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Rhetorical Choices A Reader for Writers

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ISBN-10: 0321054946

ISBN-13: 9780321054944

Edition: 2004

Authors: Keith Gilyard, Deborah H. Holdstein, Charles I. Schuster

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List price: $35.40
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Longman Publishing
Publication date: 10/20/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Keith Gilyard, Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, has written and lectured extensively on language and literacy. Long active in professional organizations, he is a former Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He is author or editor of twelve previous books, including Race, Rhetoric, and Composition (Boynton/Cook) and Voices of the Self, for which he received an American Book Award.

Writers, Readers, and Rhetorical Choices
Narration
"The Chase."
"The Library Card."
"University Days."
"Narrative: Ali."
"Mother Tongue."
"Shooting an Elephant."
"Seven Types of Ambiguity."
Description
"Blue."
"Am I Blue?"
"Snow."
"Once More to the Lake."
"Father Coming Home."
"On Alabama Avenue, Paterson, NJ 1954."
"Flavio's Home."
"Stone Horse."
Definition
"I Want a Wife."
"Girl."
"Hunting and Conversation."
"The Holocaust."
"Pidgin."
"The Meanings of a Word."
"About Men."
"How We Can Understand Their Hatred?"
"My Holy War."
"The Art of Failure: Why Some People Choke and Others Panic."
Exemplification
"Four Appointments with the Discus Thrower."
"Encounters with the Archdruid."
"Thoughts of an Oriental Girl."
"The Vagaries of Taste."
Two Poems: For a Lady I Know and Incident
"The Lesson."
"Delusions of Grandeur."
"The Same Difference."
"What I've Learned from Men."
Classification: Selections from Harper's Magazine
"Friends, Good Friends, Such Good Friends."
"Pornography."
"College Pressures."
"How to Tame a Wild Tongue."
"The Trouble With Fries."
"America's Emerging Gay Culture."
"Bards of the Internet."
Process
"Learning to Read and Write."
"How America Unsexes the Asian Male."
"Prologue to Savages."
"To Make Them Stand in Fear."
"The Classroom and the Wider Culture."
"My First Conk."
"The American Way of Death."
"How to Say Nothing in 500 Words."
Comparison and Contrast
Bruce Catton"Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts."
"Two Ways to Belong in America."
"Wham! Bam! Thanks a Bunch!"
"Blacks and Jews."
"Language Worlds."
"Ana."
"Our Tongues Slapped into Silence."
From `Tis a Memoir
"Sex, Lies, and Conversation."
Cause and Effect
"Cold Comfort."
"A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space."
"The Stereotype Trap."
"The Bali Saleng."
"Sister Godzilla."
"Boxing as a Metaphor for Life."
"Magic Time: Observations of a Cancer Casualty."
"The Zero-Moment Point."
Argument
"Why Don't We Complain?"
"The Killing Game."
"Hunting and Human Values."
"Who Killed Benny Paret?"