PART 1 A READER''S GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF WRITING 1. Reading and Thinking about Literature: A World of Meaning Meaningless Words and the World of Meaning Literary Form and Assumptions about Meaning The Point of Literary Meaning Forming Literary Meaning Making Sense Making Meaning out of Misunderstanding Roberto Fernández, Wrong Channel Deciphering Meaning: The Riddle Game The Riddle as a Literary Device Sylvia Plath, Metaphors Reading for What Does Not Make Sense Strategies for Reading Critically Writer @ Work: The Reading Process Sharon Olds, The Possessive Student Writing: Justin Schiel reads and annotates The Possessive Clarity and Ambiguity of Language Working with Ambiguity in Literary Writing Reading versus Writing Working with Clarity in Nonliterary Writing: The Summary Student Writing: Four Summaries ofThe Possessive Clarity and Ambiguity in Storytelling Franz Kafka, Before the Law Student Writing: Two Summaries of Before the Law Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wife''s Story Clarity and Ambiguity of Argument: Summarizing an Essay Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks, I Hate Trees Student Writing: Melissa Kim, A Summary of Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks, "I Hate Trees" Clarity and Ambiguity in Literary Genres Plot Conventions and Expectations Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings Clarity and Ambiguity in Visual Culture Visual Assumptions Writing a Summary of an Image Cornelius Gijsbrechts, Letter Rack with Christian V''s Proclamation Student Writing: Alan Green, A Summary of Letter Rack with Christian V''s Proclamation Looking Back: A World of Meaning 2. Argument, Critical Thinking, and the Process of Writing: Writing in the World Crafting an Argument Analyzing an Argumentative Essay May Sarton, The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life Making Your Own Argument Argument versus Thesis From Idea to Thesis Chinua Achebe, Dead Men''s Path Student Idea Map for "Dead Men''s Path" Critical Thinking: Reading, Questioning, Writing Writer @ Work: Critical Thinking from First Impressions to Finished Paper Critical Thinking Step by Step Mary Oliver, August Student Writing: Katherine Randall, sample writing from drafts to final paper Student Writing: Three Summaries of August Critical Thinking in a Comparison Paper Ellen Hunnicutt, Blackberries Leslie Norris, Blackberries Student Writing: Cynthia Wilson, Leave the Picking to the Boys Thinking Critically about Visual Culture Signs Still Images Sequential Images Moving Images Interactive Images Looking Back: Writing in the World 3. Planning, Writing, and Revising a Research Paper: Investigating the World Finding a Topic Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Paper Topic and Revised Paper Topic Finding, Evaluating, and Summarizing Your Sources in the Annotated Bibliography Primary Sources and Secondary Sources The MLA Works-Cited List Plagiarism and How to Avoid It The Annotated Bibliography Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Annotated Bibliography--Source #1 From the Annotated Bibliography to the First Draft Making an Outline Student Writing: Rob Lanney, The Castle in Productions and Films of Hamlet--An Outline Writing the First Draft MLA In-Text Citations Writer @ Work: Revising Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Hamlet''s Elsinore-Initial draft Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Hamlet''s Elsinore Student Writing: Lorraine Betesh, The Brooklyn Bridge in Illustrations and Photographs Looking Back: Investigating the World PART 2 The Writer''s World: Genres And The Craft Of Literature 4. Stories: Describing the World What Is Fiction? Fiction and History Types of Fiction The Craft of Fiction Padgett Powell, A Gentleman''s C The Materials of Fiction The Tools of Fiction Writer @ Work: Description Julia Alvarez, Snow Student Writing: Hashim Naseem, The Motherland Describing the World: Topics for Essays Looking Back: Describing the World 5. Poetry: Imagining the World What Is Poetry? Prosody: An Introduction Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Metrical Feet-- Lesson for a Boy Poetic Diction Poetic Forms Writer @ Work: Three Poems about Social Relations William Blake, London Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Mary Oliver, Singapore Student Writing: Melissa Pabon, Summaries of London, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Singapore Student Writing: Melissa Pabon, The Importance of Everyday Occurrences in London, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Singapore Imagining the World: Topics for Essays Writer @ Work: Reading and Writing Essays Student Writing: Scott Nathanson, The Meaning of Death Types of Essays Looking Back: Imagining the World 6. Plays: Staging the World What Is a Play? Susan Glaspell, Trifles Dramatic Structure Characters Staging Form and Genre Writer @ Work: Writing about a Live or a Taped Performance Samuel Beckett, Krapp''s Last Tape Student Writing: Joshua Cohen,Notes on Krapp''s Last Tape, directed by Atom Egoyan Student Writing: Joshua Cohen, Response Paper on Krapp''s Last Tape Staging the World: Topics for Essays Looking Back: Staging the World 7.

