Mercury reader
Subtitle: Texas A&M International University First Year Writing Program
By: compiled by Lila Lisa Canizales, Bernice Sanchez-Perez, and Deborah M. Scaggs
Publisher: Pearson Custom Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780558076900
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: College readers; English language; Rhetoric
Notes: Custom edition for Texas A&M International University, First Year Writing Program.
Table of contents: title: Importance of reading.; title: How to mark a book  -- Mortimer Adler; title: Learning to read and write  -- Frederick Douglass; title: A homemade education  -- Malcom X; title: Public and private language  -- Richard Rodriguez; title: The case for curling up with a book  -- Carol Shields; title: Advice on writing.; title: Spanglish  -- Janice Castro, -- Dan Cook; title: What is style?  -- Mavis Gallant; title: The maker's eye: revising your own manuscripts  -- Donald M. Murray; title: Writing  -- William Stafford; title: How to write with style  -- Kurt Vonnegut; title: Personal Essay.; title: Finishing School  -- Maya Angelou; title: Shame  -- Dick Gregory; title: Complexion  -- Richard Rodriguez; title: Mother Tongue  -- Amy Tan; title: The first hours  -- Tim Townsend; title: Profile.; title: Why I want a wife  -- Judy Brady; title: The myth of the Latin woman: I just met a girl named Maria  -- Judith Ortiz Cofer; title: The company man  -- Ellen Goodman; title: Me talk pretty one day  -- David Sedaris; title: Black men and public space  -- Brent Staples; title: Review.; title: Sony: 36-inch HD-ready TV  -- Al Griffin; title: Historical fiction to historical fact: "Gangs of New York" and the whitewashing of history  -- Benjamin Justice; title: This Eminem may melt your ears  -- Mike Ross; title: Deliverance  -- David E. Thigpen; title: Gibson's movie on Jesus greatest story ever filmed  -- Cal Thomas; title: Argumentation.; title: The case against college  -- Caroline Bird; title: Let's just admit that Iraq was a disaster  -- Rod Liddle; title: Low class: how progressive education hurts the poor and minorities  -- Richard Nadler; title: A more perfect union  -- Barack Obama; title: Gay  -- Anna Quindlen; title: Critical analysis.; title: Short stories for critical analysis.; title: Dead men's path  -- Chinua Achebe; title: The story of an hour  -- Kate Chopin; title: The monkey garden  -- Sandra Cisneros; title: A rose for Emily  -- William Faulkner; title: The yellow wallpaper  -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: The lottery  -- Shirley Jackson; title: Balthazar's marvelous afternoon  -- Gabriel García Márquez; title: The things they carried  -- Tim O'Brien; title: Ligeia  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: María Concepción  -- Katherine Anne Porter; title: Poetry for critical analysis.; title: Dover beach  -- Matthew Arnold; title: The fish  -- Elizabeth Bishop; title: We real cool  -- Gwendolyn Brooks; title: Because I could not stop for death--  -- Emily Dickinson; title: Mending wall  -- Robert Frost; title: Those winter Sundays  -- Robert Hayden; title: Theme for English B  -- Langston Hughes; title: Bitter Strawberries  -- Sylvia Plath; title: My Papa's Waltz  -- Theodore Roethke; title: Do not go gentle into that good night  -- Dylan Thomas; title: Ethnography.; title: Marrying absurd  -- Joan Didion; title: Fostering hope  -- Rob Gurwitt; title: Tweens: ten going on sixteen  -- Kay S. Hymowitz; title: American regional costume  -- Alison Lurie; title: We're number one (percent): what's right about the rich and always with us... and wrong about the poor -- Alan Reynolds,-- Richard Nadler.