The Prentice Hall Reader

by Miller, George

Edition:

6th

ISBN13:

9780130225634

ISBN10:

0130225630

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

7/1/2000

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Prentice Hall

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Summary

For one-semester, freshman-level courses in Composition. This classic, best-selling reader focuses on the modes of writingoffering an abundance of interesting and appealing essays, easily implemented classroom suggestions, and varied homework and writing assignments.

Thematic Contents

xix

Preface

xxvii

How to Read an Essay

(15)

How Does Reading Help You Write?

(1)

How Does Writing Help You Read?

(1)

Active Rather than Passive Reading

(1)

Prereading

(1)

Reading

(1)

Rereading

(1)

On Cloning a Human Being

(8)

Lewis Thomas

Some Things to Remember When Reading

(2)

How to Write an Essay

(23)

A Writer's Subject

(1)

A Writer's Purpose

(1)

A Writer's Audience

(1)

Some Things to Remember

(1)

A Writer's Information

(5)

A Writer's Thesis

(3)

Revising an Essay

(2)

Is an Error-Free Paper an ``A'' Paper?

(1)

A Student Writer's Revision Process

(2)

The Watermelon Wooer

(7)

Tina Burton

Some Things to Remember When Revising

(1)

Gathering and Using Examples

(51)

Where Can You Find Details and Examples?

(2)

How Do I Gather Details and Examples from My Experiences?

(1)

How Do I Gather Information from Outside Sources?

(1)

How Many Examples Are Enough?

(3)

Looking for Love

(2)

Frank Smite

Some Things to Remember

(1)

Gathering and Using Examples in Writing for Your Other Courses

(1)

Visualizing Examples

(1)

Visit the Prentice Hall Reader's Website

(41)

The Name Is Mine

(5)

Anna Quindlen

Cut

(9)

Bob Greene

One of the Girls

(8)

Leslie Heywood

Whales in the Minnesota River

(9)

Tina Kelley

Plugging the Kegs / U.S. News and World Report

(9)

Narration

(55)

What Do You Include in a Narrative?

(1)

How Do You Structure a Narrative?

(1)

How Are Narratives Told?

(1)

What Do You Write About If Nothing Ever Happened to You?

(5)

The Ruby Slippers

(4)

Hope Zucker

Some Things to Remember

(1)

Using Narration in Your Writing for Other Courses

(1)

Visualizing Narration

100

(1)

Visit the Prentice Hall Reader's Website

100

(45)

Salvation

102

(6)

Langston Hughes

Sister Monroe

108

(6)

Maya Angelou

Marina

114

(10)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Lockdown

124

(10)

Evans D. Hopkins

Alcohol in the Western World

134

(11)

Bert L. Vallee

Description

145

(51)

How Do You Describe an Object or a Place?

147

(1)

How Do You Describe a Person?

148

(1)

How Do You Organize a Description?

149

(1)

Does Description Mean Lots of Adjectives and Adverbs?

149

(3)

Natalie

150

(2)

Nadine Resnick

Some Things to Remember

152

(1)

Using Description in Your Writing for Other Courses

153

(1)

Visualizing Description

154

(1)

Visit the Prentice Hall Reader's Website

154

(42)

Po-Po

156

(6)

Eric Liu

Caught in the Widow's Web

162

(6)

Gordon Grice

Nameless, Tennessee

168

(8)

William Least Heat Moon

The Village Watchman

176

(9)

Terry Tempest Williams

The Inheritance of Tools

185

(11)

Scott Russell Sanders

Division and Classification

196

(55)

How Do You Choose a Subject?

198

(1)

How Do You Divide or Classify a Subject?

198

(2)

How Do You Structure a Division or Classification Essay?

200

(3)

Riding the Rails: The American Hobo

201

(2)

Evan James

Some Things to Remember

203

(1)

Using Division and Classification in Writing for Your Other Courses

204

(1)

Visualizing Division and Classification

205

(1)

Visit the Prentice Hall Reader's Website

206

(45)

What's in Your Toothpaste?

207

(6)

David Bodanis

Cinematypes

213

(6)

Susan Allen Toth

In Defense of Talk Shows

219

(5)

Barbara Ehrenreich

The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria

224

(8)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

The Value of Children: A Taxonomical Essay

232

(9)

Bernard R. Berelson

The Virus Wars

241

(10)

Robert Buderi

Comparison and Contrast

251

(62)

How Do You Choose a Subject?

252

(1)

Do You Always Find Both Similarities and Differences?

253

(1)

How Do You Use Analogy, Metaphor, and Simile?

254

(1)

How Do You Structure a Comparison and Contrast?

255

(7)

Subject vs. Keyword Searches

257

(5)

Alicia Gray

Some Things to Remember

262

(1)

Using Comparison and Contrast in Writing for Your Other Courses

263

(1)

Visualizing Comparison and Contrast

264

(1)

Visit the Prentice Hall Reader's Website

264

(49)

The Transaction: Two Writing Processes

266

(5)

William Zinsser

Academic Selves

271

(6)

Mary Phifer

That Lean and Hungry Look

277

(6)

Suzanne Britt Jordan

Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts

283

(7)

Bruce Catton

Virtual Love

290

(12)

Meghan Daum

Sold Out: From Team Booster to TV Backdrop

302

(11)

Susan Faludi

Process

313

(61)

How Do You Choose a Subject to Write About?

