The Prose reader : essays for thinking, reading, and writing / Kim Flachmann, Michael Flachmann.

Contents
An Introduction.
Thinking Critically,
Reading Critically,
Writing Critically.


1. Description: Exploring Through the Senses.


Ray Bradbury, Summer Rituals.


Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club.


John McPhee, The Pines.


Kimberly Wozencraft, Notes from the Country Club.


Malcolm Cowley, The View from 80.


2. Narration: Telling a Story.


Lewis Sawaquat, For My Indian Daughter.


George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant.


Maya Angelou, Graduation.


Russell Baker, The Saturday Evening Post.


Mark Mathabane, Passport to Knowledge.


3. Example: Illustrating Ideas.


Bill Cosby, The Baffling Question.


Harry Edwards, Triple Tragedy in Black Society.


Harold Krents, Darkness at Noon.


Jane Goodall, The Mind of the Chimpanzee.


Alleen Pace Nilsen, Sexism in English: A 1990s Update.


4. Process Analysis: Explaining Step By Step.


Alan Monroe, Characteristics of the Successful Speaker.


Beth Wald, Let's Get Vertical.


Edwin Bliss, Managing Your Time.


Jessica Mitford, Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain.


Paul Roberts, How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words.


5. Division/Classification: Finding Categories.


Judy Brady, Why I Want a Wife.


Judith Wallerstein/Sandra Blakeslee, Second Chances for Children of Divorce.


Susan Allen Toth, Cinematypes.


Garrison Keillor, School.


Judith Viorst, The Truth about Lying.


6. Comparison/Contrast: Discovering Similarities and Differences.


Bruce Catton, Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts.


Germaine Greer, A Child Is Born.


William Ouchi, Japanese and American Workers: Two Casts of Mind.


Elena Asturias, Growing Up in the U.S.


Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing.


7. Definition: Limiting the Frame of Reference.


Nancy Gibbs, When Is It Rape?


Robert Ramirez, The Barrio.


Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff.


Marie Winn, Television Addiction.


Susan Sontag, On AIDS.


8. Cause/Effect: Tracing Reasons and Results.


Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies.


Michael Dorris, The Broken Cord.


Richard Rodriguez, The Fear of Losing a Culture.


Mitchell Lazarus, Rx for Mathophobia.


Alice Walker, My Daughter Smokes.


9. Argument and Persuasion: Inciting People to Thought or Action.


Donald Drakeman, Religion's Place in Public Schools.


Ellen Goodman, Putting in a Good Word for Guilt.


Shelby Steele, Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference.


Robert Hughes, The N.R.A. in a Hunter's Sight.


Barbara Ehrenreich, The Warrior Culture. Opposing Viewpoints:


Courtland Milloy and Jesse Philips, Drug Testing Does Not Violate Workers' Rights.


The New Republic, Drug Testing Violates Workers' Rights.


Michael Fabricant/Michael Driscoll- Kelly, The Problem of Homelessness Is Serious.


Martin Morse Wooster, The Problem of Homelessness Is Exaggerated.


10. Documented Essays.


Betty Gittman, Pregnant Teenagers: A Challenge.


John Langone, Group Violence.


11. Essays on Thinking, Reading, and Writing.


Eudora Welty, Listening.


Donald Hall, To Read Fiction.


Annie Dillard, When You Write.


Kurt Vonnegut, How to Write with Style.


William Zinsser, Writing with a Word Processor

Includes bibliographical references and index.