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Designed to provide students with a basic understanding of paragraph and essay writing, this rhetorically arranged reader contains paragraphs and short essays by professional and student writers alike. Patterns is organized around eight rhetorical methods, with additional chapters on fundamental writing skills and combining the modes. Each chapter offers a substantial introduction to the pattern, and extensive apparatus surrounds every selection.

The Basics of Paragraphs and Essays
Narration Paragraphs
The Discovery of Coca-Cola
Grandma's Last Day
The Movie House
Vital Signs
Freedom Essays
The Jeaning of America--and the World
When We Were
The End of My Childhood
A Cultural Divorce
Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space
The Deli
Description Paragraphs Aurora
Kitchens
The Marion
The Subway Station
The Sperm Whale
The Quiet Odyssey
Overindulgence Essays
The Dance Within My Heart
I Love Washington
The Monster
Marrying Absurd
This Man Has Expired
Aravaipa Canyon
Limbo
Examples Paragraphs
The Pencil Rack
The Shoe as a Strategic Weapon
The Next Generation
The Power of Dance
My Suit Essays
Best Presidential Criterion: Hair
Extreme Measures
Down with the Forests
What the Nose Knows
Living with Asymmetry
Back to the Dump
My Mother Never Worked
Classification and Division Paragraphs
Fans
From Cakewalks to Concert
The Three New Yorks Paula
Where I Come from Is Like This Essays
Dish Demeanor
Confessions of a Former Smoker
American Regional Costume
How To live on Less than $14,000 a Year
Friends, Good Friends, and Such Good Friends
Three Disciplines for Children
Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs
The Solace of Open Spaces
Good Girl, Bad Girl
Jungle and Desert
That Lean and Hungry Look Essays
Glittering Alice and Sad
Conversational Ballgames
Eating American-style
Nursing Practices--England and America
Aria Scott
Women and Men Denise Washington (student),Pediatricians
Process Paragraphs
Like Water for Chocolate
Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away
Rescuing Oily Birds
The Cook Essays
Picking and Pecking: The Etiquette of Corn Bruce
Eating Alone in Restaurants
The Wine Experience
How to Put Off Doing a Job
Date Decorating: Preparing Your Home for His Arrival
Pithing a Frog
Cause and Effect Paragraphs Winifred Gallag
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Patterns : A Short Prose Reader

Patterns : A Short Prose Reader

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