Unit OneText Coping with the Compliment 1
Further Reading The Joy of Giving(Affirmation)—The Healing Effect of Compliments 14
Writing Skills Essay Writing:Overview 21
Unit TwoText The Gift of Gift-giving 34
Further Reading How to Be Generous 51
Writing Skills Essay Writing:Argumentative 59
Unit ThreeText We Have No"Right to Happiness" 70
Further Reading On Marriage—Lessons from a Work-in-Progress 87
Writing Skills Functional Writing:Application Letters 101
Unit FourText Active and Passive Euthanasia 111
Further Reading In Crisis,She Rejected Plea to Expedite Dying 130
Writing Skills Functional Writing:Resumes(Résumés) 137
Unit FiveText Reflections on His Eightieth Birthday 150
Further Reading The View from 80 164
Writing Skills Functional Writing:Business Letters 174
Unit SixText Matriculation Fixation 188
Further Reading Growing Pains—Beyond"One Big Happy Family" 204
Writing Skills Practical Writing:Summaries 217
Unit SevenText There Has Always Been Olympic Mischief 229
Further Reading The Money Game 245
Writing Skills Practical Writing:Book Reports and Book Reviews 256
Unit EightText The Art of Pleasing—A Letter to His Son 268
Further Reading Why I am Afraid of You?—A Letter to His Father 282
Writing Skills Academic Writing:Constructing a Research Paper(1) 293
Unit NineText You Are What You Say 306
Further Reading Euphemisms 326
Writing Skills Academic Writing:Constructing a Research Paper(2) 342
Unit TenText Whatever Happened to Privacy? 358
Further Reading Privacy and the Press:Is Nothing Sacred? 376
Writing Skills Academic Writing:Abstracts 384