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Words on Paper: Essays on American Culture for College Writers
Levia DiNardo Hayes
Bradley Waltman

ISBN-10: 0205558739
ISBN-13: 9780205558735

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 336 pp
Published: 07/02/2008

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Words on Paper is a thematically organized reader/rhetoric that seeks to empower students to interact proactively and constructively with all types of essays.

 

The essays selected were meant to excite and motivate readers into sharing their experience and opinions in writing.  To reflect the mosaic of American culture, Words on Paper includes essayists from varied and diverse backgrounds— American, British, Canadian, African-American, Jamaican, Asian, Asian-American, and more.  The authors combine highly engaging essays with solid writing instruction and continuing reinforcement of the reading-writing connection to strengthen writing.  

 

    • A thematic organization has the essays grouped by topics important to students: Self-Examination, Family, People and Places, Society, The Environment, Popular Culture, and more.
    • Full chapters on reading and writing are complemented by a host of reading and writing apparatus: pre-reading questions, post-reading comprehension questions, writing technique questions, and writing suggestions for the various themes presented in the book.
    • “Insights” visual writing activities at the end of each chapter present thought-provoking images tied to the chapter theme and ask critical thinking questions based on the images.
    • Chapters 2-9 end with “Mechanics and Grammar” sections that offer students guidance and practice exercises in key grammar areas.
    • Each chapter includes peer critique activities that give students opportunities to gain insight and feedback from their fellow students.
    • A full chapter MLA documentation guide contains basic information and guidelines for proper MLA documentation enabling instructors to incorporate research into the course.

 

Foreword:  Getting Started

To The Student

Chapter 1:  The Process of Good Writing

Chapter 2: Reading to Write

Chapter 3:   Self Examination

Ewa Zadrynska: “A Bracelet, an Odd Earring, Cracked Teacup”

Langston Hughes: “Salvation”

Caroline Hwang: “The Good Daughter”

Deborah Work: “What’s In a Name?”

Jennifer Crispin: “No Place Like Home”

Writing Suggestions

In-Sight

Peer Critique

Mechanics and Style:  The Parts of Speech

Chapter 4:  Family

Amy Tan: “Two Kinds”

Jamaica Kincaid: “Girl”

Craig Swanson: “The Turning Point”

 Michael Dorris:  “Father’s Day”

 Bonnie Smith-Yackel: “My Mother Never Worked”

Writing Suggestions

In-Sight

Peer Critique

Mechanics and Style:  Verbs and Their Uses

Chapter 5:  People and Places

Marc Santora: Burgers for the Health Professional

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim: “Pomegranates and English Education”

Richard Wright: Black Boy

Serena Nanda: “Arranging a Marriage in India”

Denise Gonsale: “I’m Afraid to Look, Afraid to Turn Away”

Writing Suggestions

In-Sight

Peer Critique

Mechanics and Style:  Commonly Confused Words

Chapter 6:  Heroes

Leslie Kaufman: Just a Normal Girl

Italo Cavino: The Canary Prince

Natalie Angier: “Of Altruism, Heroism, and Evolution’s Gifts”

Josh Tyrangiel: Andy was Right

Irma Menkel: “I Saw Anne Frank Die”

Writing Suggestions

In-Sight

Peer Critique

Mechanics and Style:  Subject/Verb Agreement

Chapter 7:  Popular Culture

Andrew Sullivan: “The M Word: Why it Matters to Me”

Lola Ugunnaike: “Yours Truly: The E-Variations”

Deborah Netburn: “Young, Carefree, and Hooked on Sun Lamps”

Marie Winn: “Television The Plug In Drug”

Katha Pollitt: “Why Boys Don’t Play with Dolls”

Stephanie Ericsson: “The Ways We Lie”

Writing Suggestions

In-Sight

Peer Critique

Mechanics and Style:  Spelling and Word Choice

Chapter 8:  The Great Outdoors

William Blake: “The Tyger”

Rafe Martin: “The Brave Little Parrot”

Jerry Adler: “Vanity, Thy Name Is…”

Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken”

Jeanie French: “To Everything There is a Season”

Ian Frazier: “Trust Me, Around Here Hotdogs Actually Repel Bears”

Writing Suggestions

In-Sight

Peer Critique

Mechanics and Style:  The Mysterious Comma

Chapter 9:  Issues and Controversies

Barbara Mujica: “No Comprendo”

Thomas Jefferson: “The Declaration of Independence”

Patricia Dalton: “Have Today’s Schools Failed Male Students?

Margaret Atwood: “The Female Body”

Linda M. Hasselstrom: “Why One Peaceful Woman Carries a Pistol”

In-Sight

Writing Suggestions

Peer Critique

Mechanics and Style:  Introduction to Working with Citation

Kerri Mertz: “Wayward Cells”

Chapter 10:  Documentation in the Humanities: MLA Style

 

 

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