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Write It Review: A Process Approach to College Essays with Readings

Author(s): Linda Strahan , Kathleen M Moore

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Copyright: 2018

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The goal of Write It Review is to reinforce the academic reading and writing skills you
learned in Write It. Each section of Write It Review, just as in Write It, helps you develop a
range of writing strategies. As you are guided through the writing process, you learn how
to use each stage to maximize its benefits. Using the strategies this book teaches will help
you strengthen the confidence and understanding you need to write effective academic
essays. As you work through the assignments and exercises in Write It Review, be sure
to complete all the activities, and give special attention to activities devoted to building
reading comprehension and idea development skills. If you have already worked through
Write It, you likely have adjusted some of the stages in the writing process to suit your
own methods and approaches to writing assignments; however, it is important that you
reassess the process you are using. In this way, you will focus on areas that need improvement
and thereby maximize the potential of Write It Review.
 

As you work through the writing process for each assignment, remember the series of
skills we introduced in Write It that are necessary for producing a successful essay: focused
reading, critical thinking, careful analysis, marshaling of evidence, drafting and editing.
Write It Review’s exercises will guide you through each stage in the production of an essay,
and will encourage you to practice each skill, one stage at a time. As you go through the
writing process step by step, remember that writing is always a recursive activity and when
you begin a paper you may not always begin at step one with your topic and proceed in a
linear way, one step at a time, to proofreading. As you move through the guiding exercises
Write It Review provides, new ideas will come to you. Don’t set these discoveries aside,
but carry them forward into the remaining exercises. As you relate old and new information,
you will explore each assignment’s topic from several angles so that your ideas will
build on one another. In this way the steps, though done in isolation, will come together
in a unified perspective. The organization of this book is intended to help reinforce your
understanding of essay-building as a process not a formula, the stages as necessary steps to
internalize until each becomes an intuitive part of writing itself.
 

Write It Review’s activities, exercises, and assignments will be familiar to those of
you who have used Write It. The book is organized to guide you through each stage in
the writing process, each unit beginning with a central reading and then moving through
a sequence for essay development, from “Questions to Guide Your Reading,” to “Questions
to Guide Your Writing.” A peer draft review form and a personal assessment form
will help you revise and edit your essay. You will also find class discussion and homework
activities that reinforce grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking skills. Following
the assignment units is a section that contains student essays, and you will be able to read
and evaluate the essays other students have written in response to similar essay topics.
 

Like Write It, Write It Review is designed to encourage you not just to become a writer
of college essays, but also to become a reader and writer in college. We hope that, as
you become a proficient college writer, and exchange ideas with others in the academic
community, you will both shape and be shaped by that community. Your experiences
are unique to you, and your writing will reflect the knowledge you’ve accumulated from
those experiences as you engage with others in defining the world in which we all live.
 

Here Is How to Use This Skill-Building Book
Write It Review is presented in three parts.
Part 1: BASIC INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION that presents information
and guidance for completing reading and writing assignments in your English
classes. Included in Part 1 are:
• A Step-by-Step Strategy for Reading Thoughtfully
• A Reminder of the Definitions of Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement
• A Review of the Resources in a Handbook
• A Review of the Argument Essay Structure and Two Alternative Structures
• A Strategy for Writing a Timed Essay
• A Review of the Elements of the Conventional Argument Essay.
• A Review of an Introduction in an Argument Essay
• A Review of the Guidelines for Writing a Directed Summary
• Strategies for Developing Your Ideas
• Writing Supporting Paragraphs for Your Thesis Statement
• A Review of Logical Fallacies
• Transitions
• Conclusions
• Strategies for Participating in a Rough Draft Workshop
• A Sample Scoring Rubric
• Finding and Using Arguments in Literature
• Proofreading Your Essay for Mistakes in Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics
• Grammar Diagnostic Tests and Self-Assessment Forms
 

Part 2: EIGHT ASSIGNMENT UNITS that contain a central essay to read and analyze
and a writing assignment to respond to with your own essay. For each of these, the
book will lead you through the writing process as you:
• read for comprehension and learn to recognize and evaluate a writer’s argument.
• develop your own position and supporting evidence.
• organize your ideas into an effective essay structure.
• revise and edit for coherence and clarity.
Preface xvii
• incorporate supplemental readings to expand and broaden the scope and complexity
of your essay response.
• participate in class discussion activities at the end of each supplemental reading
selection.
 

