75 Readings Plus
10th Edition
Published on 23. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-0-07-742644-6 (ISBN)
Description
"75 Readings Plus" is a version of the best-selling "75 Readings" that supplies additional guidance for student readers. "75 Readings Plus" introduces students to a range of classic and contemporary essays. The text also exposes them to a variety of rhetorical strategies, writing styles, themes, and topics. At the same time, it retains maximum flexibility for the instructor. These essays provide good structural models for rhetorical techniques and raise complex questions about current and enduring issues.
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Edition
10th 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: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
603 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-742644-6 (9780077426446)
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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
Chapter 1 NARRATION 1 George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant Langston Hughes: Salvation Maya Angelou: Grandmother's Victory Malcolm X: Coming to an Awareness of Language Martin Gansberg: Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police Barbara Tuchman: The Plague Chapter 2 DESCRIPTION James Baldwin: Fifth Avenue, Uptown E.B. White: Once More to the Lake Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd Judith Ortiz Cofer: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood Michael Byers: Monuments to Our Better Nature Louise Erdrich: Beneath My House Chapter 3 PROCESS ANALYSIS Diane Ackerman: Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall Richard Marius: Writing Drafts John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes: Alone on the Hilltop Gretel Ehrlich: Chronicles of Ice Peter Elbow: Desperation Writing Chapter 4 DEFINITION Jo Goodwin Parker: What Is Poverty? Ellen Goodman: The Company Man Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a Word Joseph Epstein: The Green-Eyed Monster: Envy is Nothing to Be Jealous Of Dagoberto Gilb: Pride Richard Rodriguez: "Blaxicans" and Other Reinvented Americans Chapter 5 CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood Kesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in America Judith Viorst: The Truth about Lying William Lutz: Doublespeak Luc Sante: What Secrets Tell Brandon Griggs: The 12 Most Annoying Types of Facebookers Chapter 6 COMPARISON AND CONTRAST Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts Mark Twain: Two Views of the Mississippi Scott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy People Bharati Mukherjee: Two Ways to Belong in America Henry Blodget: China's Biggest Gamble: Can It Have Capatilism Without Democracy? A Prediction Gary Soto: Like Mexicans Chapter 7 EXAMPLE AND ILLUSTRATION Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for Superstition Brent Staples: Black Men and Public Space William Zinsser: Clutter Bailey White: Forbidden Things John McPhee: Silk Parachute Richard Wiseman: The Search for the World's Funniest Joke Maxine Hong Kingston: Family Ghosts Chapter 8 CAUSE AND EFFECT Shelby Steele: White Guilt Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone? Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably K. C. Cole: The Arrow of Time Paul Salopek: Shattered Sudan Susan Casey: Our Oceans Are Turning into Plastic ...Are We? Carlo Petrini: The Value and Price of Food Chapter 9 ANALOGY Plato: The Myth of the Cave Horace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic Prison Annie Dillard: Living Like Weasels Rebecca Brown: Extreme Reading Chapter 10 ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION ARGUMENT Texting Janet Kornblum: Tapping into Text Messaging Michael Rubinkam: Texting in Class Is Rampant Free Speech Nat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled? Alan M. Dershowitz: Shouting "Fire!" Global Warming Andrew C Revkin: Global Warming Is Eroding Glacial Ice Philip Stott: Global Warming Is Not a Threat to Polar Ice PERSUASION Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream Richard Rodriguez: Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic Naomi Shahib Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife Medicine Grizzlybear Lake: An Indian Father's Plea Jonathan Safran Foer: Let Them Eat Dog John Stuart Mill: On Liberty Chapter 11 MIXED STRATEGIES Stephen J. Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs Amy Tan: Mother Tongue Lars Eighner: On Dumpster Diving Sandra Cisneros: Only Daughter Ian Frazier: Coyote vs. Acme Frank Bures: Test Day Sherman Alexie: Superman and Me