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Strong support and short essays help you become a model writer

The short, accessible readings in Models for Writers reflect the length of essays that you'll write in college and the topics that matter most. With thorough instruction and ample readings by a diverse range of authors, you'll learn how to make your own essays more effective. This edition includes both classic texts and new selections on relevant themes such as language and race, smartphones and social media, automation, the rising cost of education, and pronouns and gender.

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Contents

Table of Contents

* indicates a chapter, section, or reading selection that is new to this edition.

Thematic Clusters
Introduction for Students

Part One: On Reading and Writing Well

Chapter 1: The Writing Process
       Prewriting
       Writing the First Draft
        Revising
        Editing
        Proofreading
        Writing a Narrative Essay: A Student Essay in Progress
        *Mya Nunnally, Mixed Results (student essay)

Chapter 2: Reading Actively and Critically
       Reading Actively: Getting a Basic Understanding of the Essay
       *Celeste Headlee, Get Off the Soapbox
       *Reading Critically: Taking Your Analysis to the Next Level
       From Reading to Writing
       Writing from Reading: A Sample Student Essay
       Zoe Ockenga, The Excuse "Not To" (student essay)

Part Two: The Elements of the Essay

Chapter 3: Thesis
       James Lincoln Collier, Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name
       David Pogue, The End of Passwords
       Julie Zhuo, Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt

Chapter 4: Unity
       Thomas L. Friedman, My Favorite Teacher
       Helen Keller, The Most Important Day
       Jonathan Safran Foer, Against Meat

Chapter 5: Organization
       Cherokee Paul McDonald, A View from the Bridge
       *Tim Parks, Do We Write Differently on a Screen?
       Dan M. Kahan, Shame Is Worth a Try

Chapter 6: Beginnings and Endings
       Dick Gregory, Shame
       Sean McElwee, The Case for Censoring Hate Speech
       Omar Akram, Can Music Bridge Cultures and Promote Peace?

Chapter 7: Paragraphs
       Judith Ortiz Cofer, My Rosetta
       Donna Hicks, Independence
       *Sarah Smarsh, Heartland

Chapter 8: Transitions
       Dan Shaughnessy, Teammates Forever Have a Special Connection
       *Pamela Paul, Let Children Get Bored Again
       Richard Lederer, The Case for Short Words

Chapter 9: Effective Sentences
       Erin Murphy, White Lies
       *Pablo Casals, San Salvador
       Langston Hughes, Salvation

Chapter 10: Writing with Sources
       Tara Haelle, How to Teach Children That Failure Is the Secret to Success
       *Markham Heid, We Need to Talk About Kids and Smartphones
       Jake Jamieson, The English-Only Movement: Can America Proscribe Language with a Clear Conscience?


Part Three: The Language of the Essay

*Chapter 11: Voice
       *Brooklyn White, A Pleasure to Burn: One Family's Hot-Sauce Heirloom
       *Wilfred McClay, Curate
       Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

Chapter 12: Diction and Tone
       David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
       Maya Angelou, Momma, the Dentist, and Me
       Robert G. Lake-Thom (Medicine Grizzly Bear), An Indian Father's Plea

Chapter 13: Figurative Language
       Robert Ramirez, The Barrio
       *Trish O'Kane, Of Fledglings and Freshmen
       Audrey Schulman, Fahrenheit 59: What a Child's Fever Might Tell Us about Climate Change


Part Four: Types of Essays

Chapter 14: Illustration
       Natalie Goldberg, Be Specific
       Michael Gardner, Adventures of the Dork Police
       *Priscilla Long, Old Things, Used Things

Chapter 15: Narration
       Henry Louis Gates Jr., What's in a Name?
       Misty Copeland, Life in Motion
       *Grace Talusan, The Gentle Tasaday

Chapter 16: Description
       Eudora Welty, The Corner Store
       *David Jenemann, The Gloves of Summer
       *Mia Schon, Look It Up!

