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Tables of Contents for The Questioning Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xix
Reading, Writing, and the Inquiring Mind
1
36
Questioning as a Way of Knowing
1
2
Reading As Questioning
3
18
Posing and Answering Questions When You Read
3
1
Previewing to State Your Purpose: What Are You Reading For? What Do You Already Know?
4
2
Your Pencil as Probe and the Reading Journal: How Do You Record Impressions for Further Review?
6
1
Locating Thesis and Themes: What Is the Writer Trying to Say?
7
1
Finding Purpose and Audience: What Is the Writer's Reason for Writing? Who Is the Writer Writing For?
8
1
Focusing on Language: How Do the Words Shape the Piece?
9
1
Discovering Structure: How Has the Writer Organized the Selection?
9
1
Observing Development: What Are the Writer's Strategies for Providing Details and Evidence?
10
2
Identifying Tone: What Is the Writer's Attitude toward the Subject?
12
1
Connecting with Other Readings: How Do the Ideas and Issues Relate to Other Selections?
13
1
Reading Actively and Critically: What Questions Does the Reading Stimulate in You?
14
1
The Questioning Reader in Action: Reading Virginia Woolf's ``The Death of the Moth''
15
4
Reading Journal Excerpt
19
1
Previewing
19
1
Reading
19
1
Review Chart: Questions to Ask As You Read
20
1
Writing As Questioning
21
16
Posing and Answering Questions When You Write
21
1
Deciding on Your Subject: What Is the Assignment? What Is Your Topic?
21
1
Limiting Your Topic
22
1
Assessing Your Knowledge: What Do You Know about Your Topic?
23
1
Prewriting Strategies
24
1
Expanding What You Know: Key Questions to Ask Yourself
24
2
Heeding Purpose and Audience: Why Are You Writing and for Whom?
26
1
Stating Your Thesis: What's the Big Idea?
27
1
Organizing and Developing the Paper: How Will You Plan, Arrange, and Advance Your Essay?
28
2
Drafting: How Do You Put Your Ideas Down in Essay Form?
30
1
First Draft Essay on ``The Death of the Moth''
30
3
Final Draft Essay on ``The Death of the Moth''
33
3
Review Chart: Questions to Ask As You Write
36
1
What Do We Mean by Family?
37
73
On Going Home
42
5
Joan Didion
Underground Dads
47
4
Wil Haygood
The Burden of a Happy Childhood
51
5
Mary Cantwell
Stone Soup
56
10
Barbara Kingsolver
Why Mothers Should Stay at Home
66
10
Deborah Fallows
Bad Mom Cards [cartoon]
76
3
Roz Chast
The Paternal Imperative
79
16
David Gutmann
Lament [poem]
95
3
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Joy of Funerals
98
4
Alix Strauss
A World Upside Down
102
7
Cornell West
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Common Grounds: Linking Ideas on Family
109
1
What Is Education?
110
75
University Days
114
8
James Thurber
Campus Climate Control
122
5
Katie Roiphe
Making the Grade
127
11
James Atlas
Sometimes Spanking Can't Be Beat
138
4
Barbara Lerner
The World of White Folks
142
6
Nathan McCall
Her First Ball [story]
148
8
Katherine Mansfield
Only Connect . . .
156
9
William Cronon
Teaching Tu Fu on the Night Shift
165
10
Philip Brady
The Paterson Public Library
175
6
Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Kids in School with Me [poem]
181
3
Langston Hughes
Common Grounds: Linking Ideas on Education
184
1
What Is the Meaning of Love, Marriage, and Fidelity?
185
68
Looking at Women
189
13
Scott Russell Sanders
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses [story]
202
7
Irwin Shaw
Of Marriage and Single Life
209
4
Sir Francis Bacon
When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth [poem]
213
3
William Shakespeare
The Lover
216
14
Harriet Jacobs
Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal
230
4
Thomas B. Stoddard
How Men and Women Got Together
234
6
Blood-Piegan Myth
My Husband's Nine Wives
240
4
Elizabeth Joseph
Lovesickness: The Author's Incurable Affliction
244
8
Cynthia Ozick
Common Grounds: Linking Ideas on Love, Marriage, and Fidelity
252
1
How Does Work Mold Our Identity?
253
59
The Middle-Class Squeeze
257
5
Robert B. Reich
Waking Up the Rake
262
6
Linda Hogan
Black Hair
268
10
Gary Soto
Woman Work [poem]
278
3
Maya Angelou
The Shop on Division Street [novel excerpt]
281
8
Kevin Baker
A Sense of Change
289
6
John Updike
Showing Off
295
5
Quentin Hardy
Income Inequality without Class Conflict
300
6
Irving Kristol
Invention Is the Adopted Child of Necessity
306
5
Henry Petroski
Common Grounds: Linking Ideas on Work
311
1
How Does Language Define Us?
