Description: (NOTE: New selections are in bold and marked with an * asterisk.) 1. Writing Myths and Rituals. Writing Fitness: Rituals and Practice. On Keeping a Journal, Roy Hoffman. 2. Purposes and Processes for Writing. Writing for Myself, Russell Baker. Purposes for Writing. Purpose and Audience. Purpose and Audience in Two Essays. The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl, Elizabeth Wong. I'm OK, but You're Not, Robert Zoellner. Dimensions of the Processes. Writing with a Computer. A Writing Process at Work: Collecting and Shaping. Athletes and Education, Neil H. Petrie. On Writing Athletes and Education, Neil Petrie. A Writing Process at Work: Drafting. From The Declaration of Independence. 3. Observing and Revising. Techniques for Writing about Observations. Sierra, John Muir. One Fan's Burden, Danny Drennan. The Snake, Annie Dillard. Observing Wolves, Farley Mowat. *Take This Fish and Look at It , Samuel Scudder. Observing: The Writing Process. Collecting. Observing: Student Writing. Permanent Tracings, Jennifer Macke. Empty Windows, Stephen White. 4. Remembering. Techniques for Writing about Memories. Remembering: Professional Writing. The Day Language Came into My Life, Helen Keller. Lives on the Boundary, Mike Rose. Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self, Alice Walker. Remembering: The Writing Process. Remembering: Student Writing. The Wind Catcher, Todd Petry. Kit Carson, Brooke Selby. 5. Reading. Techniques for Writing about Reading. Summarizing and Responding to an Essay. Teach Diversitywith a Smile, Barbara Ehrenreich. Some Don't Like Their Blues at All, Karyn Lewis. Say It Ain't Cool, Joe, Wanda Coleman. Reading: Professional Writing. Animal Rights and Beyond, David Quammen. *IBM and The X-Files , Susan Douglas. Reading and Writing Processes. Children and Violence in America, Dudley Erskine Devlin. Reading: Student Writing. Drawing the Line, Paula Fisher. A Response to Deborah Tannen's Essay, Jennifer Koester. Is Deborah Tannen Convincing? Sonja H. Browe. 6. Investigating. Techniques for Investigative Writing. How the Web Works, Gene Cowan. Investigating: Professional Writing. Plotting a Net Gain, Connie Koenenn. *You, Inc. , Amy Saltzman. The Homeless and Their Children, Jonathan Kozol. Investigating: The Writing Process. Investigating: Student Writing. See Dick Run. Run, Dick, Run. Why, Why, Why? Jan Peterson. My Friend, Michelle, An Alcoholic, Bridgid Stone. 7. Explaining. Techniques for Explaining. Explaining: Professional Writing. Welcome to Cyberspace, Phillip Elmer-Dewitt. *The Global Village Finally Arrives , Pico Iyer. How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently, Deborah Tannen. Explaining: The Writing Process. Drafting. Explaining: Student Writing. The Police Were Calling Me Names: An Explanation of Hard-Core Punk Rock, Dennis Alexander. Anorexia Nervosa, Nancie Brosseau. 8. Evaluating. Techniques for Writing Evaluations. *Oprah...Oscar; Oscar...Oprah , Peter Travers. Evaluating: Professional Writing. Watching the Eyewitless News, Elayne Rapping. First Born, Later Born, Geoffrey Cowley.

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