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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<$$$> | |