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Cengage Advantage Books: A Pocketful of Essays Volume I, Rhetorically Arranged, Revised Edition

ISBN: 9781413015621 | 141301562X
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 4/29/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
Save money with THOMSON ADVANTAGE BOOKS: POCKETFUL OF ESSAYS: VOLUE I, RHETORICALLY ARRANGED, REVISED EDITION! An inexpensive alternative to the more expensive anthologies, this slim volume contains only the essentials of the most familiar and most taught favorites.
Save money with CENAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: POCKETFUL OF ESSAYS: VOLUE I, RHETORICALLY ARRANGED, REVISED EDITION! An inexpensive alternative to the more expensive anthologies, this slim volume contains only the essentials of the most familiar and most taugh... MORE
Contents: Thematically Arrangedvii
A Word from the Editor to Students and Teachersxii
About the Editorxiv
Sample Professional Essay (with annotations)
Brent Staples, "Just Walk On By: A Black Man Pon... MORE
1(8)
Commentary
7(2)
Narration9(20)
Annie Dillard, "A Chase"
13(6)
Langston Hughes, "Salvation"
19(4)
George Orwell, "A Hanging"
23(6)
Description29(18)
N. Scott Momaday, "The Way to Rainy Mountain"
31(8)
Virginia Woolf, "The Death of the Moth"
39(4)
Joan Didion, "Marrying Absurd"
43(4)
Illustration and Example47(18)
William F. Buckley, Jr., "Why Don't We Complain?"
49(8)
Alan M. Dershowitz, "Shouting `Fire!' "
57(8)
Process65(24)
Jessica Mitford, "Embalming in the U.S.A."
67(8)
Deborah Tannen, "How to Give Orders Like a Man"
75(10)
Russell Baker, "Slice of Life"
85(4)
Comparison and Contrast89(16)
Suzanne Britt, "Neat People vs. Sloppy People"
91(4)
Bruce Catton, "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts"
95(6)
Rachel Carson, "A Fable for Tomorrow"
101(4)
Cause and Effect105(14)
E.M. Forster, "My Wood"
107(4)
Stephen King, "Why We Crave Horror Movies"
111(4)
Lewis Thomas, "The Lie Detector"
115(4)
Classification and Division119(30)
Alleen Pace Nilsen, "Sexism in English: A 1990's Update"
121(14)
Susan Allen Toth, "Cinematypes"
135(4)
William Zinsser, "College Pressures"
139(10)
Definition149(16)
Bruno Bettelheim, "The Holocaust"
151(4)
Barbara Ehrenreich, "Cultural Baggage"
155(4)
Richard Rodriguez, "Growing Up Old"
159(6)
Argumentation165(30)
Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream"
167(6)
Shelby Steele, "Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference"
173(12)
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"
185(10)
Sample Student Essay (with annotations)195(10)
Drew Buckhowski, "Internet Indexing Services: Why You Can't Find What You're Looking For"
196(9)
Commentary
203(2)
Credits205

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