Chapter 17: Process Analysis
       Paul Merrill, The Principles of Poor Writing
       Marie Kondo, Designate a Place for Each Thing
       *Helen Czerski, Spiders' Legs Are Hydraulic Masterpieces

Chapter 18: Definition
       *BrenĂ© Brown, What Is Shame?
       Akemi Johnson, Who Gets to Be "Hapa"?
       Eduardo Porter, What Happiness Is

Chapter 19: Division and Classification
       Martin Luther King Jr., The Ways of Meeting Oppression
       Mia Consalvo, Cheating Is Good for You
       Amy Tan, Mother Tongue

Chapter 20: Comparison and Contrast
       Toby Morris, On a Plate
       Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America
       *Tara Westover, Pygmalion

Chapter 21: Cause and Effect
       Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies
       Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space
       *Melinda Wenner Moyer, Sexism Starts in Childhood

Chapter 22: Argument
       Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Becoming Disabled
       Mary Sherry, In Praise of the F Word
       *Farhad Manjoo, It's Time for "They"
       *Is College Worth the Cost?
       *Ellen Ruppel Shell, College May Not Be Worth It Anymore
       *Logan Smith, Think for Yourself and Question the Benefits of Higher Education
       *Peter Cappelli, Will College Pay Off?
       *How Real Is the Automation Threat?
       *Alissa Quart, Automation Is a Real Threat
       *Lawrence Whittle, I, For One, Welcome Our Robot Overlords
       *Hettie O'Brien, The Automation Delusion


Part Five: Guides to Research and Editing

Chapter 23: A Brief Guide to Writing a Research Paper
       Establishing a Realistic Schedule
       Finding and Using Sources
       Conducting Keyword Searches
       Evaluating Sources
       Analyzing Sources for Position and Bias
       Developing a Working Bibliography
       Taking Notes
       Documenting Sources
       MLA-Style Documentation
       APA-Style Documentation

Chapter 24: Editing for Grammar, Punctuation, and Sentence Style
       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)

Glossary of Useful Terms
Acknowledgments
Index

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.


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Strong support and short essays help students become model writers

Strong support and short essays help you become a model writer

The short, accessible readings in Models for Writers reflect the length of essays that you'll write in college and the topics that matter most. With thorough instruction and ample readings by a diverse range of authors, you'll learn how to make your own essays more effective. This edition includes both classic texts and new selections on relevant themes such as language and race, smartphones and social media, automation, the rising cost of education, and pronouns and gender.

E-book

Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course.

Learn More

Achieve

Achieve is a single, easy-to-use platform proven to engage students for better course outcomes

Learn More

Table of Contents

* indicates a chapter, section, or reading selection that is new to this edition.

Thematic Clusters
Introduction for Students

Part One: On Reading and Writing Well

Chapter 1: The Writing Process
       Prewriting
       Writing the First Draft
        Revising
        Editing
        Proofreading
        Writing a Narrative Essay: A Student Essay in Progress
        *Mya Nunnally, Mixed Results (student essay)

Chapter 2: Reading Actively and Critically
       Reading Actively: Getting a Basic Understanding of the Essay
       *Celeste Headlee, Get Off the Soapbox
       *Reading Critically: Taking Your Analysis to the Next Level
       From Reading to Writing
       Writing from Reading: A Sample Student Essay
       Zoe Ockenga, The Excuse "Not To" (student essay)

Part Two: The Elements of the Essay

Chapter 3: Thesis
       James Lincoln Collier, Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name
       David Pogue, The End of Passwords
       Julie Zhuo, Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt

Chapter 4: Unity
       Thomas L. Friedman, My Favorite Teacher
       Helen Keller, The Most Important Day
       Jonathan Safran Foer, Against Meat

Chapter 5: Organization
       Cherokee Paul McDonald, A View from the Bridge
       *Tim Parks, Do We Write Differently on a Screen?
       Dan M. Kahan, Shame Is Worth a Try

Chapter 6: Beginnings and Endings
       Dick Gregory, Shame
       Sean McElwee, The Case for Censoring Hate Speech
       Omar Akram, Can Music Bridge Cultures and Promote Peace?

