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PART ONE: ADVICE ON WRITING 1

CHAPTER ONE: Paragraphs—What Makes Them Successful? 3

CHAPTER TWO: Successful Essays—Classic and Organic Essay Structures 18

CHAPTER THREE: Successful Essays—Major Kinds of Essays 29

CHAPTER FOUR: Successful Essays—The Rhetorical Modes 58

PART TWO: READINGS FOR WRITING 67

CHAPTER FIVE: Place—Where Do We Call Home? 69

1. Robert Wrigley, "The Swing, the Snow, the Skull of a Hare" 70

2. Barry Holstun Lopez, "Landscape and Narrative" 76

3. Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ship Ahoy" 82

4. Maggie Anderson, "A Place with Promise" 91

5. Roberta Hill Whiteman, "Nett Lake, Minnesota" 93

CHAPTER SIX: Work—What Labors Occupy Us? 111

1. Mother Jones, "UMWA Convention Speech, 1902" 112

2. Richard Rodriguez, "Complexion and Labor" 119

3. Sheila Ballantyne, "They Call Me Mummy" 126

4. Jim Daniels, "Still Lives in Detroit, #1, #2, and #3" 137

CHAPTER SEVEN: Reading/Seeing—What Does This Meant 154

1. Virginia Woolf, "How Should One Read a Book?" 155

2. Mark Twain, "Perplexing Lessons" and "Continued Perplexities" 160

3. Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" 170

4. Robert Frost, "Birches" 182

5. Tu Fu, "Ballad of a Hundred Worries" 184

CHAPTER EIGHT: Teaching/Learning—What's Gained or Lost in This Process? 198

1. Robert B. Heilman, "The Great-Teacher Myth" 199

2. David A. Fryxell, "Blackboard Immortality" 206

3. Robley Wilson, Jr., "Wasps" 213

4. Lola Haskins, "The Amateur" 221

5. Li-Young Lee, "Persimmons" 223

CHAPTER NINE: Science—What and How Do We Discover? 243

1. Harold J. Morowitz, "The Olive in the Martini" and "The Thermodynamics of Pizza" 244

2. Lewis Thomas, "The Music of This Sphere" 250

3. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., "The Manned Missiles" 255

4. Allison Funk, "August: A Lunar Eclipse" 264

5. Al Young, "Chemistry" 266

CHAPTER TEN: Politics—What and How Do We Control? 283

1. George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" 284

2. James Baldwin, "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem" 291

3. Toni Cade Bambara, "My Man Bovanne" 299

4. W. H. Auden, "If on Account of the Political Situation" 305

Narration 160

1. Mark Twain, "Perplexing Lessons" and "Continued Perplexities" 160

2. George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" 284

3. Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" 170

4. Lola Haskins, "The Amateur" 221

Comparison and Contrast 250

1. Lewis Thomas, "The Music of This Sphere" 250

2. James Baldwin, "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem" 291

3. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., "The Manned Missiles" 255

4. Roberta Hill Whiteman, "Nett Lake, Minnesota" 93

Process Analysis 155

1. Virginia Woolf, "How Should One Read a Book?" 155

2. Harold J. Morowitz, 'The Olive in the Martini" and "The Thermodynamics of Pizza" 244

3. Sheila Ballantyne, 'They Call Me Mummy" 126

4. Robert Frost, "Birches" 182

5. Tu Fu, "Ballad of a Hundred Worries" 184

Cause and Effect 284

1. George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" 284

2. Mark Twain, "Perplexing Lessons" and "Continued Perplexities" 160

3. Robley Wilson, Jr., "Wasps" 213

4. Jim Daniels, "Still Lives in Detroit, #1, #2, and #3" 137

Definition 76

1. Barry Holstun Lopez, "Landscape and Narrative" 76

2. Richard Rodriguez, "Complexion and Labor" 119

3. Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ship Ahoy" 82

4. Al Young, "Chemistry" 266

5. Li-Young Lee, "Persimmons" 223

Argument 112

1. Mother Jones, "UMWA Convention Speech, 1902" 112

2. Robert B. Heilman, "The Great-Teacher Myth" 199

3. Toni Cade Bambara, "My Man Bovanne" 299

4. W. H. Auden, "If on Account of the Political Situation" 305