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It’s a simple, best-selling combination that has worked for over 20 years — short, accessible essays and helpful, thorough writing instruction. Models for Writers continues to offer thought-provoking selections organized to demonstrate not only the rhetorical patterns that students will use in their own essays but also the elements and language that will make those essays effective.

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Brief, lively examples that provide outstanding models. Most of the 71 selections in Models for Writers are comparable in length (2-3 pages) to the essays students will write themselves, and each clearly illustrates a basic rhetorical element or pattern.

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

Accessible, engaging, and topical new readings. One-third of the selections are new to this edition, featuring both new and established writers such as:
  • 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.
More coverage of the key elements of academic writing. A brand-new chapter introduces students to strategies for incorporating other voices into their writing, including use of signal phrases and quotations, summary, and paraphrase to back up students’ own points. An additional section and checklist on academic word choice in Chapter 1 helps students determine whether or not their writing is appropriate for the college classroom.

More opportunities for students to practice with grammar and mechanics online. In addition to the writing coverage in the text, the book companion site now features a Customized Learning Plan through Exercise Central with exercises chosen specifically to support the teaching in the book.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction for Students
Part One: On Reading and Writing Well
1 The Writing Process   
Prewriting
         Understand Your Argument
         Choose a Subject Area, and Focus on a Topic
         Get Ideas and Collect Information
         Establish Your Thesis
         Know Your Audience
         Determine Your Method of Development
         Map Your Organization
Writing the First Draft
         Create a Title
         Focus on Beginnings and Endings
Revising
Editing
         Run-ons:  Fused Sentences and Comma Splices
         Sentence Fragments
         Subject-Verb Agreement
         Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
         Verb Tense Shifts
         Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
         Faulty Parallelism
         Weak Nouns and Verbs
         Academic Diction and Tone
         ESL Concerns (Articles and Nouns)
Proofreading
Writing an Expository Essay:  A Student Essay in Progress
         Jeffrey Olesky, Golf:  A Character Builder (student essay)
2 From Reading to Writing  
Getting the Most Out of Your Reading
         Step 1:  Prepare Yourself to Read the Selection
         Step 2:  The Selection
         Step 3:  Reread
         Step 4:  Annotate the Text with Marginal Notes
         Step 5:  Analyze the Text with Questions
         An Example:  Annotating Isaac Asimov’s “Intelligence”
         Rachel Carson, Fable for Tomorrow
Using Your Reading in the Writing Process
         Reading as a Writer
Writing from Reading:  Three Sample Student Essays
         A Narrative Essay:  Lisa V. Driver, The Strong Arm of a Sixth-Grade Teacher
            (student essay)
         A Response Essay:  Zoe Ockenga, The Excuse “Not To” (student essay)
         An Analytical Essay:  Susan Francis, The Disgrace of Man (student essay)
Part Two: The Elements of the Essay
3 Thesis            
Helen Keller, The Most Important Day
James Lincoln Collier, Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name
* Buzz Bissinger, Faster, Higher, Stronger, No Longer
4 Unity   
Sandra Cisneros, My Name
* Malcolm Gladwell, No Mercy
Gloria Naylor, The Meanings of a Word
5  Organization   
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
6 Beginnings and Endings    
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
7 Paragraphs   
William Zinsser, Simplicity
*Abe Whaley, Once Unique, Soon a Place Like Any Other
Mike Rose, “I Just Wanna Be Average”
8 Transitions   
David Raymond, On Being 17, Bright, and Unable to Read
Russell Baker, Becoming a Writer
*Nancy Gibbs, The Magic of the Family Meal
9 Effective Sentences   
*Alice Walker, Childhood
Langston Hughes, Salvation
*Meghan Daum, My House: Plain and Fantasy
Martin Gansberg, 38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call Police
*10 Writing with Sources
*Sharon Begley, Praise the Humble Dung Beetle
Natalie Goldberg, Be Specific
*Jake Jamieson, The English-Only Movement: Can America
     Proscribe Language with a Clear Conscience?
Part Three: The Language of the Essay
11 Diction and Tone   
Dick Gregory, Shame
David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sarah Vowell, Pop-A-Shot
Richard Lederer, The Case for Short Words
12 Figurative Language   
Robert Ramirez, The Barrio
Gary Soto, The Jacket
*Diane Ackerman, Watching a Night Launch of the Space Shuttle
Part Four: Types of Essays
13 Illustration   
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 
14 Narration   
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
 
15 Description      
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
17 Definition    
Lawrence M. Friedman, What Is Crime?
Ellen Goodman, The Company Man
*Anton Chekhov, A Nincompoop
18 Division and Classification    
*Paul Boutin, You Are What You Search
Judith Viorst, Friends, Good Friends — and Such Good Friends
William Lutz, Doubts about Doublespeak
19 Comparison and Contrast    
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
    Might Tell Us about Climate Change
20 Cause and Effect    
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
The Obesity Epidemic: Who’s to Blame?
Greg Critser, Don’t Eat the Flan
Alison Motluk, Supersize Me: It’s Time to Stop Blaming
    Fat People for Their Size
Shame: Is It an Effective Punishment?
June Tangney, Condemn the Crime, Not the Person
Dan M. Kahan, Shame Is Worth a Try
*Organ Transplants:  How Can We Solve the Shortage?
*Virginia Postrel, Need Transplant Donors? Pay Them.
*Alexander Tabarrok, A Moral Solution to the Organ Shortage
*Man-Made Garbage:  How Should We Control What We Waste?
*Heather Rogers, Hiding in Plain Sight
Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving
 
Appendix: Writing a Research Paper
Using Print and Online Sources
Developing a Working Bibliography
Taking Notes
Documenting Sources
 
Glossary of Useful Terms
Index
 
* new to this edition

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.