* indicates new to the Eleventh Edition.
Chapter 1
NARRATION
George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant
Langston Hughes: Salvation
Maya Angelou: Grandmother’s Victory
Malcolm X: Coming to an Awareness of Language
Martin Gansberg: Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police
*Barbara Tuchman: The Plague
Chapter 2
DESCRIPTION
James Baldwin: Fifth Avenue, Uptown
E.B. White: Once More to the Lake
Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd
Judith Ortiz Cofer: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
F. Scott Momaday: Revisiting Sacred Ground
Michael Byers: Monuments to Our Better Nature
Chapter 3
PROCESS ANALYSIS
Diane Ackerman: Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall
Richard Marius: Writing Drafts
John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes: Alone on the Hilltop
Edward Abbey: The Serpents of Paradise
*Gretel Ehrlich: Chronicles of Ice
Chapter 4
DEFINITION
Susan Sontag: Women’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?
Jo Goodwin Parker: What Is Poverty?
Ellen Goodman: The Company Man
Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a Word
Joe Epstein: The Green-Eyed Monster
*Dagoberto Gilb: Pride
Chapter 5
CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION
Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood
Kesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in America
Judith Viorst: The Truth about Lying
William Lutz: Doublespeak
Jonathan Lethem: 9 Failures of the Imagination
*Luc Sante: What Secrets Tell
Chapter 6
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
Deborah Tannen: Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers
Mark Twain: Two Views of the Mississippi
Scott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds
Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy People
Bharati Mukherjee: Two Ways to Belong in America
*Henry Blodget: China's Biggest Gamble: Can It Have Capatilism Without Democracy? A Prediction
Chapter 7
EXAMPLE AND ILLUSTRATION
Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for Superstition
Edward T. Hall: The Anthropology of Manners
Brent Staples: Black Men and Public Space
William Zinsser: Clutter
Bailey White: Forbidden Things
John McPhee: Silk Parachute
*Richard Wiseman: The Search for the World’s Funniest Joke
Chapter 8
CAUSE AND EFFECT
Shelby Steele: White Guilt
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone?
Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably
K. C. Cole: The Arrow of Time
Paul Salopek: Shattered Sudan
David Ewing Duncan: DNA as Destiny
*Susan Casey: Our Oceans Are Turning into Plastic . . .Are We?
Chapter 9
ANALOGY
Plato: The Myth of the Cave
Alice Walker: Am I Blue?
Horace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic Prison
Annie Dillard: Living Like Weasels
Chapter 10
ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION
ARGUMENT
Economics and Social Responsibility
Barbara Ehrenreich: A Step Back to the Workhouse?
Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor
Jonathan Kozol: The Details of Life
Nat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled?
Alan M. Dershowitz: Shouting "Fire!"
Global Warming
*Andrew C Revkin: Global Warming Is Eroding Glacial Ice
*Philip Stott: Global Warming Is Not a Threat to Polar Ice
PERSUASION
Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream
Richard Rodriguez: Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic
Naomi Shahib Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists
Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife
Medicine Grizzlybear Lake: An Indian Father’s Plea
Chapter 11
MIXED STRATEGIES
Stephen J. Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs
Amy Tan: Mother Tongue
Lars Eighner: On Dumpster Diving
Andrew Sullivan: This Is a Religious War
Sandra Cisneros: Only Daughter
Ian Frazier: Coyote vs. Acme
Frank Bures: Test Day
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