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Table of Contents:
PART ONE   Composing: An Overview Chapter 1   The Prewriting Process    Reading for Writing    James Joyce, “Eveline”    Who Are My Readers?    Analyze the Audience    Prewriting Exercise    Why Am I Writing?    Reasons for Writing    Prewriting Exercise    What Ideas Should I Use?    Reading and Thinking Critically    Discovering and Developing Ideas    Self-Questioning    Directed Freewriting    Problem Solving    Clustering    Figure 1-1 Directed Freewriting    Figure 1-2 Clustering    What Point Should I Make?    Relate a Part to the Whole    How Do I Find the Theme?    Stating the Thesis   Chapter 2   The Writing Process    How Should I Organize My Ideas?    Arguing Your Interpretation    The Elements of Good Argument    Building an Effective Argument    Arranging the Ideas    Chart 2-1  Checklist for Arguing an Interpretation    Developing with Details    Questions for Consideration    Maintaining a Critical Focus       Distinguishing Critical Comments from Plot Details    How Should I Begin?    Postpone If Nothing Comes    Write an Appealing Opening    State the Thesis    How Should I End?    Relate the Discussion to Theme    Postpone or Write Ahead    Write an Emphatic Final Sentence    Composing the First Draft    Pausing to Rescan    Quoting from Your Sources    Sample Student Paper: First Draft   Chapter 3   Writing a Convincing Argument    Interpreting and Arguing    Identifying Issues    Making Claims    Using Evidence    Using Reasoning    Answering Opposing Views    Organizing Your Argument    Using the Inductive Approach    Making a Counterargument    Arguing Through Comparison    Sample Student Essay       Dagoberto Gilb, “Love in L. A.”   Chapter 4   The Rewriting Process    What Is Revision?    Getting Feedback: Peer Review    Revising in Peer Groups    Chart 4-1  Peer Evaluation Checklist for Revision    What Should I Add or Take Out?    Outlining After the First Draft    Making the Outline    Checking the Outline    Sample After-Writing Outline    Examining the Sample Outline    Outlining Exercise    What Should I Rearrange?    Does It Flow?    What Is Editing?    What Sentences Should I Combine?    Chart 4-2 Transitional Terms for All Occasions    Chart 4-3  Revising Checklist    Combining for Conciseness    Sentence Combining Exercise    Rearranging for Emphasis and Variety    Varying the Pattern    Exercise on Style    Which Words Should I Change?    Check Your Verbs    Use Active Voice Most of the Time    Use Passive If Appropriate    Exercise on Passive Voice    Feel the Words    Exercise on Word Choice    Attend to Tone    Use Formal Language    What Is Proofreading?    Try Reading It Backward    Look for Your Typical Errors    Read the Paper Aloud    Find a Friend to Help    Chart 4-4  Proofreading Checklist    Sample Student Paper: Final Draft   Chapter 5   Researched Writing    Using Library Source in Your Writing    Conducting Your Research    Locating Sources    Using the Online Catalog    Using Indexes and Databases    Using the Internet    Chart 5-1  Internet Sources for Literature    Evaluating Online Sources    Using Reference Works in Print    Working with Sources    Taking Notes    Using a Research Notebook    Using the Printout/Photocopy Option    Figure 5-1  Sample Entry from a Divided-Page Research Notebook    Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting    Devising a Working Outline    Writing a First Draft    Organizing Your Notes    Using Quotations and Paraphrases    Integrating Sources    Block Quotations    Quoting from Primary Sources    Avoiding Plagiarism    Rewriting and Editing    Documenting Your Sources    Revising the Draft    Formatting Your Paper    Chart 5-2   Checklist for Revising and Editing Researched Writing    Sample Documented Student Paper    Sample Published Article    Explanation of the MLA Documentation Style    In-Text Citations    Preparing the List of Works Cited    Sample Entries for a List of Works Cited    Citing Print Publications    Citing Online Publications    Citing Other Common Sources    PART TWO Writing About Short Fiction Chapter 6   How Do I Read Short Fiction?    