Sentence examples for essay learning from inspiring English sources

I did a double-take when I saw the essay "Learning Words They Rarely Teach in Medical School," by Dr. Richard A. Friedman (July 26).

For Mike Meyer to pay so much attention to "Mocky," the naughty monkey, in his essay "Learning to Speak Olympics" (May 25) was rather fitting because of his unduly mocking critique of the way English is being taught in Beijing.

The cool, stern tone of the earlier essays gives way to a more playful approach, typified by the essay "Learning to Rap", in which, yes, Greif decides to teach himself how to rap along to hip-hop records.

His collection of essays, "Learning to Fall," was published this year.

(In Katha Pollitt's recent book of essays, "Learning to Drive," there is a vicious one called "After the Men Are Dead").

As a political columnist for The Nation and one of the country's most eloquent feminists, you've just published your first collection of personal essays, "Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories".

(I should mention that she used my collection of personal essays, Learning to Drive, to illustrate the double standard by which women autobiographers are slammed for revealing small weaknesses while men are praised as honest and bold for chronicling their addictions and wife-beating. And as long as we are on the subject, let me add that my shocked, shocked reviewers were women).

◆ To the Editor: Joshua Henkin's essay about learning and loving words reminded me of my own word-loving father, who was self-educated but well read, enjoyed a large vocabulary and insisted on "the preferred pronunciation" of words.

Talk about the dog days of summer: In early August, we posted a slide show of our favorite canines to go along with Adam Gopnik's essay on learning to love dogs, and at the end of the month the magazine ran an excerpt from Susan Orlean's book on the dog actor Rin Tin Tin, which comes out today.

24), Suzanne Vega's essay about learning how to drive in Manhattan: As much as I enjoyed her musing about the change of the city and the trials involved in her getting her license, one passage gave me chills: "I get the brake and the gas pedal confused, and accelerate hard right toward a brick wall.

By Maria Lokke September 22, 2011 Talk about the dog days of summer: In early August, we posted a slide show of our favorite canines to go along with Adam Gopnik's essay on learning to love dogs, and at the end of the month the magazine ran an excerpt from Susan Orlean's book on the dog actor Rin Tin Tin, which comes out today.