[*represents readings new to this edition] Preface for Instructors Alternative Tables of Contents By Rhetorical Mode By Purpose By Theme By Clusters and Paired Readings By Chronological Order Introduction for Students: Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and the Writing Process Documentation Guide Maya Angelou, "Graduation" Gloria Anzaldúa, "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" Barbara Lazear Ascher, "On Compassion" James Baldwin, "Notes of a Native Son" *Stephanie Burt, "My Life as a Girl" Danny Chau, "The Burning Desire for Hot Chicken" Sandra Cisneros, "Only Daughter" Eli Clare, "Clearcut: Explaining the Distance" Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Paranoid Style of American Policing" *Samuel Cohen, "Patriot Days" *John Dickerson, "Every Dog is a Rescue Dog" Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook" Frederick Douglass, "Learning to Read and Write" Lars Eighner, "On Dumpster Diving" Stephanie Ericsson, "The Ways We Lie" Jen Gann, "Wrongful Birth" Malcolm Gladwell, "Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted" Rahawa Haile, "Going It Alone" *Nikole Hannah-Jones, "America Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One" Jenine Holmes, "When Pink Ballet Slippers Won't Do" Langston Hughes, "Salvation" Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" *Brooke Jarvis, "Deer Wars and Death Threats" Thomas Jefferson, "The Declaration of Independence" *Walter Johnson, "Guns in the Family" *Christine Kenneally, "Mind Machines" *Robin Wall Kimmerer, "The Council of Pecans" Stephen King, "Reading to Write" *Jill Lepore, "What's Wrong with the Way We Work" Audre Lorde, "The Fourth of July" Nancy Mairs, "On Being a Cripple" Matthew J. X. Malady, "The Ghosts in Our Machines" *Saima Mir, "A Woman of Substance" Bharati Mukherjee, "Two Ways to Belong in America" Tommy Orange, from There, There George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" Mike Rose, " 'I Just Wanna Be Average' " *Kathryn Schulz, "Where the Wild Things Go" David Sedaris, "I Like Guys" Brent Staples, "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space" Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal" Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue" Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" *Jerald Walker, "Breathe" Ai Weiwei, "The Refugee Crisis Isn't About Refugees. It's About Us." Virginia Woolf, "Professions for Women" Hanya Yanagihara, "A Pet Tortoise Who Will Outlive Us All" *Joe Zadeh, "The Tyranny of Time" *Michelle Zauner, "Crying in H Mart" Dave Zirin, "Pre-Game" Glossary of Writing Terms.