Contents
Sample Professional Essay(with annotations)
Brent Staples,"Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space" 1
Commentary 6
Narration 7
Annie Dillard,"A Chase" 9
Langston Hughes,"Salvation" 13
George Orwell," A Hanging" 15
Description 19
N. Scott Momaday, "The Way to Rainy Mountin" 21
Virginia Woolf," The Death of the Moth" 26
Joan Didion,"Marrying Absurd" 29
Illustration and Example 33
William F. Buckley, Jr.,"Why Don't We Complain?" 34
Alan M. Dershowitz, "Shouting 'Fire!' " 39
Process 45
Jessica Mitford,"Embalming in the U.S.A." 46
Deborah Tannen, "How to Give Orders like a Man" 51
Russell Baker,"Slice of Life" 59
Comparison and Contrast 61
Suzanne Britt, "Neat People vs. Sloppy People" 63
Bruce Catton, " Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" 65
Rachel Carson,"A Fable for Tomorrow" 68
Cause and Effect 71
E. M. Forster,"My Wood" 73
Stephen King,"Why We Crave Horror Movies" 76
Lewis Thomas,"The Lie Detector" 79
Classification and Division 81
Alleen Pace Nilsen,"Sexism in English: A 1990s Update" 82
Susan Allen Toth, "Cinematypes" 92
William Zinsser,"College Prssures" 95
Definition 103
Bruno Bettelheim,"The Holocaust" 104
Barbara Ehrenreich,:Cultural Baggage" 107
Richard Rodriguez, "Growing Up Old" 110
Argumentation 115
Martin Luther King, Jr.,"I Have a Dream" 116
Shelby Steele," Affirmative Action:The Price of Preference" 120
Jonathan Swift,"A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland form Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public" 128
Sample Student Eassy(with annotations) 135
Drew Buckhowski, "Inernet Indexing Services: Why You Can,t Find What You're Looking For" 136
Commentary 141
