Longman Reader, The: Brief Edition

by Nadell, Judith; Langan, John A; Comodromos, Eliza A.

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8th

ISBN13:

9780321481740

ISBN10:

0321481747

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/2008

Publisher(s):

Longman

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Widely praised for its superior teaching apparatus and thought-provoking readings, The Longman Reader remains the most successful rhetorically organized freshman composition reader. The Longman Reader features highly praised writing pedagogy in a rhetorically-organized reader. The opening chapter offers specific strategies for active reading, and for each pattern-of-development chapter, The Longman Reader includes a detailed introduction that asks students to consider audience and purpose, concrete revision strategies, a peer review checklist, an annotated student essay with extensive analysis, prewriting and revising activities, and a comprehensive list of possible writing topics. Both beloved and fresh professional essays range widely in subject matter and approach, from the humorous to the informative, from personal meditation to argument, and capture students'interest while clearly illustrating a specific pattern of development.

Thematic Contents	p. xiii
Preface	p. xviii
The Reading Process	p. 1
Get an Overview of the Selection	p. 2
First Reading: A Checklist	p. 2
Deepen Your Sense of the Selection	p. 3
Second Reading: A Checklist	p. 3
Evaluate the Selection	p. 4
Evaluating a Selection: A Checklist	p. 4
Family Counterculture	p. 6
The Writing Process	p. 12
Prewrite	p. 13
Analyzing Your Audience: A Checklist	p. 17
Identify the Thesis	p. 27
Support the Thesis with Evidence	p. 31
Organize the Evidence	p. 39
Outlining: A Checklist	p. 43
Write the First Draft	p. 46
Turning Outline Into First Draft: A Checklist	p. 47
Revise the Essay	p. 60
Student Essay	p. 65
Commentary	p. 68
Description	p. 71
What Is Description?	p. 71
How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience	p. 71
Suggestions for Using Description in an Essay	p. 74
Revision Strategies	p. 77
Description: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist	p. 77
Student Essay	p. 78
Commentary	p. 80
Activities: Description	p. 82
Flavio's Home	p. 84
The Storm this Time	p. 92
Sister Flowers	p. 100
Additional Writing Topics	p. 107
Narration	p. 109
What Is Narration?	p. 109
How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience	p. 110
Suggestions for Using Narration in an Essay	p. 111
Revision Strategies	p. 116
Narration: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist	p. 116
Student Essay	p. 117
Commentary	p. 119
Activities: Narration	p. 121
Charity Display?	p. 123
Salvation	p. 127
The Price We Pay	p. 131
Additional Writing Topics	p. 139
Exemplification	p. 141
What Is Exemplification	p. 141
How Exemplification Fits Your Purpose and Audience	p. 141
Suggestions for Using Exemplification in an Essay	p. 144
Revision Strategies	p. 148
Exemplification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist	p. 149
Student Essay	p. 149
Commentary	p. 151
Activities: Exemplification	p. 154
Black Talk and Pop Culture	p. 156
Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen	p. 165
Bombs Bursting in Air	p. 172
Additional Writing Topics	p. 178
Division-Classification	p. 180
What Is Division-Classification?	p. 180
How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience	p. 182
Suggestions for Using Division-Classification in an Essay	p. 184
Revision Strategies	p. 188
Division-Classification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist	p. 188
Student Essay	p. 189
Commentary	p. 192
Activities: Division-Classification	p. 195
Psst! "Human Capital"	p. 197
Doublespeak	p. 201
Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising	p. 208
Additional Writing Topics	p. 216
Process Analysis	p. 218
What Is Process Analysis?	p. 218
How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience	p. 219
Suggestions for Using Process Analysis in an Essay	p. 221
Revision Strategies	p. 225
Process Analysis: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist	p. 225
Student Essay	p. 226
Commentary	p. 229
Activities: Process Analysis	p. 232
Talk About Editing	p. 234
Cyberschool	p. 239
The Fine Art of Complaining	p. 245
Additional Writing Topics	p. 251
Comparison-Contrast	p. 253
What Is Comparison-Contrast?	p. 253
How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience	p. 254
Suggestions for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay	p. 255
Revision Strategies	p. 260
Comparison-Contrast: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist	p. 260
Student Essay	p. 261
Commentary	p. 263
Activities: Comparison-Contrast	p. 266
A Fable for Tomorrow	p. 268
And Then I Went to School	p. 272
The Ugly Truth About Beauty	p. 279
Additional Writing Topics	p. 283
Cause-Effect	p. 285
What Is Cause-Effect?	p. 285
How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience	p. 286
Suggestions for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay	p. 287
Revision Strategies	p. 293
Cause-Effect: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist	p. 293
Student Essay	p. 294
Commentary	p. 296
Activities: Cause-Effect	p. 299
Why We Crave Horror Movies	p. 301
Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self	p. 306
Innocents Afield	p. 315
Additional Writing Topics	p. 321
Definition	p. 323
What Is Definition?	p. 323
How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience	p. 324
Suggestions for Using Definition in an Essay	p. 325
Revision Strategies	p. 329
Definition: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist	p. 329
Student Essay	p. 330
Commentary	p. 332
Activities: Definition	p. 334
Entropy	p. 336
The Cute Factor	p. 341
What is the Quarterlife Crisis?	p. 348
Additional Writing Topics	p. 356
Argumentation-Persuasion	p. 358
What Is Argumentation-Persuasion?	p. 358
How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience	p. 359
Suggestions for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay	p. 363
Using Rogerian Strategy: A Checklist	p. 368
Questions for Using Toulmin Logic: A Checklist	p. 378
Revision Strategies	p. 380
Argumentation-Persuasiont: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist	p. 380
Student Essay	p. 381
Commentary	p. 387
Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion	p. 391
Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures	p. 393
Free-Speech Follies	p. 398
Examining an Issue: Date Rape
Rape: A Bigger Danger Than Feminists Know	p. 405
Common Decency	p. 411
Examining an Issue: Illegal Immigration
The Border on Our Backs	p. 416
Se Habla Entitlement	p. 421
Additional Writing Topics	p. 426
Combining the Patterns	p. 428
The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process	p. 428
The Patterns in Action: In an Essay	p. 429
Student Essay	p. 430
The Death of the Moth	p. 436
Where Do We Go from Here: Community or Chaos?	p. 442
Marrying Absurd	p. 446
A Concise Guide to Finding and Documenting Sources	p. 449
Using the Library to Find Books on Your Subject	p. 449
Using the Library to Find Reference Works on Your Subject	p. 452
Using the Library to Find Articles on Your Subject	p. 453
Using the Internet to Research Your Subject	p. 456
Focusing a Web Search: A Checklist	p. 461
Evaluating Internet Materials: A Checklist	p. 462
Documenting Sources	p. 462
What to Document	p. 463
How to Document	p. 463
Citing Sources: A Checklist	p. 466
List of Works Cited	p. 469
Avoiding Ten Common Writing Errors	p. 476
Fragments	p. 477
Comma Splices and Run-ons	p. 478
Faulty Subject-Verb Agreement	p. 478
Faulty Pronoun Agreement	p. 480
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers	p. 481
Faulty Parallelism	p. 483
Comma Misuse	p. 483
Apostrophe Misuse	p. 485
Confusing Homonyms	p. 486
Misuse of Italics and Underlining	p. 487
Glossary	p. 489
Acknowledgments	p. 503
Index	p. 506
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