Unit One

Text  Coping with the Compliment

Further Reading  The Joy of Giving (Affirmation) -- The Healing Effect of Compliments

Writing Skills  Essay Writing: Overview

Unit Two

Text  The Gift of Gift-giving

Further Reading  How to Be Generous

Writing Skills  Essay Writing. Argumentative

Unit Three

Text  We Have No "Right to Happiness"

Further Reading  On Marriage -- Lessons from a Work-in-Progress

Writing Skills  Functional Writing:Application Letters

Unit Four

Text  Active and Passive Euthanasia

Further Reading  In Crisis, She Rejected Plea to Expedite Dying

Writing Skills  Functional Writing. Resumes (Resumes)

Unit Five

Text  Reflections on His Eightieth Birthday

Further Reading  The View from 80

Writing Skills  Functional Writing, Business Letters

Unit Six

Text  Matriculation Fixation

Further 'Reading  Growing Pains -- Beyond "One Big Happy Family"

Writing Skills  Practical Writing: Summaries

Unit Seven

Text  There Has Always Been Olympic Mischief

Further Reading  The Money Game

Writing Skills  Practical Writing: Book Reports and Book Reviews

Unit Eight

Text  The Art of Pleasing -- A Letter to His Son

Further Reading  Why I am Afraid of You? -- A Letter to His Father

Writing Skills  Academic Writing: Constructing a Research Paper (1)

Unit Nine

Text  You Are What You Say

Further Reading  Euphemisms

Writing Skills  Academic Writing: Constructing a Research Paper (2)

Unit Ten

Text  Whatever Happened to Privacy?

Further Reading  Privacy and the Press: Is Nothing Sacred?

Writing Skills  Academic Writing: Abstracts