Patterns of Exposition by Robert A. Schwegler

* mark sections new to this edition.

 

1. Reading as a Writer

Brent Staples, Just Walk on By

2. Ways of Writing

 

3. Example

Andy Rooney, In and Of Ourselves We Trust

*Atul Gewande, Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth

*Barry Schwartz, When It’s All Too Much

Mary Karr, Dysfunctional Nation

 

Issues and Ideas: Identities

            Wil Haygood, Underground Dads

            *Susan Straight, Cartilage

            Alan Buczynski, Iron Bonding

4. Classification

Judith Stone, Personal Beast

Michael Ventura, Don’t Even Think About It!

*Salman Akhtar, Remembering the Dead

 

Issues and Ideas: Images of Sound and Sight

            *Alissa Quart, Cinema of the In-Crowd

            Brenda Peterson, Life Is a Musical

5. Comparison

Twain, Two Ways of Seeing a River

Catton, Grant and Lee, A Study of Contrasts

Lopate, A Smoker with a Nonsmoker

Walker, Am I Blue?

 

Issues and Ideas: Gender Differences

            Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds

            Wade, Method and Madness: How Men and Women Think

            *Catherine Seipp, Meet Today’s Dad

6. Analogy

*Lan Samantha Chang, Like Robinson Crusoe

Janisse Ray, Built by Fire

 

Issues and Ideas: Humans and Animals

             Tom Wolfe, O Rotten Gotham–Sliding Down into the Behavioral Sink

            Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson

7. Process

Buhler and Graham, Give Juggling a Hand

*Sridhar Pappu, Deranged Marriage

David Fontana, Working with Dreams

Jim Harrison, Going Places

 

Issues and Ideas: Advertising and Appearances

            Twitchell, We Build Excitement

            Kilbourne, Beauty . . . And the Beast of Advertising

            Mitford, To Dispel Fears of Live Burial

8. Cause-Effect

Perry and Dawson, What’s Your Best Time of Day

Murphy, Hello Darkness

Roach, My Father the Geezer

 

Issues and Ideas: Consuming

             Kowinski, Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled

            *Linn, Branded Babies: From Cradle to Consumer

9. Definition

Welsch, Gypsies

Berendt, The Hoax

*Dagoberto Gilb, Pride

*Carina Chocano, Pilgrim

 

Issues and Ideas: Defining Values and Roles

            Carter, The Insufficiency of Honesty

            von Kreisler, Courage

            Chambers, Mother’s Day

            Savage, Role Reversal

10. Description

Soto, The Jacket

Simpson, The War Room at Bellevue 

*Donna Tartt, Heaven on a Hummingbird’s Wing

 

Issues and Ideas: Place and Person

            White, Once More to the Lake

11. Narration

Gansberg, 38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police

Canada, Pain

 

Issues and Ideas

            *Kumiko Makihara, Making the Grade

            Issues and Ideas: Stories and Values

            Orwell, A Hanging

            Worcester, Arms and the Man

            Lee, Uncle Chul Gets Rich

12. Induction and Deduction

Friday, The Age of Beauty

Baumeister, Violent Pride

 

Issues and Ideas: Digital Realities

            Szalavitz, A Virtual Life

             Herz, Superhero Sushi

13. Argument

Daly, How the Lawyers Stole Winter

*Aisha Tyler, The Ballad of Yogurt Girl

Mills,  Could You Live with Less?

*Anna Quindlen, The Drug That Pretends It Isn’t

Lawrence, Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You

Min, Language Lessons

14. Further Readings

Atwood, Pornography

Silko, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit

King, Letter from Birmingham Jail