312
67
An Offering to the Power of Language
317
5
Sandra Cisneros
The Quare Gene
322
8
Tony Earley
Why Does ``Everybody'' Now Put ``Everything'' in Quotation Marks?
330
5
Barbara Carton
Queer [story]
335
10
Sherwood Anderson
Names
345
9
Mary McCarthy
Incident [poem]
354
3
Countee Cullen
Slang Origins
357
5
Woody Allen
A Small Plea to Delete a Ubiquitous Expletive
362
5
Elizabeth Austin
Six Days: On Learning a New Alphabet
367
6
Jesse Wegman
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me What Is?
373
5
James Baldwin
Common Grounds: Linking Ideas on Language
378
1
How Does Gender Shape Our Destiny?
379
76
Feminism at the Crossroads
384
8
Katha Pollitt
Women in the Locker Room
392
5
Reggie White
From Five Poems for Grandmothers [poem]
397
4
Margaret Atwood
Listening to Men, Then and Now
401
6
Deborah Tannen
Why Should Males Exist?
407
6
Matt Ridley
Shakespeare's Gifted Sister
413
6
Virginia Woolf
Soliloquy [song]
419
6
Oscar Hammerstein II
Eveline [story]
425
5
James Joyce
No Name Woman
430
12
Maxine Hong Kingston
Nature vs. Nurture [cartoon]
442
3
Art Spiegelman
The Hate Epidemic
445
5
David Leavitt
I Want a Wife
450
4
Judy Brady
Common Grounds: Linking Ideas on Gender
454
1
How Do Law and Politics Affect Our Lives?
455
57
A First Amendment Junkie
459
5
Susan Jacoby
The Declaration of Independence
464
6
Thomas Jefferson
Happy National Apathy Day
470
3
Will Durst
The Cop and the Anthem [story]
473
7
O. Henry
When They Get Out
480
10
Sasha Abramsky
[selected web pages]
490
6
Amnesty International
How Princes Should Keep Faith
496
5
Niccolo Machiavelli
Declaration of Sentiments
501
7
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Op-Art [cartoon]
508
3
Jules Feiffer
Common Grounds: Linking Ideas on Law and Politics
511
1
How Do Science and Technology Affect Us?
512
88
Rappaccini's Daughter [story]
517
25
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Argument against Animal Experimentation
542
11
Patricia Curtis
When Germs Travel
553
11
Howard Markel
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer [poem]
564
3
Walt Whitman
The End of Serendipity
567
6
Ted Gup
A Nation of Nuts
573
5
James Windolf
The Growth Industry of the Next Millenium [cartoon]
578
3
Scott Willis
Take a Bite Out of Smoking [restaurant place mat]
581
3
Clark County, Nevada, Health District
The Doctor in the Bulletproof Vest
584
5
Pablo Rodriguez
Humanities and Science
589
10
Lewis Thomas
Common Grounds: Linking Ideas on Science and Technology
599
1
How Do We Interact with Nature and the Environment?
600
78
Why Do We Age?
604
6
Nancy Shute
Science Has Spoken: Global Warming Is a Myth
610
5
Arthur B. Robinson
Zachary W. Robinson
Naysayers, Thriving in the Heat
615
4
Gale E. Christianson
Leaf-Peepers
619
4
Stephen King
The Spider and the Wasp
623
6
Alexander Petrunkevitch
Full of Wiles, Coyotes Prove Near Invincible
629
7
William K. Stevens
Mint [poem]
636
3
Seamus Heaney
A City Person Encountering Nature
639
5
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Clan of One-Breasted Women
644
10
Terry Tempest Williams
The Killing Game
654
14
Joy Williams
The Lightning-Rod Man [story]
668
9
Herman Melville
Common Grounds: Linking Ideas on Nature and the Environment
677
1
How Do We Characterize Ethics and Values?
678
85
I Have a Dream [speech]
682
6
Martin Luther King Jr.
Porn Again? An Industry Fantasizes about Respect
688
5
Holman W. Jenkins Jr.
With Liberty and Prayer for All
693
6
Michael Novak
Productive in His Own Way
699
4
George T. Crane
Barter [poem]
703
3
Sara Teasdale
Shooting an Elephant
706
9
George Orwell
Is It Ever Right to Lie? The Philosophy of Deception
715
6
Robert C. Solomon
The Ways We Lie
721
9
Stephanie Ericsson
Before the Change [story]
730
22
Alice Munro
Home to the Hills
752
5
Chris Offutt
Little Soldiers
757
5
Michael W. Cox
Common Grounds: Linking Ideas on Ethics and Values
762
1
Credits
763
6
Index
769