Contents:

Mortimer Adler: Mortimer Adler

Maya Angelou: Maya Angelou

Margaret Atwood: Margaret Atwood

James Baldwin: James Baldwin

Dave Barry: Dave Barry

Rachel Carson: Rachel Carson

Stephen L. Carter: Stephen L. Carter

Bruce Catton: Bruce Catton

Judith Ortiz Cofer: Judith Ortiz Cofer

Annie Dillard: Annie Dillard

Frederick Douglass: Frederick Douglass

Gretel Ehrlich: Gretel Ehrlich

Peter Elbow: Peter Elbow

Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin

Henry Louis Gates: Henry Louis Gates

Stephen Jay Gould: Stephen Jay Gould

Langston Hughes: Langston Hughes

Molly Ivins: Molly Ivins

Thomas Jefferson: Thomas Jefferson

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stephen King: Stephen King

Barbara Kingsolver: Barbara Kingsolver

Maxine Hong Kingston: Maxine Hong Kingston

Abraham Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln

Niccolo Machiavelli : Niccolo Machiavelli

H. L. Mencken: H. L. Mencken

Jessica Mitford: Jessica Mitford

N. Scott Momaday: N. Scott Momaday

George Orwell: George Orwell

Plato: Plato

Santha Rama Rau: Santha Rama Rau

Ishmael Reed: Ishmael Reed

Richard Rodriguez: Richard Rodriguez

Carl Sagan: Carl Sagan

Richard Selzer: Richard Selzer

Gloria Steinem: Gloria Steinem

Jonathan Swift: Jonathan Swift

Amy Tan: Amy Tan

Deborah Tannen: Deborah Tannen

Paul Theroux: Paul Theroux

Lewis Thomas: Lewis Thomas

Henry David Thoreau: Henry David Thoreau

Barbara Tuchman: Barbara Tuchman

Mark Twain: Mark Twain

Alice Walker: Alice Walker

E.B. White: E.B. White

Marie Winn: Marie Winn

Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf

Chapter 1: Preparing to Read

Chapter 2: Critical Reading

Chapter 3: Focusing on Structure

Chapter 4: Paraphrasing, Summarizing, and Quoting

Chapter 5: Reading and Analyzing Visual Texts