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Paperback |English |0155064045 | 9780155064041

Prose Models

Paperback |English |0155064045 | 9780155064041
Overview
Part I: ORGANIZING THE ESSAY. 1. Topic Sentence, Thesis, and Unity. Gretel Ehrlich: Obituary . Gretel Ehrlich: About Men. Mark Twain: The Shape of the River. George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant. Peggy and Pierre Street: A well in India. Eric Sevareid: Velva, North Dakota. 2. Main and Subordinate Ideas. Lytton Strachey: Queen Victoria at the End of Her Life. Sally Carrighar: The Blast Furnace. David Holahan: Why Did I Ever Play Football? 3. Order of Ideas. E.B. White: In an Elevator. Leonard Kriegel: The Purpose of Lifting. Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd. 4. Beginning, Middle, and End. Susan Allen Toth: Mountain Day. Calvin Trillin: Ben & Jerry's. 5. Transitions. Lewis Thomas: Communication. Mary E. Mebane: Mary. Part II: DESCRIPTION, NARRATION, EXPOSITION. 6. Description. John McPhee: The World's Largest Pile of Scrap Tires. W. S. Merwin: The Buick. Mary Helen Ponce: Hoyt Street. Ronald Takaki: The Barrio. 7. Narration. James Salter: Flying. Eudora Welty: Learning to See. Esmeralda Santiago: The American Invasion of Macun. 8. Example. E.B. White: New York. Tom Wolfe: Thursday morning in a New York Subway Station. Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux: Discipline?To What End? 9. Classification and Division. John Holt: Kinds of Discipline. Allan Nevins: The Newspaper. Garrison Keillor: Hoppers. 10. Definition. Carol Bly: Monkeying. Lawrence M. Friedman: Crime. Philip Hamburger: The Sooners. Casey Miller and Kate Swift: "Manly" and "Womanly". Herbert L. Gans: The Underclass. Irving Lewis Allen: Newspapers. 11. Comparison and Contrast. Marie Winn: Televisions and Reading. Edward Hoagland: City People and Country People. Edward T. Hall: the English and the Americans. Richard Lanham: Digital Literacy. 12. Analogy. Loren Eiseley: What Makes a Writer. Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic Prison. Michio Kaku: The Education of a Physicist. 13. Process. Mark Twain: Sounding. Jearl Walker: Outdoor Cooking. John Richards: How the Spider Spins Its Web. 14. Cause and Effect. John Brooks: The Telephone. Marvin Harris: Why Nothing Works. James Trefil: The Growth of Cities. Part III: MATTERS OF STYLE: DICTION. 15. Usage. William Least Heat Moon: In the Land of Coca-Cola. Newsweek: Being Cool. Robert Sullivan: A Memo from Dad. 16. Tone. Mark Singer: Osu! William Finnegan: Surfing. 17. Imagery. Rachel Carson: The Rocky Shores. 18. Figurative Language. Diane Ackerman: Watching a Night Launch of the Space Shuttle. George Lackoff and Mark Johnson: Time Is Money. 19. Concreteness. Bailey White: Mortality. George Plimpton: Fireworks. 20. Euphemism and Jargon. Perri Klass: Learning the Language. Sydney J. Harris: Nipping Cliches in the Bud. Russell Baker: Little Red Riding Hood Revisited. Part IV: MATTERS OF STYLE: THE SENTENCE. 21. Addition and Modification. Jane Jacobs: Hudson Street. 22. Emphasis. Mark Twain: The Steamboatman. 23. Loose and Periodic Sentences. John Steinbeck: The Turtle. Annie Dillard: At Tinker Creek. 24. Climax. John Updike: My Grandmother. 25. Parallelism. Ernesto Galarza: Boyhood on the Sacramento Barrio. 26. Antithesis. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolent Resistance. 27. Length. Lewis Thomas: On Matters of Doubt. Part V: ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION. 28. Inductive Reasoning. Vicki Hearne: Max into Maximilian. Edward Tenner: Revenge Theory. Richard Moran: More Police, Less Crime? Wrong. William Zinsser: The Right to Fail. Ellen Goodman: Wait a Minute. Brooks Atkinson: The Warfare in the Forest Is Not Wanton. John Henry Newman: The End of Education. Norman Cousins: Who Killed Benny Paret? Stephen L. Carter: Computer Viruses. Alan Wertheimer: Statistical Lives. Roger D. Stone: Why save Tropical Rain Forests? Herbert Hendin: Students and Drugs. 