Language awareness - Eschholz, Paul A.; Rosa, Alfred F.; Clark, Virginia P. (New York St. Martin's Press, 1986)
Coming to an awareness of language / Malcolm X -- Man the talker / Peter Farb -- A brief history of English / Paul Roberts -- Are you making yourself clear? / Norman Cousins -- The sounds of silence / Edward T. Hall, Mildred Reed Hall -- Language on the skids / Edwin Newman -- Is there really a language crisis? / Harvey Daniels -- Black children, black speech / Dorothy Z. Seymour -- The country's going through a rough spell / Bob Greene -- Caught between two languages / Richard Rodriguez -- Selection, slanting, and charged language / Newman P. Birk, Genevieve B. Birk -- Politics and the English language / George Orwell -- The joys of Watergate / Jim Quinn -- Propaganda: how not to be bamboozled / Donna Woolfolk Cross -- The power of words / Bergen Evans -- Vogue words are trific, right? / William Safire -- Differences in vocabulary / Roger W. Shuy -- Preface to the Dictionary of American slang / Stuart Berg Flexner -- How dictionaries are made / S.I. Hayakawa -- Bugs Bunny says they're yummy / Dawn Ann Kurth -- Weasel words: God's little helpers / Paul Stevens -- How to write potent copy / David Ogilvy -- It's natural! It's organic! Or is it? / Consumers Union -- Tell me, pretty billboard / Noel Perrin -- Intensify/downplay / Hugh Rank -- The language of prejudice / Gordon Allport -- Words with built-in judgments / S.I. Hayakawa -- Does language libel the left-handed? / English highlights -- What to call an American of Hispanic descent / Tomas Guillen -- Dictionaries and ethnic sensibilities / Robert Burchfield -- Sexism in English: a feminist view / Alleen Pace Nilsen -- You are what you say / Robin Lakoff -- Women and work / Casey Miller, Kate Swift -- In defense of gender / Cyra McFadden -- Solutions to the great he/she problem / Martha Kolln -- Euphemism / Neil Postman -- Occupational euphemisms / H.L. Mencken -- Jargon and the professions / Kenneth Hudson -- Gobbledygook / Stuart Chase -- How to interpret an annual report / Mary Ruth Yoe -- The language of nuclear war strategists / Stephen Hilgartner, Richard C. Bell, Rory O'Connor -- Verbal taboo / S.I. Hayakawa -- Four-letter words can hurt you / Barbara Lawrence -- On the use of "dirty" words / William F. Buckley, Jr. -- Institution is not a dirty word / Fern Kupfer -- Writing honestly / Donald Hall -- Writing for an audience / Linda Flower -- Simplicity / William Zinsser -- The maker's eye: revising your own manuscripts / Donald M. Murray -- Notes on punctuation / Lewis Thomas.
Keywords: Language awareness; Readers -- Language awareness; English language -- Rhetoric -- Problems, exercises, etc; Report writing -- Problems, exercises, etc; College readers