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Strategies for Reading and Writing

Strategies for Reading and Writing

Author(s): William Epperson , Mark Hall , Linda Gray

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Copyright: 1999

Pages: 420

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Strategies for Reading and Writing, ed. William R. Epperson, Linda C. Gray, and Mark R. Hall, anthologizes essays, stories, and poems for students writing academic essays in the liberal arts.  The book focuses on basic skills such as active reading, summarizing, and paraphrasing and suggests writing assignments that provide practice in the classic modes of development (e.g., description, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect)  Exemplary essays of these modes are provided by such writers as Henry David Thoreau, C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jonathan Swift, E. M. Forster, George Orwell, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.  Selected stories provide material for analysis, discussion, and student reflection though such fiction writers as Stephen Crane, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Guy de Maupassant, Flannery O’Connor,  Mark Twain, and John Updike.  Poets from John Donne, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins to T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Theodore Roethke, reveal how poetry contributes in its distinct way to the subjects and themes presented in the essays and short stories.  The book serves as a balanced, concise anthology, a source of ideas and insights from some of our finest writers, stimulating discussion, evaluation, and thoughtful essays, particularly for freshman composition students at Christian colleges.  Accompanied by a composition handbook, it provides material for a well-designed course.

Part One: Experiencing Through Literature Chapter 1: Ways of Knowing Helen Keller, The Day Language Came into My Life Virginia Stem Owens, Telling the Truth in Lies Adam Smith, You Keep Bringing up Exogenous Variables Chapter 2: Perspectives on Men and Women Susan Glaspell, Trifles Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder Ben Jonson, Still to Be Neat Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Andre Dubus, A Father's Story Chapter 3: Perspectives on Youth and Age William Shakespeare, Sonnet Robert Frost, Birches Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Helen Norris, Mrs. Moonlight Chapter 4: Perspectives on the Self and the Other Eudora Welty, A Worn Path James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues R. K. Narayan, A Horse and Two Goats Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Part Two: Identifying Assumptions and Worldview Chapter 5: Values and Beliefs C. S. Lewis, The Poison of Subjectivism Glen Tinder, Can We Be Good without God? Chapter 6: Vocation Dorothy L. Sayers, Why Work? from Ecclesiasticus 38-39 G. K. Chesterton, The Little Birds Who Won't Sing Rabindranath Tagore, The Man Had No Useful Work Thomas Merton, What Is a Monk? Richard Wilbur, A Plain Song for Comadre Ann Patchett, The Language of Faith Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens Synthesis/Essay Suggestions Chapter 7: Historical Knowledge Luke Timothy Johnson, The Character of Historical Knowing Robert Darnton, Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin Richard B. Morris, The Discovery of the Past and the Idea of Progress Kay Boyle, Winter Night Synthesis/Essay Suggestions Chapter 8: Ecology St. Francis of Assisi, The Canticle of Brother Sun Lynn White, Jr., The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis Wendell Berry, Christianity and the Survival of Creation Steven Bouma-Prediger, Is Christianity Responsible for the Ecological Crisis? Vincent Rossi, Seeing the Forest for the Trees Aldo Leopold, Thinking Like a Mountain Leslie Marmon Silko, Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination Mark Williams, Nightmare #4 (Extinction) W. S. Merwin, Unchopping a Tree W. S. Merwin, The Last One Synthesis/Essay Suggestions Part Three: Encounters: Mystery and Manners - Chapter 9: Christian Aesthetics Plato, Parable of the Cave Dorothy L. Sayers, Towards a Christian Aesthetic Madeleine L'Engle, from Icons of the True Richard Wilbur, A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra Synthesis/Essay Suggestions Chapter 10: Myth, Fairy Tale, and the Moral Imagination Clyde S. Kilby, The Christian Imagination Thomas Howard, Myth: A Flight to Reality C. S. Lewis, Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What's To Be Said G. K. Chesterton, Dragooning the Dragon J. R. R. Tolkien,from On Fairy Stories J. R. R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle Vigen Guroian, Awakening the Moral Imagination: Teaching Virtues through Fairy Tales Walter Wangerin, Jr., Flying the Night Wind Frederick Buechner, The Annunciation Synthesis/Essay Suggestions Chapter 11: Epiphanies: The Transcendent Presence Julian of Norwich, from The Revelations of Divine Love Annie Dillard, A Field of Silence Annie Dillard, A Christmas Story Thomas Merton, from The General Dance William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Robert Frost, Desert Places Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn' d Astronomer Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Caged Skylark Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall Rainer Maria Rilke, Do Not Be Troubled, God Rainer Maria Rilke, You, Neighbor God Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Supernatural Love Li-Young Lee, The Gift Mark Williams, Blind Synthesis/Essay Suggestions Chapter 12: The Sacred Ordinary: The Incarnational Imagination Michelangelo, Mine Eyes That Are Enamored of Things Fair Thomas Howard, Mimesis and Incarnation Flannery O'Connor, Novelist and Believer Flannery O'Connor, Parker's Back Flannery O'Connor, The Displaced Person Vigen Guroian, The Iconographic Fiction of Flannery O'Connor C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory Synthesis/Essay Suggestions
William Epperson
Mark Hall
Linda Gray

