One hundred great essays /edited by Robert DiYanni.
One hundred great essays /edited by Robert DiYanni.
100 great essays
- third edition.ition
- New York, New York : Pearson Longman, (c)2008.
- xx, 770 pages ; 21 cm.
- Penguin academics .
How to tame a wild tongue / Of studies / Growing up / Notes of a native son / Road warrior / Toys / Attending a world / Into the electronic millennium / I want a life / Feminity / Influenza / The wound in the face / Letter to his son / Casa : a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood / Calculated risks / Burl's / How we listen / Natural selection / The geography of imagination / Marrying absurd / On self-respect / Living like weasels / No man is an island / Learning to read and write / Joyas Voladoras / Of our spiritual striving / Lights of the long night / About men / Speech to the troops at Tilbury / Living with music / Nature / Never do that to a book / The value of science / Sister Bernadette's barking dog / Arriving at perfection / The interpretation of dreams / The landscape of history / The middle way : learning to balance family and work / The company man / More than just a shrine : Ellis Island / On the pleasure of hating / The colonel / Naps / Salvation / Nowhere man / The Declaration of Independence / 189 365 / The ugly tourist / Letter from Birmingham Jail / I have a dream / On discovery / The dog, the family : a household tale / You are what you say / A bachelor's complaint / On Ben Franklin's virtues / Coming home again / The curse of talent / The Gettysburg Address / The stone horse / The Morals of the Prince / The Communist Manifesto / Shul / Portrait of an ideal world / Body ritual among the Nacirema / The way to rainy mountain / Of smells / Are you somebody? / Politics and the English language / Shooting an elephant / The din in the head / The allegory of the cave / The necessary enemy / The medium is the metaphor / Between the sexes, a great divide / Aria : a memoir of a bilingual childhood / Letter from Charlestown State Prison / Under the influence / What secrets tell / Speech on the signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott / Me talk pretty one day / Nonverbal/verbal / Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination / A woman's beauty : put-down or power source? / Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Just walk on by : black men and public space / On being black and middle class / A modest proposal / Les tres riches heures de Martha Stewart / Mother tongue / The corner of they eye / Why I went to the woods / University days / And ain't I a woman? / Reading the river / From listening / Once more to the lake / The Duke of deception / A vindication of the rights of woman / The death of the moth / Professions for women / Gloria Anzaldua -- Francis Bacon -- Russell Baker -- James Baldwin -- Dave Barry -- Roland Barthes -- Mary Catherine Bateson -- Sven Birkerts -- Judy Brady -- Susan Brownmiller -- Jane Brox -- Angela Carter -- Lord Chesterfield -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- K.C. Cole -- Bernard Cooper -- Aaron Copland -- Charles Darwin -- Guy Davenport -- Joan Didion -- Joan Didion -- Annie Dillard -- John Donne -- Frederick Douglass -- Brian Doyle -- W.E.B. DuBois -- Andre Dubus -- Gretel Ehrlich -- Queen Elizabeth I -- Ralph Ellison -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Anne Fadiman -- Richard Feynman -- Kitty Burns Florey -- Benjamin Franklin -- Sigmund Freud -- John Lewis Gaddis -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Ellen Goodman -- Mary Gordon -- William Hazlitt -- Michael Hogan -- Barbara Holland -- Langston Hughes -- Pico Iyer -- Thomas Jefferson -- Yoshida Kenko -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- August Kleinzahler -- Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Charles Lamb -- D.H. Lawrence -- Chang-Rae Lee -- Michael Lewis -- Abraham Lincoln -- Barry Lopez -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- James McBride -- H.L. Mencken -- Horace Miner -- N. Scott Momaday -- Michel de Montaigne -- Nuala O'Faolain -- George Orwell -- George Orwell -- Cynthia Ozick -- Plato -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Neil Postman -- Anna Quindlen -- Richard Rodriguez -- Nicola Sacco -- Scott Russell Sanders -- Luc Sante -- Chief Seattle -- David Sedaris -- Leonard Shlain -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Susan Sontag -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Brent Staples -- Shelby Steele -- Jonathan Swift -- Margaret Talbot -- Amy Tan -- Lewis Thomas -- Henry David Thoreau -- James Thurber -- Sojourner Truth -- Mark Twain -- Eudora Welty -- E.B. White -- Geoffrey Wolfe -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Virginia Woolf -- Virginia Woolf.
Robert DiYanni's One Hundred Great Essays features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses, including authors ranging from William Hazlitt, Frederick Douglass, and E.B. White to Richard Feynman, Annie Dillard, and Dave Barry. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, One Hundred Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom, with selections chosen both as models of good writing and as appropriate springboards for student writing. A brief introduction explains the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays.
