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| On Communication--Writing and Social Media | |
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| The Writing Process: Reading, Motivation, Warmup, Vision, Re-vision.Reading Images | |
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| NEW Toni Morrison, “Strangers.“ Reading Icons | |
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| A. Photograph: Rodin, “The Thinker.“ | |
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| B. Cartoon: Mike Peters, “The museum wants to buy the first one . . . “ | |
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| C. Mike D'Angelo, “Do-It-Yourself Emoticons.“ Reading/Writing Essays | |
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| Elie Wiesel, “Why I Write.“ | |
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| Stephen King, “A door . . . you are willing to shut“ from On Writing | |
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| NEW Brian Doyle, “The Greatest Nature Essay Ever.“ | |
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| Rachel Toor, “Which of These Essay Questions Is the Real Thing?“ | |
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| Social Media--Thinking, Reading, Writing in an Electronic Era | |
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| Sherry Turkle “How Computers Change the Way We Think.“ | |
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| NEW Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.“ | |
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| NEW William Deresiewicz, “Faux Friendship.“ | |
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| Deborah Tannen, From “Fast Forward: “Technologically Enhanced Aggression.“ | |
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| NEW A. Student writing: E. Cabell Hankison Gathman, “Cell Phones“ in Sherry Turkle, The Inner History of Devices | |
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| B NEW Student Writing. Tim Stobierski, “The Paradox.“ | |
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| Determining Ideas in a Sequence | |
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| Narration | |
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| Fiction: Tim O'Brien, “How to Tell a True War Story.“ | |
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| Sherman Alexie, “What Sacagawea Means to Me.“ | |
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| Frederick Douglass, “Resurrection.“ | |
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| Art Spiegelman, Mein Kampf (My Struggle) [graphic essay] | |
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| Linda Hogan “Waking.“ | |
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| Anne Fadiman, “Under Water.“ | |
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| Jason Verge, “The Habs.“ | |
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| Process Analysis | |
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| CREATIVE NONFICTION: Meredith Hall, “Killing Chickens.“ | |
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| Joseph R. DiFranza, “Hooked from the First Cigarette.“ | |
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| NEW Scott McCloud “Reading the Comics.“ | |
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| Scott Russell Sanders, “The Inheritance of Tools.“ | |
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| NEW Barbara Ehrenreich, “Serving in Florida“ from Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America | |
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| Atul Gawande, “On Washing Hands.“ | |
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| Ning Yu, “Red and Black.“ | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| POEM Mary Oliver, “August.“ | |
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| Scott Russell Sanders, “Under the Influence: Paying the Price of My Father's Booze.“ | |
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| James Fallows “Tinfoil Underwear.“ | |
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| William Collins, Robert Colman, James Haywood, Martin R. Manning and Philip Mote, “The Physical Science Behind Climate Change.“ | |
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| Vaclav Havel, “Our Moral Footprint.“ | |
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| NEW Cartoon: Cathy Guisewite, “We Saw Paris.“ * | |
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| NEW Student Essay A. Ryan O'Connell, “Standing Order.“ | |
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| NEW Student Essay B. Meaghan Roy-O'Reilly, “Balancing Act.“ | |
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| Clarifying Ideas | |
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| Description | |
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| CREATIVE NONFICTION Amanda Cagle, “On the Banks of the Bogue Chitto.“ | |
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| Linda Villarosa, “How Much of the Body is Replaceable?“ | |
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| Mark Twain, “Uncle John's Farm.“ | |
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| Michael Pollan, “The Meal.“ | |
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| Marion Nestle, “Eating Made Simple.“ | |
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| Cartoon: Kim Warp, “Rising Sea Levels--An Alternative Theory.“ | |
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| David Sedaris, “Make That a Double.“ | |
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| Matt Nocton, “Harvest of Gold, Harvest of Shame.“ | |
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| Definition | |
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| Poem V. Penelope Pelizzon, “Clever and Poor.“ | |
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| Natalie Angier “A Supple Casing, Prone to Damage.“ | |
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| Howard Gardner, “Who Owns Intelligence?“ | |
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| NEW Jeffrey Wattles, “The Golden Rule--One or Many, Gold or Glitter?“ | |
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| Lynda Barry, “Common Scents“ from One! Hundred! Demons! | |
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| Brian Doyle, “Joyas Voladoras.“ | |
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| “ Student NEW Scott Allison, “Picturesque.“ | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| NEW FICTION Jonathan Safran Foer, “Here We Aren't, So Quickly.“ | |
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| Deborah Tannen, “Communication Styles.“ | |
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| Roz Chast, “Men are From Belgium, Women are from New Brunswick.“ | |
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| Natalie Angier, “Why Men Don't Last: Self-Destruction as a Way of Life.“ | |
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| Suzanne Britt, “That Lean and Hungry Look.“ | |
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| Charles C. Mann, “The Coming Death Shortage.“ | |
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| Cartoon: “I never thought turning eighty could be this much fun.“ | |
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| Megan McGuire, “Wake Up Call.“ | |
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| Arguing Directly and Indirectly | |
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| Appeal to Reason: Deductive and Inductive Arguments | |
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| POEM Marilyn Nelson “Friends in the Klan“ from Carver, a Life in Poems | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence.“ | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. “Let | |