Notice the Structure    Consider Point of View and Setting    Study the Characters    Foils    Look for Specialized Literary Techniques    Examine the Title    Investigate the Author’s Life and Times    Continue Questioning to Discover Theme    Chart 6-1  Critical Questions for Reading the Short Story   Chapter 7   Writing About Structure    What Is Structure?    How Do I Discover Structure?    Looking at Structure    Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”    Prewriting    Finding Patterns    Writing    Grouping Details    Relating Details to Theme    Ideas for Writing    Ideas for Responsive Writing    Ideas for Critical Writing    Ideas for Researched Writing    Rewriting    Integrating Quotations Gracefully    Exercise on Integrating Quotations   Chapter 8   Writing About Imagery and Symbolism    What Are Images?    What Are Symbols?    Archetypal Symbols    Phallic and Yonic Symbols    How Will I Recognize Symbols?    Reference Works on Symbols    Looking at Images and Symbols    Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”    Prewriting    Interpreting Symbols    Writing    Producing a Workable Thesis    Exercise on Thesis Statements    Ideas for Writing    Ideas for Responsive Writing    Ideas for Critical Writing    Ideas for Researched Writing    Rewriting    Sharpening the Introduction    Sample Student Paper on Symbolism:  Second and Final Drafts   Chapter 9   Writing About Point of View    What Is Point of View?    Describing Point of View    Looking at Point of View    Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”    Prewriting    Analyzing Point of View    Writing    Relating Point of View to Theme    Ideas for Writing    Ideas for Responsive Writing    Ideas for Critical Writing    Ideas for Researched Writing    Rewriting    Sharpening the Conclusion   Chapter 10    Writing About Setting and Atmosphere    What Are Setting and Atmosphere?    Looking at Setting and Atmosphere    Tobias Wolff, “Hunters in the Snow”    Prewriting    Examining the Elements of Setting    Writing    Discovering an Organization    Ideas for Writing    Ideas for Responsive Writing    Ideas for Critical Writing    Ideas for Researched Writing    Rewriting    Checking Your Organization    Improving the Style: Balanced Sentences    Sentence Modeling Exercise   Chapter 11    Writing About Theme    What Is Theme?    Looking at Theme    Flannery O'Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”    Prewriting    Figuring Out the Theme    Stating the Theme    Writing    Choosing Supporting Details    Ideas for Writing    Ideas for Responsive Writing    Ideas for Critical Writing    Ideas for Researched Writing    Rewriting    Achieving Coherence    Checking for Coherence    Editing    Repeat Words and Synonyms    Try Parallel Structure   Casebook: Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”    Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”    The Story’s Origins    Four Critical Interpretations    Topics for Discussion and Writing    Ideas for Researched Writing   Anthology of Short Fiction    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) “The Birthmark”    Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)  “The Cask of Amontillado”    Kate Chopin (1851-1904)  “Désirée’s Baby”    “The Story of an Hour”    Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)  “The Yellow Wallpaper”    Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)  “Hands”    Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)  “The Grave”    Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)  “Spunk”    William Faulkner (1897-1962)  “Barn Burning”    Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)  “Hills Like White Elephants”    Langston Hughes (1902-1967)  “Salvation”    John Steinbeck (1902-1968)  “The Chrysanthemums”    Richard Wright (1908-1960)  “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”    Tillie Olsen (1913-2007)  “I Stand Here Ironing”    Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- )  “Seventeen Syllables”    Rosario Morales (1930- )  “The Day It Happened”    Chinua Achebe (1930- )  “Dead Men’s Path”    Alice Munro (1931- )  “An Ounce of Cure”    Andre Dubus  (1956-1999)  “The Fat Girl”    Raymond Carver (1938-1988)  “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”    Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)  “The Lesson”    Bharati Mukherjee (1940- )  “A Father”    T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948- )  “The