9780205535552
2007060060
GBA768127 bnb
013758867 Uk
College readers.
English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.
Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
Essays.
Textbooks.
PE1417 / .O544 2008
How to tame a wild tongue / Of studies / Growing up / Notes of a native son / Road warrior / Toys / Attending a world / Into the electronic millennium / I want a life / Feminity / Influenza / The wound in the face / Letter to his son / Casa : a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood / Calculated risks / Burl's / How we listen / Natural selection / The geography of imagination / Marrying absurd / On self-respect / Living like weasels / No man is an island / Learning to read and write / Joyas Voladoras / Of our spiritual striving / Lights of the long night / About men / Speech to the troops at Tilbury / Living with music / Nature / Never do that to a book / The value of science / Sister Bernadette's barking dog / Arriving at perfection / The interpretation of dreams / The landscape of history / The middle way : learning to balance family and work / The company man / More than just a shrine : Ellis Island / On the pleasure of hating / The colonel / Naps / Salvation / Nowhere man / The Declaration of Independence / 189 365 / The ugly tourist / Letter from Birmingham Jail / I have a dream / On discovery / The dog, the family : a household tale / You are what you say / A bachelor's complaint / On Ben Franklin's virtues / Coming home again / The curse of talent / The Gettysburg Address / The stone horse / The Morals of the Prince / The Communist Manifesto / Shul / Portrait of an ideal world / Body ritual among the Nacirema / The way to rainy mountain / Of smells / Are you somebody? / Politics and the English language / Shooting an elephant / The din in the head / The allegory of the cave / The necessary enemy / The medium is the metaphor / Between the sexes, a great divide / Aria : a memoir of a bilingual childhood / Letter from Charlestown State Prison / Under the influence / What secrets tell / Speech on the signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott / Me talk pretty one day / Nonverbal/verbal / Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination / A woman's beauty : put-down or power source? / Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Just walk on by : black men and public space / On being black and middle class / A modest proposal / Les tres riches heures de Martha Stewart / Mother tongue / The corner of they eye / Why I went to the woods / University days / And ain't I a woman? / Reading the river / From listening / Once more to the lake / The Duke of deception / A vindication of the rights of woman / The death of the moth / Professions for women / Gloria Anzaldua -- Francis Bacon -- Russell Baker -- James Baldwin -- Dave Barry -- Roland Barthes -- Mary Catherine Bateson -- Sven Birkerts -- Judy Brady -- Susan Brownmiller -- Jane Brox -- Angela Carter -- Lord Chesterfield -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- K.C. Cole -- Bernard Cooper -- Aaron Copland -- Charles Darwin -- Guy Davenport -- Joan Didion -- Joan Didion -- Annie Dillard -- John Donne -- Frederick Douglass -- Brian Doyle -- W.E.B. DuBois -- Andre Dubus -- Gretel Ehrlich -- Queen Elizabeth I -- Ralph Ellison -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Anne Fadiman -- Richard Feynman -- Kitty Burns Florey -- Benjamin Franklin -- Sigmund Freud -- John Lewis Gaddis -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Ellen Goodman -- Mary Gordon -- William Hazlitt -- Michael Hogan -- Barbara Holland -- Langston Hughes -- Pico Iyer -- Thomas Jefferson -- Yoshida Kenko -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- August Kleinzahler -- Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Charles Lamb -- D.H. Lawrence -- Chang-Rae Lee -- Michael Lewis -- Abraham Lincoln -- Barry Lopez -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- James McBride -- H.L. Mencken -- Horace Miner -- N. Scott Momaday -- Michel de Montaigne -- Nuala O'Faolain -- George Orwell -- George Orwell -- Cynthia Ozick -- Plato -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Neil Postman -- Anna Quindlen -- Richard Rodriguez -- Nicola Sacco -- Scott Russell Sanders -- Luc Sante -- Chief Seattle -- David Sedaris -- Leonard Shlain -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Susan Sontag -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Brent Staples -- Shelby Steele -- Jonathan Swift -- Margaret Talbot -- Amy Tan -- Lewis Thomas -- Henry David Thoreau -- James Thurber -- Sojourner Truth -- Mark Twain -- Eudora Welty -- E.B. White -- Geoffrey Wolfe -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Virginia Woolf -- Virginia Woolf.
Robert DiYanni's One Hundred Great Essays features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses, including authors ranging from William Hazlitt, Frederick Douglass, and E.B. White to Richard Feynman, Annie Dillard, and Dave Barry. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, One Hundred Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom, with selections chosen both as models of good writing and as appropriate springboards for student writing. A brief introduction explains the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays.
9780205535552
2007060060
GBA768127 bnb
013758867 Uk
College readers.
English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.
Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
Essays.
Textbooks.
PE1417 / .O544 2008