Monday, August 26, 2013

All Types of Essays and Articles including Persuasive with Study Notes

All Types of Essays and Articles including Persuasive with Study Notes

First article changes regularly, so if you weren't assigned it then skip it.

Bruna Martinuzzi "Why English Majors Are the Hot New Hires"


Jonathan Swift "A Modest Proposal"
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Joe Posnanski "The Promise"
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Michael Chorost "My Bionic Quest for Bolero"   
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Stephanie Ericsson “Ways We Lie"
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Charles Mann The Coming Death Shortage

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Logic Fallacies
Max Shulman "Love is a Fallacy
Terry Ann Modica "The Evil in Halloween"
Don Feder "Witchcraft Declared a Religion"
Carol Ritter "Halloween Unmasked as Callous Display"

On Language
William Saffire "Dash It All"  
Adam Freedman "Clause and Effect"

On Gender
Clay Shirky "A Rant About Women."
Judy Brady "I Want a Wife."


Video Games: Argument/Rebuttal/Concession
Roger Ebert Video Games Can Never Be Art
Kyle Chayka Why Video Games are Works of Art
Roger Ebert Okay, Kids, Play on my Lawn

Essayists

Seneca
"On Noise"
"On the Shortness of Life"
"On the Healing Powers of the Mind"

Michele de Montaigne
“Of Fear”
"Of Thumbs”
“Of a Monstrous Child”

Studs Terkel
“Elmer Ruiz”“Hots Michaels”
“Rip Torn”

Annie Dillard
"Living Like Weasels"
"This is the Life"

Stephen King  
"Why We Crave Horror Movies"

Dave Barry
"A Journey into My Colon--and Yours"
“From Here On Let Women Kill Their Own Spiders”

David Sedaris
"Let it Snow"
"What I Learned and What I Learned at Princeton"


















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