Patterns: A Prentice Hall Pocket Reader

1. Narration.

Only Daughter, Cisneros. How the Crab Apple Grew, Keillor. Shooting an Elephant, Orwell.

2. Description.

In the Kitchen, Gates, Jr. Once More to the Lake, White. The Way to Rainy Mountain, Momaday.

3. Comparison/Contrast.

Sex, Lies, and Conversation, Tannen. How it Feels to Be Colored Me, Hurston. Reading the River, Twain.

4. Process Analysis.

How to Write With Style, Vonnegut. E-Mail: What You Should - and Shouldn't Say, Hansen. How to Say Nothing in 500 Words, Roberts.

5. Persuasive/Argumentation.

Should English be the Law?, King. The Ethics of Euthanasia, Schneiderman. Sex, Lies and Advertising, Steinem.

6. Classification/Division.

Doublespeak, Lutz. The Myth of the Latin American Women, Cofer. College Pressures Zinsser.

7. Definition.

Why I Want a Wife, Brady. Mother Tongue, Tan. The Barrio, Ramirez.

8. Exemplification.

Just Walk on by: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space, Staples. On the Interstate: A City of the Mind, Hubbell. A Weight That Women Carry, Tisdale.

9. Cause and Effect.

On Reading and Writing King. Meet the Bickersons, Roach. The Fear of Losing a Culture, Rodriguez.