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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 | |