314

(1)

How Do You Structure a Process Paper?

315

(4)

How to Play Dreidel

316

(3)

Julie Anne Halbfish

Some Things to Remember

319

(1)

Using Process in Writing for Your Other Courses

320

(1)

Visualizing Process

321

(1)

Visit the Prentice Hall Reader's Website

322

(52)

Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall

323

(7)

Diane Ackerman

My Daily Dives in the Dumpster

330

(8)

Lars Eighner

Don't Just Stand There

338

(9)

Diane Cole

How Books Helped Shape My Life

347

(8)

Judith Viorst

Into the Loop: How to Get the Job You Want after Graduation

355

(11)

Charlie Drozdyk

The Page Turner

366

(8)

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Cause and Effect

374

(60)

Why Do You Write a Cause and Effect Analysis?

376

(1)

How Do You Choose a Subject?

377

(1)

How Do You Isolate and Evaluate Causes and Effects?

377

(1)

How Do You Structure a Cause and Effect Analysis?

378

(4)

The Influence of Televised Violence on Children

379

(3)

Cathy Ferguson

Some Things to Remember

382

(2)

Using Cause and Effect in Writing for Your Other Courses

384

(1)

Visualizing Cause and Effect

385

(1)

Visit the Prentice Hall Reader's Website

385

(49)

My Wood

387

(6)

E. M. Forster

Buying Time

393

(7)

Elizabeth Larsen

The Origins of Anorexia Nervosa

400

(7)

Joan Jacobs Brumberg

The Scapegoat We Love to Hate

407

(9)

Jonathan Kellerman

Why They Excel

416

(8)

Fox Butterfield

Network and Cable TV

424

(10)

Kyle Pope

Definition

434

(48)

How Much Do You Include in a Definition?

436

(1)

How Do You Structure a Definition?

436

(4)

Infallible

437

(3)

Sherry Heck

Some Things to Remember

440

(1)

Using Definition in Writing for Your Other Courses

441

(1)

Visualizing Definition

442

(1)

Visit the Prentice Hall Reader's Website

443

(39)

Adults Only

444

(5)

Bob Greene

I Want a Wife

449

(5)

Judy Brady

A Word's Meaning Can Often Depend on Who Says It

454

(6)

Gloria Naylor

Mother Tongue

460

(9)

Amy Tan

Mess

469

(7)

John Hollander

The Female Body

476

(6)

Margaret Atwood

Argumentation and Persuasion

482

(70)

How Do You Analyze Your Audience?

484

(1)

What Does It Take to Persuade Your Reader?

485

(2)

How Do You Make Sure That Your Argument Is Logical?

487

(1)

How Do You Structure an Argument?

488

(5)

Lowering the Cost of a College Education

490

(3)

Beth Jaffe

Some Things to Remember

493

(1)

Using Argument and Persuasion in Writing for Your Other Courses

493

(2)

Visualizing Argument

495

(1)

Visit the Prentice Hall Reader's Website

495

(57)

I Have a Dream

497

(7)

Martin Luther King Jr.

What Do Murderers Deserve?

504

(6)

David Gelernter

The New Yorker / Help for Sex Offenders

510

(6)

The Potential Cost of the Best Genes Money Can Buy

516

(7)

Barbara Katz Rothman

Advertising and Children

523

(9)

Aline D. Wolf

None of This Is Fair

532

(8)

Richard Rodriguez

Watch and Learn

540

(12)

Gregg Easterbrook

Revising

552

(52)

Analyzing Your Own Writing

553

(1)

Keeping a Revision Log

554

(1)

Using Peer Readers

555

(2)

Using Your School's Writing Center or a Writing Tutor

557

(1)

Using an OWL

558

(1)

Conferencing with Your Instructor

558

(1)

Proofreading Your Paper

559

(2)

Revisers at Work

561

(1)

Visualizing Revision

562

(1)

Visit the Prentice Hall Reader's Website

563

(41)

The Way to Rainy Mountain

564

(9)

N. Scott Momaday

Revision and Life: Take It from the Top---Again

573

(7)

Nora Ephron

Black Men and Public Space

580

(7)

Brent Staples

Revision Case Study

Journal Entries

587

(6)

Gordon Grice

The Black Widow

593

(6)

Caught in the Widow's Web

599

(2)

Revising ``The Black Widow'': A Conversation with Gordon Grice

601

(3)

APPENDIX Finding, Using, and Documenting Sources

604

(29)

Finding Sources

604

(8)

Web Searching Tips

612

(7)

Using Sources

619

(4)

Documenting Your Sources

623

(9)

Annotated Sample Student Research Paper (MLA Documentation Style):

Ecotourism: Friend or Foe?

632

(1)

Amy Rubens

Glossary

633

(10)

Credits

643

(20)

Index

663

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