Essays on Writing explores social and cultural facets of writing as well as practices of writing in a brief inexpensive reader.

Preface for the Student Preface for the Instructor Acknowledgements 1. Attitudes Introduction Roy Peter Clark, "I Won't Use Writing as Punishment. I Won't. . . ." Dick Harrington, "Writing about General Apache" John Holt, "Making Children Hate Reading" Melissa Duffy, "Inspiration" bell hooks, "writing autobiography" Craig Vetter, "Bonehead Writing" Stanley Aronowitz, "Writing Is Not a Skill" End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing 2. Practice Introduction Sandra Boynton,"Five Paragraph Theme" Gayle Brandeis, "Dyr Mom: Wy R You So Laveable?" Susan Wyche, "Time, Tools, and Talismans" William Stafford, "A Way of Writing" Anne Lamott, "Shitty First Drafts" Donald Murray, "Internal Revision" William Zinsser, "Simplicity" End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing 3. Voice Introduction Lizbeth A. Bryant, "Disruptive 'Sexual' Voices in English 101" Linda Christensen, "Teaching Standard English: Whose Standard?" Nora McCarthy, "Flipping the Script: Exploring the Relationship between Form and Content in Teen Writing" Rebecca Moore Howard, "A Plagiarism Pentimento" Keith D. Miller, "Redefining Plagiarism: Martin Luther King's Use of an Oral Tradition" End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing 4 Technology and Integrity Introduction Wendy Leibowitz, "Technology Transforms Writing and the Teaching of Writing" Heather Hunter, "Traveling the Too-Much-Information Highway" Seth Stevenson, "Adventures in Cheating" Nicole Kristal, "Tutoring' Rich Kids Cost Me My Dreams" Maureen Hourigan, "Of Plagiarism, Paper Mills and the Harried, Hurried Student" End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing 5. Impact Introduction Adam Liptak, "Judge Finds a Typo-Prone Lawyer Guilty of Bad Writing" Sam Dillon, "What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence" C.W. Griffin, "Three Mile Island and the Billion Dollar Memo" Karen Cangialosi, "Healing Through the Written Word" Carol Avery, "Laura's Legacy" Margaret Atwood, "Spelling" Mary Pipher, 'Writing to Connect" End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing Credits