Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric / Edition 2

by Renee H. Shea

Overview

The Language of Composition is the first college-level textbook created specifically for the AP* English Language course. Inside, students will find everything they need to learn college-level reading, writing, and analysis skills: concise introductory chapters on rhetoric, close reading, and synthesizing sources; a rich collection of thematically arranged readings that includes essays, speeches, letters, newspaper columns, as well as fiction, poetry, and visual texts; carefully crafted assignments that reinforce the skills taught in the introductory chapters; and much more. The Language of Composition - designed to help students succeed in the AP English Language course and embark on a successful college career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900312676505
Publication date:	08/06/2012
Pages:	1216
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

A unique team of authors who are AP English Language specialists. Renée H. Shea is a university professor who has directed freshman English programs; Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses are English department chairs at high schools where they also teach AP English. Both Renée Shea and Lawrence Scanlon have been involved with the AP program for many years as faculty consultants and workshop leaders for both the Language and Literature courses.

Table of Contents

Preface     vii
Rhetorical Contents     xxxiii
An Introduction to Rhetoric: Using the "Available Means"     1
Key Elements of Rhetoric     1
The Rhetorical Triangle     3
Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos     4
Ethos     4
Logos     5
Pathos     6
Ethos, Logos, and Pathos in Practice     6
Visual Rhetoric     10
An Example of Rhetoric from Literature     12
Arrangement     13
The Classical Model     13
Patterns of Develoment     17
When Rhetoric Misses the Mark     26
Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Analysis     35
Analyzing Style     37
Talking with the Text     38
Annotation     40
Dialectical Journal     42
Graphic Organizer     43
Analyzing a Visual Text     49
From Analysis to Essay: Writing about Close Reading     51
Glossary of Selected Tropes and Schemes     58
Synthesizing Sources: Entering the Conversation     61
Types of Support     62
Writers at Work     63
The Relationship of Sources to Audience     69
The Synthesis Essay     72
Conversation: Focus on Community Service     74
Identifying the Issues: Recognizing Complexity     81
Formulating Your Position     82
Incorporating Sources: Inform Rather than Overwhelm     84
Education: To what extent do our schools serve the goals of a true education?     87
Central Essay
I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read     89
Classic Essay
From Education     102
Superman and Me     110
Best in Class     113
A Talk to Teachers     123
School     130
Kyoko Mori on Writing     141
The History Teacher (poetry)     143
Eleven (fiction)     144
Visual Text
National Endowment for the Arts, From Reading at Risk (tables)     147
Conversation: Focus on the American High School     150
from Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education     150
Let Teenagers Try Adulthood     153
From The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut     155
A Model for High Schools     158
U.S. Students Fare Badly in International Survey of Math Skills (with table)     160
Spirit of Education (painting)     162
Student Writing: Argument: Using Personal Experience as Evidence     164
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Appositives     167
Suggestions for Writing: Education     173
Work: How does our work shape or influence our lives?     177
Central Essay
From Serving in Florida     179
Barbara Ehrenreich on Writing     183
Classic Essay
The Atlanta Exposition Address     191
The Surgeon as Priest     197
The Traveling Bra Salesman's Lesson     205
From Labour     209
From The Writing Life     212
In Praise of a Snail's Pace     221
I Stand Here Ironing (fiction)     224
Harvest Song (poetry)     230
Visual Text
We Can Do It! (poster)     232
Visual Text
The Great GAPsby Society (cartoon)     233
Conversation: Focus on Working Parents     235
More Working Parents Play "Beat the Clock"     235
Why Women Have to Work     238
The Case for Staying Home     240
Sick Parents Go to Work, Stay Home When Kids Are Ill     242
My Mother, Myself, Her Career, My Questions     243
Don't Call Me Mr. Mom     246
