from Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education
Leon Botstein, High School, an Institution Whose Time Has Passed
Todd Gitlin, from The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut
David S. Broder, A Model for High Schools
Floyd Norris, U.S. Students Fare Badly in International Survey of Math Skills (includes table)
Norman Rockwell, Spirit of Education (painting)
Student Writing Argument: Using Personal Experience as Evidence
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Appositives
Suggestions for Writing Education
CHAPTER 5 WorkHow does our work shape or influence our lives?
Central Essay Barbara Ehrenreich, from Serving in Florida
Barbara Ehrenreich on Writing
Classic Essay Booker T. Washington, from The Atlanta Exposition Address
Richard Selzer, The Surgeon as Priest
Thomas Carlyle, Labour
Claudia O’Keefe, The Traveling Bra Salesman’s Lesson
Annie Dillard, The Stunt Pilot
Ellen Goodman, In Praise of a Snail’s Pace
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing (fiction)
Jean Toomer, Harvest Song (poetry)
Visual Text J. Howard Miller, We Can Do It! (poster)
Visual Text Jeff Parker, The Great GAPsby Society (cartoon)
Conversation Focus on Working Parents
Marilyn Gardner, More Working Parents Play Beat the Clock
Claudia Wallis, The Case for Staying Home
Christopher Mele, Sick Parents Go to Work, Stay Home When Kids Are Ill
Amelia Warrne Tyagi, Why Women Have to Work
Kimberly Palmer, My Mother, Myself, Her Career, My Questions
Buzz McClain, Don’t Call Me Mr. Mom
Student Writing Close Reading: Analyzing Style in Paired Passages
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Short Simple Sentences and Fragments
Suggestions for Writing Work
CHAPTER 6 Community
What is the relationship of the individual to the community?
Central Essay Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
Eight Alabama Clergymen, Public Statement
Classic Essay Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived for
Jane Howard, In Search of the Good Family
Amitai Etzioni, The New Community
Anna Quindlen, from Being Perfect: Commencement Speech at Mt. Holyoke College
Lori Arviso Alvord, Walking the Path between Worlds
Edwidge Danticat, New York Day Women (fiction)
Edwidge Danticat on Writing
Aurora Levins Morales, Child of the Americas (poetry)
Visual Text Lee Teter, Reflections (painting)
Visual Text Frederick Hart, Three Servicemen (sculpture)
Conversation Focus on the Individual’s Responsibility to the Community
Bertrand Russell, The Happy Life
Peter Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor
John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey (poetry)
Student Writing Synthesis: Incorporating Sources into a Revision
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Parallel Structures
Suggestions for Writing Community
CHAPTER 7 Gender
What is the impact of gender roles that society creates and enforces?
Cental Essay Stephen Jay Gould, Women’s Brains
Classic Essay Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women
John and Abigail Adams, Letters
Gretel Ehrlich, About Men
Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman
Judith Ortiz Cofer on Writing
Paul Theroux, Being a Man
Stephen Lewis, Aids Has a Woman’s Face
Deborah Tannen, There Is No Unmarked Woman
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat (fiction)
Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll (poetry)
Visual Text Cathy Guisewite, Cathy (cartoon)
Visual Text Bill Broadway, New and Newer Versions of Scripture (table)
Conversation Focus on Defining Masculinity
Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky, Why Johnny Won’t Read
Ann Hulbert, Boy Problems (includes table)
David Brooks, Mind over Muscle
Rebecca Walker, Putting down the Gun
Student Writing Argument: Supporting an Assertion
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Pronouns
Suggestions for Writing Gender
CHAPTER 8 Sports and Fitness
How do the values of sports affect the way we see ourselves?
Central Essay Gay Talese, The Silent Season of a Hero
Classic Essay Theodore Roosevelt, The Proper Place for Sports
John McMurtry, Kill ‘Em, Crush ‘Em, Eat ‘Em Raw
Kris Vervaecke, A Spectator’s Notebook
Frances Willard, from How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
Rick Reilly, The Real New York Giants
Samuel G. Freedman, For Fasting and Football, A Dedicated Game Plan
Samuel G. Freedman on writing
John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player (poetry)
Maxine Kumin, Prothalamion (poetry)
Visual Text Edward Koren, Untitled (cartoon)
Conversation Focus on Body Image
Donna Britt, A Unique Take on Beauty
Sports Illustrated, Little Sister, Big Hit (cover)
Natalie Angier, Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe
American College of Sports Medicine, Disordered Eating and Body Image Disturbances May Be Underreported in Male Athletes
Pennsylvania State University Health Services, Enhancing Male Body Image
Student Writing Rhetorical Analysis: Comparing Strategies
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Precise, Direct, and Active Verbs
Suggestions for Writing Sports and Fitness
CHAPTER 9 Language and Culture
How does the language we use reveal who we are?
Central Essay Richard Rodriguez, Aria Classic Essay George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
Amy Tan, Mother Tongue
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, from Decolonising the Mind
Marjorie Agosin, Always Living in Spanish
Peter Berkowitz and Michael McFaul, Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation
S.I. Hayakawa, Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Official Language
Lan Cao, from Monkey Bridge (fiction)
Chang-Rae Lee, from Native Speaker (fiction)
Naomi Shihab Nye, For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15 and Why I Could Not Accept Your Invitation (poetry)
Naomi Shihab Nye on Writing
Visual Text Mike Twohy, Rumors, Lies, Innuendo (cartoon)
Visual Text James Crawford, Census Data on Language Use in America (table)
Conversation Focus on Current Language Usage
Geoffrey Nunberg, How Much Wallop Can a Simple Word Pack?
