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ENG120: Writing for College--Quinn: Required Readings

Essays

Mother Tongue by Amy Tan
Being an Other by Melissa Algranati
Learning to Read and Write by Frederick Douglass (Chapter 7 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass)
Bassackwards by Jay Norlinger
I H8 Txt Msgs: How Texting is Wrecking Our Language by John Humphrys
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr.
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
"Why I Quit the Klan" by C.P. Ellis or Studs Terkel
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