50 Essays A Portable Anthology Author:Samuel Cohen (Editor) 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology directly addresses students' and instructors' concerns that composition readers are too expensive and too large. Less than half the size of comparable readers, 50 Essays meets the needs of a wide variety of classrooms. The carefully chosen table of contents presents enough familiarity to reas... more »sure instructors, enough novelty to keep things interesting, and enough variety to accommodate many different teaching needs. The editorial apparatus has been designed to support that variety of needs without being intrusive. In its second edition, 50 Essays continues to offer selections that instructors love to teach, with even more flexibility and more support for academic writing.
Introduction for students:
Active reading, critical thinking, and the writing process:
Joy of reading and writing: Superman and me / Sherman Alexie --
Graduation / Maya Angelou --
Men, women, sex, and Darwin / Natalie Angier --
How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldua --
On compassion / Barbara Lazear Ascher --
Notes of a native son / James Baldwin --
Lost in the kitchen / Dave Barry --
Never just pictures / Susan Bordo --
How you became you / Bill Bryson --
Why don't we complain? / William F. Buckley Jr., --
Insufficiency of honesty / Stephen L. Carter --
Myth of the latin woman: I just met a girl named Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer --
Clack of tiny sparks: Remembrances of a gay boyhood / Bernard Cooper --
Keeping a notebook / Joan Didion --
Death of a moth / Annie Dillard --
Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass --
Serving in Florida / Barbara Ehrenreich --
On dumpster diving / Lars Eighner --
Ways we lie / Stephanie Ericsson --
Women's brains / Stephen Jay Gould --
What's wrong with animal rights? / Vicki Hearne --
Salvation / Langston Hughes --
How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston --
Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson --
Letters from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr., --
No name woman /Maxine Hong Kingston --
Notes of a native speaker / Eric Liu --
On being a cripple / Nancy Mairs --
Learning to read / Malcolm X --
Way to rainy mountain / N. Scott Momaday --
Two ways to belong in America / Bharati Mukherjee --
Shooting an elephant / George Orwell --
Aria: Memoir of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez --
I just wanna be average / Mike Rose --
Clashing civilizations? / Edward Said --
Inheritance of tools / Scott Russell Sanders --
Me talk pretty one day / David Sedaris --
Animal Liberation / Peter Singer --
Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton --
Just walk on by: Black men and public space / Brent Staples --
Modest proposal / Jonathan Swift --
Mother tongue / Amy Tan --
Where I lived for / Henry David Thoreau --
Ain't I a women? / Sojourner Truth --
Shooting dad / Sarah Vowell --
Beauty: When the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker --