The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition

by Cooley, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780393970906
• ISBN10: 0393970906
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Thematic Table of Contents	xvii
Preface	xxiv
Introduction	3	(4)
The Writing Process	7	(371)
Transfiguration	9	(6)
Annie Dillard
How I Wrote The Moth Essay---And Why	15	(12)
Annie Dillard
Narration
Essays In The First Person Singular	27	(42)
Four Generations	30	(7)
Joyce Maynard
The Back Of The Bus	37	(10)
Mary E. Mebane
None of This Is Fair	47	(7)
Richard Rodriguez
The True Story Of Why I Do What I Do	54	(8)
Lee K. Abbott
Writers on the Writing Process An Interview	62	(7)
Mary E. Mebane
Exposition
Essays That Classify And Divide	69	(37)
Cinematypes	72	(6)
Susan Allen Toth
What Do You Call A Platypus?	78	(8)
Isaac Asimov
Mother Tongue	86	(9)
Amy Tan
The Color Of Success	95	(6)
Eric A. Watts
Writers on the Writing Process	101	(5)
Isaac Asimov
Susan Allen Toth
Essays That Analyze A Process	106	(34)
The Spider And The Wasp	109	(8)
Alexander Petrunkevitch
How To Write A Letter	117	(6)
Garrison Keillor
On Holidays And How To Make Them Work	123	(5)
Nikki Giovanni
How To Get Out Of A Locked Trunk	128	(9)
Philip Weiss
Writers on the Writing Process	137	(3)
Nikki Glovanni
Essays That Analyze Cause and Effect	140	(30)
The Potato: How It Shaped the World	144	(4)
Mary Talbot
Who Killed Easter Island?	148	(8)
Jared Diamond
I Forgot The Words To The National Anthem	156	(5)
James Seilsopour
A Giant Step	161	(6)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Writers on the Writing Process	167	(3)
James Seilsopour
Essays That Define	170	(29)
A Name Is Just A Name?	173	(5)
Cindy Schneider
The Maidenform Woman Administers Shock Treatment	178	(5)
Ellen Goodman
Anosmia	183	(6)
Diane Ackerman
Reflections On A Lettuce Wedge	189	(7)
Jane Smiley
Writers on the Writing Process	196	(3)
Ellen Goodman
Essays That Compare And Contrast	199	(32)
Body Imperfect	202	(4)
Debi Davis
A Study In Contrasts	206	(7)
Bruce Catton
Grant
Lee
A Nice Place To Visit	213	(5)
Russell Baker
Like Mexicans	218	(7)
Gary Soto
Writers on the Writing Process	225	(6)
Debi Davis
Russell Baker
Essays That Use Metaphor And Analogy	231	(38)
Pulling Up Roots	234	(5)
Anne Raver
More Room	239	(7)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Ticky-Tacky	246	(9)
Kitty Burns Florey
Shouting ``Fire!''	255	(8)
Alan M. Dershowitz
Writers on the Writing Process	263	(6)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Description
Essays That Appeal To The Senses	269	(34)
A View From The Bridge	272	(5)
Cherokee Paul McDonald
No Rainbows, No Roses	277	(5)
Beverly Dipo
No Wonder They Call Me A Bitch	282	(7)
Ann Hodgman
Double Vision In A New Old World	289	(10)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Writers on the Writing Process	299	(4)
Beverly Dipo
Persuasion and Argumentation
Essays That Appeal To Reason	303	(41)
The Declaration Of Independence	307	(7)
Thomas Jefferson
The Island Of Plenty	314	(6)
Johnson C. Montgomery
The Price Of Power: Living In The Nuclear Age	320	(7)
Kori Quintana
Reasonable Search And Seizure	327	(8)
James Q. Wilson
Maintaining The Crime Supply	335	(6)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Writers on the Writing Process	341	(3)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Essays That Appeal To Emotion And Ethics	344	(34)
Being Prepared In Suburbia	347	(6)
Roger Verhulst
Reinvent Welfare, Humanely	353	(5)
Lynn Woolsey
Good AIDS, Bad AIDS	358	(4)
Randy Shilts
The War On Drinks	362	(5)
Anna Quindlen
Reply To The U. S. Government	367	(7)
Chief Seattle
Writers on the Writing Process	374	(4)
Roger Verhulst
Essays For Further Reading: Combining The Modes	378	(61)
A Modest Proposal	381	(9)
Jonathan Swift
Politics and The English Language	390	(13)
George Orwell
Once More To The Lake	403	(7)
E. B. White
The Death Of The Moth	410	(4)
Virginia Woolf
On Keeping A Notebook	414	(8)
Joan Didion
Skunk Dreams	422	(11)
Louise Erdrich
Caught In The Widow's Web	433	(4)
Gordon Grice
Writers on the Writing Process A Letter	437	(2)
E. B. White
Glossary	439	(8)
Index	447