Part 3: CASE STUDIES that provide student writing examples to highlight strategies
other students have used to construct essays. This section gives you an opportunity to
practice applying criteria from the scoring rubric to evaluate others’ essays. By evaluating
the writing of others, you will become better at evaluating your own writing.
The step-by-step lessons in this skill-building workbook will provide you with a
strong foundation for good writing. The book’s techniques have been widely tested and
proven successful. In a recent survey on our campus, students awarded first place in their
success on an important writing exam to the lessons in this book. We are confident that
this book will work for you, too.

Part 1 BASIC INFORMATION 
A Review of Basic Information 
A Step-by-Step Strategy for Reading Thoughtfully 
“Do Women in Politics Face a Glass Ceiling?” by Liz Chadderdon Powell 
A Reminder of the Definitions of Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement 
A Review of the Resources in a Handbook 
A Review of the Argument Essay Structure and Two Alternatives 
“The Ethics of Work-Life Balance” by Bruce Weinstein 
Two Alternative Structures 
A First Alternative: The Hourglass Structure 
“Time to Cerebrate” by Benedict Jones 
A Second Alternative: The Funnel Structure 
“Grammar Gets Real” by Jerome Winter 
A Strategy for Writing a Timed Essay 
A Review of the Elements of the Conventional Argument Essay 
A Review of the Guidelines for Writing a Directed Summary 
Strategies for Developing Your Ideas 
Writing Supporting Paragraphs for Your Thesis Statement 
A Review of Logical Fallacies 
Transitions 
Conclusions 
Strategies for Participating in a Rough Draft Workshop 
Scoring Guide
Finding and Using Arguments in Literature 
“A Christmas Carol” (an excerpt) by Charles Dickens 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Opinion and Thesis Statement 
A Closer Look at Your Control at the Sentence Level
Proofreading Your Essay for Mistakes in Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics 
Assessing Your Grammar Awareness 
Diagnostic Test #1 with Self-Assessment Form 
Diagnostic Test #2 with Self-Assessment Form 

Part 2 WRITING ASSIGNMENTS 
Assignment #1: “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“Fear” by Phil Barker 
“A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun” by Linda M. Hasselstrom 
“Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name” by James Lincoln Collier 
“The Solstice Blues” by Akiko Busch 
“Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety” by Sigmund Freud 
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe 
“Peering Into the Darkness” by Joe Hill 

Assignment #2: “The Benefits of ‘Negative Visualization’” by Oliver Burkeman 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“How To Create Your Own Happiness” by Norman Vincent Peale 
“How Money Actually Buys Happiness” by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton 
“Stumbling on Happiness” (an excerpt) by Daniel Gilbert 
“How to Be Happy When Everything Goes Wrong” by James Clear 
“Lectures IV & V: The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness” by William James 
“The Value of Suffering” by Pico Iyer 
“The Downside of Cohabiting before Marriage” by Meg Jay 

Assignment #3: “Competition and Happiness” by Theodore Isaac Rubin 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“Two Hopi Traditions: Running and Winning” by John Branch 
“Dating as Competition” by Beth Bailey
“The Art of Choosing What to Do With Your Life” 
“The Cost of High Stakes on Little League Games” by C. W. Nevius 
“The Power of Two” by Joshua Wolf Shenk 
“Securing the Benefits of Global Competition” by R. Hewitt Pate 
“An Objective Look at the Benefits of Competition in the Workplace” by Carmine Coyote 

Assignment #4: “The Importance of ‘Societal Forgetting’” by Jeffrey Rosen 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“The Digital Person” by Daniel J. Solove 
“Failing to Forget” by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger 
“Power and Privacy on the Internet” by Ross Douthat 
“Is the Fourth Amendment Relevant?” by Christopher Slobogin 
“The Future of Identity” by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen 

Assignment #5: “College in America” by Caroline Bird 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“See Workers as Workers, Not As a College Credential” by NY Times Editorial Board 
“My College Students Are Not OK” by Jonathan Malesic 
“The American Scholar” by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
“White-Collar Blues” by Benedict Jones 
 “America’s Anxious Class” by Robert Reich 
“Marketing Techniques Go to College” by Penny Singer 
Berkeley College Ad 
St. Joseph’s College Ad 
Virginia Intermont College Ad 
Hofstra University Ad 
Columbia University Ad 