29. Deductive Reasoning. Syndey J. Harris: Freedom and Security. H.L. Mencken: Reflections on War. Kenneth B. Clark: The Limits of Relevance. Karl L. Schilling and Karen Maitland Schilling: Final Exams Discourage Learning. William Raspberry: Who Deserves the Death Penalty? 30. Controversy. Supreme Court Ruling on the Communications Decency Act, "Reno v. ACLU," June 26, 1997. William F. Buckley, Jr.: Internet: The Lost Fight. George F. Will: Sex, Fat, and Responsibility. Patrick D. Maines: The New Censorship. William J. Bennett and C. DeLores Tucker: Wal-Mart's Free Choice. Joshua Micah Marshall: Will Free Speech Get Tangled in the Web. Stanley C. Brubaker: In Praise of Censorship. Mark H. Moore: Prohibition and Drugs. Alan M. Dershowitz: The Case for Medicalizing Heroin. Charles B. Rangel: Legalize Drugs? 31. Interpretation of Evidence. I. Bernard Cohen: What Columbus "Saw". Deborah Tannen: Asymmetries. Leanne G. Rivlin: A New Look at the Homeless. 32. Methods of Persuasion. Anna Quindlen: Homeless. Hilary De Vries: "I Think I Will Not Forget This". George F. Will: "Extreme Fighting" and the Morals of the Marketplace. N. Scott Momaday: The Morality of Indian Hating. Michael Dorris: For Indians, No Thanksgiving. Anonymous: Who Am I? Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal. Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address. Garr Wills: The Gettysburg Address. Part VI: ESSAYS ON WRITING. Mark Twain, The Art of Composition. John Ciardi, What Every Writer Must Learn. William Zinsser, Simplicity. Walker Gibson, Stuffy Talk. Glossary. Index.
ISBN: 0155064045
ISBN13: 9780155064041
Author: Levin, Gerald
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2001-04-18
Language: English
Edition: 11
PageCount: 610
Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.0 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 23.52 ounces
Part I: ORGANIZING THE ESSAY. 1. Topic Sentence, Thesis, and Unity. Gretel Ehrlich: Obituary . Gretel Ehrlich: About Men. Mark Twain: The Shape of the River. George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant. Peggy and Pierre Street: A well in India. Eric Sevareid: Velva, North Dakota. 2. Main and Subordinate Ideas. Lytton Strachey: Queen Victoria at the End of Her Life. Sally Carrighar: The Blast Furnace. David Holahan: Why Did I Ever Play Football? 3. Order of Ideas. E.B. White: In an Elevator. Leonard Kriegel: The Purpose of Lifting. Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd. 4. Beginning, Middle, and End. Susan Allen Toth: Mountain Day. Calvin Trillin: Ben & Jerry's. 5. Transitions. Lewis Thomas: Communication. Mary E. Mebane: Mary. Part II: DESCRIPTION, NARRATION, EXPOSITION. 6. Description. John McPhee: The World's Largest Pile of Scrap Tires. W. S. Merwin: The Buick. Mary Helen Ponce: Hoyt Street. Ronald Takaki: The Barrio. 7. Narration. James Salter: Flying. Eudora Welty: Learning to See. Esmeralda Santiago: The American Invasion of Macun. 8. Example. E.B. White: New York. Tom Wolfe: Thursday morning in a New York Subway Station. Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux: Discipline?To What End? 9. Classification and Division. John Holt: Kinds of Discipline. Allan Nevins: The Newspaper. Garrison Keillor: Hoppers. 10. Definition. Carol Bly: Monkeying. Lawrence M. Friedman: Crime. Philip Hamburger: The Sooners. Casey Miller and Kate Swift: "Manly" and "Womanly". Herbert L. Gans: The Underclass. Irving Lewis Allen: Newspapers. 