[Family] 258
The Miracle of Birth,HEATHER ARTLFY 258
The Faltering Family,GEORGE GALLUP,JR 294
The Perfect Family,ALICE HOFFMAN 311
From Dust Tracks on a Road,ZORA NEALE HURSTON 207
From The Joy Luck Club,AMY TAN 215
A Present for Popo,ELIZABETH WONG 381
[Self-Discovery] 352
My Name is Margaret,MAYA ANGELOU 352
From Emotional Intelligence,DANIEL GOLEMAN 319
Salvation，LANGSTON HUGHES 197
15 Ways to Put More Joy in Your Life,LEIGH ANNE JASHEWAY-BRYANT 59
From The Woman Warrior,MAXINE HONG KINGSTON 203
Leave Your Name at the Border,MANUEL MU？OZ 368
University of Arkansas Versus Arkansas Tech University,ALEXANDRA STOWE 281
The Inkblot Test,ROBB WALSH 268
[Issues] 336
So You Want to Throw Out the Electoral College?RACHEL I.BARNES 336
What Is Causing Global Warming?SHARON BEGLEY AND ANDREW MURR 289
Americans:Bigger By the Day,CASSANDRA BJORK 187
Stress Is the Dirty Secret of Success,GREGG EASTERBROOK 111
The Ways of Meeting Oppression,MARTIN LUTHER KING,IR 384
Where to Now?WILLIAM RASPBERRY 376
It's a Bird,It's a Plane,It's Plagiarism Buster!GILLIAN SILVERMAN 155
Everyone's Business,TARA L.TEDROW 345
[Values] 359
The Perpetual Adolescent,JOSEPH EPSTEIN 359
Sportsmanship:How to Win and Lose Gracefully,ARIC MITCHELL 322
Open the Door Wide for Leaders of Tomorrow,DAVID PORTER 357
Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha,ANNA QUINDLEN 379
The Straight Path of Islam,HUSTON SMITH 101
A Behavior I Wish People Would Change,CHRIS STEPHENS 22
Neither Morons Nor Imbeciles Nor Idiots,SALLIE TISDALE 317
Why People Are Rude,DAVID A.WIESSLER 318
[Media] 3
Free Expression Gets Smoked,STEPHEN CHAPMAN 3
What to Listen for in Music,AARON COPLAND 262
Seeing Is Believing,S.I.AND ALAN HAYAKAWA 77
Ever Et Raw Meat?STEPHEN KING 87
The Trouble with Television,ROBERT MACNEIL 103
The Real Media Divide,MARKUS PRIOR 374
The World Is Watching and No One Cares,JOE QUEENAN 331
Rock Lyrics and Violence Against Women,CARYL RIVERS 123
[Language and Learning] 245
The Different Ways of Being Smart,SARA D.GILBERT 245
Start with One Brick,ROBERT M.PIRSIG 32
The Future of Language,PRUDENCE RUSSELL 16
Vocabulary Building,JESS STEIN 117
How Did They Discover Radium?CAROLINE SUTTON 106
Why Reading Aloud Makes Learning Fun,JIM TRELEASE 296
Anticonservative Bias,ANDREA WOODHAMS 302
Clutter,wILLIAM ZINSSER 129
[Nature] 137
Bats,JAMES CLIFTON 137
Horses,SARAH COLEMAN-BRANTLEY 233
A Night to Remember,STEVE HACKNEY 217
What Is an Insect?RICK IMES 104
When the Big Clouds Gather,DAVID H.LEVY 226
Perimeter,BARRY LOPEZ 215
Navajo Dog,N.SCOTT MOMADAY 76
Premature Ejection，KAREN WARKENTIN 298
[On the Lighter Side] 205
Mood Piece,TOM BODETT 205
The Decline of the Work Ethic,ART CAREY 315
Home,GARRISON KEILOR 78
I Married an Accountant,JOE QUEENAN 100
The Jeaning of America—and the World,CARIN C.QUINN 204
How Did They Start the Breakfast Cereal Industry?CAROLINE SUTTON 202
Part 1 The Writing Process 1
Chapter 1 Becoming a Confident Writer 1
Chapter 2 Using Prewriting Strategies 30
Chapter 3 Improving Your Paragraph Skills 57
Chapter 4 Stating Your Thesis 85
Chapter 5 Supporting Your Thesis 109
Chapter 6 Revising and Editing Your Essays 127
Chapter 7 Researching for Writing 153
Part 2 Patterns as Options 195
Chapter 8 Narrating and Describing 195
Chapter 9 Explaining a Process 224
Chapter 10 Choosing Classification or Division 243
Chapter 11 Comparing and Contrasting 266
Chapter 12 Explaining Causes and Effects 287
Chapter 13 Using Definition 309
Chapter 14 Arguing Persuasively 329
Part 3 More Choices:A Collection of Readings 351
1．My Name is Margaret,MAYA ANGELOU 352
2．Open the Door Wide for Leaders of Tomorrow,DAVID PORTER 357
3．The Perpetual Adolescent,JOSEPH EPSTEIN 359
4．Leave Your Name at the Border,MANUEL MUNOZ 368
5．Yes,I Follow Islam,But I'm Not a Terrorist,NADA EL SAWY 372
6．The Real Media Divide,MARKUS PRIOR 374
7．Where to Now?WILLIAM RASPBERRY 376
8．Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha,ANNA QUINDLEN 379
9．A Present for Popo,ELIZABETH WONG 381
10．The Ways of Meeting Oppression,MARTIN LUTHER KING,JR 384
CREDITS 387