Assignment #6: “The Protestant Work Ethic: Just Another ‘Urban Legend’?” by Jonathan Klemens 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“The Magic Number: 32 Hours a Week” by Binyamin Appelbaum 
“Vagabonding” by Rolf Potts 
“The American Work Ethic” by Peter Kirsanow 
“Work in an Industrial Society” by Eric Fromm 
The Ethics of Work-Life Balance” by Bruce Weinstein 
“Time Off for the Overworked American” by Courtney E. Martin 
“The Importance of Work” by Betty Friedan 
“Men at Work” by Anna Quindlen 

Assignment #7: “The American Paradox” by Michael Pollan 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“Why Study Food?” by Warren Belasco 
“Science Says There’s No Such Thing as ‘Comfort Food.’ We All Beg to Differ.” by Emma Brockes 
“Eat Up. You’ll Be Happier.” by Pamela Druckerman 
“A Seismic Shift in How People Eat” by Hans Taparia and Pamela Koch 
“Rethinking Eating” by Kate Murphy 
“The Impact That Cultural Food Security Has on Identity and Well-Being in the Second Generation U.S. American Minority College Students” by Kathrine E. Wright et al 
“The Fine Line Between Culinary Appropriation and Appreciation Don’t Appropriate, Appreciate” by Kinsey Long 

Assignment #8: Arguments in Literature: “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“The Importance of Being Married” by Ninetta Papadomichelaki and Keith Vance 
“The Honeymoon’s Just Beginning” by Bobby Lazar 

Part 3 CASE STUDIES 
Case Study #1: Oliver Burkeman’s “The Benefits of ‘Negative Visualization’” 
First Student Response 
Second Student Response 
Third Student Response 
Fourth Student Response 
Fifth Student Response 
Sixth Student Response 

Case Study #2: Devon Hackelton’s “What Management Doesn’t Know” 
First Student Response 
Second Student Response 
Third Student Response 
Fourth Student Response 

Index

Linda Strahan
Kathleen M Moore

The goal of Write It Review is to reinforce the academic reading and writing skills you
learned in Write It. Each section of Write It Review, just as in Write It, helps you develop a
range of writing strategies. As you are guided through the writing process, you learn how
to use each stage to maximize its benefits. Using the strategies this book teaches will help
you strengthen the confidence and understanding you need to write effective academic
essays. As you work through the assignments and exercises in Write It Review, be sure
to complete all the activities, and give special attention to activities devoted to building
reading comprehension and idea development skills. If you have already worked through
Write It, you likely have adjusted some of the stages in the writing process to suit your
own methods and approaches to writing assignments; however, it is important that you
reassess the process you are using. In this way, you will focus on areas that need improvement
and thereby maximize the potential of Write It Review.
 

As you work through the writing process for each assignment, remember the series of
skills we introduced in Write It that are necessary for producing a successful essay: focused
reading, critical thinking, careful analysis, marshaling of evidence, drafting and editing.
Write It Review’s exercises will guide you through each stage in the production of an essay,
and will encourage you to practice each skill, one stage at a time. As you go through the
writing process step by step, remember that writing is always a recursive activity and when
you begin a paper you may not always begin at step one with your topic and proceed in a
linear way, one step at a time, to proofreading. As you move through the guiding exercises
Write It Review provides, new ideas will come to you. Don’t set these discoveries aside,
but carry them forward into the remaining exercises. As you relate old and new information,
you will explore each assignment’s topic from several angles so that your ideas will
build on one another. In this way the steps, though done in isolation, will come together
in a unified perspective. The organization of this book is intended to help reinforce your
understanding of essay-building as a process not a formula, the stages as necessary steps to
internalize until each becomes an intuitive part of writing itself.
 

Write It Review’s activities, exercises, and assignments will be familiar to those of
you who have used Write It. The book is organized to guide you through each stage in
the writing process, each unit beginning with a central reading and then moving through
a sequence for essay development, from “Questions to Guide Your Reading,” to “Questions
to Guide Your Writing.” A peer draft review form and a personal assessment form
will help you revise and edit your essay. You will also find class discussion and homework
activities that reinforce grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking skills. Following
the assignment units is a section that contains student essays, and you will be able to read
and evaluate the essays other students have written in response to similar essay topics.
 

