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Tenth Edition| ©2010New Edition Available Alfred Rosa; Paul Eschholz
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Rhetorical organization that covers the elements, language, and types of essays. Students get a firm grasp of the basic elements and language of the essay in Parts Two and Three, with unique separate chapters focusing on such important topics as thesis, organization, transitions, and diction and tone, before being introduced to the rhetorical patterns in Part Four.
A focus on the writing process and the reading/writing connection. Part 1 details the steps in the writing process, illustrated with a student essay in progress, and offers students advice on critical reading, using the apparatus in the text, and generating their own writing from reading.
Extensive editorial apparatus in a clear, concise format. Each chapter features a thorough introduction, and each selection is accompanied by activities that help students explore both the writer's technique and the content of the selection.
Appendix on research and documentation. A brief, helpful appendix, including a sample documented student essay, offers guidance on conducting research using print and online sources; evaluating, quoting, and integrating sources; and using MLA citation style.
New to This Edition
- Anna Quindlen on the loss of the family dog.
- Malcolm Gladwell on zero-tolerance discipline policies in schools.
- Virginia Postrel and Graeme Wood advocating surprising and different solutions to the shortage of available organs for transplantation.

Models for Writers, High School Binding
Tenth Edition| ©2010
Alfred Rosa; Paul Eschholz

Models for Writers, High School Binding
Tenth Edition| 2010
Alfred Rosa; Paul Eschholz
Table of Contents
Introduction for Students
Prewriting
Understand Your Argument
Writing the First Draft
Revising
Editing
Proofreading
Writing an Expository Essay: A Student Essay in Progress
Getting the Most Out of Your Reading
Using Your Reading in the Writing Process
Writing from Reading: Three Sample Student Essays
Helen Keller, The Most Important Day
James Lincoln Collier, Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name
* Buzz Bissinger, Faster, Higher, Stronger, No Longer
Sandra Cisneros, My Name
* Malcolm Gladwell, No Mercy
Gloria Naylor, The Meanings of a Word
Cherokee Paul McDonald, A View from the Bridge
*Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America
Martin Luther King Jr, The Ways of Meeting Oppression
Michael T. Kaufman, Of My Friend Hector and My Achilles Heel
Steve Brody, How I Got Smart
Ruth Russell, The Wounds that Can’t Be Stitched Up
Carl T. Rowan, Unforgettable Miss Bessie
William Zinsser, Simplicity
*Abe Whaley, Once Unique, Soon a Place Like Any Other
Mike Rose, “I Just Wanna Be Average”
David Raymond, On Being 17, Bright, and Unable to Read
Russell Baker, Becoming a Writer
*Nancy Gibbs, The Magic of the Family Meal
*Alice Walker, Childhood
Langston Hughes, Salvation
*Meghan Daum, My House: Plain and Fantasy
Martin Gansberg, 38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call Police
*Sharon Begley, Praise the Humble Dung Beetle
Natalie Goldberg, Be Specific
*Jake Jamieson, The English-Only Movement: Can America
Dick Gregory, Shame
David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sarah Vowell, Pop-A-Shot
Richard Lederer, The Case for Short Words
Robert Ramirez, The Barrio
Gary Soto, The Jacket
*Diane Ackerman, Watching a Night Launch of the Space Shuttle
Barbara Huttmann, A Crime of Compassion
* Gregory Pence, Let’s Think Outside the Box of Bad Cliches
*Linton Weeks, Burdens of the Modern Beast
*Steven Pinker, In Defense of Dangerous Ideas
Henry Louis Gates Jr, What’s in a Name?
George Orwell, A Hanging
Maya Angelou, Momma, the Dentist, and Me
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Gilbert Highet, The Subway
*Oscar Hijuelos, Memories of New York City Snow
Eudora Welty, The Corner Store
Thomas L. Friedman, My Favorite Teacher
16 Process Analysis
*Paul Merrill, The Principles of Poor Writing
*Tiffany Sharples, Young Love
*Alexander Petrunkevitch, The Spider and the Wasp
Lawrence M. Friedman, What Is Crime?
Ellen Goodman, The Company Man
*Anton Chekhov, A Nincompoop
Judith Viorst, Friends, Good Friends — and Such Good Friends
William Lutz, Doubts about Doublespeak
Mark Twain, Two Ways of Seeing a River
*Andrew Braaksma, Some Lessons from the Assembly Line
Bruce Catton, Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
*Audrey Schulman, Fahrenheit 59: What a Child’s Fever
Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies
Myriam Marquez, Why and When We Speak Spanish in Public
*Sanjay Gupta, Stuck on the Couch
*Henry Louis Gates Jr, Forty Acres and a Gap in Wealth
21 Argument
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
Martin Luther King Jr, I Have a Dream
*Ronald M. Green, Building Baby from the Genes Up
Mary Sherry, In Praise of the F Word
Greg Critser, Don’t Eat the Flan
Alison Motluk, Supersize Me: It’s Time to Stop Blaming
June Tangney, Condemn the Crime, Not the Person
Dan M. Kahan, Shame Is Worth a Try
*Virginia Postrel, Need Transplant Donors? Pay Them.
*Alexander Tabarrok, A Moral Solution to the Organ Shortage
*Heather Rogers, Hiding in Plain Sight
Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving
Using Print and Online Sources
Developing a Working Bibliography
Taking Notes
Documenting Sources
Index

Models for Writers, High School Binding
Tenth Edition| 2010
Alfred Rosa; Paul Eschholz
Authors

Alfred Rosa
Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa are professors emeriti of English at the University of Vermont. They have directed statewide writing programs and conducted numerous workshops throughout the country on writing and the teaching of writing. Eschholz and Rosa have collaborated on a number of best-selling texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, including Subject & Strategy; Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers; Models for Writers; with Virginia Clark, Language Awareness; and, with Virginia Clark and Beth Simon, Language: Readings in Language.

Paul Eschholz
Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa are professors emeriti of English at the University of Vermont. They have directed statewide writing programs and conducted numerous workshops throughout the country on writing and the teaching of writing. Eschholz and Rosa have collaborated on a number of best-selling texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, including Subject & Strategy; Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers; Models for Writers; with Virginia Clark, Language Awareness; and, with Virginia Clark and Beth Simon, Language: Readings in Language.

Models for Writers, High School Binding
Tenth Edition| 2010
Alfred Rosa; Paul Eschholz
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