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Organizing the Essay | |
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Topic Sentence, Thesis, and Unity | |
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Obituary | |
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About Men | |
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The Shape of the River | |
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Shooting an Elephant | |
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A well in India | |
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Velva, North Dakota | |
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Main and Subordinate Ideas | |
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Queen Victoria at the End of Her Life | |
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The Blast Furnace | |
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Why Did I Ever Play Football? | |
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Order of Ideas | |
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In an Elevator | |
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The Purpose of Lifting | |
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Marrying Absurd | |
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Beginning, Middle, and End | |
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Mountain Day | |
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Ben & Jerry''s | |
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Transitions | |
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Communication | |
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Mary | |
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Description, Narration, Exposition | |
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Description | |
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The World''s Largest Pile of Scrap Tires | |
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The Buick | |
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Hoyt Street | |
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The Barrio | |
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Narration | |
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Flying | |
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Learning to See | |
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The American Invasion of Mac�n | |
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Example | |
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New York | |
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Thursday morning in a New York Subway Station | |
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Discipline? | |
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To What End? | |
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Classification and Division | |
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Kinds of Discipline | |
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The Newspaper | |
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Hoppers | |
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Definition | |
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Monkeying | |
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Crime | |
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The Sooners | |
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"Manly" and "Womanly" | |
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The Underclass | |
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Newspapers | |
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Comparison and Contrast | |
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Televisions and Reading | |
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City People and Country People | |
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The English and the Americans | |
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Digital Literacy | |
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Analogy | |
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What Makes a Writer | |
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The Cosmic Prison | |
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The Education of a Physicist | |
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Process | |
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Sounding | |
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Outdoor Cooking | |
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How the Spider Spins Its Web | |
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Cause and Effect | |
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The Telephone | |
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Why Nothing Works | |
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The Growth of Cities | |
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Matters of Style: Diction | |
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Usage | |
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In the Land of Coca-Cola | |
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Newsweek: Being Cool | |
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A Memo from Dad | |
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Tone | |
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Osu! William Finnegan: Surfing | |
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Imagery | |
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The Rocky Shores | |
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Figurative Language | |
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Watching a Night Launch of the Space Shuttle | |
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Time Is Money | |
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Concreteness | |
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Mortality | |
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Fireworks | |
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Euphemism and Jargon | |
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Learning the Language | |
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Nipping ClichTs in the Bud | |
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Little Red Riding Hood Revisited | |
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Matters of Style: The Sentence | |
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Addition and Modification | |
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Hudson Street | |
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Emphasis | |
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The Steamboatman | |
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Loose and Periodic Sentences | |
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The Turtle | |
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At Tinker Creek | |
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Climax | |
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My Grandmother | |
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Parallelism | |
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Boyhood on the Sacramento Barrio | |
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Antithesis | |
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Nonviolent Resistance | |
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Length | |
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On Matters of Doubt | |
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Argument and Persuasion | |
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Inductive Reasoning | |
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Max into Maximilian | |
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Revenge Theory | |
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More Police, Less Crime? Wrong | |
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The Right to Fail | |
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Wait a Minute | |
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The Warfare in the Forest Is Not Wanton | |
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The End of Education | |
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Who Killed Benny Paret? | |
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Computer Viruses | |
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Statistical Lives | |
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Why save Tropical Rain Forests? | |
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Students and Drugs | |
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Deductive Reasoning | |
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Freedom and Security | |
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Reflections on War | |
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The Limits of Relevance | |
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Final Exams Discourage Learning | |
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Who Deserves the Death Penalty? | |
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Controversy | |
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Supreme Court Ruling on t<$$$> | |