Pocketful of Essays Rhetorically Arranged

1. SAMPLE PROFESSIONAL ESSAYS. Brent Staples: Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space. 2. NARRATION. Annie Dillard: A Chase. Langston Hughes: Salvation. George Orwell: A Hanging. 3. DESCRIPTION. N. Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain. Virginia Woolf: The Death of the Moth. Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd. 4. ILLUSTRATION AND EXAMPLE. William F. Buckley, Jr.: Why Don't We Complain? Alan M. Dershowitz: Shouting "Fire!" 5. PROCESS. Jessica Mitford: Embalming the U.S.A. Deborah Tannen: How to Give Orders like a Man. Russell Baker: Slice of Life. 6. COMPARISON AND CONTRAST. Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy People. Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts. Rachel Carson: A Fable for Tomorrow. 7. CAUSE AND EFFECT. E. M. Forster: My Wood. Stephen King: Why We Crave Horror Movies. Lewis Thomas: The Lie Detector. 8. CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION. Alleen Pace Nilsen: Sexism in English: A 1990s Update. Susan Allen Toth: Cinematypes. William Zinsser: College Pressures. 9. DEFINITION. Bruno Bettelheim: The Holocaust. Barbara Ehrenreich: Cultural Baggage. Richard Rodriguez: Growing Up Old. 10. ARGUMENTATION. Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream. Shelby Steele: Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference. Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public. 11. SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY. Drew Buckhowski: Internet Indexing Services: Why You Can't Find What You're Looking For.Madden, David is the author of 'Pocketful of Essays Rhetorically Arranged', published 2000 under ISBN 9780155070455 and ISBN 0155070452.