Chapter 7: Paragraphs
       Judith Ortiz Cofer, My Rosetta
       Donna Hicks, Independence
       *Sarah Smarsh, Heartland

Chapter 8: Transitions
       Dan Shaughnessy, Teammates Forever Have a Special Connection
       *Pamela Paul, Let Children Get Bored Again
       Richard Lederer, The Case for Short Words

Chapter 9: Effective Sentences
       Erin Murphy, White Lies
       *Pablo Casals, San Salvador
       Langston Hughes, Salvation

Chapter 10: Writing with Sources
       Tara Haelle, How to Teach Children That Failure Is the Secret to Success
       *Markham Heid, We Need to Talk About Kids and Smartphones
       Jake Jamieson, The English-Only Movement: Can America Proscribe Language with a Clear Conscience?


Part Three: The Language of the Essay

*Chapter 11: Voice
       *Brooklyn White, A Pleasure to Burn: One Family's Hot-Sauce Heirloom
       *Wilfred McClay, Curate
       Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

Chapter 12: Diction and Tone
       David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
       Maya Angelou, Momma, the Dentist, and Me
       Robert G. Lake-Thom (Medicine Grizzly Bear), An Indian Father's Plea

Chapter 13: Figurative Language
       Robert Ramirez, The Barrio
       *Trish O'Kane, Of Fledglings and Freshmen
       Audrey Schulman, Fahrenheit 59: What a Child's Fever Might Tell Us about Climate Change


Part Four: Types of Essays

Chapter 14: Illustration
       Natalie Goldberg, Be Specific
       Michael Gardner, Adventures of the Dork Police
       *Priscilla Long, Old Things, Used Things

Chapter 15: Narration
       Henry Louis Gates Jr., What's in a Name?
       Misty Copeland, Life in Motion
       *Grace Talusan, The Gentle Tasaday

Chapter 16: Description
       Eudora Welty, The Corner Store
       *David Jenemann, The Gloves of Summer
       *Mia Schon, Look It Up!

Chapter 17: Process Analysis
       Paul Merrill, The Principles of Poor Writing
       Marie Kondo, Designate a Place for Each Thing
       *Helen Czerski, Spiders' Legs Are Hydraulic Masterpieces

Chapter 18: Definition
       *BrenĂ© Brown, What Is Shame?
       Akemi Johnson, Who Gets to Be "Hapa"?
       Eduardo Porter, What Happiness Is

Chapter 19: Division and Classification
       Martin Luther King Jr., The Ways of Meeting Oppression
       Mia Consalvo, Cheating Is Good for You
       Amy Tan, Mother Tongue

Chapter 20: Comparison and Contrast
       Toby Morris, On a Plate
       Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America
       *Tara Westover, Pygmalion

Chapter 21: Cause and Effect
       Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies
       Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space
       *Melinda Wenner Moyer, Sexism Starts in Childhood

Chapter 22: Argument
       Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Becoming Disabled
       Mary Sherry, In Praise of the F Word
       *Farhad Manjoo, It's Time for "They"
       *Is College Worth the Cost?
       *Ellen Ruppel Shell, College May Not Be Worth It Anymore
       *Logan Smith, Think for Yourself and Question the Benefits of Higher Education
       *Peter Cappelli, Will College Pay Off?
       *How Real Is the Automation Threat?
       *Alissa Quart, Automation Is a Real Threat
       *Lawrence Whittle, I, For One, Welcome Our Robot Overlords
       *Hettie O'Brien, The Automation Delusion


Part Five: Guides to Research and Editing

Chapter 23: A Brief Guide to Writing a Research Paper
       Establishing a Realistic Schedule
       Finding and Using Sources
       Conducting Keyword Searches
       Evaluating Sources
       Analyzing Sources for Position and Bias
       Developing a Working Bibliography
       Taking Notes
       Documenting Sources
       MLA-Style Documentation
       APA-Style Documentation

Chapter 24: Editing for Grammar, Punctuation, and Sentence Style
       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)

Glossary of Useful Terms
Acknowledgments
Index

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.


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