Love of My Life”    Sandra Cisneros (1954- )   “Geraldo No Last Name”    Louise Erdrich (1954- )   “The Red Convertible”    Ha Jin (1956- )  “The Bridegroom”    Katherine Min (1959- )  “Secondhand World”    Julie Otsuka (1962- )   “Evacuation Order No. 19”    Sherman Alexie (1966- )  “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”   A Portfolio of Science Fiction Stories    Ray Bradbury (1920- )  “There Will Come Soft Rains”    Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- )   “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”    Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006)  “Speech Sounds”    Kevin Brockmeier (1972- )  “The Year of Silence”    Sample Student Paper: Comparing Dystopias   A Portfolio of Humorous and Satirical Stories    Eudora Welty (1909-2001)  “Why I Live at the P. O.”    John Updike (1932-2009)  “A & P”    Margaret Atwood (1939- )  “Happy Endings”    Ron Hansen (1947- )  “My Kid’s Dog”       David Sedaris (1956- )  “Nuit of the Living Dead”   A Portfolio of Graphic Stories    Art Spiegelman (1948- )  “Time Flies” from Maus II    Alison Bechdel (1960- )   “Fun Home”    Marjane Satrapi (1969- )   “The Vegetable” from Persepolis 2    PART THREE Writing About Poetry Chapter 12    How Do I Read Poetry?    Get the Literal Meaning First: Paraphrase    Make Associations for Meaning    Chart 12-1  Critical Questions for Reading Poetry   Chapter 13    Writing About Persona and Tone    Who Is Speaking?    What Is Tone?    Recognizing Verbal Irony    Describing Tone    Looking at Persona and Tone    Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”    W. D. Ehrhart, “The Sins of the Father”    Thomas Hardy, “The Ruined Maid”    W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen”    Edmund Waller, “Go, Lovely Rose”    Dorothy Parker, “One Perfect Rose”    Prewriting    Asking Questions About the Speaker in “My Papa's Waltz”    Devising a Thesis    Considering the Speaker in “The Sins of the Father”    Describing the Tone in “The Ruined Maid”    Developing a Thesis    Describing the Tone in “The Unknown Citizen”    Formulating a Thesis    Determining Tone in “Go, Lovely Rose”    Discovering Tone in “One Perfect Rose”    Writing    Explicating and Analyzing    Ideas for Writing    Ideas for Responsive Writing    Ideas for Critical Writing    Ideas for Researched Writing    Editing    Quoting Poetry in Essays    Sample Student Response on Persona and Tone    Analyzing the Student Response   Chapter 14    Writing About Poetic Language    What Do the Words Suggest?    Connotation and Denotation    Figures of Speech    Metaphor and Simile    Personification    Imagery    Symbol    Paradox    Oxymoron    Looking at Poetic Language    Mary Oliver, “August”    Walt Whitman, “A Noiseless Patient Spider”    William Shakespeare, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”    Kay Ryan, “Turtle”       Hayden Carruth, “In the Long Hall”    Donald Hall, “My Son My Executioner”    Prewriting    Examining Poetic Language    Writing    Comparing and Contrasting    Ideas for Writing    Ideas for Responsive Writing    Ideas for Critical Writing    Ideas for Researched Writing    Rewriting    Choosing Vivid, Descriptive Terms    Finding Lively Words    Exercise on Diction    Sample Student Paper on Poetic Language: Second and Final Drafts    Comparison Exercise   Chapter 15    Writing About Poetic Form    What Are the Forms of Poetry?    Rhythm and Rhyme    Chart 15-1 Rhythm and Meter in Poetry    Alliteration, Assonance, and Consonance    Exercise on Poetic Form    Stanzas: Closed and Open Form    Poetic Syntax    Visual Poetry    Looking at the Forms of Poetry    Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”    A. E. Housman, “Eight O’Clock”    E. E. Cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how town”    Wole Soyinka, “Telephone Conversation”    Robert Frost, “The Silken Tent”    Billy Collins, “Sonnet”    Roger McGough, “40-----Love”    Prewriting    Experimenting with Poetic Forms    Writing    Relating Form to Meaning    Ideas for Writing    Ideas for Expressive Writing    Ideas for Critical Writing    Ideas for Researched Writing    Rewriting    Finding the Exact Wor    Sample Student Paper on Poetic Form    Sample Published Essay on Poetic Form:    David Huddle, “The ‘Banked Fire’ of Robert Hayden’s ‘Those Winter