Commentary & Argument

• Opinion: This one goes out to every whiny brat restaurant customer by Daphnew Craford, senior in high school
• Here Be Mother of Dragons by Maureen Dowd
• Healthcare? One desperate man finds it in jail by Leonard Pitts Jr
• Cruel as It Is, We Somehow Go On by Leonard Pitts Jr
• Violence, videotapes and police by Leonard Pitts Jr
• Some Harsh Sentences Prove Unjust by Leonard Pitts Jr

• Gamers To the End by Rick Reilly
• The Life of Reilly by Rick Reilly
• Next Time, Stop the Freakin' Race by Rick Reilly
• Keep Skeleton in the Closet by Rick Reilly

• The Flags of Our Sons by Billy Shore

• They, Too, Sing America by Charles M. Blow
• The Ugly Truth About Beauty by Dave Barry
• All Parents Are Cowards by Michael Christie
• I Fit the Description by Steven Locke
• Learning to Love From Afar by Gail Caldwell
• Twelve Minutes and a Life by Mitchell Jackson
• How I Replaced Shakespeare by Joel Stein
• Learn To Read Kid, but Don't Fall in Love by Rainbow Rowell
• Skeleton Plunges Face First by Rick Bragg
• Running and Reading We Need Choices by Jennifer Schwanke
• The Top 10 Reasons Why I Can't Stop Reading Children's Literature by Emily Meixner
• Student commentary: Why a Liberal Arts Degree is Not As Useless As Everyone Thinks
• I Am Still Tiger Woods by Cameron Kittle
• On the Mindless Menace of Violence by Bobby Kennedy
• Taking the Fight Out of Teenagers by Carol Jago
• What's a Mother to Do? by Ruth Marcus
• Do the Math by Penny Kittle
• About More Than Baseball by Penny Kittle
• Homerun by Penny Kittle
• The Seasons of Teaching by Penny Kittle

Analysis

• Hidden Intellectualism by Gerald Graff

Graduation Speeches 

• The Fringe Benefits of Failure by J. K. Rowling
• Crutcher's Ten Commandments by Chris Crutcher

Letters

• Letter to Seventeen Magazine by student
• Letter to English teachers about non-fiction reading by student
• Letter to the Editor WA#7 by Penny Kittle

Multi-genre Writing

• Sleep No More by Kayla

On Writing

• The Essential Delay: When Writer's Block Isn't by Donald Murray
• How To Write by Tom Romano

Short Texts for Word Choice Study

• Book Reviews
• Writing about the Brain with Beauty... a sample from Diane Ackerman

Story

• All There Is by Beverly Eckert
• My Youth in 27 Records by QuestLove
• Pull The Trigger by Sam Prevost
• Intensive Care by a student
• My Supercharged Wheelchair Life Force by Katie Savin