Essay 2 - Reading with the Writer's Eye (Helping Students Become Better Readers and Writers)

Essay 2 provides students with a rich variety of materials designed to encourage "reading with the writer's eye". In the introduction, Hans Guth and Renee Hausmann Shea guide students through a sample essay, illuminating the methods and message of a successful piece of writing. Essay selections, organized to reflect major dimensions of the writing process, are lively and timely. In exclusive interviews, professional writers discuss their personal composing and revising styles. And each chapter contains a short model of exemplary student writing. Guiding by example as much as by precept, Essay 2 is designed to nurture a student's natural gift for language and to help student writers succeed. Writers include Maya Angelou, Garrison Keillor, George Orwell, Jade Snow Wong,Arthur Ashe, Susan Jacoby, Margaret Mead, Ellen Goodman, George F. Will, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Ralph Nader, Andy Rooney, Jonathan Swift, and many more.