Student Writing: Close Reading: Analyzing Style in Paired Passages      248
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Short Simple Sentences and Fragments     252
Suggestions for Writing: Work     256
Community: What is the relationship of the individual to the community?     259
Central Essay
Letter from Birmingham Jail     260
Classic Essay
Where I Lived, and What I Lived for     276
All Happy Clans Are Alike: In Search of the Good Family     283
The New Community     289
Commencement Speech at Mount Holyoke College     296
Walking the Path between Worlds     300
New York Day Women (fiction)     307
Edwidge Danticat on Writing     312
Child of the Americas (poetry)     313
Visual Text
Reflections (painting)     314
Visual Text
Three Servicemen (sculpture)     315
Conversation: Focus on the Individual's Responsibility to the Community     317
The Happy Life     317
The Singer Solution to World Poverty     319
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor     324
In Westminster Abbey (poetry)     333
Student Writing: Synthesis: Incorporating Sources into a Revision     335
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Parallel Structures     339
Suggestions for Writing: Community      345
Gender: What is the impact of the gender roles that society creates and enforces?     347
Central Essay
Women's Brains     349
Classic Essay
Professions for Women     356
Letters     363
About Men     367
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria     370
Judith Ortiz Cofer on Writing     376
Being a Man     378
AIDS Has a Woman's Face     382
There Is No Unmarked Woman     388
Sweat (fiction)     393
Barbie Doll (poetry)     403
Visual Text
Cathy (cartoon)     404
Visual Text
New and Newer Versions of Scripture (table)     405
Conversation: Focus on Defining Masculinity     408
Why Johnny Won't Read     408
Mind over Muscle     410
Putting Down the Gun     412
Boy Problems (with table)     414
Student Writing: Argument: Supporting an Assertion     418
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Pronouns     420
Suggestions for Writing: Gender     426
Sports and Fitness: How do the values of sports affect the way we see ourselves?     429
Central Essay
The Silent Season of a Hero     431
Classic Essay
The Proper Place for Sports     449
Kill 'Em, Crush 'Em, Eat 'Em Raw!     453
From How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle     459
A Spectator's Notebook     461
The Real New York Giants     471
For Fasting and Football, a Dedicated Game Plan     473
Samuel G. Freedman on Writing     476
Ex-Basketball Player (poetry)     478
Prothalamion (poetry)     479
Visual Text
Untitled (cartoon)     480
Conversation: Focus on Body Image     482
A Unique Take on Beauty     482
Little Sister, Big Hit (cover)     484
Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe     486
Disordered Eating and Body Image Disturbances May Be Underreported in Male Athletes     489
Enhancing Male Body Image     491
Student Writing: Rhetorical Analysis: Comparing Strategies in Paired Passages     493
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Precise, Direct, and Active Verbs     498
Suggestions for Writing: Sports and Fitness     503
Language: How does the language we use reveal who we are?     507
Central Essay
Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood     509
Classic Essay
Politics and the English Language     529
Mother Tongue      542
From Decolonising the Mind     547
Always Living in Spanish     556
Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation     559
Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Official Language     562
From Monkey Bridge (fiction)     568
From Native Speaker (fiction)     569
For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15 and Why I Could Not Accept Your Invitation (poetry)     571
Naomi Shihab Nye on Writing     574
Visual Text
Rumors, Lies, Innuendo (cartoon)     575
Visual Text
Census Data on Language Use in the United States (table)     576
Conversation: Focus on Current Language Usage     579
How Much Wallop Can a Simple Word Pack?     579
The War of Words: A Dispatch from the Front Lines     581
Letters to the Editor in response to The War of Words     584
Pride to One Is Prejudice to Another     586
Help Us Overthrow the Tall/Short Mafia     588
Student Writing: Reflection: Reflecting on "Different Englishes"     590
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Concise Diction     592
Suggestions for Writing: Language     595
