Making Sense: A Real-World Rhetorical Reader Book

Preface

1 Introduction: The Reading-Writing Connection

What’s Reading Got to Do with Writing?

Reading Actively and Critically

Practical Reading Strategies

Making Sense of Visuals

The Readings and Visuals in Making Sense

Writing Well

What’s Rhetoric Got to Do with Writing?

Understanding the Writing Task

Focusing on Your Purpose, Audience, and Subject

Practical Writing Strategies

Generating Ideas

Deciding on a Tentative Thesis

Organizing Your Ideas

Drafting

Using Visuals

Collaborating

Revising, Editing, and Proofreading

JENNIFER FAVORITE, I Played the Nanny (STUDENT ESSAY)

Making Sense with Your Writing

Finally

2 Narration

What Is Narration?

Why Use Narration?

How Do You Use Narration in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read a Narrative?

How Do You Write a Narrative?

"Reading" Visuals in Narration

Understanding and Using Narration

Checking Over Narrative Writing

MALCOLM X, Prison Studies

DAVID SEDARIS, Me Talk Pretty One Day

* Jessica Lugo, Memories of Grandma (STUDENT ESSAY)

JEFF DRAYER, Bedside Terror

MAYA ANGELOU, Finishing School

*BARBARA EHRENREICH, Serving in Florida

*ALFREDO CELEDÓN LUJÁN, Piñón Hunting

Additional Suggestions for Writing

3 Description

What Is Description?

Why Use Description?

How Do You Use Description in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read a Description?

How Do You Write a Description?

"Reading" Visuals in Description

Understanding and Using Description

Checking Over Descriptive Writing

GAVIN REMBER, Closing Doors [STUDENT ESSAY]

SUSAN ORLEAN, The American Man, Age Ten

N. SCOTT MOMADAY, The Way to Rainy Mountain

*SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS, Buckeye

*SARAH M. BROOME, A Yellow House in New Orleans

ANNIE DILLARD, The Deer at Providencia

BARRIE JEAN BORICH, What Kind of King

GOURMET, Plum Delicious [VISUAL]

Additional Suggestions for Writing

4 Exemplification

What Is Exemplification?

Why Use Exemplification?

How Do You Use Exemplification in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read Exemplification?

How Do You Write Using Exemplification?

"Reading" Visuals in Exemplification

Understanding and Using Exemplification

Checking Over the Use of Exemplification

BRENT STAPLES, Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space

EVA PAYNE, Handy [STUDENT ESSAY]

*PHIL LEITZ, The Greatest Automotive Flops of the Last 25 Years

*BARACK OBAMA, Memorial Day, Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery

*DAVID BROWNE, On the Internet, It’s All About "My"

*CHRISTINE ROSEN, Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism

Additional Suggestions for Writing

5 Classification and Division

What Are Classification and Division?

Why Classify and Divide?

How Do You Use Classification and Division in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read Classification and Division?

How Do You Write Using Classification and Division?

"Reading" Visuals in Classification and Division

Understanding and Using Classification and Division

Checking Over the Use of Classification and Division

CAROLYN FOSTER SEGAL, The Dog Ate My Flash Drive, and Other Tales of Woe

STEPHANIE ERICSSON, The Ways We Lie

*BILL PRATT, Interview Questions: Most Common, Illegal, and Questions You Should Never Ask

*SUZANNE GROVE, Hunter S. Thompson: Three Ways (STUDENT ESSAY)

*BILL BRYSON, Varieties of English

AMY TAN, Mother Tongue

Additional Suggestions for Writing

6 Comparison and Contrast

What Are Comparison and Contrast?

Why Use Comparison and Contrast?

How Do You Use Comparison and Contrast in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read Comparison and Contrast?

How Do You Write Using Comparison and Contrast?

"Reading" Visuals in Comparison and Contrast

Understanding and Using Comparison and Contrast

Checking Over the Use of Comparison and Contrast

SUZANNE BRITT, Neat People vs. Sloppy People

DAVE BARRY, Guys vs. Men

DEBORAH TANNEN, Cross Talk

*LYNN TAN, Summer Reading vs. Reading for School [STUDENT ESSAY]

*GREG BEATO, Amusing Ourselves to Depth: Is The Onion Our Most Intelligent Newspaper?

*MALCOLM JONES, Who Was More Important: Lincoln Or Darwin?

ZORA NEALE HURSTON, How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Additional Suggestions for Writing

7 Process Analysis

What Is Process Analysis?

Why Use Process Analysis?

How Do You Use Process Analysis in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read a Process Analysis?

How Do You Write a Process Analysis?