Daniel Okrent, The War of Words: A Dispatch from the Front Lines
Letters to the Editor in response to Okrent
Courtland Milloy, Pride to One Is Prejudice to Another
Ray Magliozzi, Help Us Overthrow the Tall and Short Mafia
Student Writing Reflection: Reflecting on “Different Englishes”
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Concise Diction
Suggestions for Writing Language
CHAPTER 10 Science and Technology
How are advances in science and technology affecting the way we define our humanity?
Central Essay Loren Eiseley, The Bird and the Machine
Classic Essay Thomas Henry Huxley, The Method of Scientific Investigation
Jacob Bronowski, The Reach of Imagination
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Future of Happiness
Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker on Writing
Ursula Franklin, Silence and the Notion of the Commons
Sven Birkerts, Into the Electronic Millennium
Elizabeth Royte, Transsexual Frogs
Edgar Allan Poe, Sonnet – to Science (poetry)
Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (poetry)
Brian Aldiss, Supertoys Last All Summer (fiction)
Visual Text Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Calendar (tables)
Visual Text Gahan Wilson, Food Fight (cartoon)
Conversation Focus on The Ethics of Applied Genetics
Lewis Thomas, On Cloning a Human Being
Philip M. Boffey, Fearing the Worst Should Anyone Produce a Cloned Baby David Ewing Duncan, DNA as Destiny
Rick Weiss, Pet Clones Spur Call for Limits Marilynn Marchione and Lindsey Tanner, More Couples Screening Embryos for Gender
Student Writing Counterargument: Responding to a Newspaper Column
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Coordination in the Compound Sentence
Suggestions for Writing Science and Technology
CHAPTER 11 Popular Culture
To what extent does pop culture reflect our society’s values?
Central Essay David Denby, High School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies
Classic Essay Mark Twain, Corn-pone Opinions
Brent Staples, Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors: Cutting the Antiwar Heart Out of a Classic
Brent Staples on Writing
Vine Deloria Jr., We Talk, You Listen
Danyel Smith, Dreaming America
Scott McCloud, Show and Tell (graphic essay)
Teresa Wiltz, Popular Culture in the Aftermath of September 11 is a Chorus without a Hook, A Movie without an Ending
Hans Ostrom, Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven (poetry)
Nikki Giovanni, Sanctuary: For Harry Potter the Movie (poetry)
Visual Text Mark Tansey, The Innocent Eye Test (painting)
Conversation Focus on Television
Steven Johnson, Watching TV Makes You Smarter
Corbett Trubey, The Argument against TV
Julia Scott, He Doesn’t Like to Watch
Anthony DiVivo, TV Turnoff Week (detail from poster)
George Gerbner and Todd Gitlin, Is Media Violence Free Speech? (debate)
Student Writing Visual Rhetoric: Interpreting a Painting
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Modifiers
Suggestions for Writing Pop Culture
CHAPTER 12 Nature
What is our responsibility to nature?
Central Essay Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring
Classic Essay Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature
Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women
Chief Seattle, Message to President Franklin Pierce
Wendell Berry, An Entrance to the Woods
Wangari Muta Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Speech
Joyce Carol Oates, Against Nature
William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned (poetry)
Visual Text Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits (painting)
Visual Text Royal Dutch Shell, Cloud the Issue or Clear the Air (advertisement)
Conversation Focus on Climate Change
Bill McKibben, It’s Easy Being Green
Richard Conniff, from Counting Carbons (includes visual)
E.O. Wilson, from The Future of Life
Daniel Glick, GeoSigns: The Big Thaw
Daniel Glick on Writing
Student Writing Visual Rhetoric: Analyzing a Political Cartoon
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences
Suggestions for Writing Nature
CHAPTER 13 Politics
What is the nature of the relationship between the citizen and the state?
Central Essay Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time
Classic Essay Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
Chris Hedges, from The Destruction of Culture
Chris Hedges on Writing
Oliver Goldsmith, National Prejudices
Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace during an Air Raid
Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Wole Soyinka, Every Dictator’s Nightmare
Tim O’Brien, On the Rainy River (fiction)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Conversation with an American Writer (poetry)
Visual Text Pablo Picasso, Guernica (painting)
Visual Text The New Yorker, March 17, 2003 (cover)
Visual Text Harper’s, April, 2003 (cover)
Conversation Focus on the politics of imperialism
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
Chinua Achebe, The Empire Fights Back
National Park Service, Christiansted: Official Map and Guide (travel brochure)
Eavan Boland, In Which the Ancient History I Learn Is Not My Own (poetry)
Bombay Furniture Co., What Part of You Lives in Bombay? (advertisement)
Student Writing Argument: Responding to a Quotation
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Subordination in the Complex Sentence
Suggestions for Writing Politics
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| Weight | 3 oz |
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| Dimensions | 2 × 7 × 10 in |