Preface: A Note to Students
PART I. WRITING TO READ
1. Joining the Conversation
Keeping a Reading Journal / Academic Reading: Some Initial Advice / Keeping a Reading Journal / The Process of Reading: Prereading / First Reading / Annotating / Rereading / Freewriting / Further Advice and Perspectives / Writing and Reading / Writing Essays / The Essay as a Revised Journal Entry / The Natural Style / Patterns for Essay Structure / The Final Pattern: TRIAC / Quoting and Paraphrasing / How the Essay Helps You with Term Papers / Writing Summaries / Reading to Write a Summary / Writing the Summary / Using Quotations in Summaries / Evaluating and Revising Summary Drafts / Writing Arguments / Using Journal Entries to Help You Decide Your Position / Rethinking Assumptions / Using TRIAC to Structure an Argument / Revising the Draft of Your Argument / Arguing to Persuade Others / The Reasonable Voice / Gathering and Using Information / Some Tips for Coming Up with Topics (and Keeping Them Manageable) / Using Databases to Do Research / A Warning about Internet Research / Handling What You Find / Documenting Sources
PART II. READING TO WRITE
2. Rooms and Homes, Country and City
My Neighborhood / Langston Hughes, Theme for English B / Sarah Rabkin, Coming Around the Bend / Annie Dillard, The Silent Neighborhood / Ishmael Reed, My Neighborhood / Tom Wolfe, O Rotten Gotham / Benjamin Saenz, Exile: El Paso, Texas / David Guterson, Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured. One Week at the Mall of America / Ray Oldenburg, The Problem of Place in America / On Going Home / Donald Hall, The One Thousand Seasons / Kathleen Norris, The Beautiful Places / Mary Clearman Blew, The Sow in the River / N. Scott Momaday, Sacred and Ancestral Ground / Joan Didion, On Going Home
3. Where Wilderness Begins
Walking On / Henry David Thoreau, Walking / Kathleen Dean Moore, Winter Creek / Allen De Hart, Splendid Swamp / Ofelia Zepeda, Where the Wilderness Begins / Bill McKibben, Daybreak / Karen Warren, November Sojourn / Gone Back Into the Earth / Loren Eiseley, The Bird and the Machine / Barry Lopez, Gone Back Into the Earth / Rebecca Solnit, Texas on My Mind (and Mexico on My Right) / Edward Abbey, The Great American Desert
4. Animal Lives
Sleeping with Animals / Edward Hoagland, Dogs, and the Tug of Life / Melissa Greene, No Rms, Jungle Vu / Lewis Thomas, The Tucson Zoo / Alice Walker, Am I Blue? / Barbara Drake, How Smart Are Sheep? / Maxine Kumin, Sleeping with Animals / A Fragile Kingdom / Sue Halpern, A Fragile Kingdom / Keith Ervin, A Life in Our Hands / Douglas Chadwick, Helping a Great Bear Hang On / Mary Oliver, Five a.m. in the Pinewoods
5. Limits: Challenges and Progress
Fading Colors / John Dillon, Fading Colors: Are We Losing the Sugar Maple to Acid Rain? / John Muir, Hetch Hetchy Valley / Marsden Manson, A Statement of San Francisco’s Side / Samuel W. Matthews, Under the Sun / Sandra Steingraber, Animals / John P. Wiley, Jr., We’re Scraping Bottom / Out of the Woods / Anthony Weston, Is It Too Late? / David Seideman, Out of the Woods / Marc Reisner, Coming Undammed / Paul Schneider, Clear Progress: 25 Years of the Clean Water Act / Chris Anderson, Forest of Voices
6. Evolving Ethics
The Land Ethic / Alison Hawthorne Deming, Exiled in America / Winona LaDuke, Voices from White Earth / Aldo Leopold, The Land Ethic / Dana Lee Jackson, Women and the Challenge of the Ecological Era / W. S. Merwin, Unchopping a Tree / Is Nature Too Good for Us? / William Tucker, Is Nature Too Good for Us? / Joy Williams, Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp / Brian Luke, A Critical Analysis of Hunters’ Ethics / Wallace Stegner, Wilderness Letter
7. Practicing Knowledge
Making Change / Cynthia Hamilton, Women, Home, and Community: The Struggle in an Urban Environment / Lois Marie Gibbs, Learning from Love Canal: A Twentieth-Anniversary Retrospective / Wendell Berry, Out of Your Car, Off Your Horse / Susan Witt, Printing Money, Making Change: The Promise of Local Currencies / Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women / The Idea of a Garden / William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark / Don Stap, Returning the Natives / Carolyn Duckworth, Pieces of Paper Protecting the Land / Michael Pollan, The Idea of a Garden
Appendix A: Ecology in Cyberspace
Index of Authors and Titles