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<p>Alternate Thematic Contents. Prologue. Introduction. Critical Reading. Planning. Translating. Reviewing. Readers. Perspectives and Influences. Reading Perspectives. Internal and External Influences. Understanding the Rhetorical Situation. Determining Aims. Analyzing Ways of Knowing. Developing Your Reading Repertoire. Gary Soto, The Pie. I: READING EXPRESSIVE AIM WRITING. 1. Knowledge by Participation. T.H. Watkins, Little Deaths. Marion Winik, Meditations on a Stolen Purse. Joseph H. Suina, And Then I Went to School. Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me. A. Alvarez, Sylvia Plath: A Memoir. Harriet Lerner, Hating Fred. Frank DeFord, Lessons from a Friend. Sandra Cisneros, Only Daughter. Jay Ford, 20/20 Hindsight. 2. Knowledge by Observation. Kai Erikson, Of Accidental Judgments and Casual Slaughters. David Gelman, Columbus and His Four Fateful Voyages. Virginia Woolf, Thoreau. Daniel Mark Epstein, The Case of Harry Houdini. 3. Knowledge by Participation and Observation. Steven Levy, My Search for Einstein''s Brain. Leslie Lampert, Fat Like Me. Cynthia Ozick, My Grandmother''s Pennies. Bruce Edward Hall, Ghosts. Donald McQuade, Living In and On the Margins. Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple. Mary Gordon, More Than Just a Shrine: Paying Homage to the Ghosts of Ellis Island. Walt Harrington, The House Where Martin Wept. N. Scott Momaday, Grandmother''s Country. Michael Kernan, A New Monument to Remembering With a Mission. II: READING REFERENTIAL AIM WRITING. 1. Knowledge by Participation. Amoja Three Rivers, Cultural Etiquette: A Guide. Noel Perrin, Falling for Apples. Phyllis Theroux, Shopping with Children. Garrison Keillor, How to Write a Letter. 2. Knowledge by Observation. Patricia Goubil Gambrell, A Practitioner''s Guide To Research Methods. Anthony R. Perry, Kevin M. Kane, Kevin J. Bernesser, Paul T. Spicker, Type A Behavior, Competitive Achievement, Striving, and Cheating Among College Student