11. Comparison and Contrast. Marie Winn: Televisions and Reading. Edward Hoagland: City People and Country People. Edward T. Hall: the English and the Americans. Richard Lanham: Digital Literacy. 12. Analogy. Loren Eiseley: What Makes a Writer. Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic Prison. Michio Kaku: The Education of a Physicist. 13. Process. Mark Twain: Sounding. Jearl Walker: Outdoor Cooking. John Richards: How the Spider Spins Its Web. 14. Cause and Effect. John Brooks: The Telephone. Marvin Harris: Why Nothing Works. James Trefil: The Growth of Cities. Part III: MATTERS OF STYLE: DICTION. 15. Usage. William Least Heat Moon: In the Land of Coca-Cola. Newsweek: Being Cool. Robert Sullivan: A Memo from Dad. 16. Tone. Mark Singer: Osu! William Finnegan: Surfing. 17. Imagery. Rachel Carson: The Rocky Shores. 18. Figurative Language. Diane Ackerman: Watching a Night Launch of the Space Shuttle. George Lackoff and Mark Johnson: Time Is Money. 19. Concreteness. Bailey White: Mortality. George Plimpton: Fireworks. 20. Euphemism and Jargon. Perri Klass: Learning the Language. Sydney J. Harris: Nipping Cliches in the Bud. Russell Baker: Little Red Riding Hood Revisited. Part IV: MATTERS OF STYLE: THE SENTENCE. 21. Addition and Modification. Jane Jacobs: Hudson Street. 22. Emphasis. Mark Twain: The Steamboatman. 23. Loose and Periodic Sentences. John Steinbeck: The Turtle. Annie Dillard: At Tinker Creek. 24. Climax. John Updike: My Grandmother. 25. Parallelism. Ernesto Galarza: Boyhood on the Sacramento Barrio. 26. Antithesis. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolent Resistance. 27. Length. Lewis Thomas: On Matters of Doubt. Part V: ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION. 28. Inductive Reasoning. Vicki Hearne: Max into Maximilian. Edward Tenner: Revenge Theory. Richard Moran: More Police, Less Crime? Wrong. William Zinsser: The Right to Fail. Ellen Goodman: Wait a Minute. Brooks Atkinson: The Warfare in the Forest Is Not Wanton. John Henry Newman: The End of Education. Norman Cousins: Who Killed Benny Paret? Stephen L. Carter: Computer Viruses. Alan Wertheimer: Statistical Lives. Roger D. Stone: Why save Tropical Rain Forests? Herbert Hendin: Students and Drugs. 29. Deductive Reasoning. Syndey J. Harris: Freedom and Security. H.L. Mencken: Reflections on War. Kenneth B. Clark: The Limits of Relevance. Karl L. Schilling and Karen Maitland Schilling: Final Exams Discourage Learning. William Raspberry: Who Deserves the Death Penalty? 30. Controversy. Supreme Court Ruling on the Communications Decency Act, "Reno v. ACLU," June 26, 1997. William F. Buckley, Jr.: Internet: The Lost Fight. George F. Will: Sex, Fat, and Responsibility. Patrick D. Maines: The New Censorship. William J. Bennett and C. DeLores Tucker: Wal-Mart's Free Choice. Joshua Micah Marshall: Will Free Speech Get Tangled in the Web. Stanley C. Brubaker: In Praise of Censorship. Mark H. Moore: Prohibition and Drugs. Alan M. Dershowitz: The Case for Medicalizing Heroin. Charles B. Rangel: Legalize Drugs? 31. Interpretation of Evidence. I. Bernard Cohen: What Columbus "Saw". Deborah Tannen: Asymmetries. Leanne G. Rivlin: A New Look at the Homeless. 32. Methods of Persuasion. Anna Quindlen: Homeless. Hilary De Vries: "I Think I Will Not Forget This". George F. Will: "Extreme Fighting" and the Morals of the Marketplace. N. Scott Momaday: The Morality of Indian Hating. Michael Dorris: For Indians, No Thanksgiving. Anonymous: Who Am I? Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal. Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address. Garr Wills: The Gettysburg Address. Part VI: ESSAYS ON WRITING. Mark Twain, The Art of Composition. John Ciardi, What Every Writer Must Learn. William Zinsser, Simplicity. Walker Gibson, Stuffy Talk. Glossary. Index.

