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| Preface | |
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| Rhetorical Contents | |
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| An Introduction to Rhetoric: Using the "Available Means" | |
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| Key Elements of Rhetoric | |
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| The Rhetorical Triangle | |
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| Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos | |
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| Ethos | |
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| Logos | |
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| Pathos | |
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| Ethos, Logos, and Pathos in Practice | |
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| Visual Rhetoric | |
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| An Example of Rhetoric from Literature | |
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| Arrangement | |
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| The Classical Model | |
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| Patterns of Develoment | |
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| When Rhetoric Misses the Mark | |
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| Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Analysis | |
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| Analyzing Style | |
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| Talking with the Text | |
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| Annotation | |
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| Dialectical Journal | |
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| Graphic Organizer | |
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| Analyzing a Visual Text | |
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| From Analysis to Essay: Writing about Close Reading | |
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| Glossary of Selected Tropes and Schemes | |
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| Synthesizing Sources: Entering the Conversation | |
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| Types of Support | |
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| Writers at Work | |
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| The Relationship of Sources to Audience | |
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| The Synthesis Essay | |
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| Conversation: Focus on Community Service | |
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| Identifying the Issues: Recognizing Complexity | |
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| Formulating Your Position | |
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| Incorporating Sources: Inform Rather than Overwhelm | |
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| Education: To what extent do our schools serve the goals of a true education? | |
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| Central Essay | |
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| I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read | |
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| Classic Essay | |
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| From Education | |
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| Superman and Me | |
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| Best in Class | |
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| A Talk to Teachers | |
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| School | |
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| Kyoko Mori on Writing | |
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| The History Teacher (poetry) | |
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| Eleven (fiction) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| National Endowment for the Arts, From Reading at Risk (tables) | |
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| Conversation: Focus on the American High School | |
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| from Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education | |
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| Let Teenagers Try Adulthood | |
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| From The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut | |
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| A Model for High Schools | |
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| U.S. Students Fare Badly in International Survey of Math Skills (with table) | |
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| Spirit of Education (painting) | |
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| Student Writing: Argument: Using Personal Experience as Evidence | |
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| Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Appositives | |
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| Suggestions for Writing: Education | |
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| Work: How does our work shape or influence our lives? | |
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| Central Essay | |
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| From Serving in Florida | |
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| Barbara Ehrenreich on Writing | |
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| Classic Essay | |
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| The Atlanta Exposition Address | |
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| The Surgeon as Priest | |
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| The Traveling Bra Salesman's Lesson | |
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| From Labour | |
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| From The Writing Life | |
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| In Praise of a Snail's Pace | |
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| I Stand Here Ironing (fiction) | |
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| Harvest Song (poetry) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| We Can Do It! (poster) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| The Great GAPsby Society (cartoon) | |
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| Conversation: Focus on Working Parents | |
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| More Working Parents Play "Beat the Clock" | |
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| Why Women Have to Work | |
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| The Case for Staying Home | |
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| Sick Parents Go to Work, Stay Home When Kids Are Ill | |
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| My Mother, Myself, Her Career, My Questions | |
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| Don't Call Me Mr. Mom | |
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| Student Writing: Close Reading: Analyzing Style in Paired Passages | |
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| Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Short Simple Sentences and Fragments | |
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| Suggestions for Writing: Work | |
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| Community: What is the relationship of the individual to the community? | |
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| Central Essay | |
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| Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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| Classic Essay | |
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| Where I Lived, and What I Lived for | |
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| All Happy Clans Are Alike: In Search of the Good Family | |
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| The New Community | |
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| Commencement Speech at Mount Holyoke College | |
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| Walking the Path between Worlds | |
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| New York Day Women (fiction) | |
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| Edwidge Danticat on Writing | |
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| Child of the Americas (poetry) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| Reflections (painting) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| Three Servicemen (sculpture) | |
