Writing at CCV
VSC Graduation Standards
General Writing Process
The Research Process
Common Grammar Errors
Sample Student Papers
Being Biracial: The Struggle to Find One’s Identity
Stunted by Our Solitude: An Examination of the Psychological and Physiological Effects of Loneliness and Social Isolation
Protecting the Right to Die: A Case for Federal Legislation Allowing Physician Assisted Suicide
Computers and Children
Analysis of “Living like Weasels”
Hydraulic Fracturing
No Budget Cuts for the National Parks
Writing Process with Readings
Narration
A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes from Dust Tracks on a Road Zora Neale Hurston
Million-Dollar Murray Malcolm Gladwell
No Name Woman Maxine Hong Kingston
Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police Martin Gansberg
The Back of the Bus Mary Mebane
The Fourth of July Andre Lorde
Description
The Feed Lot Michael Pollan
Shooting Dad Sarah Vowell
Stadium Pal David Sedaris
Arm Wrestling with My Father Brad Manning
The Santa Ana Joan Didion
The Way to Rainy Mountain N. Scott Momaday
Living Like Weasels Annie Dillard
The Serpents of Paradise Edward Abbey
Am I Blue? Alice Walker
The Hearts and Minds Guys Roger Conant Cranse
Exposition
Exemplification
Simplicity William Zinsser
Clutter William Zinsser
Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space Brent Staples
The Catbird Seat David J. Birnbaum
The Ends of the World as We Know Them Jared Diamond
The Growing Cowardice of Online Anonymity Richard Bernstein
Homeless Anna Quindlen
Definition
The World of Doublespeak William Lutz
The “M-Word”: Why It Matters to Me Andrew Sullivan
Meanings of a Word Gloria Naylor
What Is Poverty? Jo Goodwin Parker
I Want a Wife Judy Brady
Process Analysis
On Dumpster Diving Lars Eighner
My First Conk Malcolm X
Writing Drafts Richard Marius
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain Jessica Mitford
Cause and Effect
The Closing of the American Book Andrew Solomon
Why Don’t We Complain? William F. Buckley Jr.
Losing Private Dwyer Lawrence Downes
Words That Wound Kathleen Vail
Comparison and Contrast
The Banality of Narcissism Ron Rosenbaum
Neat People vs. Sloppy People Suzanne Britt
Batting Clean Up and Striking Out Dave Barry
Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers Deborah Tannen
Beauty and the Beast Dave Barry
Division and Classification
The Ends of the World as We Know Them Jared Diamond
Notes on Punctuation Lewis Thomas
The Dog Ate My Disk, and Other Tales of Woe Carolyn Foster Segal
The Ways We Lie Stephanie Ericsson
The World of Doublespeak William Lutz
Argumentation
Letter from a Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr.
No Time to Read? David McCullough
The Real Generation Gap Marianne M. Jennings
In Praise of the F Word
The C Word in the Hallways Anna Quindlen
A Crime of Compassion Barbara Huttmann
Our Vanishing Night Verlyn Klinkenborg
In Defense of Prejudice Jonathan Rauch