"Reading" Visuals in a Process Analysis

Understanding and Using Process Analysis

Checking Over the Use of Process Analysis

*DAVE ROOS, How to Start Investing

RACHEL DILLON, Mission Possible [STUDENT ESSAY]

JESSICA MITFORD, The Embalming of Mr. Jones

BERNICE WUETHRICH, Getting Stupid

*MONSTER.COM, How to Interview

Additional Suggestions for Writing

8 Cause-and-Effect Analysis

What Is Cause-and- Effect Analysis?

Why Use Cause-and- Effect Analysis?

How Do You Use Cause-and- Effect Analysis in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read Cause-and-Effect Analysis?

How Do You Write Using Cause-and-Effect Analysis?

"Reading" Visuals in Cause-and-Effect Analysis

Understanding and Using Cause-and-Effect Analysis

Checking Over the Use of Cause-and-Effect Analysis

*TAYLOR CLARK, Plight of the Little Emperors

*JACK MCCALLUM, Steroids in America: The Real Dope

ROBYN SYLVES, Credit Card Debt among College Students: Just What Does It Cost?[STUDENT ESSAY]

*MALCOLM GLADWELL, Excerpt from Outliers

*ATUL GAWANDE, Hellhole

HellholeHe*CLAUDIA WALLIS, The Multitasking Generation

*NICHOLAS CARR, Is Google Making Us Stupid?*NICHOLAS CARR, Is Goodlge Making Us

SUSAN GLASPELL, A Jury of Her Peers [FICTION]

Additional Suggestions for Writing

9 Definition

What Is Definition?

Why Use Definition?

How Does Definition Work?

How Do You Use Definition in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read a Definition?

How Do You Write Using Definition?

"Reading" Visuals for Definition

Understanding and Using Definition

Checking Over the Use of Definition

*BRIANE GREENE, Put a Little Science in Your Life

*W. L. RATHJE, How Garbage Got to Be an -Ology

JUDY BRADY, Why I Want a Wife

PAUL THEROUX, Being a Man

*MARY INKS, Dancing through the Learning Process [STUDENT ESSAY]

*NICHOLAS LEMANN, Journalism without Journalists

*CONNIE EBLE, from Slang and Sociability: In-Group Language among College Students

Additional Suggestions for Writing

10 Argument

What Is Argument?

Why Argue?

How Do You Use Argument in Academic Writing?

How Do You Read an Argument?

How Do You Write an Argument?

"Reading" Visuals in Argument

Understanding and Using Argument

Checking Over an Argument

CASEBOOK: COLLEGE ATHLETICS

JAMES L. SHULMAN AND WILLIAM G. BOWEN, How the Playing Field Is Encroaching on the Admissions Office

LYNDA RUSH, Assessing a Study of College Athletes

*ANDREW WIBLE, It’s the Sports Teams That Make the College—Not Vice Versa [STUDENT ESSAY]

WILLIAM F. SHUGHART II, Why Not a Football Degree?

CASEBOOK: THE DRAFT AND NATIONAL SERVICE

CHARLES B. RANGEL, Bring Back the Draft

CHARLES MOSKOS AND PAUL GLASTRIS, Now Do You Believe We Need a Draft?

*THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Uncle Charlie Wants You!: The Draft Would Weaken the World’s Best Military

MAGGIE KOERTH, Women in Draft Necessary Part of Quest to End Discrimination[STUDENT ESSAY]

PAIRED ARGUMENTS

THOMAS JEFFERSON, The Declaration of Independence

*SENECA FALLS CONFERENCE (1848), The Declaration of Sentiments

*JOSEPH C. GFROERER, LI-TZY WU, and MICHAEL PENNE, Marijuana Is a Gateway Drug

*STUART TAYLOR, JR., Marijuana Should Be Decriminalized

*TIMOTHY WHEELER, Assault-Weapons Ban, R.I.P.

*JIMMY CARTER, Assault-Gun Ban Should Be Reinstated

Additional Suggestions for Writing

*11 Synthesizing Strategies and Sources into Academic and Public Writing

The Continuum from Academic to Public Writing

Academic Writing

Purposes of Academic Writing

Kinds of Academic Writing

Features of Academic Writing

Combining Strategies in Academic Writing

Public Writing

Purposes of Public Writing

Kinds of Public Writing

Features of Public Writing

Combining Strategies in Public Writing

*CATHERINE LEECE, Energy for the Community [STUDENT ESSAY]

*KEITH BRADSHER, The Ascent of Wind Power

An Academic Writing Assignment

Doing Research

Thinking about Strategies and Planning the Essay

Synthesizing and Acknowledging Your Sources

A Public Writing Assignment

Doing Research

Thinking about Strategies and Planning the Essay

Synthesizing and Acknowledging Your Sources

Appendix: Using and Documenting Sources

Summarizing and Paraphrasing

Using and Integrating Quotations

Avoiding Plagiarism

MLA Style for Source Citations in the Text

MLA List of Works Cited

Books

Periodicals

Electronic Sources

Other Sources

Glossary of Terms

Index

* new to this edition