Essay Reading & Writing Assignments
Argumentation (p. 493)
	Debate - Date Rape (p. 538-) Debate - College Ethnic Housing (p. 549-)
Comparison & Contrast (p. 321)
	"Never Do That to a Book" - Anne Fadiman (p. 345) "Two Ways to Belong to America" (p. 357) "Sex, Lies, and Conversation" - Deborah Tannen (p. 367)
Description (p. 119)
	"More than Just a Shrine..." - Mary Gordon (p. 142)| "Words Left Unspoken" - Leah Hager Cohen (p. 133)
Narration (p. 69)
	"My Mother Never Worked" - Donna Smith-Yackel (p. 94) "Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police" - Martin Gansberg (p. 99)
Process (p. 217)
	"Anatomy of a Joke" - Garry Trudeau (p. 233) "The Embalming of Mr. Jones" - Jessica Mitford (p. 248)
Cause & Effect (p. 265)
	" A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun" Linda Hasselstrom (p. 298) "The Black Table is Still There" - Lawrence Otis Graham (p. 294)
Exemplification (p. 169)
	"The Peter Principle" - Peter & Hull (p. 181) "Just Walk on By..." Brent Staples (p. 197)
Classification & Division (p. 397)
	"College Pressures" - William Zinsser (p. 390) "Sexism in English..." - Alleen Pace Nilsen (p. 413) "The Ways We Lie" - Stephanie Ericsson - (p. 426)
Definition (p. 455)
	"Tortillas" - Jose Antonio Burciaga (p. 470) "I Want a Wife" - Judy Brady (p. 474) "Does America Still Exist?" - Richard Rodriguez (p. 482)
Combining the Patterns
	"A Modest Proposal" - Jonathan Swift (p. 648)