Strategies for Reading and Writing, ed. William R. Epperson, Linda C. Gray, and Mark R. Hall, anthologizes essays, stories, and poems for students writing academic essays in the liberal arts.  The book focuses on basic skills such as active reading, summarizing, and paraphrasing and suggests writing assignments that provide practice in the classic modes of development (e.g., description, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect)  Exemplary essays of these modes are provided by such writers as Henry David Thoreau, C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jonathan Swift, E. M. Forster, George Orwell, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.  Selected stories provide material for analysis, discussion, and student reflection though such fiction writers as Stephen Crane, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Guy de Maupassant, Flannery O’Connor,  Mark Twain, and John Updike.  Poets from John Donne, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins to T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Theodore Roethke, reveal how poetry contributes in its distinct way to the subjects and themes presented in the essays and short stories.  The book serves as a balanced, concise anthology, a source of ideas and insights from some of our finest writers, stimulating discussion, evaluation, and thoughtful essays, particularly for freshman composition students at Christian colleges.  Accompanied by a composition handbook, it provides material for a well-designed course.

Part One: Experiencing Through Literature Chapter 1: Ways of Knowing Helen Keller, The Day Language Came into My Life Virginia Stem Owens, Telling the Truth in Lies Adam Smith, You Keep Bringing up Exogenous Variables Chapter 2: Perspectives on Men and Women Susan Glaspell, Trifles Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder Ben Jonson, Still to Be Neat Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Andre Dubus, A Father's Story Chapter 3: Perspectives on Youth and Age William Shakespeare, Sonnet Robert Frost, Birches Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Helen Norris, Mrs. Moonlight Chapter 4: Perspectives on the Self and the Other Eudora Welty, A Worn Path James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues R. K. Narayan, A Horse and Two Goats Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Part Two: Identifying Assumptions and Worldview Chapter 5: Values and Beliefs C. S. Lewis, The Poison of Subjectivism Glen Tinder, Can We Be Good without God? Chapter 6: Vocation Dorothy L. Sayers, Why Work? from Ecclesiasticus 38-39 G. K. Chesterton, The Little Birds Who Won't Sing Rabindranath Tagore, The Man Had No Useful Work Thomas Merton, What Is a Monk? Richard Wilbur, A Plain Song for Comadre Ann Patchett, The Language of Faith Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens Synthesis/Essay Suggestions Chapter 7: Historical Knowledge Luke Timothy Johnson, The Character of Historical Knowing Robert Darnton, Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin Richard B. Morris, The Discovery of the Past and the Idea of Progress Kay Boyle, Winter Night Synthesis/Essay Suggestions Chapter 8: Ecology St. Francis of Assisi, The Canticle of Brother Sun Lynn White, Jr., The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis Wendell Berry, Christianity and the Survival of Creation Steven Bouma-Prediger, Is Christianity Responsible for the Ecological Crisis? Vincent Rossi, Seeing the Forest for the Trees Aldo Leopold, Thinking Like a Mountain Leslie Marmon Silko, Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination Mark Williams, Nightmare #4 (Extinction) W. S. Merwin, Unchopping a Tree W. S. Merwin, The Last One Synthesis/Essay Suggestions Part Three: Encounters: Mystery and Manners - Chapter 9: Christian Aesthetics Plato, Parable of the Cave Dorothy L. Sayers, Towards a Christian Aesthetic Madeleine L'Engle, from Icons of the True Richard Wilbur, A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra Synthesis/Essay Suggestions Chapter 10: Myth, Fairy Tale, and the Moral Imagination Clyde S. Kilby, The Christian Imagination Thomas Howard, Myth: A Flight to Reality C. S. Lewis, Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What's To Be Said G. K. Chesterton, Dragooning the Dragon J. R. R. Tolkien,from On Fairy Stories J. R. R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle Vigen Guroian, Awakening the Moral Imagination: Teaching Virtues through Fairy Tales Walter Wangerin, Jr., Flying the Night Wind Frederick Buechner, The Annunciation Synthesis/Essay Suggestions Chapter 11: Epiphanies: The Transcendent Presence Julian of Norwich, from The Revelations of Divine Love Annie Dillard, A Field of Silence Annie Dillard, A Christmas Story Thomas Merton, from The General Dance William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Robert Frost, Desert Places Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn' d Astronomer Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Caged Skylark Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall Rainer Maria Rilke, Do Not Be Troubled, God Rainer Maria Rilke, You, Neighbor God Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Supernatural Love Li-Young Lee, The Gift Mark Williams, Blind Synthesis/Essay Suggestions Chapter 12: The Sacred Ordinary: The Incarnational Imagination Michelangelo, Mine Eyes That Are Enamored of Things Fair Thomas Howard, Mimesis and Incarnation Flannery O'Connor, Novelist and Believer Flannery O'Connor, Parker's Back Flannery O'Connor, The Displaced Person Vigen Guroian, The Iconographic Fiction of Flannery O'Connor C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory Synthesis/Essay Suggestions

William Epperson
William Epperson
Mark Hall
Mark Hall
Linda Gray
Linda Gray