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Overview
Part I: ORGANIZING THE ESSAY. 1. Topic Sentence, Thesis, and Unity. Gretel Ehrlich: Obituary . Gretel Ehrlich: About Men. Mark Twain: The Shape of the River. George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant. Peggy and Pierre Street: A well in India. Eric Sevareid: Velva, North Dakota. 2. Main and Subordinate Ideas. Lytton Strachey: Queen Victoria at the End of Her Life. Sally Carrighar: The Blast Furnace. David Holahan: Why Did I Ever Play Football? 3. Order of Ideas. E.B. White: In an Elevator. Leonard Kriegel: The Purpose of Lifting. Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd. 4. Beginning, Middle, and End. Susan Allen Toth: Mountain Day. Calvin Trillin: Ben & Jerry's. 5. Transitions. Lewis Thomas: Communication. Mary E. Mebane: Mary. Part II: DESCRIPTION, NARRATION, EXPOSITION. 6. Description. John McPhee: The World's Largest Pile of Scrap Tires. W. S. Merwin: The Buick. Mary Helen Ponce: Hoyt Street. Ronald Takaki: The Barrio. 7. Narration. James Salter: Flying. Eudora Welty: Learning to See. Esmeralda Santiago: The American Invasion of Macun. 8. Example. E.B. White: New York. Tom Wolfe: Thursday morning in a New York Subway Station. Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux: Discipline?To What End? 9. Classification and Division. John Holt: Kinds of Discipline. Allan Nevins: The Newspaper. Garrison Keillor: Hoppers. 10. Definition. Carol Bly: Monkeying. Lawrence M. Friedman: Crime. Philip Hamburger: The Sooners. Casey Miller and Kate Swift: "Manly" and "Womanly". Herbert L. Gans: The Underclass. Irving Lewis Allen: Newspapers. 11. Comparison and Contrast. Marie Winn: Televisions and Reading. Edward Hoagland: City People and Country People. Edward T. Hall: the English and the Americans. Richard Lanham: Digital Literacy. 12. Analogy. Loren Eiseley: What Makes a Writer. Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic Prison. Michio Kaku: The Education of a Physicist. 13. Process. Mark Twain: Sounding. Jearl Walker: Outdoor Cooking. John Richards: How the Spider Spins Its Web. 14. Cause and Effect. John Brooks: The Telephone. Marvin Harris: Why Nothing Works. James Trefil: The Growth of Cities. Part III: MATTERS OF STYLE: DICTION. 15. Usage. William Least Heat Moon: In the Land of Coca-Cola. Newsweek: Being Cool. Robert Sullivan: A Memo from Dad. 16. Tone. Mark Singer: Osu! William Finnegan: Surfing. 17. Imagery. Rachel Carson: The Rocky Shores. 18. Figurative Language. Diane Ackerman: Watching a Night Launch of the Space Shuttle. George Lackoff and Mark Johnson: Time Is Money. 19. Concreteness. Bailey White: Mortality. George Plimpton: Fireworks. 20. Euphemism and Jargon. Perri Klass: Learning the Language. Sydney J. Harris: Nipping Cliches in the Bud. Russell Baker: Little Red Riding Hood Revisited. Part IV: MATTERS OF STYLE: THE SENTENCE. 21. Addition and Modification. Jane Jacobs: Hudson Street. 22. Emphasis. Mark Twain: The Steamboatman. 23. Loose and Periodic Sentences. John Steinbeck: The Turtle. Annie Dillard: At Tinker Creek. 24. Climax. John Updike: My Grandmother. 25. Parallelism. Ernesto Galarza: Boyhood on the Sacramento Barrio. 26. Antithesis. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolent Resistance. 27. Length. Lewis Thomas: On Matters of Doubt. Part V: ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION. 28. Inductive Reasoning. Vicki Hearne: Max into Maximilian. Edward Tenner: Revenge Theory. Richard Moran: More Police, Less Crime? Wrong. William Zinsser: The Right to Fail. Ellen Goodman: Wait a Minute. Brooks Atkinson: The Warfare in the Forest Is Not Wanton. John Henry Newman: The End of Education. Norman Cousins: Who Killed Benny Paret? Stephen L. Carter: Computer Viruses. Alan Wertheimer: Statistical Lives. Roger D. Stone: Why save Tropical Rain Forests? Herbert Hendin: Students and Drugs. 29. Deductive Reasoning. Syndey J. Harris: Freedom and Security. H.L. Mencken: Reflections on War. Kenneth B. Clark: The Limits of Relevance. Karl L. Schilling and Karen Maitland Schilling: Final Exams Discourage Learning. William Raspberry: Who Deserves the Death Penalty? 30. Controversy. Supreme Court Ruling on the Communications Decency Act, "Reno v. ACLU," June 26, 1997. William F. Buckley, Jr.: Internet: The Lost Fight. George F. Will: Sex, Fat, and Responsibility. Patrick D. Maines: The New Censorship. William J. Bennett and C. DeLores Tucker: Wal-Mart's Free Choice. Joshua Micah Marshall: Will Free Speech Get Tangled in the Web. Stanley C. Brubaker: In Praise of Censorship. Mark H. Moore: Prohibition and Drugs. Alan M. Dershowitz: The Case for Medicalizing Heroin. Charles B. Rangel: Legalize Drugs? 31. Interpretation of Evidence. I. Bernard Cohen: What Columbus "Saw". Deborah Tannen: Asymmetries. Leanne G. Rivlin: A New Look at the Homeless. 32. Methods of Persuasion. Anna Quindlen: Homeless. Hilary De Vries: "I Think I Will Not Forget This". George F. Will: "Extreme Fighting" and the Morals of the Marketplace. N. Scott Momaday: The Morality of Indian Hating. Michael Dorris: For Indians, No Thanksgiving. Anonymous: Who Am I? Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal. Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address. Garr Wills: The Gettysburg Address. Part VI: ESSAYS ON WRITING. Mark Twain, The Art of Composition. John Ciardi, What Every Writer Must Learn. William Zinsser, Simplicity. Walker Gibson, Stuffy Talk. Glossary. Index.
ISBN: 0155064045
ISBN13: 9780155064041
Author: Levin, Gerald
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2001-04-18
