Dear Dona (again), If you're stuck with the reader you have then you might
think about using one or two outside disability essays to round out the
offerings. For instance, both Sharon and I have used Paul Longmore's
essay, "Screeing Stereotypes" as a model for analytical research writing.
For those looking for important essays on disability to use in the writing
classroom here is a list we have used to good effect. Perhaps it's time to
produce a disability reader based in personal experience essays? Best,
David & Sharon.
Hockenberry, John. "Walking with the Kurds" (in "Moving Violations")
Mairs, Nancy. 1st chapter from "Waist High in the World"
Borges, Jorge Luis. "On Blindness" (in "The Art of the Personal Essay")
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up" (in "The Art of the Personal Essay")
Longmore, Paul. "Screening Stereotypes" (for research writing; in Gartner
& Joe, "Images of the Disabled, Disabling Images")
Kleege, Georgina. "Letters to Helen" (in Michigan Quarterly Review Special
Issue on Disability in the Arts)
Brueggemann, Brenda. Any of the personal experience chapters in her new
book "Lend Me Your Ears" (Gallaudet University Press)
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