Readings

This page contains a selection of readings from two OER Readers created for ENG 1101. This page is intended to serve as a visual template for how you might display readings on your own OpenLab course site. You can also use this page to start selecting required readings for your fall course.

Take a look at the readings below and think about:

How many readings do you typically assign in your ENG 1101 section?

Which readings from In Conversation and / or Writing through the Rhetorical Modes will you select?

Are there any readings not listed below that you’d like to assign?

From In Conversation: An ENG 1101 Reader by Sarah Paruolo and Johannah Rodgers

Intro to College Writing

1. “Active Reading” Brogan Sullivan
2. “Mother Tongue” Amy Tan
3. “Superman and Me” Sherman Alexie
4. “Learning to Read” Malcolm X
5. “My Nigerian Culture” Abimbola Ogundipe  
6. “The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found” Colson Whitehead
7. “Campus Racism 101” Nikki Giovanni
8. “Five Stories” Lydia Davis

Building Arguments

1. “I Have a Dream…” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr
4. “The Death of the Book” Ursula LeGuin
5. “Black Men and Public Space” Brent Staples
6. “Williamsburg Renaissance” Jessica Guerra
7. “Silent Dancing” Judith Ortiz Cofer

From Writing through the Rhetorical Modes: An OER Reader by Ashar Foley and Jennifer Sears

Narration and Reflection

1. Reading 1: Barbara Ehrenreich, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Ehrenreich
2. Reading 2: Brent Staples, “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Staples
3. Reading 3: Colson Whitehead, “The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Whitehead

See also: Writing for Success, 10.1 Rhetorical Modes:  Narration

Cause and Effect

1. Reading 1: Diane Ackerman, “The Brain on Love”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing and Research-Ackerman
2. Reading 2: Neil Postman, “Technology as Dazzling Distraction”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Postman

See also: Writing for Success, 10.8 Rhetorical Modes:  Cause and Effect

Process Analysis

1. Reading 1: Nikki Giovanni, “Campus Racism 101”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Giovanni
2. Reading 2: Robert Leamnson, “Learning (Your First Job)”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Leamnson
3. Reading 3: Brogan Sullivan, “Active Reading”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Sullivan

See also: Writing for Success, 10.5 Rhetorical Modes:  Process Analysis

Comparison and Contrast

1. Reading 1: Susan Dominus, “Motherhood, Screened Off”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Dominus
2. Reading 2: Chief Seattle, 1854 Oration
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Seattle

See also: Writing for Success, 10.7 Rhetorical Modes:  Comparison and Contrast

Division, Classification, and Definition

1. Reading 1: Louis Menand, “Live and Learn: Why We Have College”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Menand
2. Reading 2: Michael Pollan, “Unhappy Meals”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Pollan
3. Reading 3: Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Tan
4. Reading 4: Theophrastus, “Characters”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Theophrastus

See also: Writing for Success, 10.4 Rhetorical Modes: Classification
See also: Writing for Success, 10.6: Rhetorical Modes; Definition

Description

1. Reading 1: Annie Dillard, “Living Like Weasels”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Dillard
2. Reading 2: Maxim Gorky, “Coney Island”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Gorky

See also:  Writing for Success, 10.2-3, “Rhetorical Modes: Description and Illustration.”

Argument/Persuasion

Modes of Persuasion-An Overview by Ashar Foley

1. Reading 1: Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-Carr
2. Reading 2: Bill McKibben, “A Modest Proposal to Destroy Western Civilization as We Know It”
   • Questions for Reading, Discussion, Writing, and Research-McKibben

See also:  Writing for Success, 10.9: Rhetorical Modes: Persuasion
See also:  Purdue OWL: Introductions, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusions for an Argument Paper
See also: Purdue OWL: Argument Papers: Rebuttal Sections-