Back to the Lake: A Reader and Guide, with 2016 MLA Update

by Thomas Cooley (Editor)

Back to the Lake 3e includes new chapters on writing paragraphs and using rhetorical modes in academic writing--which shows how the patterns taught in this book are used in the kinds of writing college students are expected to do. New readings are on timely topics that will engage students. Templates and marginal notes that explicitly link the readings and the writing instruction help students apply the lessons in this book to their own writing.

912 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2015

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[Yinzadi]

Table of Contents (5th ed.)

*new to the 5e

PART I: THE WRITING PROCESS 
Chapter 1: Good Writers Are Good Readers

Chapter 2: Putting in Your Oar: Learning the Basic Moves of Academic Writing
Sarah Dzubay, An Outbreak of the Irrational [student annotated] 

*Chapter 3: Elements of the Essay: Topic, Thesis, & Style

Chapter 4: The Writing Process: Planning, Organizing, Drafting, & Revising
Zoe Shewer, Ready, Willing, and Able [student annotated] 

Chapter 5: Writing and Editing Sentences 

Chapter 6: Writing Paragraphs 

PART TWO: ESSAYS AND APPROACHES

Chapter 7: Narration 
Sneha Saha, The Wedding Carriage [student annotated] 
Marjane Satrapi, Kim Wilde 
Drew Hansen, Tell Them About the Dream, Martin 
*Ocean Vuong, Immigrating into English
*Linda Barry, The Sanctuary of School
*Kwame Onwuachi, Angles
*Mira Jacob, The Arranged Marriage That Ended Happily Ever After: How My Parents Fell in Love, 30 Years Later

Chapter 8: Description 
*Charlotte Keathley, Pressing
Judith Ortiz Cofer, More Room 
E. B. White, Once More to the Lake 
*Priya Chandrasekaran, Cutting Our Grandmothers’ Saris
*Edward Lee, Slaw Dogs and Pepperoni Rolls
*Louise Erdrich, Two Languages in Mind, But Just One in the Heart 
*Molly Case, How to Treat People 
*Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

 Chapter 9: Example 
Ana Pacheco, Street Vendors: Harvest of Dreams 
The Onion, All Seven Deadly Sins Committed at Church Bake Sale 
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele 
*Pete Buttigieg, On Suicide Circle 
*Ashley Peldon, My Scream Is Famous 

*Chapter 10:  Analysis / Process, Textual, Rhetorical
Stephanie Cawley, The Veil in Persepolis [student annotated]
*Phillip Weiss, How to Get Out of a Locked Trunk
*Annie Dillard, How I Wrote the Moth Essay—and Why
*Magdalena Ostas, Emily Dickinson and the Space Within
*Dan Redding, What Does the Nike Logo Mean?

Chapter 11: Cause and Effect
*Elisa Gonzalez, Family History [student annotated]
Henry L. Roediger III, Why Are Textbooks So Expensive? 
*Stephanie Sowl, Three Reasons College Grads Return to Rural Areas 
*Jamelle Bouie, Why Don’t Young People Vote?
*Esmé Weijun Wang, Yale Will Not Save You  

Chapter 12: Comparison and Contrast
Jamie Gullen, The Danish Way of Life [student annotated]
Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore 
Douglas Wolk, Superhero Smackdown
David Sedaris, Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa 
Bruce Catton, Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts 
*Vanessa Bohns, Your Power of Persuasion 
*Jennine Capó Crucet, Taking My Parents to College

Chapter 13: Classification
Michelle Watson, Shades of Character [student annotated] 
Amy Tan, Mother Tongue 
Mindy Kaling, Types of Women in Romantic Comedies Who Are Not Real 
Deborah Tannen, But What Do You Mean? 
Anne Sexton, Her Kind
*Stewart Slater, Ancient Archetypes and Modern Superheroes
*Trevor Noah, Chameleon
*Caitlin Doughty, What If They Bury Me When I’m Just in a Coma?

Chapter 14: Definition 
Ashley Anderson, Black Girl [student annotated] 
*Naohiro Matsumura, Shikake: The Japanese Art of Shaping Behavior Through Design
Mary Roach, How to Know if You’re Dead 
Jack Horner, The Extraordinary Characteristics of Dyslexia 
Mike Rose, Blue-Collar Brilliance 
*Alicia Garza, The Meaning of Movement 

 Chapter 15: Argument   
*Grace Silva, A Change in the Menu
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence 
Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman? 
Michael Lewis, Buy That Little Girl an Ice Cream Cone 
Michelle Obama, Remarks at Topeka School District Senior Recognition Day 
Ilya Shapiro and Thomas A. Berry, Does the Government Get to Decide What’s a Slur? 
*Keri Blakinger, Can We Build a Better Women’s Prison?  
*s.e. Smith, Products Mocked as “Lazy” or “Useless” Are Often Important Tools for People with Disabilities

DEBATING THE IMPORTANCE OF GRIT
Angela Lee Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance 
Carol S. Dweck, Two Mindsets 
Melissa Dahl, Don’t Believe the Hype about Grit 
Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath 

*DEBATING THE EFFECTS OF LIVING ONLINE AND ON OUR DEVICES
*Roxane Gay, Why People Are So Awful Online
*Sherry Turkle, Stop Googling. Let’s Talk 
*Jonathan Haidt, Pulling Teenagers Away from Cell Phones 
*Andrea Lunsford, Our Semi-Literate Youth? Not So Fast

*DEBATING THE ETHICS OF BANNING BOOKS AND CANCELING PEOPLE AND IDEAS
*Viet Thanh Nguyen, My Young Mind Was Disturbed by a Book
*Shannon Palus, Trigger Warnings 
*David French, The Dangerous Lesson of Book Bans in Public School Libraries
*Robert DesJarlait, They Got Rid of the Indian and Kept the Land

Chapter 16: Combining the Methods
Michael Lewis, Liar’s Poker
Joan Didion, On Going Home 
Linda Hogan, Hearing Voices 
Gloria Anzaldúa, Linguistic Terrorism 
Mary Norris, Between You & Me 
*George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
*Annie Dillard, The Death of a Moth 
*Ethan Kuperberg, Deactivated

PART III: USING SOURCES IN YOUR WRITING 

Chapter 17: Doing Research, Using Sources 
MLA Documentation Guide
*Jackson Parell, Free at Last, Free at Last: Civil War Memory and Civil Rights Rhetoric

[Dorothy]

Great resource for an English Composition course. I'm going to keep it as a reference.

[Stephanie Graves]

Text for the English Comp class I'm teaching.