In addition to familiar names such as Anna Quindlen, Richard Rodriguez, Dave Barry, and William Raspberry, this reader features many fresh voices such as Sandra Steingraber,  Thomas Sowell, Michael Chabon, and Gina Barreca.   Detailed chapter openers offer strategies for using each rhetorical mode, including short examples from the readings within each chapter. Headnotes for each essay give a brief biography of its author, explain its context, and pinpoint one of the writer's techniques. Questions on “Organization and Ideas” and “Technique and Style” and many suggestions for writing journal entries and essays follow each selection. Each chapter ends with additional writing assignments that ask students to compare two or more of the essays.