Bridgett Davis interviewed by Scott Simon (NPR), “Who Ran the Numbers Racket? Mom”
Caitlin Flanagan, “I Believe Her”
Trevor Noah, “Chameleon”
Anne Lamott, “Shitty First Drafts”
George Dila, “Rethinking the Shitty First Draft”
Ta Nehisi-Coates, “Letter to My Son”
Richard Staub, “Responding — Really Responding — to Other Students’ Writing”
Donald Murray, “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts”
William Zinsser, On Writing Well (excerpt)
Angie Cruz, “What We Deserve”
Alexis deToqueville, Democracy in America (excerpt)
George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
Donald Murray, “All Writing is Autobiography”
Keith Hjortshoj, “Footstools and Furniture”
Laura Bolin Carol, “Backpacks v. Briefcases: Steps Toward Rhetorical Analysis”
George Takei, “Why I Love a Country That Once Betrayed Me”
Phillip Lopate, “On Writing Personal Essays: Turning Oneself into a Character”
Langston Hughes, “Let America be America Again”
Visual Communication Guy, Rhetorical Appeals (Rhetorical Triangle)