Table of Content
1840 Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Language of the Street 1854 Henry David Thoreau, Observation1882 Mark Twain, Advice to Youth1928 Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me1935 Gertrude Stein, Poetry and Grammar1936 George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant1940 Langston Hughes, Salvation1941 E. B. White, Once More to the Lake1942 Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth1949 Aldo Leopold, The Land Ethic1954 Dylan Thomas, Memories of Christmas1955 James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village1963 Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail1966 Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook1969 Maya Angelou, Champion of the World1970 Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, The Kitchen Crisis1974 Annie Dillard, Sight into Insight1977 A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Green Fields of the Mind1979 William Zinsser, College Pressures1979 Lewis Thomas, Notes on Punctuation1982 D. Keith Mano, How to Keep from Getting Mugged1983 Alice Walker, Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self1986 Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space1986 Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple1987 Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue1989 Scott Russell Sanders, Under the Influence 1989 Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women1989 Maggie Helwig, Hunger1989 Garrison Keillor, How to Write a Letter and Postcards1990 Judith Ortiz Cofer, More Room1992 Lynda Barry, The Sanctuary of School1993 Molly Ivins, Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns1993 Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving1994 Henry Louis Gates Jr., In the Kitchen1995 Chang-Rae Lee, Coming Home Again1996 Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller, Period Styles: A Punctuated History1997 Sherman Alexie, Superman and Me1998 David Halberstam, Jordan's Moment2000 Stephen King, On Writing2004 David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster2004 Brian Doyle, Joyas Voladoras2006 Sandra Steingraber, Tune of the Tuna Fish2006 Alison Bechdel, from Fun Home2006 Joey Franklin, Working at Wendy's2008 Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid?2008 Anna Quindlen, Stuff Is Not Salvation2009 Eula Biss, Time and Distance Overcome2012 Marion Nestle, Utopian Dream: A New Farm Bill2014 Judith Newman, To Siri, with Love2014 Dennis Baron, Facebook Multiplies Genders but Offers the Same Three Tired PronounsAn Album of Writing by StudentsElizabeth Krotulis, The Use of Persuasion in "The Clan of One-Breasted Women" [rhetorical analysis]Katherine Spriggs, On Buying Local [argument]Melissa Hicks, The High Price of Butter [personal narrative]Sarah Esther Maslin, The Pawn King [profile]Index of Readings by ThemeIndex of Readings by GenreIndex of Readings by Rhetorical ModeIndex of Reading ClustersGlossary of Rhetorical TermsIndex of Authors and Titles
