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Contents by Theme | |
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Preface | |
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Writers, Readers, and Rhetorical Choices | |
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Ways of Learning to Write | |
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Readers and Rhetorical Choices | |
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Reading for Pleasure | |
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Reading and Relating | |
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Getting Started | |
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Narration | |
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Introduction | |
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The Chase | |
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The Library Card | |
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The Bittersweet Science | |
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Narrative: Ali | |
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Mother Tongue | |
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Shooting an Elephant | |
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Seven Types of Ambiguity | |
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Strategies for Writers | |
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Research and Writing Assignments | |
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Description | |
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Introduction | |
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Captivated | |
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Am I Blue? | |
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Snow | |
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Once More to the Lake | |
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Father Coming Home | |
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On Alabama Ave., Paterson, NJ, 1954 | |
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The Vision Seekers | |
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The Stone Horse | |
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Strategies for Writers | |
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Research and Writing Assignments | |
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Definition | |
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Introduction | |
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I Want a Wife | |
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Girl | |
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Caring for Your Introvert | |
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The Holocaust | |
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Pidgin | |
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The Meanings of a Word | |
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About Men | |
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How Can We Understand Their Hatred? | |
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What Helen Keller Saw | |
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Strategies for Writers | |
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Research and Writing Assignments | |
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Exemplification | |
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Introduction | |
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If Memory Doesn't Serve | |
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Thoughts of an Oriental Girl | |
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The Vagaries of Taste | |
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Two Poems: For a Lady I Know and Incident | |
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The Lesson | |
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Delusions of Grandeur | |
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The Same Difference | |
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What I've Learned from Men | |
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People Like Us | |
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Strategies for Writers | |
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Research and Writing Assignments | |
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Classification | |
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Introduction | |
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Selections from Harper's Magazine | |
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Where Have All the Lisas Gone? | |
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Friends, Good Friends-and Such Good Friends | |
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Pornography | |
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College Pressures | |
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How to Tame a Wild Tongue | |
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Bards of the Internet | |
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Big and Bad | |
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Strategies for Writers | |
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Research and Writing Assignments | |
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Process Analysis | |
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Introduction | |
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Learning to Read and Write | |
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To Make Them Stand in Fear | |
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The Classroom and the Wider Culture | |
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My First Conk | |
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The American Way of Death | |
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How to Say Nothing in 500 Words | |
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Dr. King's Refrigerator | |
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Strategies for Writers | |
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Research and Writing Assignments | |
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Comparison and Contrast | |
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Introduction | |
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Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts | |
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Two Ways to Belong in America | |
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Wham! Bam! Thanks a Bunch! | |
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Blacks and Jews | |
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Language Worlds | |
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Aria | |
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From 'Tis: A Memoir | |
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Sex, Lies, and Conversation | |
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The Failure of War | |
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Strategies for Writers | |
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Research and Writing Assignments | |
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Cause and Effect | |
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Introduction | |
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Cold Comfort | |
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A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space | |
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The Stereotype Trap | |
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The Bali Saleng | |
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Sister Godzilla | |
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One by One | |
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Magic Time: Observations of a Cancer Casualty | |
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What Really Scares Us | |
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Strategies for Writers | |
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Research and Writing Assignments | |
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Argument | |
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Introduction | |
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The Conflict over the Unusual Word | |
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The Killing Game | |
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Hunting and Human Values | |
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Who Killed Benny Paret? | |
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Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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Building Plans: What the World Trade Center Meant | |
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It's a Jungle Out There | |
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The Tyranny of the Majority | |
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God or Gorilla | |
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Strategies for Writers | |
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Research and Writing Assignments | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |
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Additional Titles of Interest | |