Like Write It, Write It Review is designed to encourage you not just to become a writer
of college essays, but also to become a reader and writer in college. We hope that, as
you become a proficient college writer, and exchange ideas with others in the academic
community, you will both shape and be shaped by that community. Your experiences
are unique to you, and your writing will reflect the knowledge you’ve accumulated from
those experiences as you engage with others in defining the world in which we all live.
 

Here Is How to Use This Skill-Building Book
Write It Review is presented in three parts.
Part 1: BASIC INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION that presents information
and guidance for completing reading and writing assignments in your English
classes. Included in Part 1 are:
• A Step-by-Step Strategy for Reading Thoughtfully
• A Reminder of the Definitions of Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement
• A Review of the Resources in a Handbook
• A Review of the Argument Essay Structure and Two Alternative Structures
• A Strategy for Writing a Timed Essay
• A Review of the Elements of the Conventional Argument Essay.
• A Review of an Introduction in an Argument Essay
• A Review of the Guidelines for Writing a Directed Summary
• Strategies for Developing Your Ideas
• Writing Supporting Paragraphs for Your Thesis Statement
• A Review of Logical Fallacies
• Transitions
• Conclusions
• Strategies for Participating in a Rough Draft Workshop
• A Sample Scoring Rubric
• Finding and Using Arguments in Literature
• Proofreading Your Essay for Mistakes in Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics
• Grammar Diagnostic Tests and Self-Assessment Forms
 

Part 2: EIGHT ASSIGNMENT UNITS that contain a central essay to read and analyze
and a writing assignment to respond to with your own essay. For each of these, the
book will lead you through the writing process as you:
• read for comprehension and learn to recognize and evaluate a writer’s argument.
• develop your own position and supporting evidence.
• organize your ideas into an effective essay structure.
• revise and edit for coherence and clarity.
Preface xvii
• incorporate supplemental readings to expand and broaden the scope and complexity
of your essay response.
• participate in class discussion activities at the end of each supplemental reading
selection.
 

Part 3: CASE STUDIES that provide student writing examples to highlight strategies
other students have used to construct essays. This section gives you an opportunity to
practice applying criteria from the scoring rubric to evaluate others’ essays. By evaluating
the writing of others, you will become better at evaluating your own writing.
The step-by-step lessons in this skill-building workbook will provide you with a
strong foundation for good writing. The book’s techniques have been widely tested and
proven successful. In a recent survey on our campus, students awarded first place in their
success on an important writing exam to the lessons in this book. We are confident that
this book will work for you, too.

Part 1 BASIC INFORMATION 
A Review of Basic Information 
A Step-by-Step Strategy for Reading Thoughtfully 
“Do Women in Politics Face a Glass Ceiling?” by Liz Chadderdon Powell 
A Reminder of the Definitions of Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement 
A Review of the Resources in a Handbook 
A Review of the Argument Essay Structure and Two Alternatives 
“The Ethics of Work-Life Balance” by Bruce Weinstein 
Two Alternative Structures 
A First Alternative: The Hourglass Structure 
“Time to Cerebrate” by Benedict Jones 
A Second Alternative: The Funnel Structure 
“Grammar Gets Real” by Jerome Winter 
A Strategy for Writing a Timed Essay 
A Review of the Elements of the Conventional Argument Essay 
A Review of the Guidelines for Writing a Directed Summary 
Strategies for Developing Your Ideas 
Writing Supporting Paragraphs for Your Thesis Statement 
A Review of Logical Fallacies 
Transitions 
Conclusions 
Strategies for Participating in a Rough Draft Workshop 
Scoring Guide
Finding and Using Arguments in Literature 
“A Christmas Carol” (an excerpt) by Charles Dickens 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Opinion and Thesis Statement 
A Closer Look at Your Control at the Sentence Level
Proofreading Your Essay for Mistakes in Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics 
Assessing Your Grammar Awareness 
Diagnostic Test #1 with Self-Assessment Form 
Diagnostic Test #2 with Self-Assessment Form 

Part 2 WRITING ASSIGNMENTS 
Assignment #1: “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“Fear” by Phil Barker 
“A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun” by Linda M. Hasselstrom 
“Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name” by James Lincoln Collier 
“The Solstice Blues” by Akiko Busch 
“Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety” by Sigmund Freud 
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe 
“Peering Into the Darkness” by Joe Hill 

