75 Readings Plus is a version of the best-selling 75 Readings that supplies additional guidance for student readers. Both books are rhetorically arranged and collect the most popular essays for first-year writing. The readings represent a wide variety of authors, disciplines, issues, and interests, and at only $28 net, 75 Readings Plus is an excellent value for students.

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 NARRATION 1 George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant Langston Hughes: Salvation Maya Angelou: Grandmother’s Victory Malcolm X: Coming to an Awareness of Language David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day Martin Gansberg: Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police Chapter 2 DESCRIPTION James Baldwin: Fifth Avenue, Uptown E.B. White: Once More to the Lake Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd Judith Ortiz Cofer: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood F. Scott Momaday: Revisiting Sacred Ground Michael Byers: Monuments to Our Better Nature Chapter 3 PROCESS ANALYSIS Diane Ackerman: Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall Jessica Mitford: Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain Richard Marius: Writing Drafts John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes: Alone on the Hilltop Edward Abbey: The Serpents of Paradise Alan Lightman: Smile Chapter 4 DEFINITION Susan Sontag: Women’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source? Jo Goodwin Parker: What Is Poverty? Ellen Goodman: The Company Man Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a Word Tom Haines: Facing Famine Joe Epstein: The Green-Eyed Monster Chapter 5 CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood Donald Hall: Four Kinds of Reading Kesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in America Judith Viorst: The Truth about Lying William Lutz: Doublespeak Jonathan Lethem: 9 Failures of the Imagination Chapter 6 COMPARISON AND CONTRAST Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts Deborah Tannen: Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers Mark Twain: Two Views of the Mississippi Scott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy People Virginia Woolf: Shakespeare’s Sister Bharati Mukherjee: Two Ways to Belong in America Chapter 7 EXAMPLE AND ILLUSTRATION Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for Superstition Edward T. Hall: The Anthropology of Manners Brent Staples: Black Men and Public Space Franz Kafka: Letter to His Father William Zinsser: Clutter Bailey White: Forbidden Things John McPhee: Silk Parachute Chapter 8 CAUSE AND EFFECT Norman Cousins: Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone? Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably K. C. Cole: The Arrow of Time Paul Salopek: Shattered Sudan David Ewing Duncan: DNA as Destiny Chapter 9 ANALOGY Plato: The Myth of the Cave Alice Walker: Am I Blue? Horace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic Prison Annie Dillard: Living Like Weasels Chapter 10 ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION ARGUMENT Economics and Social Responsibility Barbara Ehrenreich: A Step Back to the Workhouse? Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor Jonathan Kozol: The Details of Life Free Speech Nat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled? Alan M. Dershowitz: Shouting “Fire!” Cloning Brendan I. Koerner: Embryo Police James Greenwood and Sam Brownback: Symposium: Should Congress Use Tax Dollars to Fund Therapeutic Cloning? PERSUASION Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream Richard Rodriguez: Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic Naomi Shahib Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife Medicine Grizzlybear Lake: An Indian Father’s Plea Bill McKibben: Designer Genes Chapter 11 MIXED STRATEGIES Stephen J. Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs Amy Tan: Mother Tongue Lars Eighner: On Dumpster Diving Andrew Sullivan: This Is a Religious War Sandra Cisneros: Only Daughter Ian Frazier: Coyote vs. Acme Frank Bures: Test Day

Santi V. Buscemi is professor of English and chair of the Department of English at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, where he teaches reading and writing. He received his B.A. from St. Bonaventure University, and completed studies for the doctorate at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of A READER FOR DEVELOPING WRITERS (McGraw-Hill), now in its third edition; AN ESL WORKBOOK (McGraw-Hill); and coauthor with Charlotte Smith of 75 READINGS PLUS (McGraw-Hill). He is also chief author of McGraw-Hill's ALLWRITE!, an interactive computer software program in rhetoric, grammar, and research

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