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Short Models for Composition

NARRATION


Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour
Martin Gansberg Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police
Langston Hughes Salvation
Sophronia Liu So Tsi-Fai
Gary Soto The Grandfather




DESCRIPTION


Francis Bacon Of Studies
Joan Didion On Going Home
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
Geoffrey Nunberg Blogging in Global Lunchroom
Cynthia Ozick The Seam of the Snail
Virginia Woolf The Death of the Moth




EXAMPLE


Diane Ackerman We Are All a Part of Nature
Gwendolyn Brooks The Bean Eaters
Roald Hoffman The Chemist
Susan Jacoby Notes from a Free-Speech Junkie
Jamaica Kincaid Girl
Jack Shaheen The Media's Image of Arabs
Sojourner Truth A'n't I a Woman?




COMPARISON AND CONTRAST


Suzanne Britt Neat People vs. Sloppy People
Bruce Catton Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
John Ciardi Is Everybody Happy?
Michael Dorris For Indians, No Thanksgiving
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
Mark Twain Two Ways of Seeing a River




PROCESS


Sue Hubbell The Beekeeper
James H. Jeans Why the Sky Looks Blue
Henry Reed Naming of Parts
Lewis Thomas On Natural Death




DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION


Russell Baker The Plot against People
Lee Ann Fisher Baron The Influence of "Junk Science" and the Role of Science Education
Michael Snider The Intimacy of Blogs
Beverly Daniel Tatum Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?




DEFINITION


James Baldwin If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
Judy Brady I Want a Wife
Peter Elbow Desperation Writing
Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux On Friendship
Marianne Moore Poetry
Noel Perrin The Androgynous Man




CAUSE AND EFFECT


Deb Aronson The Nurture of Nature
Dalton Conley Tip Jars and the New Economy
Ronnie Dugger Corporate Takeover of the Media
Amitai Etzioni Working at McDonald's
Langston Hughes Harlem
Katha Pollitt Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls




ARGUMENT


Susan Brownmiller Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet
Milton Friedman Social Responsibility of Business and Labor
Vicki Hearne What's Wrong with Animal Rights?
Michael Levin The Case for Torture
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress




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