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was supposed to read this ten years ago for ap english oops sorry mr, hardy! it was actually very interesting, . who would have thought.
highlights: a partial remembrance of a puerto rican childhood by judith ortiz cover, letters from birmingham jail by martin luther king, a womans beauty: put down or power source by susan sontag, mother tounge by amy tan, and once more to the lake by e.
b. white The essays in the book were generally wellchosen, They offer a sampling from a wide spectrum of authors and are mostly, well worth reading, In a later edition, I would like to find a David Sedaris essay offered or perhaps, one written by the late David Foster Wallaceboth of whom are fine contemporary writers.
Excellent collection of essays that I picked up for a dollar at a university book sale, My personal favorites include Woolfs "The Death of the Moth" and Orwells "Shooting an Elephant, " I'm also excited to use MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in a class on argument and rhetoric, Favorites:
Marrying Absurd by Joan Didion
Living Like Weasels by Annie Dillard
Women's Brains by Stephen J, Gould
Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self by Alice Walker I must have read this when my kids were in
high school, but if I did I forgot most of it.
I'm tellin' you, these are some really great essays by some great writers, Start with Francis Bacon and sample Annie Dillard, Jamaica Kinkaid, and Mark Twain until you get to Virginia Woolf, Most of the essays focus on topics like civil rights, gender, colonialism, ethnicity, and nature, Can you tell the editor has been a college professor A pretty good compilation of essays, Good background information on both the authors and the essays themselves, Standouts included Langston Hughes' Salvation and James Thurber's University Days, I also highly enjoyed rereading Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, . TwentyFive Great Essays provides an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing as part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of lowcost, highquality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.
This brief reader features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses, Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, TwentyFive Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom, The selections are diverse in both subject matter and authorship, They have been chosen as models of good writing, as well as for their usefulness as springboards for student writing, An introductory section informs students about the characteristics of the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays, Robert DiYanni is an adjunct professor of humanities and an instructional consultant at the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at New York University, In these capacities he teaches courses on critical thinking, interdisciplinary humanities, commerce and culture, and business and its publics, and conducts workshops and consultations with faculty throughout the university on aspects of pedagogical practice.
Before coming to NYU, Dr, DiYanni taught at Queens College and Pace University and as a visiting professor at Harvard, He also served, for ten years, as Director of International Services at The College Board, .