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The Power of Language

LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION


Howard S. Becker If You Want to Be a Scholar
Wayne C. Booth Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay
Joan Didion On Keeping a Notebook
Peter Elbow Freewriting
Peter Elbow Desperation Writing
Anne Fadiman Never Do That to a Book
Donald Hall Four Ways of Reading
Anne Lamott Shitty First Drafts
George Orwell Why I Write
Paul Roberts How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words
Fan Shen The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition
Linda Simon The Naked Source
William Stafford A Way of Writing
Lewis Thomas Notes on Punctuation
Edward O. Wilson The Writing Life
William Zinsser Clutter

LANGUAGE AND LITERACY


James Baldwin If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
Frederick Douglass Learning to Read and Write
John Holt How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading
Perri Klass Learning the Language
C. H. Knoblauch Literacy and the Politics of Education
Malcolm X Coming to an Awareness of Language
Barbara Mellix From Outside, In
Casey Miller and Kate Swift Who's in Charge of the English Language?
Richard Rodriguez Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood
David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day
Leslie Marmon Silko Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective
Amy Tan Mother Tongue

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE


Jib Fowles Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals
Beverly Gross Bitch
S. I. Hayakawa How Dictionaries Are Made
Susan Jacoby Notes from a Free-Speech Junkie
Michiko Kakutani The Word Police
Kalle Lasn Hype
Barbara Lawrence Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You
Charles R. Lawrence III On Racist Speech
Jennifer 8. Lee I Think, Therefore IM
William Lutz The World of Doublespeak
Horace Miner Body Ritual among the Nacirema
Alleen Pace Nilsen Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language
George Orwell Politics and the English Language
Katha Pollitt Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls
Paul Roberts A Brief History of English
Gloria Steinem Sex, Lies, and Advertising
Deborah Tannen There Is No Unmarked Woman
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