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| How to Read an Essay | |
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| How to Write an Essay | |
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| How to Revise an Essay | |
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| Writers at Work | |
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| Example | |
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| Ann Quindlen, "The Name is Mine" | |
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| Bob Greene, "Cut" | |
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| *Rick Reilly, "Getting a Second Wind" | |
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| Oscar Casares, "Ready for Some Futbol?" | |
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| Brock Read, "Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?" | |
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| Student: "Looking for Love" | |
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| Literature: "Night" | |
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| Critical Reading: "Language Instinct" | |
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| Visual: "College Life" | |
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| Narration | |
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| Langston Hughes, "Salvation" | |
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| *Firoozeh Dumas, "The Wedding" | |
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| Tom Haines, "Facing Famine" | |
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| Allison Perkins, "Mission Iraq" | |
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| Evan Hopkins, "Lockdown" | |
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| Student: "Ruby Slippers" | |
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| Literature: "Waiting" | |
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| Critical Reading: "Blue Hen's Chicks" | |
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| *Visual: Will Eisner: "Tell a Story" | |
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| Description | |
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| Debra Anne Davis, "A Pen to the Phone" | |
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| *Eric Liu, "Po-Po" | |
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| William Least Heat Moon, "Nameless Tennessee" | |
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| Terry Tempest Williams, "The Village Watchman" | |
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| Scott Russell Sanders, "The Inheritance of Tools" | |
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| Student: "Natalie" | |
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| Literature: "Traveling to Town" | |
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| Critical Reading: "Bleak House-London" | |
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| Visual: "Mulberry Street" | |
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| Division and Classification | |
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| David Bodanis, "What's in Your Toothpaste?" | |
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| *Thomas Goetz, "Does the Pleasure of Lighting Up Outweigh the Consequences" | |
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| Pico Iyer, "This Is Who I Am When No One is Looking" | |
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| Judith Ortiz Cofer, "The Myth of the Latin Woman" | |
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| Bernard R. Berelson, "The Value of Children" | |
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| Deborah Tannen, "But What Do You Mean?" | |
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| Student: "Riding the Rails" | |
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| Literature: "Child of the Americas" | |
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| Critical Reading: "Classifying Sentences" | |
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| *Visual: "Red Bull Cola" | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Alice Mathias, "The Facebook Generation" | |
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| William Zinsser, "The Transaction" | |
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| David Sedaris, "Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa" | |
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| Suzanne Britt, "Neat People vs. Sloppy People" | |
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| *Michael Pollan, "Cheap Corn: Alcohol and Corn Syrup" | |
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| Megham Daum, "Virtual Love" | |
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| Student: "Minimizing the Guesswork" | |
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| Literature: "Coca-Cola and Coco-Frio" | |
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| Critical: "Oranges" | |
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| *Visual: "Everything About Us Was Opposite" | |
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| Process | |
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| Lars Eigher, "My Daily Dives in the Dumpster" | |
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| Nora Ephron, "Revision and Life" | |
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| *Daniela Werner, "Almost Time to Write. Almost Time…" | |
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| David Brooks, "The Culture of Martyrdom" | |
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| *Richard N. Bolles, "The Internet: The 10% Solution" | |
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| Jennifer Kahn, "Stripped for Parts" | |
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| Student: "How to Play Dreidel" | |
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| Literature: "Recipe" | |
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| Critical: "Getting the Interview Edge" | |
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| *Visual: "Tying a Necktie" | |
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| Cause and Effect" | |
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| E.M. Forster, "My Wood" | |
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| *Mark Penn, "Caffeine Crazies" | |
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| Andres Martin, "On Teenagers and Tattoos" | |
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| Brent Staples, "Black Men and Public Space" | |
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| *Michael Jernigan, "Living Dream" | |
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| *Gilbert Cruz, "Driving Us to Distraction" | |
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| Student: "Televised Violence" | |
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| Literature: "Barbie Doll" | |
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| Critical: "What Causes Migraines" | |
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| *Visual: "Polar Bear" | |
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| Definition | |
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| Ellen Goodman, "Our Do-It-Yourself Economy" | |
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| Judy Brady, "I Want a Wife" | |
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| *Patrick McCormick, "Are We Being Greenwashed?" | |
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| Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue" | |
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| *Jhumpa Lahiri, "My Two Lives" | |
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| Margaret Atwood, "The Female Body" | |
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| Student: "Infallible" | |
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| Literature: "Girl" | |
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| Critical: "ADHD" | |
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| Visual: "Girl and Mirror" | |
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| Argument and Persuasion | |
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| CASEBOOK: College Education | |
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| Katherine Porter, "The Value of a College Degree" | |
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| Linda Lee, "The Case Against College" | |
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| *"The 30 Occupations with the Largest Employment Growth, 2006-2016" | |
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| *Perspectives for Argument: "Who Should and Shouldn't Go to College" | |
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| CASEBOOK: Performance Enhancing Drugs: Cheating? | |
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| *Michael Dillingham, "Steroids, Sports and the Ethics of Winning" | |
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| *from Steve Yuhas, "Steroid Scandal Overblown and Hypocritical" | |
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| *Perspectives for Argument: quotes from Sharon Ryan, "What's So Bad About Performance Enhancing Drugs"; Norman Fost, "Steroids, Other 'Drugs', and Baseball"; David Fairchild, "Of Cabbages and Kings: Continuing Conversation on Performance Enhancers in Sport." | |
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| CASEBOOK: Organ Donation and Transplant | |
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| *"Buying and Selling Organs Is Unethical" | |
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| *Pete du Pont, "Have a Heart - but Pay Me for It" | |
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| *Advertisements Promoting Organ Donation | |
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| *Perspectives for Argument: short selections Michael Potts and Paul A. Byrne "Is It Morally Right for Physicians to Kill Their Patients That Good May Come?"'; Sally Satel, "The God Committee: Should Criminals Have Equal Access to Scarce Medical Treatments?" | |
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| CASEBOOK: Soda Tax? | |
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| *Veronique de Rugy, "Have a Coke and a Tax: The Economic Case Against Soda Taxes" | |
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| *Kelly D. Brownell and Thomas R. Frieden, "Ounces of Prevention - The Public Policy Case for Taxes on Sugared Beverages" | |
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| Peter Singer, "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" | |
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| *Statistics about Worldwide Need and How to Help | |
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| Student: "Lowering the Cost" | |
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| Literature: "Dulce et Decorum Est" | |
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| Critical: "Top Five Reasons" | |
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| Visual: Uncle Sam | |
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| Research Paper | |