Word: essaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true. Just by showing a teaching fellow that the writer is conscious of a paper's internal structure, grades can go up. Especially with essays longer than five pages, sub-titles every few paragraphs help to break up the monotony of lengthy text. This in turn shows a grader that thought has gone into the organization of an essay, and it serves as a guide for the grader's reading and evaluation...
...Hacker recommends centering and using bold print for subtitles. Word-processors also offer an advantage because they allow the writer to change the subtitles easily. Thus, when the Hacker recently has written eight pages of a 10-page paper and then discovered that he had written a different essay than the one assigned, he merely changed the subtitles and re-wrote the introduction and conclusion. Most of the writing remained unchanged. Another advantage of subtitles is that they allow you to avoid transitions...
...Spawning Run, though ostensibly about salmon fishing, is actually an essay on the ancient sport of cuckoldry. Vacationing in Britain, the narrator and his wife put up at a fusty old angling hotel in Wales. Every morning a Wodehouse-load of stuffed shirts set off to the salmon water, tackle in hand. Among them goes "poor Holloway," a somewhat seedy chap of dubious breeding who has yet to catch a salmon in 20 years of trying. Meanwhile, the "salmon widows" wait restlessly back at the hotel -- for Holloway to sneak away from the river to yet another noonday tryst. Just...
Despite long, thorough works like The Age of Jackson and The Age of Roosevelt, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 69, appears particularly at ease in the short, stylish form of the essay, as exemplified by the 14 elegant pieces that make up The Cycles of American History...
Even if he can think of little in U.S. history without being reminded of the New Deal, Schlesinger is not doctrinaire. Indeed, these essays prove that to be a New Deal liberal for four decades requires not only stamina but lots of irony -- and plenty of fast footwork. He remains enduringly hopeful, not least of all about the revival of liberalism, which, according to his schedule, is due to cycle back in favor around 1990. But he also finds it part of his nature to question everything, including his hopes. In his best essay, Schlesinger writes of the "precariousness...