Fields of Reading : Motives for Writing
by Nancy R. Comley, David Hamilton, Carl H. Klaus, Robert ScholesEdition: 7th
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2003-11-03
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary
This volume exposes beginning students to some of the best voices from modern intellectual life with a collection of beautifully crafted essays from across the disciplines. The intro. features an essay, "Why We Write," in which Hampl reflects on her own writing process, showing students that even accomplished writers face many of the same challenges that student writers encounter in college assignments. The selections are arranged by topic: values and beliefs; cultures in collision and contact; race and racism; the experience of women; interpreting the body; violence and war; life and death; observing animals; understanding the physical world; human portraits; teaching, learning, and schooling; health, disease, and medicine; and interpreting the past.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. v |
| Thematic Contents | p. xvii |
| For Students | p. xxv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| From Reading to Writing | p. 1 |
| Writing as Conversation | p. 2 |
| Modes of Writing and Thinking | p. 3 |
| The Modes as a Continuum | p. 3 |
| Reflecting | p. 4 |
| Reporting | p. 8 |
| Explaining | p. 15 |
| Arguing | p. 23 |
| Writing across the Curriculum | p. 31 |
| Rereading and Rewriting | p. 33 |
| Using and Acknowledging Sources | p. 35 |
| Arts and Humanities | |
| Reflecting in the Arts and Humanities | p. 43 |
| Graduation | p. 43 |
| Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self | p. 54 |
| Mirrors | p. 62 |
| Learning to Read and Write | p. 74 |
| Mother Tongue | p. 80 |
| Unspeakable Conversations | p. 86 |
| The Work of Mourning | p. 104 |
| Don Ysidro (fiction) | p. 113 |
| Reporting in the Arts and Humanities | p. 117 |
| At Home, at School, in Hiding | p. 117 |
| A New Kind of War | p. 127 |
| Hatsuyo Nakamura | p. 133 |
| The Long Good-bye: Mother's Day in Federal Prison | p. 141 |
| Teaching Literature at the County Jail | p. 150 |
| Labor Day Hurricane, 1935 (fiction) | p. 158 |
| Problems of Art (fiction) | p. 176 |
| Explaining in the Arts and Humanities | p. 190 |
| On Keeping a Notebook | p. 190 |
| Memorywork (fiction) | p. 198 |
| Urban Legends: "The Boyfriend's Death" | p. 209 |
| What High School Is | p. 219 |
| Your Face in Lights: The Secrets of Cinematography | p. 230 |
| The Cave | p. 241 |
| Blocked | p. 247 |
| Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective | p. 260 |
| Arguing in the Arts and Humanities | p. 268 |
| Hiroshima | p. 268 |
| If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? | p. 276 |
| Politics and the English Language | p. 280 |
| Why We Hate Teachers | p. 292 |
| Watching TV Makes You Smarter | p. 301 |
| Something Borrowed | p. 313 |
| Social Sciences and Public Affairs | |
| Reflecting in the Social Sciences and Public Affairs | p. 329 |
| The Way to Rainy Mountain | p. 329 |
| The Story of My Body | p. 336 |
| Pilgrimage to Nonviolence | p. 346 |
| Shooting an Elephant | p. 354 |
| Tools of Torture: An Essay on Beauty and Pain | p. 361 |
| What Did You Do in the War, Grandma? A Flashback to August 1945 | p. 366 |
| Reporting in the Social Sciences and Public Affairs | p. 375 |
| "This Is the End of the World": The Black Death | p. 375 |
| Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member | p. 387 |
| First Observations | p. 395 |
| The Nature Faker (fiction) | p. 405 |
| U.S. Attacked: Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers and Hit Pentagon in Day of Terror | p. 415 |
| Edgy First College Assignment: Study the Koran | p. 424 |
| Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America | p. 429 |
| Explaining in the Social Sciences and Public Affairs | p. 443 |
| The Futile Pursuit of Happiness | p. 443 |
| Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority | p. 453 |
| On the Fear of Death | p. 479 |
| Nonverbal Courtship Patterns in Women: Context and Consequences | p. 486 |
| Zeno and the Distance between Us (fiction) | p. 504 |
| Inside Dope | p. 511 |
| The Naked Face | p. 519 |
| I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go to Hell | p. 536 |
| Arguing in the Social Sciences and Public Affairs | p. 545 |
| A Modest Proposal | p. 545 |
| The Declaration of Independence | p. 554 |
| Letter from Birmingham Jail | p. 559 |
| Sifting the Ashes | p. 574 |
| Isn't Marriage for Procreation? | p. 588 |
| Fools' Paradise | p. 596 |
| Sciences and Technologies | |
| Reflecting in the Sciences and Technologies | p. 605 |
| A Mask on the Face of Death | p. 605 |
| Close Encounter of the Human Kind | p. 616 |
| Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Salt | p. 620 |
| Memoria ex Machina | p. 626 |
| Design | p. 632 |
| Reporting in the Sciences and Technologies | p. 634 |
| A Delicate Operation | p. 634 |
| A Delicate Balance Is Undone in a Flash, and a Battered City Waits | p. 638 |
| Joey: A "Mechanical Boy" | p. 657 |
| Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good | p. 669 |
| Fun with Physics | p. 680 |
| The Other Stem-Cell Debate | p. 692 |
| Explaining in the Sciences and Technologies | p. 703 |
| Why the Sky Is Blue | p. 703 |
| Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall | p. 706 |
| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | p. 711 |
| Our Picture of the Universe | p. 724 |
| Natural-Born Liars | p. 734 |
| Life Is a Narrative | p. 746 |
| Arguing in the Sciences and Technologies | p. 754 |
| The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles | p. 754 |
| Women's Brains | p. 771 |
| A Designer Universe? | p. 778 |
| Show Me the Science | p. 787 |
| The Case against Perfection | p. 793 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 810 |
| Rhetorical Index | p. 815 |
| Author and Title Index | p. 819 |
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