75 Readings Plus
7th Edition
Published on 1. August 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-07-123231-9 (ISBN)
Description
"75 Readings Plus" is a version of the best-selling "75 Readings" that supplies additional guidance for student readers. Both books are rhetorically arranged and collect the most popular essays for first-year writing, at a student-friendly price. To this appealing formula, "75 Plus" adds an Introduction to each mode, and Headnotes, Questions for Discussion, and Suggestions for Sustained Writing for each selection.
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Edition
7th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-123231-9 (9780071232319)
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Persons
Santi V. Buscemi is professor of English and chair of the Department of English at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, where he teaches reading and writing. He received his B.A. from St. Bonaventure University, and completed studies for the doctorate at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of A READER FOR DEVELOPING WRITERS (McGraw-Hill), now in its third edition; AN ESL WORKBOOK (McGraw-Hill); and coauthor with Charlotte Smith of 75 READINGS PLUS (McGraw-Hill). He is also chief author of McGraw-Hill's ALLWRITE!, an interactive computer software program in rhetoric, grammar, and research.
Content
* - indicates selection new to this edition Chapter One: Narration *George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant Langston Hughes: Salvation Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1 Maya Angelou: Grandmother's Victory Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance..., Ch 2 Noda, Growing Up Asian in America, Ch 5 Maxine Hong Kingston: No Name Woman *Macolm X: Coming to an Awareness of Language Related Reading: Naylor, Meanings of a Word Ch 4 Steele, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7 *David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day Chapter Two: Description James Baldwin: Fifth Avenue, Uptown Related Reading: Steele, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7 Virginia Woolf: The Death of the Moth N. Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1 E.B. White: Once More to the Lake Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd Related Reading: Fox, Gawk Shows, Ch 9 *Judith Ortiz Cofer: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1 Hughes: Salvation, Ch 1 Chapter Three: Process Analysis Alexander Petrunkevitch: The Spider and the Wasp Jessica Mitford: Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain Sue Hubbell: Honey Harvest Richard Marius: Writing Drafts Adam Goodheart: How to Paint a Fresco *Diane Ackerman: Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall Related Reading: Petrunkevitch, The Spider and the Wasp, Ch 3 Cole, The Arrow of Time, Ch 8 Chapter Four: Definition Susan Sontag: Women's Beauty: Put Down of Power Source? Jo Goodwin Parker: What is Poverty? Related Reading: Ehrenreich, A Step Back to the Workhouse? Ch 10 Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics, Ch 10 Gloria Steinem: Erotica and Pornography Nancy Mairs: On Being a Cripple *Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a Word Related Reading: Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness..., Ch 1 *Ellen Goodman: The Company Man Related Reading: Lutz, Doublespeak Ch 5 Chapter Five: Classification and Division Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood Donald Hall: Four Kinds of Reading Kesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in America Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory Ch 1 Judity Viorst: The Truth about Lying William Lutz: Doublespeak *Jonathan Lethem: 9 Failures of the Imagination Chapter Six: Comparison and Contrast May Sarton: The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: As Study in Contrasts Deborah Tannen: Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers Mark Twain: Two Views of the Mississippi Scott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds Related Reading: Staples, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7 Goodman, The Company Man, Ch 4 *Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy People Chapter Seven: Example and Illustration Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for Supersition Peter Farb and George Armelagos: Patterns of Eating Edward T. Hall: The Anthropology of Manners Barbara Huttman: A Crime of Compassion Brent Staples: Black men and Public Space Related Reading: Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Ch 6 *Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father Chapter Eight: Cause and Effect Norman Cousins: Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy Shelby Steele: White Guilt Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone? Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance..., Ch 2 Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Strange, Would You? Probably *K.C. Cole: The Arrow of Time Related Reading: Ackerman, Why Leaves Turn Color..., Ch 3 *Calvin Trillin: It's Just Too Late Chapter Nine: Analogy Plato: The Myth of the Cave Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus Alice Walker: Am I Blue? Nicols Fox: Gawk Show Harace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic Prison Chapter Ten: Argument and Persuasion ARGUMENT Welfare Reform Barbara Ehrenreich: A Step Back to the Workhouse? Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor Related Reading: Whitehead, Where Have All the Parents Gone? Ch 8 Free Speech Nat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled? Alan M. Dershowiz: Shouting "Fire!" *Wendy Kaminer: Virtual Rape Rape Camille Paglia: Rape and Modern Sex War Susan Jacoby: Common Decency PERSUASION Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal Related Reading: Parker, What Is Poverty? Ch 4 Marine Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream Related Reading: Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness, Ch 1 Debra Dickerson: Who Shot Johnny? Richard Rodriguez: Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic *Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife *Naomi Shahib Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists *Jonathan Kozol: The Details of Life Chapter Eleven: Mixed Strategies Stephen J. Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs Amy Tan: Mother Tongue Lars Eighner: On Dumpster Diving *Andrew Sullivan: This Is a Religious War Related Reading: Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists, Ch 10 *Sandra Cisneros: Only Daughter Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance..., Ch 2 *Annie Dillard: Total Eclipse *Ian Frazier: Coyote vs. Acme Related Reading: Goodman, The Company Man, Ch 4