Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric, and Handbook / Edition 7

by Susan Bachmann, Melinda Barth

Overview

This immediately engaging composition resource features a thematically-organized collection of readings, a modes-based rhetoric, and a concise handbook.

Between Worlds opens with more than 75 multi-genre readings reflecting the human condition of being “in between”—generations, cultures, genders, perceptions, points of view. A research chapter with information on using and documenting sources in MLA and APA style and a brief handbook section are also included. Between Worlds emphasizes the importance of reading, critical thinking, and analysis in all writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205251261
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	09/29/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Part I The Reader

Getting the Most from Your Reading

Active Reading

"Thanksgiving" Ellen Goodman

Discussion of Active Reading

Active Reading as Prewriting

Practicing Active Reading

Chapter 1 Between Generations

The Good Daughter, Caroline Hwang

A Cabdriver's Daughter, Waheeda Samady

The Color of Love, Danzy Senna

Breaking Tradition, Janice Mirikitani

Who Shot Johnny? Debra Dickerson

On Teenagers and Tattoos, Andres Martin

The Only Child, John Leonard

Johnny Depp: A Pirate's Life, Sean Smith

Chapter 2 Between Genders

Who’s Cheap? Adair Lara

Peaches, Reginald McKnight

Blue Spruce, Stephen Perry

Watching My Back, Jeff Z. Klein

Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain, Don Sabo

The Work, Dana Beardsley Crotwell

When a Woman Says No, Ellen Goodman

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates

A Fine Romance, David Denby

Chapter 3 Between Cultures

Living in Two Worlds, Marcus Mabry

Terra Firma—A Journey from Migrant Farm Labor to Neurosurgery , Alfredo Qui~nones-Hinojosa

Mr. Z, M. Carl Holman

Race Is a Four-Letter Word, Teja Arboleda

An Identity Reduced to a Burka, Semeen Issa and Laila Al-Marayati

Hidden in Plain Sight, Zaiba Malik

The Myth of the Latin Woman, Judith Ortiz Cofer

Los Vendidos, Luis Valdez

Crash, Roger Ebert

Bigotry as the Outer Side of Inner Angst, A. O. Scott

Crash Writing Topics

Thinking about the Film, Writing from the Film, and Connecting with other Texts