Sundays’”   Casebook:  The Poetry of Langston Hughes    Langston Hughes: A Brief Biography    “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”    “Mother to Son”    “The Weary Blues”    “Saturday Night”    “Trumpet Player”    “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”    “Theme for English B”    Considering the Poems    Critical Commentaries    Onwuchekwa Jemie, “Hughes and the Black Controversy”    Margaret Larkin, “A Poet for the People”    Richard Wright, “Forerunner and Ambassador”    Karen Jackson Ford, “Do Right to Write Right: Langston Hughes’s Aesthetics of Simplicity”    Peter Townsend, “Jazz and Langston Hughes’s Poetry”    Langston Hughes, “Harlem Rent Parties”    Ideas for Writing About Langston Hughes    Ideas for Researched Writing   The Art of Poetry    The Art of Poetry    Lisel Mueller (1924- )  “American Literature” Edward Hopper (1882-1967),  Nighthawks, 1942    Samuel Yellen (1906-1983)  “Nighthawks”    Susan Ludvigson (1942- )   “Inventing My Parents”     Peter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525-1569), Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1554-55    W. H. Auden (1907-1973)   “Musée des Beaux Arts”        Paolo Uccello (139-1475), St. George and the Dragon, 1470      U. A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009)   “Not My Best Side”        Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), The Starry Night, 1889      Anne Sexton (1928-1974)   “The Starry Night”         Henri Matisse (1869-1954), The Red Studio, 1911      W. D. Snodgrass (1926-2009)  “Matisse: ‘The Red Studio’ ”     Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806), Two Women Dressing Their Hair, 1794-1795    Cathy Song (1952- )  “Beauty and Sadness”      The Art of Poetry: Questions for Discussion    Poetry and Art: Ideas for Writing    Sample Student Response: Poetry and Art   Anthology of Poetry   Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)  “They Flee from Me”    William Shakespeare (1564-1616)  “When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes”    “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”    “That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold”    “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun”    John Donne (1572-1631)  “Death, Be Not Proud”    “The Flea”    “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”    Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)      “To His Coy Mistress”    William Blake (1757-1827)  “The Lamb”    “The Tyger”    “The Sick Rose”    “London”    William Wordsworth (1770-1850)  “The World Is Too Much with Us”    George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)  “She Walks in Beauty”    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)  “Ozymandias”    John Keats (1795-1821)  “Ode on a Grecian Urn”    Walt Whitman (1819-1892)  “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”    Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)  “Dover Beach”    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)  “Faith Is a Fine Invention”    “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?”    “He Put the Belt Around My Life”    “Much Madness Is Divinest Sense”    “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”    “Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church”    “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”    Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)  “Pied Beauty”    “Spring and Fall”    A. E. Housman (1859-1936)  “To an Athlete Dying Young”    “Loveliest of Trees”    William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)  “The Second Coming”    “Sailing to Byzantium”    Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)  “We Wear the Mask”    Robert Frost (1874-1963)  “Mending Wall”    “Birches”    “ ‘Out, Out—’”    “Fire and Ice”    “Design”    Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)  “Fog”    “Chicago”    William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)  “Danse Russe”    “The Red Wheelbarrow”    D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)  “Piano”    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)  “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”    Claude McKay (1890-1948)  “America”    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)  “Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for