ENGLISH 101 *** FALL 2002 READING LIST For Essay # 1 1 Garrison, “You Can Learn to Write” and “Writing Is Building” 7 Strunk and White, from The Elements of Style 8 Bronowski, “The Reach of Imagination” 15 Greene, Introduction to Releasing the Imagination 16 Borges, “Borges and I” 17 Ackerman, “The Beholder’s Eye” 21 Silko, “Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination” For Essay #2 31 Elbow, “Freewriting” 34 Goldberg, “The Rules of Writing Practice” 36 Rich, ”Diving into the Wreck” 38 Dillard, “The Death of a Moth: Transfiguration in a Candle Flame” 40 Morrison, “The Site of Memory “ 43 White, “Once More to the Lake” 47 Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook” 53 Thoreau, “Solitude” For Essay #3 59 Oates, “The Making of a Writer” 61 Rich, “On Learning to Write as a Woman” 62 Mora, “A Letter to Gabriela, a Young Writer” 64 Hughes, “Theme for English B” 66 Cofer, “Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood” 71 Baker, Chapter Eight from Growing Up 79 Blaise, “I’m Dreaming of Rocket Richard” For Essay #4 86 Murray, “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts” 90 Garrison, “Revision: Seeing Again” 96 Morrison, from Jazz 99 Didion, “On Going Home” 102 Symborska, “Going Home” 103 Hugo, “What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American” 104 Cofer, from The Line of the Sun 110 Cisneros, “Woman Hollering Creek” 119 Mora, “Illegal Alien,” “Legal Alien,” and “Elena” For Essay #5 121 Vonnegut, “How to Write with Style” 123 Malcolm X, “Coming to an Awareness of Language” 126 Naylor, “A Question of Language” 129 Tan, “Mother Tongue” 135 DeMola, “The Language of Power” 138 Tsui, “Don’t Let Them Chip Away at Our Language” 140 Cisneros, “No Speak English” 142 Cunha, “Talking in the New Land” For Essay #6 152 Stafford, “A Way of Writing” 158 Knight, “The Idea of Ancestry,” “The Bones of My Father” 160 Carver, “Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-second Year” 161 Hongo, “Off from Swing Shift” 162 Cisneros, “My Name,” “And Some More” 165 Silko, “Lullaby” 170 Nemerov, “The View from an Attic Window” 172 Wright, “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”