Fifty Great Essays (Penguin Academic Series)

"Fifty Great Essays" provides an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing as part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, high-quality offerings. This medium-sized reader features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, "Fifty Great Essays" provides flexible options. The selections are diverse in both subject matter and authorship. They have been chosen as models of good writing, as well as for their usefulness as springboards for writing. An introductory section informs the reader about the characteristics of the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: Reading and Writing
 
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Preface
Introduction: Reading and Writing
 

1. Gloria Anzaldua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue
2. *Kwame Anthony Appiah, Facts on the Ground
3. Francis Bacon, Of Studies
4. Dave Barry,  Road Warrior
5. Roland Barthes,  Toys
6. Lord Chesterfield, Letter to His Son
7. Judith Ortiz Cofer, Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
8. K.C. Cole,  Calculated Risks
9. Charles Darwin, Natural Selection
10. *Joan Didion, On Self-Respect
11. Annie Dillard, Living Like Weasels
12. Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write
13. Brian Doyle, Joyas Voladoras
14. Gretel Ehrlich, About Men
15. Ralph Ellison,  Living with Music
16. Richard Feynman,  The Value of Science
17. Benjamin Franklin, Arriving at Perfection
18. Ellen Goodman, The Company Man
19. Mary Gordon, More Than Just a Shrine-Ellis Island
20. William Hazlitt, On the Pleasure of Hating
21. *Linda Hogan,  Dwellings
22. Michael Hogan,  The Colonel
23. Langston Hughes, Salvation
24. *Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me
25. Pico Iyer, Nowhere Man
26. *Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time
27. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
28. *Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies
29. Maxine Hong Kingston, On Discovery
30. Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
31. Niccolo Machiavelli,  The Morals of the Prince
32. *Laura Miller , Cat People vs. Dog People
33. N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
34. Michel de Montaigne, Of Smalls
35. Nuala O'Faolain, Are You Somebody?
36. George Orwell,  Shooting an Elephant
37. Scott Russell Sanders, Under the Influence
38. *David Sedaris, Cyclops
39. * Lee Siegel, The World That Is the Case
40. Susan Sontag, A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?
41. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
42. Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space
43. Jonathan Swift,  A Modest Proposal
44. Amy Tan,  Mother Tongue
45. Henry David Thoreau, Why I Went to the Woods
46. Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman?
47. *Alice Walker , Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self
48. E.B. White, Once More to the Lake
49. Mary Wollstonecraft,  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
50. Virginia Woolf,  The Death of the Moth

Summary

For first year writing/ composition courses or any course where analyzing essays is central.
 
Fifty Great Essaysprovides an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing as part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.
 
This medium-sized reader features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, Fifty Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom. The selections are diverse in both subject matter and authorship. They have been chosen as models of good writing, as well as for their usefulness as springboards for student writing. An introductory section informs students about the characteristics of the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays.

Product details

• Authors: Robert DiYanni, Robert J. DiYanni
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9780205706785
• ISBN: 978-0-205-70678-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Weight: 410 g
• Series: Longman; Longman
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career