Description: Table of Contents How to Read and Then Analyze an Essay Exploring the Links Between Reading and Writing Practicing Active Reading: A Model [[*]]Nick Schulz, "Hard Unemployment Truths About ''Soft'' Skills" Analyzing an Essay Reading a Visual Image Practicing Reading a Visual: A Model [[*]]"Are You Man Enough...to Be a Nurse?" How to Write an Essay Getting Ready to Write Writing a Draft How to Revise an Essay Understanding What Revision Is Developing Your Own Revising Skills Getting Help from Other Readers Making Sure to Proofread Writers at Work A Student Writer: Tina Burton, "The Watermelon Wooer" A Professional Writer: Gordon Grice, "Caught in the Widow''s Web" Chapter 1 Gathering and Using Examples Writing with Examples Getting Ready to Write Writing Revising Student Essay: Frank Smite, "Looking for Love" Reading for Examples In prose: Steven Pinker, from The Language Instinct In literature: Bret Lott, "Night" (short story) In a visual: Photographs of college life Bob Greene, "Cut" "In driving around the country, I have found that an inordinately large proportion of successful men share that same memory--the memory of being cut from a sports team as a boy." [[*]] Helen Keller "Acquiring Language" (from The Story of My Life) "Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new though. As we returned to the house every object which I touched seemed to quiver with life." Rick Reilly, "Getting a Second Wind" "One day five years ago bubbly, gorgeous soccer goalie Korinne Shroyer came home from eighth grade, found her father''s revolver in his closet, and fired a bullet into her skull." Oscar Casares, "Ready for Some Ftbol?" "Speedy Gonzales, the famous cartoon star of the fifties and sixties, has been in the news again lately." [[*]]Deborah L. Rhode, "Why Looks Are the Last Bastion of Discrimination" "Unattractive people are less likely to be hired and promoted, and they earn lower salaries, even in fields in which looks have no obvious relationship to professional duties." Chapter 2 Narration Writing Narration Getting Ready to Write Writing Revising Reading Narration [[*]]In literature:Ron Wallca, "Worry" [[*]]In a visual: Shearing a sheep (cartoon) Langston Hughes, "Salvation" "I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen." [[*]]Lynn Bernardini, "Does This Date Mean Anything to You?" "''Yes,'' I whispered to the stranger on the phone... On that date, I have birth to a son." Tom Haines, "Facing Famine" "What comes from knowing people who, with an empty grain basket or a thinning goat, edge closer to death?" [[*]]Marguerite Choi, "The Suddenly Empty Chair" "''Student found dead on campus. Police investigating.'' And your heart sinks. I cannot explain why, but I knew it was my student." Evans D. Hopkins, "Lockdown" "I have endured lockdowns in buildings with little or no heat; lockdowns during which the authorities cut off the plumbing completely, so contraband couldn''t be flushed away; and lockdowns where we weren''t allowed to shower for more than a month." Chapter 3 Description Writing Description Getting Ready to Write Writing Revising Student Essay: Nadine Resnick, "Natalie" Reading Description In prose: Charles Dickens, from Bleak House In literature: Duane BigEagle, "Traveling to Town" (poem) In a visual: Mulberry Street, NYC (photograph) [[*]]Sonya Lea, "First Bath" "His shoulders hang low and his back is bowed. His body is forty pounds lighter than it was a few days ago, before the cancer surgery, before the blood loss that caused his mind to empty its memories." [[*]]Alisa Wolf, "The Day Nana Almost Flew" "I soon learned what shuold have been obvious- Nana was suffering from dementia." William Least Heat Moon, "Nameless, Tennessee" "''You think Nameless is a funny name,'' Miss Ginny said, ''I see it plain in your eyes. Well, you take yourself up north a piece to Difficult, Defeated or Shake Rag. Now them are silly names.''" [[*]]Adrienne Ross, "The Queen and I" "The more I learned about the bess, the closer I came to sharing their lives." Scott Russell Sanders, "The Inheritance of Tools" "At just about the hour when my father died, soon after dawn one February morning when ice coated the windows like cataracts, I banged my thumb with a hammer." Chapter 4 Division and Classification Writing Division and Classification Getting Ready to Write Writing Revising Student Essay: Evan James, "Riding the Rails: The American ''Hobo''" Reading Division and Classification In prose: Mark Lester, from Grammar in the Classroom In literature: Aurora Levins Morales, "Child of the Americas" (poem) [[*]]In a visual: Two brains (cartoon) David Bodanis, "What''s in Your Toothpaste?" "So it''s chalk, water, paint, seaweed, antifreeze, paraffin oil, detergent, peppermint, formaldehyde, and fluoride--that''s the usual mixture raised to the mouth on the toothbrush for a fresh morning''s clean." Thomas Goetz, "Does the Pleasure of Lighting Up Outweigh the Consequences?" "His dentist told him that smoking has severely aggravated his gums. If he didn''t quit smoking, he was likely to start losing his teeth." [[*]]Sue Shellenbarger, "The Peak Time for Everything" "A growing body of research suggests that paying attention to the body clock, and its effects on energy and alertness, can help pinpoint the different times of day when most of us perform our best at specific tasks, from resolving conflicts to thinking creatively." Pico Iyer, "This Is Who I Am When No One Is Looking" "My secret life, as Leonard Cohen calls it, also happens to be my deepest and my best life." Judith Ortiz Cofer, "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" "Every time I give a reading, I hope the stories I tell, the dreams and fears I examine in my work, can achieve some universal truth that will get my audience past the particulars of my skin color, my accent, or my clothes." Bernard R. Berelson, "The Value of Children: A Taxonomical Essay" "Why do people want children? It is a simple question to ask, perhaps an impossible one to answer." Chapter 5 Comparison and Contrast Writing Comparison and Contrast Getting Ready to Write Writing Revis

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