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| About the book |
With pedagogy that encourages students to respond to print and visual texts, Encounters provides a spectrum of provocative and beatifully written student and professional essays. Alphabetically organized, this versatile reader for first year writing courses offers a strong selection of student essays. The approach emphasizes the writing process and the craft of writing. Professional readings are organized to build from the informal essay to formal academic and argument writing. There is a section on reading and writing about artwork and photography that explains how to analyze paintings and photographs. |
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| About the author |
Pat C. Hoy II, director of the Expository Writing Program and Professor of English at New York University, has also held appointments as Professor of English, U.S. Military Academy, and as senior preceptor in the Expository Writing Program and director of the Summer Writing Program, Harvard University. He received his B.A. from the U.S. Military Academy and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Hoy is the author of Reading and Writing Essays: The Imaginative Tasks (McGraw-Hill) and Instinct for Survival: Essays by Pat C. Hoy II (U. of Georgia Press). He is coeditor of Prose Pieces: Essays and Stories and Women's Voices: Visions and Perspectives. He is coauthor with Robert DiYanni of The Scribner Handbook for Writers. His essays on pedagogy appear in Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy (Southern Illinois University Press), How Writers Teach Writing (Prentice-Hall), and What Do I Know?: Reading, Writing, and Teaching the Essay (Boynton). He has also published essays in Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Agni, Twentieth Century Literature, and South Atlantic Review. Five of his essays have been selected as 'Notables' in Best American Essays. He regularly teaches freshman composition. Robert DiYanni is Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, where he teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities. He has also taught at Queens College of the City University of New York, at New York University in the Graduate Rhetoric Program, and most recently in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University (1968) and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (1976). Robert DiYanni has written articles and reviews on various aspects of literature, composition, and pedagogy. His books include Literature: Reading, Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay; The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry; Women's Voices; Like Season'd Timber: New Essays on George Herbert; and Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions (a text to accompany the Annenberg-funded telecourse, Voices and Visions). With Kraft Rompf, he edited The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry, (1993) and The McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction (1995). With Pat Hoy, he edited Encounters: Readings for Inquiry and Argument (1997). |
| Table of contents |
* - indicates reading new to this edition Student Writers at Work: Drafting and Revising Essays. Robynn Stacy Maines: On Gretel Ehrlich's Looking for a Lost Dog A Spectrum of Student Writing Exploratory Essays: Conducting an Inquiry through Analysis of Experience Michael Cohen: You Can Shave the Beast, But the Fur Will Grow Back *China Forbes: Naked Gian Neffinger: House of Cards Mid-Spectrum Essays: Veering toward Argument by Combining Analysis of Texts and Experience Anna Norris: How to Read Photographs David Reich, "Mother Tongue" and Standard English: Amy Tan's Literary Fusion and Ours Jessica Underwood, Geroge de la Tour's "The Penitent Magdalen" A Spectrum of Professional Writing Lee K. Abbott: The True Story of Why I Do What I Do Gloria Anzaldua: How to Tame a Wild Tongue James Baldwin: The Discovery of What It Means To Be an American Roland Barthes: Toys John Berger: Ways of Seeing: Men Looking at Women Sven Birkerts: The Idea of the Internet *Rosellen Brown: Mojo *Jane Brox: Influenza 1918 John Canaday: The Peale and Bellelli Families Judith Ortiz Cofer: Silent Dancing *Bernard Cooper: Burl's *William Cronon: The Trouble with Wilderness Arthur Danto: Gettysburg Joan Didion: On Self-Respect Annie Dillard: Living Like Weasels Andre Dubus, Giving Up the Gun Gerald Early, Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant Gretel Ehrlich: Looking for a Lost Dog Gretel Ehrlich: Spring Loren Eiseley: The Dance of the Frogs E. M. Forster: Not Looking at Pictures Paul Fussell: Indy Jaclyn Geller: The Celebrity Bride as Cultural Icon Diane Hume George: Wounded Chevy at Wounded Knee Nadine Gordimer: Where Do Whites Fit In? Mary Gordon: Mary Cassatt Stephen Jay Gould: Women's Brains *Gordon Grice: The Black Widow Bernd Heinrich: Sex in Trees Pat C. Hoy II: War Elegy Sue Hubbell: Passionate Science Langston Hughes: Salvation Zora Neale Hurston: How It Feels to Be Colored Me June Jordan: Many Rivers to Cross Jamaica Kincaid: On Seeing England for the First Time Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail Leonard Kriegel: Falling into Life Barry Lopez: The Stone Horse Nancy Mairs: On Being a Cripple N. Scott Momaday: A First American Views His Land Toni Morrison: The Site of Memory Tim O'Brien: How To Tell a True War Story George Orwell: Marrakech George Orwell: Shooting and the Elephant Cynthia Ozick: The Seam of the Snail Sam Pickering: Patterns Roy Reed: Spring Comes to Hogeye Richard Rodriguez: The Achievement of Desire Richard Rodriquez: Late Victorians Phyllis Rose: Tools of Torture Sharman Apt Russell: Homebirth Scott Russell Sanders: Wayland Richard Selzer: A Mask on the Face of Death Randy Shilts: Talking AIDS to Death Leslie Marmon Silko: Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination Susan Sontag: AIDS and Its Metaphors Brent Staples: Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space Margaret Talbot: Les Tres Riches Heures de Martha Stewart Amy Tan: Mother Tongue Lewis Thomas: The Corner of the Eye Lewis Thomas: The Lives of a Cell Alice Walker: Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self Cornel West: Race Matters Virginia Woolf: Old Mrs. Grey Jeanette Winterson: The Semiotics of Sex Students Respond to Three Professional Writers in Depth Maxine Hong Kingston: No Name Woman Silence On Discovery Student Essays on Kingston's "On Discovery" Michelle Bowman: Gender Switching Han Pham,In Essence Dennis Son, Men at the Mercy of Women Richard Selzer The Knife The Masked Marvel's Lst Toehold Imelda Student Essays on Richard Selzer's Work Neeraj Gupta, Sexual Imagery in Selzer's 'The Knife' Zack Whyte, Sacrificing Passion E.B. White Once More to the Lake The Ring of Time The Geese Student Essays on the work of E.B. White Christian D'Andrea, The Human Atlas: Locating E.B. White Radhika Jones, Essentially Egg-Shaped: E.B. White's Image of Life Artworks Paintings and Photographs for Thinking and Writing Mary Cassatt, The Family *Edgar Degas, The Bellelli Family Lisa Fifield, Running Elk Jean A. Ingres, La Grande Oalisque *Henri Matisse, Nude Georgia O'Keeffe, Sky Above Clouds *Charles W. Peale, The Peale Family Pablo Picasso, Guernica Giorgio de Chirico, The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street *Georges de la Tour The Penitent Magdalen Felix Trutat, Reclining Bacchante Photographs *Matthew Brady, Gettysburg Battlefield *Keith Carter, Garlic, Robert Adams *Anna Norris, Financial District 1998 *Anna Norris, Spectators at the African-American Day Parade, Harlem, 1998 *Alfred Stieglitz, 1918 *Alfred Stieglitz, 1931 *Alfred Steigeliz, Flatiron Building |