Science and Technology: How are advances in science and technology affecting the way we define our humanity?     599
Central Essay
The Bird and the Machine     601
Classic Essay
The Method of Scientific Investigation     609
The Reach of Imagination     616
The Future of Happiness     623
The Blank Slate     630
Steven Pinker on Writing     640
Silence and the Notion of the Commons     641
Into the Electronic Millennium     647
Transsexual Frogs     655
Sonnet - to Science (poetry)     663
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer (poetry)     664
Super- Toys Last All Summer Long (fiction)     665
Visual Text
The Cosmic Calendar     671
Visual Text
Food Fight (cartoon)     675
Conversation: Focus on the Ethics of Genetics Technology     678
On Cloning a Human Being     678
Fearing the Worst Should Anyone Produce a Cloned Baby     681
DNA as Destiny     683
Pet Clones Spur Call for Limits     691
More Couples Screening Embryos for Gender     693
Student Writing: Counterargument: Responding to a Newspaper Column     696
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Coordination in the Compound Sentence     698
Suggestions for Writing: Science and Technology     705
Popular Culture: To what extent does pop culture reflect our society's values?     707
Central Essay
High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies     709
Classic Essay
Corn-Pone Opinions     717
Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors: Cutting the Antiwar Heart Out of a Classic     723
Brent Staples on Writing     725
We Talk, You Listen     727
Dreaming America     734
Show and Tell (graphic essay)     737
Popular Culture in the Aftermath of September 11 is a Chorus without a Hook, A Movie without an Ending     751
Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven (poetry)     759
Sanctuary: For Harry Potter the Movie     760
Visual Text
The Innocent Eye Test (painting)     764
Conversation: Focus on Television     766
Watching TV Makes You Smarter     766
The Argument against TV     777
He Doesn't Like to Watch     779
TV Turnoff Week (detail from a poster)     782
Is Media Violence Free Speech? (debate)     783
Student Writing: Visual Rhetoric: Interpreting a Painting     788
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Modifiers     790
Suggestions for Writing: Popular Culture     795
Nature: What is our responsibility to nature?      797
Central Essay
From Silent Spring     798
Classic Essay
From Nature     807
The Clan of One-Breasted Women     816
Message to President Franklin Pierce     823
An Entrance to the Woods     825
2004 Nobel Peace Prize Speech     834
Against Nature     840
A White Heron (fiction)     848
The Tables Turned (poetry)     856
Visual Text
Cloud the Issue or Clear the Air? (advertisement)     857
Visual Text
Kindred Spirits (painting)     860
Conversation: Focus on Climate Change     862
It's Easy Being Green     862
From Counting Carbons (with table)     867
From The Future of Life     873
Ice Blankets (photograph with caption)     876
Is Climate Change the 21st Century's Most Urgent Environmental Problem?     877
GeoSigns: The Big Thaw     881
Daniel Glick on Writing     888
Student Writing: Visual Rhetoric: Analyzing a Political Cartoon     891
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences     893
Suggestions for Writing: Nature     900
Politics: What is the nature of the relationship between the citizen and the state?      903
Central Essay
On Seeing England for the First Time     904
Classic Essay
A Modest Proposal     914
From The Destruction of Culture     922
Chris Hedges on Writing     929
National Prejudices     932
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid     935
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience     939
Every Dictator's Nightmare     957
On the Rainy River (fiction)     961
Conversation with an American Writer (poetry)     974
Visual Text
Guernica (painting)     975
Visual Text
March 17, 2003 (cover)     976
Visual Text
April 2003 (cover)     976
Conversation: Focus on the Politics of Imperialism     979
Shooting an Elephant     979
The Empire Fights Back     985
In Which the Ancient History I Learn Is Not My Own (poetry)     989
Christiansted: Official Map and Guide     991
What Part of You Lives in Bombay? (advertisement)     994
Student Writing: Argument: Responding to a Quotation     996
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Subordination in the Complex Sentence     999
Suggestions for Writing: Politics     1005
Glossary     1009
Acknowledgments      1015
Index     1023