Arenas of the mind : critical reading for writing /
Lillian Back, Merla Wolk.
- Instructor's edition.
- various pagings : illustrations ; 24 cm
Instructor's manual to accompany Back/Wolk Arenas of the Mind / Maureen Greenwood ... et al. (I-iii-I-74 p.) at end of book.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Underlying Assumptions of This Text -- The Form of an Exploratory Essay -- Putting Theory Into Practice -- How This Book Works -- Choosing Writing Subjects -- Arena I: Conflicts Over Interpretations of Justice -- Introduction to Arena I: Decisions Involving Competing Versions of Truth -- Of Accidental Judgments and Casual Slaughters / Home: Where Open-Mindedness Begins / Shooting an Elephant / Arena Ii: Conflict Over Choices and Responsibilities -- Introduction to Arena II: Decisions Not to Act -- Communication Failures Contributing to the Challenger Accident: An Example for Technical Communicators / Excerpts from Anne Frank's Diary -- The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank / Classroom Conversation -- Student Essay: -- Standing Back: Why We Refuse to Get Involved / Classroom Conversation -- Reading on the Tragedy of Isolation -- In the Region of Ice / Arena Iii: Conflicts Over Determining Our Personal Identity -- Introduction to Arena III: Decisions for Our Future That Require a Consideration of Our Past -- Some American Dreaming / The Achievement of Desire / Classroom Conversation -- Student Essay: -- The Almighty Dollar / Classroom Conversation -- Reading on Growing Up Chinese-American -- No Name Woman / Arena Iv: Conflicts Over Determining A Social Identity -- Introduction to Arena IV: Decisions About Relationships -- A Peculiar Confession / Classroom Conversation -- Student Essay: -- A Symbiotic Relationship / Classroom Conversation -- Reading on the Imagery of Gender -- Images of Relationship / Arena V: Conflicts Between Experience and Ideals -- Introduction to Arena V: Decisions That Ask Us to Integrate Our Real and Imagined Selves -- Two Radio Broadcasts / M. Butterfly / Black Men and Public Space / Long Time Ago / Kai Erikson -- Michelle Vincenti -- George Orwell -- D -- Bruno Bettelheim -- Sue Kisielewski -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Robert Weisbuch -- Richard Rodriguez -- Joe Mooney -- Maxine HongKingston -- Rosellen Brown -- Mary Beth Holman -- Carol Gilligan -- Richard Lobenthal -- David Henry Wang -- Brent Staples -- Leslie Marmon Silko.
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