Essays: Explaining the World What Is Nonfiction? The Essay Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth Annie Dillard, Death of a Moth Analyzing an Essay Writer @ Work: Arguing with an Essay George Packer, How Susie Bayer''s T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama''s Back Student Writing: Jacquelynn Messina, The Used Clothes Trade: Who Benefits? Explaining the World: Topics for Essays Looking Back: Explaining the World 8. Working with Literary Devices: Writing the World Literary Devices Patterns of Repetition Patterns of Inversion Patterns of Contradiction Ambiguity and Double Meaning Imagery Referring to Other Texts Word Pictures John Keats, Drawing of the Sosibios Vase John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn Hiram Powers, Greek Slave Elizabeth Barrett Browning, On Hiram Powers'' Greek Slave Peter Brueghel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus William Carlos Williams, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts Michael Hamburger, Lines on Brueghel''s Icarus Robert Hass, Heroic Simile Akira Kurosawa, movie still from The Seven Samurai Writing the World: Topics for Essays PART 3 The Reader''s World: Exploring The Themes Of Literature 9. Me and You: The World Closest to Us Photographs from The Family of Man FAMILIES **Dagoberto Gilb, Look on the Bright Side Flannery O''Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find James Baldwin, Sonny''s Blues Jonathan Safran Foer, A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease Alice Walker, Everyday Use Mary TallMountain, There Is No Word for Goodbye Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays Lucille Clifton, wishes for sons **Rita Dove, Daystar **A.R. Ammons, Coward William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Scott Russell Sanders, Buckeye Amy Tan, from Mother Tongue Families: Topics for Essays CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Jamaica Kincaid, Girl Lorrie Moore, The Kid''s Guide to Divorce James Joyce, Araby John Updike, A & P **Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Little Red Cap Anne Sexton, Red Riding Hood Agha Shahid Ali, The Wolf''s Postscript to "Little Red Riding Hood" Gary Soto, Behind Grandma''s House **Martin Espada, Why I Went to College Langston Hughes, Salvation Children and Adolescents: Topics for Essays LOVERS John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums **Haruki Murakami, The Year of Spaghetti Amanda Holzer, Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape Uruttiran, What She Said to Her Girl Friend Ono no Komachi, Three tanka William Shakespeare, How oft, when thou, my music, music play''st (Sonnet 128) William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116) William Shakespeare, When, in disgrace with fortune and men''s eyes (Sonnet 29) John Donne, The Flea **Monica Ferrell, Rime Riche Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee T. S.

Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock **Jack Spicer, A Book of Music Sei Shonagon, fromHateful Things ***Joan Didion, Marrying Absurd Lovers: Topics for Essays Working Further with the World Closest to Us **Reading Globally, Writing Locally: Marjane Satrapi and The Literature of the Middle East **Marjane Satrapi, from Persepolis **Marjane Satrapi, Iran and Israel **From 1001 Nights: The Wonderful Bag **Yehuda Amichal, The Diameter of the Bomb **Yehuda Amichal, Wildpeace **Mahmoud Darwish, Who Am I without Exile? **Working Further with the Literature of the Middle East 10. Beliefs and Ethics: The Worlds around Us Images of Good and Evil in the World BELIEFS: CREATIONS AND BEGINNINGS from Genesis Salman Rushdie, Imagine There''s No Heaven K. C. Cole, Murmurs **Italo Calvino, All at One Point Creati.