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1. Introduction | |
Cornel West - Black Political Leadership | |
2. Narration: Relating Events | |
Samuel Scudder - Take This Fish and Look at It (annotated) | |
James Dillard - A Doctor’s Dilemma | |
Ramon “Tianguis†Perez - The Fender-Bender | |
Nathan McCall - The Lesson | |
Michael Patrick MacDonald - Returning to Southie | |
Richard Preston - Ebola River | |
George Orwell - Shooting an Elephant | |
Oliver Sacks - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | |
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald | |
Walter Lord - The Reconstructed Logbook of the Titanic | |
3. Description: Presenting Impressions | |
Jonathan Schell - Letter From Ground Zero (annotated) | |
Chris Hedges - A Gaza Diary | |
Truman Capote - Out There | |
Luis Alberto Urrea - Border Story | |
José Antonio Burciaga - My Ecumenical Father | |
Carl T | |
Rowan - Unforgettable Miss Bessie | |
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Scott Momaday - The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
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White - Once More to the Lake | |
Frank Pilipp and Charles Shull - TV Movies of the First Decade of AIDS (Abstract) | |
3M Pharmaceutical - Sales Representative Want Ad | |
Monica Ramos - The Résumé of Monica Ramos | |
4. Definition: Establishing Meaning | |
Eileen Simpson - Dyslexia (annotated) | |
Janice Castro, Dan Cook, and Cristina Garcia - Spanglish | |
Ellen Goodman - The Company Man | |
Jonathan Ritter - The World View of a Computer Hacker | |
John Ciardi - What Is Happiness? | |
Marie Winn - TV Addiction | |
Terry Tempest Williams - Yucca | |
What is Terrorism? | |
The Encyclopedia of Psychology - Depression | |
Don D | |
Rosenberg - What Is Depression? | |
5. Comparison and Contrast: Indicating Similarities and Difference | |
Yi-Fu Tuan - Chinese Space, American Space (annotated) | |
Bob Levey - Men vs | |
Women Over Walking at Night | |
William Zinsser - The Transaction | |
Bruce Catton - Grant and Lee | |
Steven D | |
Stark - A Tale of Two Sitcoms | |
Michael Barone - Irish and Blacks | |
Bharati Mukherjee - Two Ways to Belong to America | |
Henry Louis Gates, Jr | |
- One Internet, Two Nations | |
Peggy Kenna and Sondra Lacy - Communication Styles: United States and Taiwan | |
6. Analysis: Making Evaluations | |
William Raspberry - The Handicap of Definition (annotated) | |
Michael Zielenziger - Black is Beautiful: Tokyo Style | |
Richard Brookhiser - The Skinny | |
Darrell Huff - How to Live with Statistics | |
Louis R | |
Mizell Jr | |
- Who’s Listening to Your Cell Phone Calls? | |
Jeanne McDowell - What’s Wrong With This Picture? | |
Frank Pilipp and Charles Shull - TV Movies of the First Decade of AIDS | |
Philip Gourevich - What They Saw at the Holocaust Museum | |
Kimberly Crawford, J | |
- Surreptitious Recording of Suspects’ Conversations | |
7. Division and Classification: Separating into Parts and Rating Categories | |
Russell Baker - The Plot Against People (annotated) | |
Mary Mebane - Black Wasn’t Beautiful | |
Judith Viorst - Friends, Good Friends--Such Good Friends | |
Martin Luther King Jr | |
- The Ways of Meeting Oppression | |
James Austin - Four Kinds of Chance | |
John Holt - Three Kinds of Discipline | |
Ann McClintock - Propaganda Techniques in Today’s Advertising | |
Northrop Frye - Our Three Languages | |
Black’s Law Dictionary - Homicide | |
8. Process: Explaining How Things Work and Giving Directions | |
Mortimer Adler - How to Mark a Book (annotated) | |
Elizabeth Kolbert Birth of a TV Show: A Drama All Its Own | |
Armond D | |
Budish - Fender Bender Do’s and Don’t’s | |
Marvin Harris - How Our Skins Got Their Color | |
Peter Elbow - Desperation Writing | |
Anne Weisbord - Résumés That Rate a Second Look | |
Eugene Raudsepp - Seeing Your Way Past Interview Jitters | |
Liz Grinslade - Evaluating a Job Opportunity | |
Charles N | |
Jamison Jr | |
- Why My Business Failed | |
Lucille Treganowan - Cleaning Battery Terminals | |
9. Cause and Effect: Determining Reasons and Predicting Results | |
Maya Angelou - Why Blacks Are Returning to Their Southern Roots (annotated) | |
John Brooks - The Effects of the Telephone | |
John Taylor Gatto - Why Schools Don’t Educate | |
Brent Staples - Black Men and Public Space | |
Alan Dershowitz - The “Abuse Excuse†Is Detrimental to the Justice System | |
Leslie Abramson - The Abuse Defense Balances the Justice System | |
Jodi Jacobson - Swept Away | |
Jocelyn Tomkin - Hot Air | |
Thomas Jefferson, et | |
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- The Declaration of Independence | |
Hewlett-Packard - Solving Printer Operation Problems | |
10. Argument and Persuasion: Influencing Readers | |
Scott Simon - Why Even Pacifists Support This War (annotated) | |
Anna Quindlen - Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha | |
Carl Sagan - Why We Need to Understand Science | |
Nat Hentoff - Should This Student Have Been Expelled? | |
Manning Marable - An Idea Whose Time Has Come | |
Shelby Steel - A Childish Illusion | |
Armando Rendón - Kiss of Death | |
Barbara Ehrenreich - Cultural Baggage | |
Albert Einstein - Letter to President Roosevelt, August 2, 1939. The Irish American Partnership - Irish Need Apply |
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