The speaker : or Miscellaneous pieces, selected from the best English writers, and disposed under proper heads, with a view to facilitate the improvement of youth in reading and speaking, to which are prefixed two essays: I. On elocution. II. On reading works of taste /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Englishman's library : comprising a series of historical, biographical, and national information, under the following heads, English history, and lives of eminent statesmen, English scenes, and essays on subjects of national importance, lives of eminent English philosophers, writers, etc., and patriotic poetry : being a selection from the original articles of the Plain Englishman.

"Dr. Samuel Johnson": p. 340-346.

Essays on the study of poetry and a guide to English literature /

Mode of access: Internet.

Essays that every child should know ; a selection of the writing of English and American essayists, ed.

Mode of access: Internet.

A century of English essays : from Caxton to Belloc /

Bibliography: p. x.

The English constitution, and other political essays,

[The English constitution]--Political essays: The character of Lord Brougham; The character of Sir Robert Peel.

A century of English essays: an anthology ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson, & the writers of our own time

"First issued, 1913."

The polite preceptor : or, A collection of entertaining and instructive essays; selected from the best English writers.

Mode of access: Internet.

The renascence of the English drama : essays, lectures, and fragments relating to the modern English stage : written and delivered in the years 1883-94.

Mode of access: Internet.

A book of English essays,/

Mode of access: Internet.

Essays and English traits,

Essays: The American scholar. An address. Man the reformer. Self-reliance. Compensation. Friendship. Heroism. The over-soul. Circles. The poet. Character. Manners. Gifts. Nature. Politics. New England reformers. Worship. Beauty.--English traits.

The old English Bible, and other essays.

Mode of access: Internet.

Essays on some of the modern guides of English thought in matters of faith /

Microfiche (negative). Louisville, Ky. : Lost Cause Press, 1975. 7 cards : 11 x 15 cm. -- (No. 166)

Examining argumentative coherence in essays by undergraduate students of English as a foreign language in Mainland China and their English speaking peers in the United States

I conducted this study to provide insights toward deepening understanding of association between culture and writing by building, assessing, and refining a conceptual model of second language writing. To do this, I examined culture and coherence as well as the relationship between them through a mixed methods research design. Coherence has been an important and complex concept in ESL/EFL writing. I intended to study the concept of coherence in the research context of contrastive rhetoric, comparing the coherence quality in argumentative essays written by undergraduates in Mainland China and their U.S. peers. In order to analyze the complex concept of coherence, I synthesized five linguistic theories of coherence: Halliday and Hasan's cohesion theory, Carroll's theory of coherence, Enkvist's theory of coherence, Topical Structure Analysis, and Toulmin's Model. Based upon the synthesis, 16 variables were generated. Across these 16 variables, Hotelling t-test statistical analysis was conducted to predict differences in argumentative coherence between essays written by two groups of participants. In order to complement the statistical analysis, I conducted 30 interviews of the writers in the studies. Participants' responses were analyzed with open and axial coding. By analyzing the empirical data, I refined the conceptual model by adding more categories and establishing associations among them. The study found that U.S. students made use of more pronominal reference. Chinese students adopted more lexical devices of reiteration and extended paralleling progression. The interview data implied that the difference may be associated with the difference in linguistic features and rhetorical conventions in Chinese and English. As far as Toulmin's Model is concerned, Chinese students scored higher on data than their U.S. peers. According to the interview data, this may be due to the fact that Toulmin's Model, modified as three elements of arguments, have been widely and long taught in Chinese writing instruction while U.S. interview participants said that they were not taught to write essays according to Toulmin's Model. Implications were generated from the process of textual data analysis and the formulation of structural model defining coherence. These implications were aimed at informing writing instruction, assessment, peer-review, and self-revision.

Epistemic Modality in Linguistic and Literature Essays in English : A comparative corpus-based study of modal verbs in student claims

This study is a corpus-based comparison between student essays written in the subject areas of English linguistics and literature at undergraduate level. They are 200 Bachelor degree theses submitted at a variety of university departments (such as English, Language and Literature, Humanities, Social and Intercultural Studies) in Sweden. The comparison concerns frequencies of core modal verbs and how often they occur together with the I, we and it subject pronouns and in the structures this/the [essay, study, project, thesis] when students attempt to communicate their personal claims. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the essays show few similarities in the ways that core modal verbs appear in both disciplines. The results indicate mainly distinct differences, especially in relation to clusters and variation of performative verbs. Specific patterns in the ways that students use core modal verbs as hedges have also been identified.