Language: English
Edition: 11
PageCount: 610
Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.0 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 23.52 ounces
Part I: ORGANIZING THE ESSAY. 1. Topic Sentence, Thesis, and Unity. Gretel Ehrlich: Obituary . Gretel Ehrlich: About Men. Mark Twain: The Shape of the River. George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant. Peggy and Pierre Street: A well in India. Eric Sevareid: Velva, North Dakota. 2. Main and Subordinate Ideas. Lytton Strachey: Queen Victoria at the End of Her Life. Sally Carrighar: The Blast Furnace. David Holahan: Why Did I Ever Play Football? 3. Order of Ideas. E.B. White: In an Elevator. Leonard Kriegel: The Purpose of Lifting. Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd. 4. Beginning, Middle, and End. Susan Allen Toth: Mountain Day. Calvin Trillin: Ben & Jerry's. 5. Transitions. Lewis Thomas: Communication. Mary E. Mebane: Mary. Part II: DESCRIPTION, NARRATION, EXPOSITION. 6. Description. John McPhee: The World's Largest Pile of Scrap Tires. W. S. Merwin: The Buick. Mary Helen Ponce: Hoyt Street. Ronald Takaki: The Barrio. 7. Narration. James Salter: Flying. Eudora Welty: Learning to See. Esmeralda Santiago: The American Invasion of Macun. 8. Example. E.B. White: New York. Tom Wolfe: Thursday morning in a New York Subway Station. Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux: Discipline?To What End? 9. Classification and Division. John Holt: Kinds of Discipline. Allan Nevins: The Newspaper. Garrison Keillor: Hoppers. 10. Definition. Carol Bly: Monkeying. Lawrence M. Friedman: Crime. Philip Hamburger: The Sooners. Casey Miller and Kate Swift: "Manly" and "Womanly". Herbert L. Gans: The Underclass. Irving Lewis Allen: Newspapers. 11. Comparison and Contrast. Marie Winn: Televisions and Reading. Edward Hoagland: City People and Country People. Edward T. Hall: the English and the Americans. Richard Lanham: Digital Literacy. 12. Analogy. Loren Eiseley: What Makes a Writer. Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic Prison. Michio Kaku: The Education of a Physicist. 13. Process. Mark Twain: Sounding. Jearl Walker: Outdoor Cooking. John Richards: How the Spider Spins Its Web. 14. Cause and Effect. John Brooks: The Telephone. Marvin Harris: Why Nothing Works. James Trefil: The Growth of Cities. Part III: MATTERS OF STYLE: DICTION. 15. Usage. William Least Heat Moon: In the Land of Coca-Cola. Newsweek: Being Cool. Robert Sullivan: A Memo from Dad. 16. Tone. Mark Singer: Osu! William Finnegan: Surfing. 17. Imagery. Rachel Carson: The Rocky Shores. 18. Figurative Language. Diane Ackerman: Watching a Night Launch of the Space Shuttle. George Lackoff and Mark Johnson: Time Is Money. 19. Concreteness. Bailey White: Mortality. George Plimpton: Fireworks. 20. Euphemism and Jargon. Perri Klass: Learning the Language. Sydney J. Harris: Nipping Cliches in the Bud. Russell Baker: Little Red Riding Hood Revisited. Part IV: MATTERS OF STYLE: THE SENTENCE. 21. Addition and Modification. Jane Jacobs: Hudson Street. 22. Emphasis. Mark Twain: The Steamboatman. 23. Loose and Periodic Sentences. John Steinbeck: The Turtle. Annie Dillard: At Tinker Creek. 24. Climax. John Updike: My Grandmother. 25. Parallelism. Ernesto Galarza: Boyhood on the Sacramento Barrio. 26. Antithesis. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolent Resistance. 27. Length. Lewis Thomas: On Matters of Doubt. Part V: ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION. 28. Inductive Reasoning. Vicki Hearne: Max into Maximilian. Edward Tenner: Revenge Theory. Richard Moran: More Police, Less Crime? Wrong. William Zinsser: The Right to Fail. Ellen Goodman: Wait a Minute. Brooks Atkinson: The Warfare in the Forest Is Not Wanton. John Henry Newman: The End of Education. Norman Cousins: Who Killed Benny Paret? Stephen L. Carter: Computer Viruses. Alan Wertheimer: Statistical Lives. Roger D. Stone: Why save Tropical Rain Forests? Herbert Hendin: Students and Drugs. 29. Deductive Reasoning. Syndey J. Harris: Freedom and Security. H.L. Mencken: Reflections on War. Kenneth B. Clark: The Limits of Relevance. Karl L. Schilling and Karen Maitland Schilling: Final Exams Discourage Learning. William Raspberry: Who Deserves the Death Penalty? 30. Controversy. Supreme Court Ruling on the Communications Decency Act, "Reno v. ACLU," June 26, 1997. William F. Buckley, Jr.: Internet: The Lost Fight. George F. Will: Sex, Fat, and Responsibility. Patrick D. Maines: The New Censorship. William J. Bennett and C. DeLores Tucker: Wal-Mart's Free Choice. Joshua Micah Marshall: Will Free Speech Get Tangled in the Web. Stanley C. Brubaker: In Praise of Censorship. Mark H. Moore: Prohibition and Drugs. Alan M. Dershowitz: The Case for Medicalizing Heroin. Charles B. Rangel: Legalize Drugs? 31. Interpretation of Evidence. I. Bernard Cohen: What Columbus "Saw". Deborah Tannen: Asymmetries. Leanne G. Rivlin: A New Look at the Homeless. 32. Methods of Persuasion. Anna Quindlen: Homeless. Hilary De Vries: "I Think I Will Not Forget This". George F. Will: "Extreme Fighting" and the Morals of the Marketplace. N. Scott Momaday: The Morality of Indian Hating. Michael Dorris: For Indians, No Thanksgiving. Anonymous: Who Am I? Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal. Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address. Garr Wills: The Gettysburg Address. Part VI: ESSAYS ON WRITING. Mark Twain, The Art of Composition. John Ciardi, What Every Writer Must Learn. William Zinsser, Simplicity. Walker Gibson, Stuffy Talk. Glossary. Index.

