Pt. 1. Introduction.
Ways of Reading.
Making a Mark.
Ways of Reading.
Strong Readers, Strong Text.
Reading with and against the Grain.
Working with Difficulty.
Reading and Writing: The Questions and Assignments --
Pt. 2. The Readings.
David Abram: Animism and the alphabet.
Gloria Anzald’ÛÎ_a: Entering into the serpent; How to tame a wild tongue.
Kwane Antony Appiah: Race, culture, indentity: misunderstood connections.
John Berger: Ways of seeing; On Rembrandt's Woman in bed; On Caravaggio's The calling of St. Matthew.
Eula Biss: The pain scale. Susan Bordon: Beauty (re)discovers the male body.
Judith Butler: Beside oneself: on the limits of sexual autonomy.
Anne Carson: Short talks. Brian Doyle: Joyas Voladoras.
Michael Foucault: Panopticism.
Paulo Freire: The "banking" concept of education.
Susan Griffin: Our secret.
Laura Kipnis: Readers advisory; Love's labors.
Richard E. Miller: The dark night of the soul.
Walker Percy: The loss of the creature.
Antonio Pochia: Voices.
Mary Louise Pratt: Art of the contact zone.
Alberto Álvaro Ríos: Translating Translation: Finding the beginning.
Richard Rodriguez: The achievement of desire.
Edward Said: State.
Tommie Shelby: Social identity and group solidarity.
David Foster Wallace: Authotity and American usage.
John Edgar Wideman: Our time --
Pt. 3. Assignment Sequences.
Working with Assignment Sequences.
Working with a Sequence.
Sequence One: The Aims Of Education.
Sequence Two: The Arts Of The Contact Zone.
Sequence Three: Autobiographical Explorations.
Sequence Four: Experts And Expertise.
Sequence Five: On Difficulty.
Sequence Six: Reading Culture.
Sequence Seven: The Uses Of Reading (I).
Sequence Eight: The Uses Of Reading (II).
Sequence Nine: The Art Of Argument
Sequence Ten, Working With Metaphor --
Pt. 4. Additional Sequences included in Resources for Teaching Ways of Reading.
Writing with style.
Experiments in Reading and writing.
Ways of Seeing (I).
Writing projects.
Reading Walker Percey.
A way of composing.
Ways of seeing (II).
Working with Foucault.

"Ways of Reading" continues to profoundly influence the teaching of writing by offering a uniquely exciting and challenging approach to first-year composition, integrating reading, writing, and critical thinking with an ambitious selection of readings and editorial features. With carefully honed apparatus that helps students work with the challenging selections, "Ways of Reading" guides students through the process of developing intellectual skills necessary for college-level academic work by engaging them in conversations with key academic and cultural texts. It also bridges the gap between contemporary critical theory and composition so that instructors can connect their own scholarly work with their teaching.