Preface for InstructorsAlternative Tables of ContentsBy rhetorical modeBy purposeBy themeBy clusters and paired readingsBy chronological orderIntroduction for Students: Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and the Writing ProcessReadingsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, To My One Love Sherman Alexie, The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue Barbara Lazear Ascher, On Compassion James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son James Boswell, On War William f. Buckley Jr., Why Don''t We Complain? Alan Burdick, The Truth about Invasive Species Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid? Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Paranoid Style of American Policing Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María Daniel Defoe, The Education of Women Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write Brian Doyle, Joyas Voladores Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving in Florida Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We Lie Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Christina Henriquez, Lunch Langston Hughes, Salvation Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence Camden Joy, Surviving Sinatra Jamaica Kincaid, The Ugly Tourist Questions on Rhetoric and StyleStephen King, Reading to Write Verlyn Klinkenborg, Our Vanishing Night Audre Lorde, The Fourth of July Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple Malcolm X, Learning to Read John McPhee, The Search for Marvin Gardens Lydia Millet, Victor''s Hall Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant Plato, The Allegory of the Cave Richard Rodriguez, from Aria Mike Rose, "I Just Wanna Be Average" Oliver Sacks, My Periodic Table David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space John Jeremiah Sullivan, Feet in Smoke Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal Amy Tan, Mother Tongue Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience James Thurber, The Subjunctive Mood Miya Tokumitsu, In the Name of Love E. B. White, Once More to the Lake Colson Whitehead, The Loser Edit Viriginia Woolf, Professions for Women Dave Zirin, Pre-Game Documentation GuideGlossary of Writing Terms.