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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 | ... MORE |
| Richard Preston - Ebola River | |
| 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 | |
| José Antonio Burciaga - My Ecumenical Father | |
| Carl T | |
| Rowan - Unforgettable Miss Bessie | |
| 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? | |
| 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 | |
| Bharati Mukherjee - Two Ways to Belong to America | |
| 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 | |
| Louis R | |
| Mizell Jr | |
| - Who’s Listening to Your Cell Phone Calls? | |
| James Poniewozik - What’s Wrong With This Picture? | |
| 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) | |
| Judith Viorst - Friends, Good Friends--and Such Good Friends | |
| Martin Luther King Jr | |
| - The Ways of Meeting Oppression | |
| James Austin - Four Kinds of Chance | |
| John Holt - Three Kinds of Discipline | |
| 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 | |
| Peter Elbow - Desperation Writing | |
| Anne Weisbord - Résumés That Rate a Second Look | |
| 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 | |
| Alan Dershowitz - The “Abuse Excuse” Is Detrimental to the Justice System | |
| Leslie Abramson - The Abuse Defense Balances the Justice System | |
| Hewlett-Packard - Solving Printer Operation Problems | |
| 10. Argument and Persuasion: Influencing Readers | |
| Scott Simon - Why Even Pacifists Support This War (annotated) | |
| 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 |