Contents
A Brief Introductionl to Writing Stegies 1
Sample Professional Essay(with annotations)
Deborah Tannen,"Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers" 5
Commentary 19
Childhood Memories:Families and Children 21
Judith Ortiz Cofer,"Casa:A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood" 22
Scott Russell Sanders,"The Inheritance of Tools" 27
E. B. White,"Once More to the Lake" 34
Education:Literacy and Learning 39
James Thurber,"University Days" 40
Richard Rodriguez,"None of This Is Fair" 45
Jonathan Kozol,"The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" 49
Language:Race and Gender 55
Gloria Naylor,"The Meanings of a Word" 56
Amy Tan,"Mother Tongue" 59
Nature: Animals and Landscapes 65
Alexander Petunkevich,"The Spider and the Wasp" 66
Mark Twain,"Two Views of the Mississppi" 70
George Orwell,"Shooting an Elephant" 72
Psychology and Behavior 79
Desmonder Morris,"Territorial Behavior" 80
Lars Eighner,"My Daily Dives in the Dumpster" 88
Marie Winn, "Television Addiction" 92
Public Policy:Government and Law 95
Thomas Jefferson,"The Declaration of Independence" 96
Stephanie Coontz,"A Nation of Welfare Families" 100
Martin Luther King,Jr.,"Letter from Birmingham Hail Response to Public Statement by Eight Alabama Clergymen" 104
Relationships:Women and Men 119
Judith Viorst,"Friends, Good Friends-and Such Good Friends" 120
Ellen Goodman,"The Tapestry of Friendships" 124
Barbara Ehrenreich,"What I've Learned form Men" 126
Science and MDEDICINE 131
Isaac Asimov,"Those Crazy Ideas" 132
Stephen Jay Gould," Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Exinction of Richard Selzer,"The Discus Thrower" 148
Social Roles and Customs 151
Judy Brady," I Want a Wife" 152
Maya Angelou,"Finishing School" 154
Nikki Giovanni,"On Holidays and How to Make Them Work" 159
Sample Student Essay(with annotations) 161
Cecelia DeLozier,"Diagnoses,Denials, and Discoveries" 162
Commentary 169
