Main Description
75 Readings Plus is a version of the best-selling
75 Readings that supplies additional guidance for student readers.
75 Readings Plus introduces students to a range of classic and contemporary essays. The text also exposes them to a variety of rhetorical strategies, writing styles, themes, and topics. At the same time, it retains maximum flexibility for the instructor. These essays provide good structural models for rhetorical techniques and raise complex questions about current and enduring issues.
Chapter 1NARRATION 1George 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 PoliceBarbara Tuchman: The Plague
Chapter 2DESCRIPTION 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 Michael Byers: Monuments to Our Better NatureLouise Erdrich: Beneath My House
Chapter 3PROCESS ANALYSIS Diane Ackerman: Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall Richard Marius: Writing Drafts John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes: Alone on the HilltopGretel Ehrlich: Chronicles of IcePeter Elbow: Desperation Writing
Chapter 4DEFINITION Jo Goodwin Parker: What Is Poverty? Ellen Goodman: The Company Man Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a Word Joseph Epstein: The Green-Eyed Monster: Envy is Nothing to Be Jealous OfDagoberto Gilb: PrideRichard Rodriguez: “Blaxicans” and Other ReinventedAmericans
Chapter 5CLASSIFICATION 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 Luc Sante: What Secrets TellBrandon Griggs: The 12 Most Annoying Types ofFacebookers
Chapter 6COMPARISON AND CONTRAST Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts Mark Twain: Two Views of the Mississippi Scott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy PeopleBharati Mukherjee: Two Ways to Belong in AmericaHenry Blodget: China's Biggest Gamble: Can It Have Capatilism Without Democracy? A PredictionGary Soto: Like Mexicans
Chapter 7EXAMPLE AND ILLUSTRATION Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for Superstition Brent Staples: Black Men and Public Space William Zinsser: ClutterBailey White: Forbidden ThingsJohn McPhee: Silk ParachuteRichard Wiseman: The Search for the World’s Funniest JokeMaxine Hong Kingston: Family Ghosts
Chapter 8CAUSE 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 SudanSusan Casey: Our Oceans Are Turning into Plastic . . .Are We?Carlo Petrini: The Value and Price of Food
Chapter 9ANALOGY Plato: The Myth of the Cave Horace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic Prison Annie Dillard: Living Like WeaselsRebecca Brown: Extreme Reading
Chapter 10ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION ARGUMENT TextingJanet Kornblum: Tapping into Text Messaging Michael Rubinkam: Texting in Class Is Rampant Free SpeechNat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled? Alan M. Dershowitz: Shouting "Fire!"
Global WarmingAndrew C Revkin: Global Warming Is Eroding Glacial IcePhilip Stott: Global Warming Is Not a Threat to Polar Ice
PERSUASIONJonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream Richard Rodriguez: Bilingual Education: Outdated and UnrealisticNaomi Shahib Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife Medicine Grizzlybear Lake: An Indian Father’s PleaJonathan Safran Foer: Let Them Eat Dog John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Chapter 11MIXED STRATEGIES Stephen J. Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs Amy Tan: Mother Tongue Lars Eighner: On Dumpster Diving Sandra Cisneros: Only Daughter Ian Frazier: Coyote vs. Acme Frank Bures: Test DaySherman Alexie: Superman and Me
