Great Writing provides a multi-genre collection of rhetorically organized essays, memoirs, speeches, stories, poems, and a play - all presented within familiar rhetorical contexts.
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1: DESCRIPTION
N. Scott Momaday: "The Last of the Kiowas"
E. B. White: "Once More to the Lake"
Emily Bronte: "Wuthering Heights, Chapter 1" (fiction)
*Annie Dillard: "Mantis"
Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Ozymadias" (poem)
*Virginia Woolf: "Death of the Moth"
Alfred Kazin: "The Kitchen"
*Linda Pastan, "Grudnow"
John Keats: "Ode To Autumn" (poem)
Melville Cane: "Snow Toward Evening" (poem)
2: NARRATION
Willa Cather: "A Wagner Matinee" (fiction)
Frederick Douglass: from "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave"
Emily Dickinson: "There"s Been a Death in the Opposite / House" (poem)
Raymond Carver: "My Father"s Life"
Countee Cullen: "Incident" (poem)
Judith Ortiz Cofer: "The Witch"s Husband"
William Blake: "The Chimney Sweeper" (poem)
James Joyce: "Araby" (fiction)
Langston Hughes: "Salvation"
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart" (fiction)
*Ian Frazier: "Powwow"
*Maya Angelou: "Graduation"
*Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Wakefield" (fiction)
3: EXEMPLIFICATION
Maxine Hong Kingston: "Family Ghosts"
Barbara Tuchman: "The Black Death"
James Thurber: "Courtship through the Ages"
Walt Whitman: "There Was a Child Went Forth" (poem)
*William Safire: "Census 2000"
*Barbara Ehrenreich: "What I"ve Learned from Men"
Gwendelyn Brooks: "We Real Cool" (poem)
Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess" (poem)
William Zinsser: "Clutter"
4: PROCESS
Joan Didion: "On Keeping a Notebook"
Ernest Hemingway: "Camping Out"
*Jessica Mitford, "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain"
Ovid: "The Creation"
Henry David Thoreau: "On Economy"
D.H. Lawrence: "The Rocking-Horse Winner" (fiction)
Ved Mehta: "The Baby Myna"
Carmara Laye: "The Gold Worker"
Lorrie Moore: "How to Become a Better Writer"
5: COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
Virginia Woolf: "Shakespeare"s Gifted Sister"
Amy Tan: "Two Kinds"
*Adam Gopnik: "Like a King"
Thomas Hardy: "The Ruined Maid"
Seamus Heaney: "Digging"
Susan Sontag: "Two Diseases"
Plato: "The Allegory of the Cave"
William Shakespeare: "My Mistress" Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun"
Robert Frost: "Fire and Ice"
*Bruce Catton: "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts"
Toni Morrison: "A Slow Walk of Trees"
Alice Walker: "Everyday Use"
6: CLASSIFICATION
*Judith Viorst: "Friends, Good Friends, and Such Good Friends"
Irwin Shaw: "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses"
Dylan Thomas: "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
Henry Reed: "Naming of Parts"
*Barbara Defoe Whitehead: "The Plight of the High-Status Woman"
*Russell Baker: "The Plot Against People"
Ecclesiastes: "Chapter 3"
Malcolm Cowley: "The National Heartbeat: `We-ness" and `Me-ness""
Phillip Lopate: "Modern Friendships"
7: CAUSATION
Albert Camus: "The Myth of Sisyphus"
Kate Chopin: "The Story of an Hour" (fiction)
George Orwell: "Why I Write"
Langston Hughes: "Dream Deferred"
Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Richard Cory" (poem)
William Shakespeare: "When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth" (poem)
Jack London: "To Build a Fire"
*Andrew Sullivan: "The He Hormone"
*Patricia J. Williams: "Smart Bombs"
8: DEFINITION
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Gifts"
Carson McCullers: "A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud"
Susan Brownmiller: "Feminity"
*Leonard Kriegel: "Claiming the Self: The Cripple as American Man"
Robert Graves: "The Naked and the Nude"
*Judy Brady: "I Want a Wife"
Marianne Moore: "Poetry"
*Stephen L. Carter: "The Insufficiency of Honesty"
Richard Rodriguez: "Complexion"
9: ARGUMENTATION AND PERSUASION
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I Have a Dream"
Jonathan Swift: "A Modest Proposal"
*Stephen Schulhofer: "Unwanted Sex"
Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"
Wilfred Owen: "Dulce et Decorum Est"
*Jane Smiley: "The Case Against Chores"
*Katha Pollitt: "The Smurfette Principle"
Franz Kafka: "The Judgment"
John Stuart Mill: "On Liberty"
Anton Chekhov: "A Marriage Proposal"
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