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| Conversation: Focus on the Individual's Responsibility to the Community | |
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| The Happy Life | |
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| The Singer Solution to World Poverty | |
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| Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor | |
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| In Westminster Abbey (poetry) | |
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| Student Writing: Synthesis: Incorporating Sources into a Revision | |
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| Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Parallel Structures | |
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| Suggestions for Writing: Community | |
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| Gender: What is the impact of the gender roles that society creates and enforces? | |
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| Central Essay | |
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| Women's Brains | |
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| Classic Essay | |
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| Professions for Women | |
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| Letters | |
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| About Men | |
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| The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria | |
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| Judith Ortiz Cofer on Writing | |
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| Being a Man | |
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| AIDS Has a Woman's Face | |
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| There Is No Unmarked Woman | |
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| Sweat (fiction) | |
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| Barbie Doll (poetry) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| Cathy (cartoon) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| New and Newer Versions of Scripture (table) | |
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| Conversation: Focus on Defining Masculinity | |
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| Why Johnny Won't Read | |
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| Mind over Muscle | |
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| Putting Down the Gun | |
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| Boy Problems (with table) | |
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| Student Writing: Argument: Supporting an Assertion | |
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| Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Pronouns | |
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| Suggestions for Writing: Gender | |
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| Sports and Fitness: How do the values of sports affect the way we see ourselves? | |
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| Central Essay | |
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| The Silent Season of a Hero | |
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| Classic Essay | |
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| The Proper Place for Sports | |
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| Kill 'Em, Crush 'Em, Eat 'Em Raw! | |
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| From How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle | |
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| A Spectator's Notebook | |
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| The Real New York Giants | |
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| For Fasting and Football, a Dedicated Game Plan | |
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| Samuel G. Freedman on Writing | |
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| Ex-Basketball Player (poetry) | |
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| Prothalamion (poetry) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| Untitled (cartoon) | |
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| Conversation: Focus on Body Image | |
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| A Unique Take on Beauty | |
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| Little Sister, Big Hit (cover) | |
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| Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe | |
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| Disordered Eating and Body Image Disturbances May Be Underreported in Male Athletes | |
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| Enhancing Male Body Image | |
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| Student Writing: Rhetorical Analysis: Comparing Strategies in Paired Passages | |
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| Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Precise, Direct, and Active Verbs | |
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| Suggestions for Writing: Sports and Fitness | |
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| Language: How does the language we use reveal who we are? | |
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| Central Essay | |
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| Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood | |
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| Classic Essay | |
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| Politics and the English Language | |
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| Mother Tongue | |
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| From Decolonising the Mind | |
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| Always Living in Spanish | |
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| Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation | |
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| Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Official Language | |
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| From Monkey Bridge (fiction) | |
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| From Native Speaker (fiction) | |
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| For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15 and Why I Could Not Accept Your Invitation (poetry) | |
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| Naomi Shihab Nye on Writing | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| Rumors, Lies, Innuendo (cartoon) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| Census Data on Language Use in the United States (table) | |
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| Conversation: Focus on Current Language Usage | |
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| How Much Wallop Can a Simple Word Pack? | |
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| The War of Words: A Dispatch from the Front Lines | |
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| Letters to the Editor in response to The War of Words | |
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| Pride to One Is Prejudice to Another | |
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| Help Us Overthrow the Tall/Short Mafia | |
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| Student Writing: Reflection: Reflecting on "Different Englishes" | |
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| Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Concise Diction | |
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| Suggestions for Writing: Language | |
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| Science and Technology: How are advances in science and technology affecting the way we define our humanity? | |
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| Central Essay | |
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| The Bird and the Machine | |
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| Classic Essay | |
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| The Method of Scientific Investigation | |
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| The Reach of Imagination | |
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| The Future of Happiness | |
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| The Blank Slate | |
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| Steven Pinker on Writing | |
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| Silence and the Notion of the Commons | |
