The Norton Sampler : Short Essays for

By:

Thomas Cooley

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 1993.Edition: 4th edDescription: xxv, 427 pagesISBN:

9780393957396
039395739X

Subject(s):

College readers

DDC classification:

808.0427 NOR

Contents:

Transfiguration / Annie Dillard -- Crossing the bar on a fiberglas pole / David Dubber -- Four generations / Joyce Maynard -- The back of the bus / Mary E. Mebane -- None of this is fair / Richard Rodriguez -- Ducks vs. hard rocks / Deairich Hunter -- Cinematypes / Susan Allen Toth -- What do you call a platypus? / Isaac Asimov -- Mother tongue / Amy Tan -- Garbage / Katie Kelley -- The spider and the wasp / Alexander Petrunkevitch -- How to set a world record / William Allen -- How to write a letter / Garrison Keillor -- The potato: how it shaped the world / Mary Talbot -- A lesson for Mom / Patricia Raybon -- I forgot the words to the National anthem / James Seilsopour -- A giant step / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Barrier signals / Desmond Morris -- Deconstruction in Columbus / Thomas Cooley -- The Maidenform woman administers shock treatment / Ellen Goodman -- Anosmia / Diane Ackerman -- Body imperfect / Debi Davis -- Grant and Lee: a study in contrasts / Bruce Catton -- A nice place to visit / Russell Baker -- Like Mexicans / Gary Soto -- On societies as organisms / Lewis Thomas -- My horse / Barry Lopez -- More room / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Shouting "Fire!" / Alan M. Dershowitz -- A view from the bridge / Cherokee Paul Mcdonald -- Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- No rainbows, no roses / Beverly Dipo -- No wonder they call me a bitch / Ann Hodgman -- The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson -- The island of plenty / Johnson C. Montgomery -- The other difference between boys and girls / Richard M. Restak -- The sexes are not born with different brains / Martha Mednick and Nancy Felipe Russo -- The price of power: living in the nuclear age / Kori Quintana -- Being prepared in suburbia / Roger Verhulst -- Good AIDS, bad AIDS / Randy Shilts -- The war on drinks / Anna Quindlen -- Reply to the U.S. government / Chief Seattle -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Politics and the English language / George Orwell -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- The death of the moth / Virginia Woolf -- The angry winter / Loren Eisely -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion.

Summary: An outstanding collection of brief essays providing high-interest models of the rhetorical modes, along with beautifully written instruction that demonstrates its own lessons about good writing. The Norton Sampler is a rhetorically arranged short-essay reader that provides models and guidelines for writing description, narration, and all the other modes of discourse. The readings are brief, reflecting the length of the essays students are required to write. From classic texts by writers such as Annie Dillard and E. B. White, to contemporary texts from writers like Barack Obama and Marjorie AgosÃn, The Norton Sampler includes a range of readings that will delight teachers and engage students. Texts from a range of everyday mediaâ¬from billboards to coffee mugsâ¬demonstrate that the rhetorical modes play an important role in all the writing and reading that we do. Now with enough writing instruction that students will not need a separate rhetoric.

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Transfiguration / Annie Dillard --
Crossing the bar on a fiberglas pole / David Dubber --
Four generations / Joyce Maynard --
The back of the bus / Mary E. Mebane --
None of this is fair / Richard Rodriguez --
Ducks vs. hard rocks / Deairich Hunter --
Cinematypes / Susan Allen Toth --
What do you call a platypus? / Isaac Asimov --
Mother tongue / Amy Tan --
Garbage / Katie Kelley --
The spider and the wasp / Alexander Petrunkevitch --
How to set a world record / William Allen --
How to write a letter / Garrison Keillor --
The potato: how it shaped the world / Mary Talbot --
A lesson for Mom / Patricia Raybon --
I forgot the words to the National anthem / James Seilsopour --
A giant step / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. --
Barrier signals / Desmond Morris --
Deconstruction in Columbus / Thomas Cooley --
The Maidenform woman administers shock treatment / Ellen Goodman --
Anosmia / Diane Ackerman --
Body imperfect / Debi Davis --
Grant and Lee: a study in contrasts / Bruce Catton --
A nice place to visit / Russell Baker --
Like Mexicans / Gary Soto --
On societies as organisms / Lewis Thomas --
My horse / Barry Lopez --
More room / Judith Ortiz Cofer --
Shouting "Fire!" / Alan M. Dershowitz --
A view from the bridge / Cherokee Paul Mcdonald --
Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner --
No rainbows, no roses / Beverly Dipo --
No wonder they call me a bitch / Ann Hodgman --
The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson --
The island of plenty / Johnson C. Montgomery --
The other difference between boys and girls / Richard M. Restak --
The sexes are not born with different brains / Martha Mednick and Nancy Felipe Russo --
The price of power: living in the nuclear age / Kori Quintana --
Being prepared in suburbia / Roger Verhulst --
Good AIDS, bad AIDS / Randy Shilts --
The war on drinks / Anna Quindlen --
Reply to the U.S. government / Chief Seattle --
A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift --
Politics and the English language / George Orwell --
Once more to the lake / E.B. White --
The death of the moth / Virginia Woolf --
The angry winter / Loren Eisely --
On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion.

An outstanding collection of brief essays providing high-interest models of the rhetorical modes, along with beautifully written instruction that demonstrates its own lessons about good writing.

The Norton Sampler is a rhetorically arranged short-essay reader that provides models and guidelines for writing description, narration, and all the other modes of discourse. The readings are brief, reflecting the length of the essays students are required to write.

From classic texts by writers such as Annie Dillard and E. B. White, to contemporary texts from writers like Barack Obama and Marjorie AgosÃn, The Norton Sampler includes a range of readings that will delight teachers and engage students. Texts from a range of everyday mediaâ¬from billboards to coffee mugsâ¬demonstrate that the rhetorical modes play an important role in all the writing and reading that we do.

Now with enough writing instruction that students will not need a separate rhetoric.

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