Patterns of Exposition

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1. Reading for Writer



2. Ways of Writing

Discovering

Planning

Drafting

Revising



3. Example

Andy Rooney, In and Of Ourselves We Trust

Brent Staples, Just Walk On By

** Jonah Lehrer, The Uses of Reason

Mary Karr, Dysfunctional Nation



Issues and Ideas: Identities

Wil Haygood, Underground Dads

Alan Buczynski, Iron Bonding



4. Classification

** Matt Carmichael, Get Radical, Get Some Rest

Michael Ventura, Don't Even Think About It!

**Salman Akhtar, Remembering the Dead



Issues and Ideas: Images of Sound and Sight

Alissa Quart, Cinema of the In-Crowd

Brenda Peterson, Life Is a Musical



5. Comparison

Mark Twain, Two Waysof Seeing a River

Bruce Catton, Grant and Lee, A Study of Contrasts

Philip Lopate, A Nonsmoker with a Smoker

** Bill McKibben, Old Macdonald Had a Farmer's Market

Alice Walker, Am I Blue?



Issues and Ideas: Gender Differences

Nicholas Wade, Method and Madness: How Men and Women Think

Catherine Seipp, Meet Today's Dad



6. Analogy

Lan Samantha Chang, Like Robinson Crusoe



Issues and Ideas: Humans and Animals

Tom Wolfe, O Rotten Gotham-Sliding Down into the Behavioral Sink

Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson



7. Process

Joe Buhler and Ron Graham, Give Juggling a Hand

** Jennifer Graham, How to Decorate a Dorm Room on a Budget

Sridhar Pappu, Deranged Marriage

** Ian Frazier, How to Operate the Shower Curtain



Issues and Ideas: Advertising and Appearances

Jean E. Kilbourne, Beauty . . . And the Beast of Advertising

Jessica Mitford, To Dispel Fears of Live Burial



8. Cause-Effect

Susan Perry and Jim Dawson, What's Your Best Time of Day

Mary Roach, My Father the Geezer

William Severini Kowinski, Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled



Issues and Ideas: Consuming

Cullen Murphy, Hello Darkness

** Verlyn Klinkenborg, Our Vanishing Night



9. Definition

John Berendt, The Hoax

Dagoberto Gilb, Pride

** Anne Fadiman, Coffee



Issues and Ideas: Defining Values and Roles

Carter, The Insufficiency of Honesty

Veronica Chambers, Mother's Day



10. Description

Gary Soto, The Jacket

George Simpson, The War Room at Bellevue

Donna Tartt, A Garden Party

** Daniel Thomas Cook, Children of the Brand



Issues and Ideas: Place and Person

Barry Lopez, A Passage of the Hands

E. B. White, Once More to the Lake



11. Narration

Martin Gansberg, 38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police

Geoffrey Canada, Pain

** Pat Conroy, Chili Cheese Dogs, My Father, and Me



Issues and Ideas: Stories and Values

George Orwell, A Hanging

Wayne Worcester, Arms and the Man



12. Induction and Deduction

Nancy Friday, The Age of Beauty



Issues and Ideas: Digital Realities

Maia Szalavitz, A Virtual Life

J.C. Herz, Superhero Sushi



13. Argument

Issues and Ideas: Current Controversies

Christopher B. Daly, How the Lawyers Stole Winter

Stephanie Mills, Could You Live with Less?

Anna Quindlen, The Drug That Pretends It Isn't

** Andrew O'Hehir, The Myth of Media Violence

** Elizabeth Svoboda, "I Am Not a Puzzle, I Am a Person"

Barbara Lawrence, Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You

Sarah Min, Language Lessons



14. Further Readings

** Jason Kelly, The Great TV Debate

Margaret Atwood, Pornography

Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit

Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail