Short Takes

(* = readings that are new to this edition)

Freeze Frame: Reading and Writing

Chapter 1: On Using Description

*Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Summer Wind”

Jason Holland, “The Bridge” (student selection)

*Kelly Ruth Winter, "Tommy”

*Lori Jakiela, ”You’ll Love the Way We Fly”

Mario Suarez, “El Hoyo”

* Pete Dexter, “A Fowl Trick”

Meg Gifford, “Learning, then College” (student selection)

Flavius Stan, “The Night of Oranges” (student selection)

Magdoline Asfahani, “Time to Look and Listen” (student selection)

Anchee Min, “Footprints on the Flag”

*Visual: Ann Telnaes, “The Flag” (cartoon)

Chapter 3: On Using Example

Michael Barlow, “Sweatin’ for Nothin’” (student selection)

* Allison Silverman, “Have Fun”

Stacey Wilkins, “Stop Ordering Me Around”

Lena Williams, “A Black Fan of Country Music Finally Tells All”

Michiko Kakutani, “Bananas for Rent”

Chapter 4: On Using Definition

Diane Ackerman, “Chocolate Equals Love”

Henry Han Xi Lau, “I Was a Member of the Kung Fu Crew” (student selection)

*Cecilia Munoz, “Getting Angry Can Be a Good Thing”

William Raspberry, “The Handicap of Definition”

Thomas Sowell, “Crippled by Their Culture”

*Visual: Dave Coverley, “Speed Bump” (cartoon)

Chapter 5: On Using Comparison and Contrast

Lynnika Butler, “Living on Tokyo Time”

Frank Deford, “Who’s Watching? Reality TV and Sports”

Denise Leight, “Playing House” (student selection)

*Cheryl Merrill, ”Singing Like Yma Sumac”

Danna Harman, “World and America Watching Different Wars”

Chapter 6: On Using Division and Classification

*Marion Winik, “What Are Friends For?”

Russell Baker, “The Plot Against People”

Michelle Higgins, “The Search for Human Life in the Maze of Retail Stores”

Richard Rodriguez, “Desert Religions”

Chapter 7: On Using Process

Laura Carlson, “Runner” (student selection)

Dave Barry, “Independence Day”

*Garrison Keillor, “How to Write a Letter”

Naomi Wolf, “A Woman’s Place”

Chapter 8: On Using Cause and Effect

Bjorn Skogquist, “Tiffany Stephenson – An Apology” (student selection)

Brent Staples, “Black Men and Public Space”

Oliver Sacks, “When Music Heals Body and Soul”

*Samantha Power, “Technology’s Power to Narrow Our View”

Andrew Sullivan, “We Have Retreated into the iWorld”

*Visual: John Deering, “The Class of 2008” (cartoon)

Chapter 9: On Using Argument

*Barbara Ehrenreich, “Dance, Dance, Revolution”

*Anne Applebaum, “Veiled Insult”

*John Cloud, “Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered?”

*Debra J. Saunders, “Old Enough to Vote, Old Enough to Drink,”

*Visuals:

Chip Bok, “College Life” (cartoon)

Adrian Raeside, “The Other Coast” (comic strip)

Jay Bookman, “Guest Workers and the U.S. Heritage”

Robert J. Samuelson, “We Don’t Need ‘Guest Workers’”

Visuals:

Darrin Bell, “All These Illegals,” (comic strip)

Steve Kelley, “Americans and Jobs” (cartoon)

Chapter 10: For Further Reading: Two Topics, Six Views

On Reality and Television

*Anna Quindlen, “Watching the World Go By”

*James Poniewozik, “Ugly, the American”

*Amelia Meyer, “Queens of the hills” (student selection)

*Ursula LeGuin, "Whose Lathe?"

*Anna Quindlen, “With a No. 2 Pencil, Delete”

*Michael Chabon, “Solitude and the Fortress of Youth”

Credits

Index of Authors, Essays, and Terms

• “Freeze Frame: Reading and Writing,” a brief section that introduces students to the principles of critical reading and writing, opens the text.
• Fifty-three short, engaging, accessible reading selections are included, along with helpful introductions to each rhetorical pattern.
• Headnotes for each selection describe the author, give some context for the reading, and point to at least one notable stylistic feature of the selection.
• Includes questions on organization, ideas, technique, and style after each selection, engaging students to think critically about the readings.
• For each selection, a number of topics for writing journal entries and essays are provided.
• Each chapter concludes with more writing suggestions that encourage students to compare two or more of the selections in the book and also to practice writing in each rhetorical mode.
• Selections in Chapter 10, “For Further Reading: Two Topics, Six Views," presents six essays with different views on two topics: reality and television; and censorship and education. Students can use these essays to practice how to synthesize differing perspectives and information so that they can respond critically and construct their own arguments.
• An alternate thematic table of contents is provided.
• The Instructor’s Manual includes key words and phrases for each essay, suggestions for group work, and additional writing suggestions keyed to the thematic table of contents.

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