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| Into the Electronic Millennium | |
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| Transsexual Frogs | |
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| Sonnet - to Science (poetry) | |
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| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer (poetry) | |
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| Super- Toys Last All Summer Long (fiction) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| The Cosmic Calendar | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| Food Fight (cartoon) | |
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| Conversation: Focus on the Ethics of Genetics Technology | |
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| On Cloning a Human Being | |
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| Fearing the Worst Should Anyone Produce a Cloned Baby | |
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| DNA as Destiny | |
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| Pet Clones Spur Call for Limits | |
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| More Couples Screening Embryos for Gender | |
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| Student Writing: Counterargument: Responding to a Newspaper Column | |
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| Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Coordination in the Compound Sentence | |
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| Suggestions for Writing: Science and Technology | |
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| Popular Culture: To what extent does pop culture reflect our society's values? | |
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| Central Essay | |
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| High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies | |
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| Classic Essay | |
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| Corn-Pone Opinions | |
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| Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors: Cutting the Antiwar Heart Out of a Classic | |
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| Brent Staples on Writing | |
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| We Talk, You Listen | |
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| Dreaming America | |
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| Show and Tell (graphic essay) | |
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| Popular Culture in the Aftermath of September 11 is a Chorus without a Hook, A Movie without an Ending | |
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| Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven (poetry) | |
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| Sanctuary: For Harry Potter the Movie | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| The Innocent Eye Test (painting) | |
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| Conversation: Focus on Television | |
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| Watching TV Makes You Smarter | |
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| The Argument against TV | |
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| He Doesn't Like to Watch | |
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| TV Turnoff Week (detail from a poster) | |
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| Is Media Violence Free Speech? (debate) | |
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| Student Writing: Visual Rhetoric: Interpreting a Painting | |
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| Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Modifiers | |
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| Suggestions for Writing: Popular Culture | |
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| Nature: What is our responsibility to nature? | |
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| Central Essay | |
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| From Silent Spring | |
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| Classic Essay | |
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| From Nature | |
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| The Clan of One-Breasted Women | |
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| Message to President Franklin Pierce | |
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| An Entrance to the Woods | |
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| 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Speech | |
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| Against Nature | |
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| A White Heron (fiction) | |
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| The Tables Turned (poetry) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| Cloud the Issue or Clear the Air? (advertisement) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| Kindred Spirits (painting) | |
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| Conversation: Focus on Climate Change | |
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| It's Easy Being Green | |
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| From Counting Carbons (with table) | |
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| From The Future of Life | |
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| Ice Blankets (photograph with caption) | |
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| Is Climate Change the 21st Century's Most Urgent Environmental Problem? | |
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| GeoSigns: The Big Thaw | |
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| Daniel Glick on Writing | |
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| Student Writing: Visual Rhetoric: Analyzing a Political Cartoon | |
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| Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences | |
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| Suggestions for Writing: Nature | |
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| Politics: What is the nature of the relationship between the citizen and the state? | |
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| Central Essay | |
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| On Seeing England for the First Time | |
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| Classic Essay | |
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| A Modest Proposal | |
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| From The Destruction of Culture | |
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| Chris Hedges on Writing | |
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| National Prejudices | |
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| Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid | |
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| On the Duty of Civil Disobedience | |
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| Every Dictator's Nightmare | |
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| On the Rainy River (fiction) | |
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| Conversation with an American Writer (poetry) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| Guernica (painting) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| March 17, 2003 (cover) | |
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| Visual Text | |
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| April 2003 (cover) | |
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| Conversation: Focus on the Politics of Imperialism | |
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| Shooting an Elephant | |
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| The Empire Fights Back | |
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| In Which the Ancient History I Learn Is Not My Own (poetry) | |
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| Christiansted: Official Map and Guide | |
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| What Part of You Lives in Bombay? (advertisement) | |
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| Student Writing: Argument: Responding to a Quotation | |
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| Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Subordination in the Complex Sentence | |
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| Suggestions for Writing: Politics | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |