The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition,9780393970906

The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition

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Edition: 5th
ISBN13: 9780393970906
ISBN10: 0393970906
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-01-01
Publisher(s): W W Norton & Co Inc
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Table of Contents

Thematic Table of Contents xvii
Preface xxiv
Introduction 3(4)
The Writing Process 7(371)
Transfiguration
9(6)
Annie Dillard
How I Wrote The Moth Essay---And Why
15(12)
Annie Dillard
Narration
Essays In The First Person Singular
27(42)
Four Generations
30(7)
Joyce Maynard
The Back Of The Bus
37(10)
Mary E. Mebane
None of This Is Fair
47(7)
Richard Rodriguez
The True Story Of Why I Do What I Do
54(8)
Lee K. Abbott
Writers on the Writing Process An Interview
62(7)
Mary E. Mebane
Exposition
Essays That Classify And Divide
69(37)
Cinematypes
72(6)
Susan Allen Toth
What Do You Call A Platypus?
78(8)
Isaac Asimov
Mother Tongue
86(9)
Amy Tan
The Color Of Success
95(6)
Eric A. Watts
Writers on the Writing Process
101(5)
Isaac Asimov
Susan Allen Toth
Essays That Analyze A Process
106(34)
The Spider And The Wasp
109(8)
Alexander Petrunkevitch
How To Write A Letter
117(6)
Garrison Keillor
On Holidays And How To Make Them Work
123(5)
Nikki Giovanni
How To Get Out Of A Locked Trunk
128(9)
Philip Weiss
Writers on the Writing Process
137(3)
Nikki Glovanni
Essays That Analyze Cause and Effect
140(30)
The Potato: How It Shaped the World
144(4)
Mary Talbot
Who Killed Easter Island?
148(8)
Jared Diamond
I Forgot The Words To The National Anthem
156(5)
James Seilsopour
A Giant Step
161(6)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Writers on the Writing Process
167(3)
James Seilsopour
Essays That Define
170(29)
A Name Is Just A Name?
173(5)
Cindy Schneider
The Maidenform Woman Administers Shock Treatment
178(5)
Ellen Goodman
Anosmia
183(6)
Diane Ackerman
Reflections On A Lettuce Wedge
189(7)
Jane Smiley
Writers on the Writing Process
196(3)
Ellen Goodman
Essays That Compare And Contrast
199(32)
Body Imperfect
202(4)
Debi Davis
A Study In Contrasts
206(7)
Bruce Catton
Grant
Lee
A Nice Place To Visit
213(5)
Russell Baker
Like Mexicans
218(7)
Gary Soto
Writers on the Writing Process
225(6)
Debi Davis
Russell Baker
Essays That Use Metaphor And Analogy
231(38)
Pulling Up Roots
234(5)
Anne Raver
More Room
239(7)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Ticky-Tacky
246(9)
Kitty Burns Florey
Shouting ``Fire!''
255(8)
Alan M. Dershowitz
Writers on the Writing Process
263(6)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Description
Essays That Appeal To The Senses
269(34)
A View From The Bridge
272(5)
Cherokee Paul McDonald
No Rainbows, No Roses
277(5)
Beverly Dipo
No Wonder They Call Me A Bitch
282(7)
Ann Hodgman
Double Vision In A New Old World
289(10)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Writers on the Writing Process
299(4)
Beverly Dipo
Persuasion and Argumentation
Essays That Appeal To Reason
303(41)
The Declaration Of Independence
307(7)
Thomas Jefferson
The Island Of Plenty
314(6)
Johnson C. Montgomery
The Price Of Power: Living In The Nuclear Age
320(7)
Kori Quintana
Reasonable Search And Seizure
327(8)
James Q. Wilson
Maintaining The Crime Supply
335(6)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Writers on the Writing Process
341(3)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Essays That Appeal To Emotion And Ethics
344(34)
Being Prepared In Suburbia
347(6)
Roger Verhulst
Reinvent Welfare, Humanely
353(5)
Lynn Woolsey
Good AIDS, Bad AIDS
358(4)
Randy Shilts
The War On Drinks
362(5)
Anna Quindlen
Reply To The U. S. Government
367(7)
Chief Seattle
Writers on the Writing Process
374(4)
Roger Verhulst
Essays For Further Reading: Combining The Modes 378(61)
A Modest Proposal
381(9)
Jonathan Swift
Politics and The English Language
390(13)
George Orwell
Once More To The Lake
403(7)
E. B. White
The Death Of The Moth
410(4)
Virginia Woolf
On Keeping A Notebook
414(8)
Joan Didion
Skunk Dreams
422(11)
Louise Erdrich
Caught In The Widow's Web
433(4)
Gordon Grice
Writers on the Writing Process A Letter
437(2)
E. B. White
Glossary 439(8)
Index 447

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