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| Introduction | |
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| Guidelines for Reading an Essay | |
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| Sample Analysis of an Essay | |
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| "Shakespeare's Sister" | |
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| Visual Strategies: A Visual Essay | |
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| Guidelines for Writing an Essay | |
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| Student Essay | |
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| "The Scenic Route" | |
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| Narration and Description | |
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| "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe" (professional paragraph) | |
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| "Deloris" (student paragraph) | |
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| "The Veil" (visual text) | |
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| "My Name is Margaret" | |
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| "Basketball Season" | |
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| "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" | |
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| "Digging" | |
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| "Shooting an Elephant" | |
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| "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" (story) | |
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| Process Anaysis | |
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| "Digging Limestone" (professional paragraph) | |
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| "Making Stained Glass" (student paragraph) | |
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| "How Many It Takes" (visual text) | |
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| "Drawing on Experience" | |
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| "Third World Driving Hints and Tips" | |
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| "Campus Racism 101" | |
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| "Arranging a Marriage in India" | |
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| "The Knife" | |
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| "The Golden Darters" (story) | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| "FDR and Truman" (professional paragraph) | |
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| "Howard and Rush" (student paragraph) | |
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| "At Play" and "Tianzi Mountains" (visual text) | |
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| "Two Views of the River" | |
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| "Cowboys v. Mounties" | |
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| "Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa" | |
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| "A Tale of Two Divorces" | |
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| "Shakespeare in the Bush" | |
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| "Everyday Use" (story) | |
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| Division and Classification | |
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| "Conservation is Good Work" (professional paragraph) | |
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| "Gentlemen! Start Your Engines" (student paragraph) | |
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| "Cloud Chart" (visual text) | |
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| "The Truth About Lying" | |
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| "Shades of Black" | |
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| "Mother Tongue" | |
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| "Four Kinds of Chance" | |
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| "Five Myths About Immigration" | |
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| "Revelation" (story) | |
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| Defintion | |
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| "Consumption" (professional paragraph) | |
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| "Personality" (student paragraph) | |
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| "Adbusters" (visual text) | |
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| "A Word's Meaning Can Often Depend on Who Says It" | |
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| "The Hoax" | |
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| "Pain" | |
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| "Attention! Multitaskers" | |
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| "On Friendship" | |
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| "The Lesson" (story) | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| "The Little Death" (professional paragraph) | |
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| "Barrier-Free Design" (student paragraph) | |
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| "The Endurance" (visual text) | |
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| "Comforting Thoughts" | |
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| "Peak Performances: Why Records Fall" | |
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| "How Flowers Changed the World" | |
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| "The Movie That Changed My Life" | |
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| "Examined Life" | |
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| "The Star" (story) | |
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| Persuasion and Argument | |
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| "The Organ Donor Shortage" (professional paragraph) | |
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| "Genetic Engineering" (student paragraph) | |
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| "Physicians Against Land Mines" (visual text) | |
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| A Debate About Racism | |
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| "I Have A Dream" | |
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| "A Chinaman's Chance Reflections of the American Dream" | |
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| A Debate About Windmills | |
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| "An Ill Wind Off Cape Cod" | |
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| "Cape Wind Is Sound for the Sound" | |
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| A Debate About Family | |
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| "Stone Soup" | |
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| "Women and the Future of Fatherhood" | |
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| A Debate About the Death Penalty | |
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| "The Penalty of Death" | |
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| "Execution" | |
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| "Harrison Bergeron" (story) | |
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| Resources for Writing | |
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| Survival: A Casebook | |
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| "A Match to the Heart" (Narration and Description) | |
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| Images of Survival: A Visual Essay | |
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| "My Daily Dives in the Dumpster" (Process Analysis) | |
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| "The Spider and the Wasp" (Comparison and Contrast) | |
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| "The Technology of Medicine" (Division and Classification) | |
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| "The Particulars of Financial Failure" (Definition) | |
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| "Why the Reckless Survive" (Cause and Effect) | |
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| A Debate About Global Warming | |
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| "The Time to Act is Now" (Persuasion and Argument) | |
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| "Global Warming Delusions" (Persuasion and Argument) | |
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| "Dream Children" (Story) | |
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| Using and Documenting Sources | |
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| Annotated Student Research Paper | |
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| "The Problems and Possibilities of Online Communities" | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| Name Title Index | |