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Containing over 110 selections by contemporary and classic writers, PROSE MODELS is a rhetorical reader that covers the major elements of paragraph, essay and methods of development with an emphasis on Argument and Persuasive writing.

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• Part I Organizing the Essay
• 1 Topic Sentence, Thesis, and Unity
• Obituary
• About Men
• The Shape of the River
• Shooting an Elephant
• A well in India
• Velva, North Dakota
• 2 Main and Subordinate Ideas
• Queen Victoria at the End of Her Life
• The Blast Furnace
• Why Did I Ever Play Football?
• 3 Order of Ideas
• In an Elevator
• The Purpose of Lifting
• Marrying Absurd
• 4 Beginning, Middle, and End
• Mountain Day
• Ben & Jerry''s
• 5 Transitions
• Communication
• Mary
• Part II Description, Narration, Exposition
• 6 Description
• The World''s Largest Pile of Scrap Tires
• The Buick
• Hoyt Street
• The Barrio
• 7 Narration
• Flying
• Learning to See
• The American Invasion of Mac·n
• 8 Example
• New York
• Thursday morning in a New York Subway Station
• Discipline?
• To What End?
• 9 Classification and Division
• Kinds of Discipline
• The Newspaper
• Hoppers
• 10 Definition
• Monkeying
• Crime
• The Sooners
• "Manly" and "Womanly"
• The Underclass
• Newspapers
• 11 Comparison and Contrast
• Televisions and Reading
• City People and Country People
• The English and the Americans
• Digital Literacy
• 12 Analogy
• What Makes a Writer
• The Cosmic Prison
• The Education of a Physicist
• 13 Process
• Sounding
• Outdoor Cooking
• How the Spider Spins Its Web
• 14 Cause and Effect
• The Telephone
• Why Nothing Works
• The Growth of Cities
• Part III Matters of Style: Diction
• 15 Usage
• In the Land of Coca-Cola
• Newsweek: Being Cool
• A Memo from Dad
• 16 Tone
• Osu! William Finnegan: Surfing
• 17 Imagery
• The Rocky Shores
• 18 Figurative Language
• Watching a Night Launch of the Space Shuttle
• Time Is Money
• 19 Concreteness
• Mortality
• Fireworks
• 20 Euphemism and Jargon
• Learning the Language
• Nipping ClichTs in the Bud
• Little Red Riding Hood Revisited
• Part IV Matters of Style: The Sentence
• 21 Addition and Modification
• Hudson Street
• 22 Emphasis
• The Steamboatman
• 23 Loose and Periodic Sentences
• The Turtle
• At Tinker Creek
• 24 Climax
• My Grandmother
• 25 Parallelism
• Boyhood on the Sacramento Barrio
• 26 Antithesis
• Nonviolent Resistance
• 27 Length
• On Matters of Doubt
• Part V Argument and Persuasion
• 28 Inductive Reasoning
• Max into Maximilian
• Revenge Theory
• More Police, Less Crime? Wrong
• The Right to Fail
• Wait a Minute
• The Warfare in the Forest Is Not Wanton
• The End of Education
• Who Killed Benny Paret?
• Computer Viruses
• Statistical Lives
• Why save Tropical Rain Forests?
• Students and Drugs
• 29 Deductive Reasoning
• Freedom and Security
• Reflections on War
• The Limits of Relevance
• Final Exams Discourage Learning
• Who Deserves the Death Penalty?
• 30 Controversy
• Supreme Court Ruling on t