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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 | |