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245 0 0 _aCanadian Content /
_c[edited by] Sarah Norton and Nell Waldman.
250 _a4th ed.
260 _aToronto :
_bHarcourt Brace Canada,
_c2000.
300 _axvii, 426 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes a glossary and an author index.
505 _a"Now in its Fourth Edition, this highly successful reader blends first-rate Canadian writing with work by well-known writers from around the world. The diverse topics and themes featured in Canadian Content engage students while providing examples of how various rhetorical strategies can be used effectively. Canadian Content's practical, non-nonsense approach will help students to become better writers, both at school and in the workplace." (Book Cover)
505 _aCONTENTS (BY UNIT)
505 _aIntroduction
_t1. How to Read with Understanding
_t2. How to Write to Be Understood
_t3. Writing the Documented Essay
505 _aUnit One: NARRATION AND DESCRIPTION: EXPLAINING IN TERMS OF TIME AND SPACE
_tIntroduction
_tModel Essay: "A Cultural Exchange"
_tRachel Manley, "Edith"
_tLorne Rubinstein, "Passion Play"
_tDavid Fennario, "Black Rock"
_tCarol Geddes, "Growing Up Native"
_tBasil Johnston, "Bush League Business"
_tMichael Ignatieff, "Deficits"
_tDavid Mamet, "The Rake"
505 _aUnit Two: EXAMPLE: EXPLAINING WITH WORD PICTURES
_tIntroduction
_tModel Essay: "A Manner of Speaking"
_tLarry Orenstein, "Odd Enders"
_tPat Capponi, "Dispatches from the Poverty Line"
_tAnn Hodgman, "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch"
_tMerrily Weisbord, "Being at Home"
_tWade Davis, "The End of the Wild"
_tEva Hoffman, "Lost in Translation"
505 _aUnit Three: PROCESS ANALYSIS: EXPLAINING "HOW"
_tIntroduction
_tModel Essay: "Metamorphosis"
_tPeter Gzowski, "And the Best Damn Stew-Maker too"
_tR. G. Des Dixon, "Martha: One Pillowcase Short of a Pair"
_tPaul Quarrington, "Home Ice"
_tJudy Stoffman, "The Way of All Flesh: The Worm is at Work in Us All"
_tJessica Mitford, "Behinf the Formaldehyde Curtain"
505 _aUnit Four: CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION: EXPLAINING KINDS AND PARTS
_tIntroduction
_tModel Essay: "Listen Up"
_tEva Tihanyi, "Caught in the Net"
_tDennis Dermody, "Sit Down and Shut Up or Don't Sit by Me"
_tDavid Bodanis, "Toothpaste"
_tJudy Brady, "Why I Want a Wife"
_tBertrand Russel, "What I Have Lived For"
_tMartin Luther King, Jr., "The Dimensions of a Complete Life"
505 _aUnit Five: COMPARISON AND CONTRAST: EXPLAINING SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
_tIntroduction
_tModel Essay: "She Said, He Said"
_tGeorge Carlin, "Baseball and Football"
_tRon Marken, "Saskatoon or Regina? How to Choose?"
_tAntanas Sileika, "The View from Italy: Puritans 'R Us?"
_tThomas Hurka, "Should Morality Be a Struggle? Ancient vs. Modern Ideas anout Ethics"
_tAustin Clarke, "A Stranger in a Strange Land"
505 _aUnit Six: Cause and Effect: Explaining "Why"
_tIntroduction
_tModel Essay: "the Trouble with Readers"
_tStephen King, "Why We Crave Horror Movies"
_tBrent Staples, "Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space"
_tLaurence Steinberg, "Bound to Bicker"
_tAnwar F. Accawi, "The Telephone"
_tJohn Dixon, "Saving the Songs of Innocence
_tHelena Cronin, "The Evolution of Evolution"
505 _aUnit Seven: Definition: Explaining "What"
_tIntroduction
_tModel Essay: "Talking Pidgin"
_tMargaret Visser, "Blush, Cringe, Fidget"
_tNeil Bissoondath, "I'm Not Racist But..."
_tCullen Murphy, "Feelin' Groovy"
_t"Laughing Matters"
_tSusan Sontag, "Beauty"
_tLewis Thomas, "Altruism"
505 _aUnit Eight: Argument and Persuasion: Appealing to Reason and Emotion
_tIntroduction
_tModel Essay: "Why Write?"
_t"The Myth of Canadian Diversity"
_tGregory A. Kliever, "Faking My Way through School"
_tDonna Laframboise, "Roll Back the Red Carpet for the Boys"
_tLee Ballinger, "Rock and Rap Have Never Been Better"
_tJane Rule, "The Harvest, the Kill"
_tHal Niedzviecki, "Stupid Jobs Are Good to Relax With"
_tMario Vargas Llosa, "With Pens Drawn"
505 _aUnit Nine: Further Reading
_tRalph Allen, "Clifford Sifton's Medicine Show"
_tMargaret Atwood, "Pornography"
_tPierre Berton, "Wheels: The Car as a Cultural Driving Force"
_tDi Brandt, "Dancing Naked"
_tDenise Chong, "Her Story, His Story"
_tGeorge Galt, "Night Pictures of Peru"
_tDon Gayton, "Watching the Grass Grow"
_tMaggie Helwig, "Hunger"
_tDavid Macfarlane, "Music for Music's Sake"
_tLaura Robinson, "An Athlete's Lament"
_tCarol Shields, "The Case for Curling Up with a Book"
505 _aLinking Essays and Ideas: More Topics for Writing
505 _aGlossary: List of Useful Terms
505 _aAuthor Index
650 0 _aCollege readers.
650 0 _aEnglish language
_xRhetoric.
700 1 _aNorton, Sarah,
_d1941-
700 1 _aWaldman, Nell Kozak,
_d1949-
942 _2z
_cBK