That Word”    “First Fig”    E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)  “in Just- ”    “pity this busy monster,manunkind”    Stevie Smith (1902-1971)  “Not Waving but Drowning”    Countee Cullen (1903-1946)  “Incident”    Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)  “Sweetness, Always”    W. H. Auden (1907-1973)  “Funeral Blues”    “Lullaby”    Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)  “I Knew a Woman”    Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)  “One Art”    May Sarton (1912-1995)  “AIDS”    Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)  “Auto Wreck”    Octavio Paz  (1914-1998)  “The Street”    Dudley Randall (1914-2000)  “Ballad of Birmingham”    “To the Mercy Killers” Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)  “The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower”    “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”    Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- 2000)    “Sadie and Maud”    Richard Wilbur (1921- )   “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”    Philip Larkin   (1922-1985)  “Home Is So Sad”    James Dickey (1923-1997)   “The Leap”    Maxine Kumin (1925- )  “Woodchucks”    Anne Sexton (1928-1974)   “You All Know the Story of the Other Woman”    Adrienne Rich (1929-   )   “Aunt Jennifer's Tigers”    “Living in Sin”    Ruth Fainlight (1931-   )  “Flower Feet”    Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)  “Mirror”    Imamu Amiri Baraka  (1934- )  “Biography”    Audre Lorde (1934-1992)  “Hanging Fire”    Marge Piercy (1936- )  “Barbie Doll”    Seamus Heaney (1939- )  “Digging”    John Lennon (1940-1980) and Paul McCartney (1942- )  “Eleanor Rigby”    Sharon Olds (1942- )   “Sex Without Love”    “The Death of Marilyn Monroe”    Nikki Giovanni (1943- )  “Dreams”    Gina Valdes (1943- )   “My Mother Sews Blouses”    Edward Hirsch (1950- )  “Execution”      Jimmy Santiago Baca (1952- )  “There Are Black”    Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952- )   “Latin Women Pray”    Cornelius Eady (1954- )  “The Supremes”    Louise Erdrich (1954- )  “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways”    Martín Espada (1957- )  “Bully”    Essex Hemphill (1957-1995)  “Commitments”   Paired Poems for Comparison    Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)  “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”    Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618)  “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”      Robert Browning (1812-1889)  “My Last Duchess”    Gabriel Spera (1966- )   “My Ex-Husband”      Walt Whitman (1819-1892)  “Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances”    Tony Hoagland (1953- )  “Romantic Moment”      Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)  “Richard Cory”    Paul Simon (1942- )   “Richard Cory”      William Stafford (1914-1993)  “Traveling Through the Dark”    Mary Oliver (1935- )  “The Black Snake”      Robert Hayden (1913-1980)   “Those Winter Sundays”    George Bilgere (1951- )  “Like Riding a Bicycle”      Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)   “The Bean Eaters”    Katha Pollitt  (1949- )   “The Old Neighbors”   A Portfolio of Poems about Work    Jean Toomer (1894-1967)  “Reapers”    John Updike (1932-2009)  “Ex-Basketball Player”    Marge Piercy (1936- )  “To Be of Use”    Rita Dove (1952- )  “Daystar”    Dorianne Laux (1952- )  “What I Wouldn’t Do”   Alberto Ríos (1952- )  “In Second Grade Miss Lee I Promised Never to Forget You and I Never Did”    Lynn Powell (1955- )  “Acceptance Speech”    Stephen Cushman (1956- )  “Beside the Point”   A Portfolio of War Poetry    Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)  “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars”    Stephen Crane (1871-1900)  “War Is Kind”    Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)  “Dulce et Decorum Est”    E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)  “next to of course god america i”    Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012)   “End and Beginning”    Peg Lauber (1938- )  “Six National Guardsmen Blown Up Together”    Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- )   “Facing It”    Dwight Okita (1958- )  “In Response to Executive Order 9066”   A Portfolio of Humorous and Satirical Poetry    Don Marquis (1878-1937)   “the lesson of the moth”    Linda Pastan (1932- )  “Marks”    Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)  “homage to my hips”    Ron Koertge (1940- )  “Cinderella’s Diary”    Billy Collins (1941- )   “Introduction to Poetry”    Andrea Carlisle (1944- )   “Emily Dickinson’s To-Do List”    Craig Raine (1944- )  “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”    Jan Beatty (1952- )  “A Waitress’s Instructions on Tipping”    Jeanne Marie Beaumont (1954- )  “Afraid So”      Peter Pereira (1959- )  “Reconsidering the Seven”        PART FOUR   Writing About Drama Chapter 16    How Do I Read a Play?    Listen to the Lines    Visualize the Scene    Envision the Action    Drama on Film    Chart 16-1   Critical Questions for Reading Plays   Chapter 17    Writing About Dramatic Structure    What Is Dramatic Structure?    Looking at Dramatic Structure    Sophocles, Antigone    Prewriting    Analyzing Dramatic Structure    Writing    Discovering a Workable Argumentative Thesis    Quoting from a Play    Ideas for Writing    Ideas for Responsive Writing    Ideas for Critical Writing    Ideas for Researched Writing    Rewriting    Avoiding Unclear Language    Sample Student Paper    Questions for Discussion   Chapter 18    Writing About Character    What Is the Modern Hero?    The Classical Tragic Hero    The Modern Tragic Hero    Looking at the Modern Hero    Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie    Prewriting    Analyzing the Characters    Writing    Choosing a Structure    Ideas for Writing    Ideas for Responsive Writing    Ideas for Critical Writing    Ideas for Researched Writing    Rewriting    Developing Paragraphs Specifically    Exercise on Providing Quotations   Casebook The Glass Menagerie: Interpreting Amanda    Six Critical Interpretations    Burton Rasco, Review of The Glass Menagerie Howard Taubman, “Diverse, Unique Amanda” Durant Da Ponte, “Tennessee Williams’ Gallery of Feminine Characters” Joseph K. Davis, “Landscapes of the Dislocated Mind”    Marc Robinson, “Amanda” Charles Isherwood, “Gritty Polish for a Tennessee Williams Jewel”    Responding to the Critics    Ideas for Researched Writing   Chapter 19    Writing About Culture    What Is Cultural Analysis?    Looking at Cultural Issues    David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly    Prewriting    Figure 19-1   Reading Notes    Exploring Cultural Themes    Posing Yourself a Problem    Writing    Refining Your Thesis    Ideas for Writing    Ideas for Responsive Writing    Ideas for Critical Writing    Ideas for Researched Writing    Rewriting    Coordinating Your Introduction and Conclusions    Sample Student Paper on Cultural Issues   Anthology of Drama    William Shakespeare (1564-1616)  Othello, the Moor of Venice    Susan Glaspell (1882-1948)  Trifles    Lorraine Hansberry  (1930-1965)  A Raisin in the Sun   A Portfolio of Humorous and Satirical Plays    Fernando Arrabal (1933- )  Picnic on the Battlefield    Jane Martin (1938?- )  Beauty    Luis Valdez (1940- )  Los Vendidos    David Ives  (1950- )  Sure Thing   Handbook for Correcting Errors    Proofreading    Correcting Sentence Boundary Errors    Phrases and Clauses    Chart A  Examples of Phrases and Clauses    Fragments    Chart B  Kinds of Phrases    Chart C  Kinds of Clauses    Comma Splices    Run-On Sentences    Clearing Up Confused Sentences    Solving Faulty Predication Problems    Fixing Subject-Verb Agreement Errors    Fixing Pronoun Errors    Correcting Shifts in Person    Correcting Shifts in Tense    Finding Modifier Mistakes    Coping with Irregular Verbs    Getting Verbs Right    Writing in Active Voice    Solving Punctuation Problems    Using Necessary Commas Only    Using Apostrophes    Distinguishing Hyphens from Dashes    Integrating Quotations Gracefully    Punctuating Quoted Material    Writing Smooth Transitions   Critical Approaches for Interpreting Literature     Formalism    Historical Approaches    Biographical    Cultural    Marxist    Psychological Approaches    Mythological and Archetypal Approaches    Gender Focus    Reader Response    Deconstruction    Intertextual Approaches    Where Do You Stand?   Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms Credits Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poetry Subject Index