Moving Beyond the Page is a collection of 40 full-length readings-20 short stories and 20 essays and articles-each with a full set of learning features, comprehension questions, and writing assignments designed to help students read, analyze from a literary critical perspective, and write about the accompanying selection. It is intended primarily for non-English majors at the college level.
Moving Beyond the Page is a collection of 40 full-length readings-20 short stories and 20 essays and articles-each with a full set of learning features, comprehension questions, and writing assignments designed to help students read, analyze from a literary critical perspective, and write about the accompanying selection. It is intended primarily for non-English majors at the college level.
Elpida Morfetas is a writer and teacher who was born in Athens, Greece, and raised in Toronto. She has taught at various schools and colleges in Toronto and in Greece. Her writing has appeared in Our Grandmothers, Ourselves, an anthology of stories by Canadian women about the lives of their immigrant grandmothers, and in the anthology TOK3: Writing the New Toronto. She currently teaches English and women's history at the York campus of Seneca College. Tanya Ceolin has more than ten years of experience teaching English at the college level. While volunteering for Frontier College's literacy program, she realized the impact strong reading and writing skills have not only on a personal level for the student but also on society as a whole. During her time at Seneca College and at Humber she has taught multiple writing courses: introductory, academic, technical, and business writing. She also has a long history of working with ESL and EAP programs.
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Contents Thematic Table of Contents Prologue Features of this Book Assessment Guidelines Acknowledgements Nonfiction Oscar Wilde from De Profundis Emily Carr Mother Martin Luther King, Jr The Purpose of Education Maxine Hong Kingston No Name Woman Deborah Tannen Sex, Lies, and Conversation Margaret Visser High Heels Kenneth J. Harvey Virtual Adultery Pat Capponi from Dispatches from the Poverty Line Drew Hayden Taylor Pretty Like a White Boy Jean Vanier from Becoming Human Lawrence Solomon Homeless in Paradise Stephen King What Writing Is Vandana Shiva Two Myths That Keep the World Poor Rex Murphy from Canada and Other Matters of Opinion Timothy N. Hornyak from Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day George Orwell Politics and the English Language Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal Karim Rashid from design your self Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience Fiction Leo Tolstoy God Sees the Truth but Waits Guy de Maupassant Butterball Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour Jorge Luis Borges Streetcorner Man Flannery OConnor A Good Man Is Hard to Find James Baldwin Sonnys Blues Margaret Laurence The Loons Joseph Boyden Legless Joe versus Black Robe Katherine Govier The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery Austin Clarke A Wedding in Toronto Angela Carter The Company of Wolves Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Michael Ondaatje from In the Skin of a Lion Katherine Vlassie A Bit of Magic Thomas King The Baby in the Airmail Box Stephen Marche The Crow Procedure Jhumpa Lahiri The Treatment of Bibi Haldar Diane Schoemperlen Tell It to the Walls Dorothy Parker A Telephone Call Leonid Andreyev The Little Angel Appendix: Sample Student Essays The Writers Toolbox: Tricks of the Trade Credits Index of Themes Index of Authors and Works
Contents Thematic Table of Contents Prologue Features of this Book Assessment Guidelines Acknowledgements Nonfiction Oscar Wilde from De Profundis Emily Carr Mother Martin Luther King, Jr The Purpose of Education Maxine Hong Kingston No Name Woman Deborah Tannen Sex, Lies, and Conversation Margaret Visser High Heels Kenneth J. Harvey Virtual Adultery Pat Capponi from Dispatches from the Poverty Line Drew Hayden Taylor Pretty Like a White Boy Jean Vanier from Becoming Human Lawrence Solomon Homeless in Paradise Stephen King What Writing Is Vandana Shiva Two Myths That Keep the World Poor Rex Murphy from Canada and Other Matters of Opinion Timothy N. Hornyak from Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day George Orwell Politics and the English Language Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal Karim Rashid from design your self Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience Fiction Leo Tolstoy God Sees the Truth but Waits Guy de Maupassant Butterball Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour Jorge Luis Borges Streetcorner Man Flannery OConnor A Good Man Is Hard to Find James Baldwin Sonnys Blues Margaret Laurence The Loons Joseph Boyden Legless Joe versus Black Robe Katherine Govier The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery Austin Clarke A Wedding in Toronto Angela Carter The Company of Wolves Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Michael Ondaatje from In the Skin of a Lion Katherine Vlassie A Bit of Magic Thomas King The Baby in the Airmail Box Stephen Marche The Crow Procedure Jhumpa Lahiri The Treatment of Bibi Haldar Diane Schoemperlen Tell It to the Walls Dorothy Parker A Telephone Call Leonid Andreyev The Little Angel Appendix: Sample Student Essays The Writers Toolbox: Tricks of the Trade Credits Index of Themes Index of Authors and Works
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