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| Art and Composition | |
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| On Being a Conscious Reader and an Intelligent Writer | |
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| (new section) Introduction | |
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| Notebook Stephen King, fromOn Writing Malcolm X, A Homemade Education | |
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| Flannery Orsquo;Connor | |
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| The Teaching of Literature | |
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| Personal Writing Virginia Woolf | |
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| The Angel in the House | |
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| Rainier Maria Rilke | |
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| Letters to a Young Poet | |
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| Essays | |
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| Patricia Kubis and Robert M. Howland | |
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| How to Develop a Good Style | |
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| Joseph Williams and Greg Colomb, Argument | |
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| Critical Thinking, and Rationality | |
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| Italo Calvino, if on a winterrsquo;s night a travelerhellip; | |
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| Harold Brodkey, Reading | |
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| The Most Dangerous Game Margaret Atwood | |
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| Fiction: Happy Endings | |
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| Fiction | |
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| Richard Russo, The Whorersquo;s Child | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Gregory Bilgere, Once Again I Fail to Read an Important Novel | |
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| Charles Bukowski, How to Be a Good Writer Cate Marvin | |
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| Ocean Is a Word in This Poem Walt Whitman, Poets to Come | |
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| The Search for Self and Personal Values Introduction | |
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| Notebook Henry David Thoreau | |
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| Why I Went into the Woods | |
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| Eric Brende, Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology | |
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| Personal Writing Annie Dillard, An American Childhood | |
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| Colin Powell, The Good Soldier | |
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| Arnie Kantrowitz, Under the Rainbow | |
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| Jhumpa Lahiri, My Hyphenated Identity Nancy Mairs | |
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| On Being a Cripple | |
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| Alfred Lubrano, Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams | |
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| Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood | |
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| Chris Hedges, Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America | |
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| Essay | |
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| Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching | |
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| Fiction Sandra Cisneros, Hips | |
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| Poetry | |
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| John Lennon, Working Class Hero T. S. Eliot | |
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| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Dylan Thomas | |
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| The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower Denise Levertov | |
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| In Mind Anne Sexton, Her Kind Theodore Roethke | |
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| The Waking | |
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| Personal Relationships Introduction | |
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| Notebook Aryeh Lev Stollman | |
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| Die Grosse Liebe Ursula Melendi | |
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| All of Heaven for Love (student writing) | |
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| Personal Writing Judith Ortiz Cofer | |
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| Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood | |
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| Thomas Bierowski, The Red Power Ranger and the Fruit Bat | |
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| Brian Braiker, Just Donrsquo;t Call Me Mr Mom Essays. <P | |