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If your package has been delivered in a PO Box, please note that we are not responsible for any damage that may result (consequences of extreme temperatures, theft, etc.). 

If you have any questions regarding shipping or want to know about the status of an order, please contact us or email to support@stevensbooks.com.

You may return most items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund.

To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.

Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.

Additional non-returnable items:

  • Gift cards
  • Downloadable software products
  • Some health and personal care items

To complete your return, we require a tracking number, which shows the items which you already returned to us.
There are certain situations where only partial refunds are granted (if applicable)

  • Book with obvious signs of use
  • CD, DVD, VHS tape, software, video game, cassette tape, or vinyl record that has been opened
  • Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error
  • Any item that is returned more than 30 days after delivery

Items returned to us as a result of our error will receive a full refund,some returns may be subject to a restocking fee of 7% of the total item price, please contact a customer care team member to see if your return is subject. Returns that arrived on time and were as described are subject to a restocking fee.

Items returned to us that were not the result of our error, including items returned to us due to an invalid or incomplete address, will be refunded the original item price less our standard restocking fees.

If the item is returned to us for any of the following reasons, a 15% restocking fee will be applied to your refund total and you will be asked to pay for return shipping:

  • Item(s) no longer needed or wanted.
  • Item(s) returned to us due to an invalid or incomplete address.
  • Item(s) returned to us that were not a result of our error.

You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).

If you need to return an item, please Contact Us with your order number and details about the product you would like to return. We will respond quickly with instructions for how to return items from your order.


Shipping Cost


We'll pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.). In other cases, you will be responsible for paying for your own shipping costs for returning your item. Shipping costs are non-refundable. If you receive a refund, the cost of return shipping will be deducted from your refund.

Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you, may vary.

If you are shipping an item over $75, you should consider using a trackable shipping service or purchasing shipping insurance. We don’t guarantee that we will receive your returned item.

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