Assignment #2: “The Benefits of ‘Negative Visualization’” by Oliver Burkeman 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“How To Create Your Own Happiness” by Norman Vincent Peale 
“How Money Actually Buys Happiness” by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton 
“Stumbling on Happiness” (an excerpt) by Daniel Gilbert 
“How to Be Happy When Everything Goes Wrong” by James Clear 
“Lectures IV & V: The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness” by William James 
“The Value of Suffering” by Pico Iyer 
“The Downside of Cohabiting before Marriage” by Meg Jay 

Assignment #3: “Competition and Happiness” by Theodore Isaac Rubin 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“Two Hopi Traditions: Running and Winning” by John Branch 
“Dating as Competition” by Beth Bailey
“The Art of Choosing What to Do With Your Life” 
“The Cost of High Stakes on Little League Games” by C. W. Nevius 
“The Power of Two” by Joshua Wolf Shenk 
“Securing the Benefits of Global Competition” by R. Hewitt Pate 
“An Objective Look at the Benefits of Competition in the Workplace” by Carmine Coyote 

Assignment #4: “The Importance of ‘Societal Forgetting’” by Jeffrey Rosen 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“The Digital Person” by Daniel J. Solove 
“Failing to Forget” by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger 
“Power and Privacy on the Internet” by Ross Douthat 
“Is the Fourth Amendment Relevant?” by Christopher Slobogin 
“The Future of Identity” by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen 

Assignment #5: “College in America” by Caroline Bird 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“See Workers as Workers, Not As a College Credential” by NY Times Editorial Board 
“My College Students Are Not OK” by Jonathan Malesic 
“The American Scholar” by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
“White-Collar Blues” by Benedict Jones 
 “America’s Anxious Class” by Robert Reich 
“Marketing Techniques Go to College” by Penny Singer 
Berkeley College Ad 
St. Joseph’s College Ad 
Virginia Intermont College Ad 
Hofstra University Ad 
Columbia University Ad 

Assignment #6: “The Protestant Work Ethic: Just Another ‘Urban Legend’?” by Jonathan Klemens 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“The Magic Number: 32 Hours a Week” by Binyamin Appelbaum 
“Vagabonding” by Rolf Potts 
“The American Work Ethic” by Peter Kirsanow 
“Work in an Industrial Society” by Eric Fromm 
The Ethics of Work-Life Balance” by Bruce Weinstein 
“Time Off for the Overworked American” by Courtney E. Martin 
“The Importance of Work” by Betty Friedan 
“Men at Work” by Anna Quindlen 

Assignment #7: “The American Paradox” by Michael Pollan 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement 
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“Why Study Food?” by Warren Belasco 
“Science Says There’s No Such Thing as ‘Comfort Food.’ We All Beg to Differ.” by Emma Brockes 
“Eat Up. You’ll Be Happier.” by Pamela Druckerman 
“A Seismic Shift in How People Eat” by Hans Taparia and Pamela Koch 
“Rethinking Eating” by Kate Murphy 
“The Impact That Cultural Food Security Has on Identity and Well-Being in the Second Generation U.S. American Minority College Students” by Kathrine E. Wright et al 
“The Fine Line Between Culinary Appropriation and Appreciation Don’t Appropriate, Appreciate” by Kinsey Long 

Assignment #8: Arguments in Literature: “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde 
Vocabulary Check 
Questions to Guide Your Reading 
Prewriting for a Directed Summary 
Developing an Opinion and Working Thesis Statement 
Prewriting to Find Support for Your Thesis Statement
Revising Your Thesis Statement 
Planning and Drafting Your Essay 
Getting Feedback on Your Draft 
Final Draft Checklist 
Reviewing Your Graded Essay 
Extending the Discussion: Considering Other Viewpoints 
“The Importance of Being Married” by Ninetta Papadomichelaki and Keith Vance 
“The Honeymoon’s Just Beginning” by Bobby Lazar 

Part 3 CASE STUDIES 
Case Study #1: Oliver Burkeman’s “The Benefits of ‘Negative Visualization’” 
First Student Response 
Second Student Response 
Third Student Response 
Fourth Student Response 
Fifth Student Response 
Sixth Student Response 

Case Study #2: Devon Hackelton’s “What Management Doesn’t Know” 
First Student Response 
Second Student Response 
Third Student Response 
Fourth Student Response 

Index

Linda Strahan
Linda Strahan
Kathleen M Moore
Kathleen M Moore