Introduction | |
Guidelines for Reading an Essay | |
Sample Analysis of an Essay: Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life | |
Guidelines for Writing an Essay | |
Student Essay: Kristie Ferguson, The Scenic Route | |
Narration and Description | |
A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe (professional paragraph) | |
Deloris (student paragraph) | |
The Veil (visual text) | |
Digging | |
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self | |
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Mar?a | |
Memories of a Dead Man Walking | |
Shooting an Elephant | |
Truth or Consequences (story) | |
Process Analysis | |
Digging Limestone (professional paragraph) | |
Making Stained Glass (student paragraph) | |
How Many It Takes (visual text) | |
Drawing on Experience | |
Third World Driving Hints and Tips | |
Campus Racism 101 | |
Grounds for Fiction | |
Arranging a Marriage in India | |
The Golden Darters (story) | |
Comparison and Contrast | |
FDR and Truman (professional paragraph) | |
Howard and Rush (student paragraph) | |
At Play, Tianzi Mountains (visual text) | |
Two Views of the River | |
Cowboys v Mounties | |
Imaginary Lines | |
A Tale of Two Divorces | |
Shakespeare in the Bush | |
His First Ball (story) | |
Division and Classification | |
Conservation Is Good Work (professional paragraph) | |
Gentlemen! Start Your Engines (student paragraph) | |
Cloud Chart (visual text) | |
Four Kinds of Chance | |
The Truth About Lying | |
Shades of Black | |
Modern Friendships | |
The Dramaturgy of Death | |
Revelation (story) | |
Definition | |
When Tristram Met Isolde (professional paragraph) | |
Personality (student paragraph) | |
Adbusters (visual text) | |
The Hoax | |
Pain | |
Attention! Multitaskers | |
Globalisation | |
The Tiger Is God | |
The Lesson (story) | |
Cause and Effect | |
Elephant Evolution (professional paragraph) | |
Barrier-Free Design (student paragraph) | |
The Endurance (visual text) | |
Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls | |
Peak Performance: Why Records Fall | |
The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society | |
Examined Life | |
Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good | |
The Star (story) | |
Persuasion and Argument | |
The Promised Land (professional paragraph) | |
Genetic Engineering (student paragraph) | |
Physicians Against Land Mines (visual text) | |
A Debate About Racism | |
I Have a Dream | |
A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream | |
A Debate About Stem Cell Research | |
First Principles and the "Frist Principles" | |
Stem Cell Research: It's About Life and Death, Not Politics | |
A Debate About Family | |
Stone Soup | |
Women and the Future of Fatherhood | |
A Debate About Harry Potter | |
Under the Spell | |
Can 35 Million Book Buyers Be Wrong? Yes | |
Harrison Bergeron (story) | |
Resources for Writing: Energy: A Casebook | |
The Grid and the Village (Narration and Description | |
Guide to Better Fuel Economy (Process Analysis) | |
The Sources of Energy: A Visual Essay | |
Greenpeace International, Sellafield = Springfield? (Comparison and Contrast) | |
Utilities (Division and Classification) | |
The Holy Grails of Energy Technology (Definition) | |
China's Symbol, and Source, of Power (Cause and Effect) | |
A Debate About Windmills | |
An Ill Wind Off Cape Cod (Persuasion and Argument) | |
Cape Wind Is Sound for the Sound (Persuasion and Argument) | |
Entropy (story) | |
Using and Documenting Sources | |
Student Research Paper | |
The Possibilities and Limitations of Online Learning | |
Acknowledgements | |
Index | |
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