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Texas A&M International University First Year Writing Program

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English
Pages
397

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Table of Contents

Importance of reading.
How to mark a book -- Mortimer Adler
Learning to read and write -- Frederick Douglass
A homemade education -- Malcom X
Public and private language -- Richard Rodriguez
The case for curling up with a book -- Carol Shields
Advice on writing.
Spanglish -- Janice Castro, -- Dan Cook
What is style? -- Mavis Gallant
The maker's eye: revising your own manuscripts -- Donald M. Murray
Writing -- William Stafford
How to write with style -- Kurt Vonnegut
Personal Essay.
Finishing School -- Maya Angelou
Shame -- Dick Gregory
Complexion -- Richard Rodriguez
Mother Tongue -- Amy Tan
The first hours -- Tim Townsend
Profile.
Why I want a wife -- Judy Brady
The myth of the Latin woman: I just met a girl named Maria -- Judith Ortiz Cofer
The company man -- Ellen Goodman
Me talk pretty one day -- David Sedaris
Black men and public space -- Brent Staples
Review.
Sony: 36-inch HD-ready TV -- Al Griffin
Historical fiction to historical fact: "Gangs of New York" and the whitewashing of history -- Benjamin Justice
This Eminem may melt your ears -- Mike Ross
Deliverance -- David E. Thigpen
Gibson's movie on Jesus greatest story ever filmed -- Cal Thomas
Argumentation.
The case against college -- Caroline Bird
Let's just admit that Iraq was a disaster -- Rod Liddle
Low class: how progressive education hurts the poor and minorities -- Richard Nadler
A more perfect union -- Barack Obama
Gay -- Anna Quindlen
Critical analysis.
Short stories for critical analysis.
Dead men's path -- Chinua Achebe
The story of an hour -- Kate Chopin
The monkey garden -- Sandra Cisneros
A rose for Emily -- William Faulkner
The yellow wallpaper -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The lottery -- Shirley Jackson
Balthazar's marvelous afternoon -- Gabriel García Márquez
The things they carried -- Tim O'Brien
Ligeia -- Edgar Allan Poe
María Concepción -- Katherine Anne Porter
Poetry for critical analysis.
Dover beach -- Matthew Arnold
The fish -- Elizabeth Bishop
We real cool -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Because I could not stop for death-- -- Emily Dickinson
Mending wall -- Robert Frost
Those winter Sundays -- Robert Hayden
Theme for English B -- Langston Hughes
Bitter Strawberries -- Sylvia Plath
My Papa's Waltz -- Theodore Roethke
Do not go gentle into that good night -- Dylan Thomas
Ethnography.
Marrying absurd -- Joan Didion
Fostering hope -- Rob Gurwitt
Tweens: ten going on sixteen -- Kay S. Hymowitz
American regional costume -- Alison Lurie
We're number one (percent): what's right about the rich and always with us... and wrong about the poor -- Alan Reynolds,-- Richard Nadler.

Edition Notes

Custom edition for Texas A&M International University, First Year Writing Program.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 397 pages
Number of pages
397

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL37747186M
Internet Archive
mercuryreadercus0000unse_x1e5
ISBN 10
0558076904
ISBN 13
9780558076900
OCLC/WorldCat
876081018

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