Readings for writers
Subtitle: exploring yourself, your community and the world
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781457670527
Subjects: College readers; Creative writing (Higher education); Handbooks, manuals
Description: Textbook for ENGL 1050, Western Michigan University.
Notes: "A Bedford Select Book"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- The editors -- pt. 1. Personal and autobiographical writing ;; title: Personal and autobiographical writing  -- The editors ;; title: Me talk pretty one day  -- David Sedaris ;; title: Shame  -- Dick Gregory ;; title: A proposal I never thought I'd consider  -- Sabaa Saleem Tahir ;; title: The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven  -- Sherman Alexie ;; title: Cultural baggage  -- Barbara Ehrenreich ;; title: I want to be Miss America  -- Julia Alvarez ;; title: Girl  -- Jamaica Kincaid ;; title: A clack of tiny sparks: remembrances of a gay boyhood  -- Bernard Cooper ;; title: You act white  -- Savannagh Odem ;; title: Those people  -- Thomas Ferragut; title: Personal and autobiographical writing: summative questions and prompts  -- The editors -- pt. 2. Persuasive and public writing ;; title: Persuasive and public writing  -- The editors ;; title: Higher education  -- Stephen Colbert ;; title: Hate cannot be tolerated -- Richard Delgado ;; title: How to say nothing in five hundred words  -- Paul Roberts ;; title: If Black English isn't a language, then tell me what is?  -- James Baldwin ;; title: Let's put pornography back in the closet  -- Susan Brownmiller ;; title: Serve or fail  -- Dave Eggers ;; title: Letter from Birmingham jail  -- Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Persuasive and public writing: summative questions and prompts / -- The editors -- pt. 3. Genre studies ;; title: Genre studies  -- The editors ;; title: Understanding comics  -- Scott McCloud ;; title: Guernica (Image)  -- Pablo Picasso ;; title: American Gothic (Image)  -- Grant Wood; title: American Gothic (Image)  -- Gordon Parks ;; title: Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota  -- James Wright ;; title: One art  -- Elizabeth Bishop ;; title: What work is  -- Philip Levine ;; title: A good man is hard to find  -- Flannery O' Connor ;; title: Making a documentary: a short how to guide  -- Connor Makowski ;; title: Genre studies: summative questions and prompts  -- The editors -- pt. 4. Research-based writing ; Research-based writing / -- The editors ;; title: Working at McDonald's  -- Amitai Etzione ;; title: Does race exist?  -- Michael J. Bahshad and Steve E. Olson ;; title: How computers change the way we think  -- Sherry Turkle ;; title: Against work  -- Christopher Clausen ;; title: Advertising's fifteen basic appeals  -- Jib Fowles ;; title: A nation of welfare families  -- Stephanie Coontz ;; title: The academic and social effects of homeschooling  -- Brandon Ayers ;; title: Research-based writing: summative questions and prompts -- The editors.