Short Takes : Model Essays for Composition

by Penfield, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780321488152
• ISBN10: 0321488156
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This lively collection of fifty-two short, readable selections by both student and professional writers provides useful models of the rhetorical modes. Provides useful models of the rhetorical modes. Includes essays organized around the rhetorical modes: narrative, definition, cause and effect, classification, and argument. General Interest

Table of Contents

Thematic Guide	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
Freeze Frame: Reading and Writing	p. 1
On Using Description	p. 12
A Sandwich	p. 22
The Bridge	p. 25
Countdown	p. 29
El Hoyo	p. 33
Left Sink	p. 37
Additional Writing Assignments	p. 45
On Using Narration	p. 47
Designer of Audio CD Packaging Enters Hell	p. 57
Learning, then College	p. 61
The Night of Oranges	p. 64
Time to Look and Listen	p. 67
Footprints on the Flag	p. 72
Additional Writing Assignments	p. 76
On Using Definition	p. 77
Chocolate Equals Love	p. 84
I Was a Member of the Kung Fu Crew	p. 88
The Handicap of Definition	p. 92
Where Nothing Says Everything	p. 96
Crippled by Their Culture	p. 101
Additional Writing Assignments	p. 107
On Using Example	p. 108
Sweatin' for Nothin'	p. 117
Stop Ordering Me Around	p. 120
A Black Fan of Country Music Finally Tells All	p. 125
Step Away from the Bear	p. 129
Bananas for Rent	p. 136
Additional Writing Assignments	p. 141
On Using Division and Classification	p. 142
A Good Word on Politics	p. 150
Always, Always, Always	p. 153
The Search for Human Life in the Maze of Retail Stores	p. 158
The Plot Against People	p. 162
Desert Religions	p. l66
Additional Writing Assignments	p. 171
On Using Comparison and Contrast	p. 172
Living on Tokyo Time	p. 180
Who's Watching? Reality TV and Sports	p. 183
Playing House	p. 186
World and America Watching Different Wars	p. 190
The Raven	p. 196
Additional Writing Assignments	p. 202
On Using Process	p. 203
Accessorizing the Scoops of Summer	p. 210
Runner	p. 214
Independence Day	p. 217
Halloween and the Eulogy: Death, Be Not Ponderous	p. 221
A Woman's Place	p. 225
Additional Writing Assignments	p. 231
On Using Cause and Effect	p. 232
Tiffany Stephenson-An Apology	p. 239
When Music Heals Body and Soul	p. 244
Wrestling with Myself	p. 249
Black Men and Public Space	p. 254
Retreat into the iWorld	p. 259
Additional Writing Assignments	p. 264
On Using Argument	p. 265
Last Rites for Indian Dead	p. 278
Don't Impede Medical Progress	p. 282
Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal	p. 287
Dearly Beloved	p. 291
Guest Workers and the U. S. Heritage	p. 294
We Don't Need 'Guest Workers'	p. 299
All These Illegals (comic strip)	p. 304
Americans and Jobs (cartoon)	p. 305
Additional Writing Assignments	p. 307
For Further Reading: Multiple Modes, Varied Opinions	p. 308
On Disabilities	p. 308
Mind Over Matter	p. 309
Macho Man-An In-depth Analysis of the Prejudices of Disability	p. 310
On Morality, Values, and Higher Education	p. 314
When Ideas Kill	p. 315
Aim Low	p. 317
Terror and Torture	p. 322
A Case for Torture	p. 325
Credits	p. 329
Index of Authors, Essays, and Terms	p. 333
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