The Longman Reader
- ISBN13:
9780321236425
- ISBN10:
0321236424
- Edition: 7th
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 2005-01-01
- Publisher: Longman
- View Upgraded Edition
- More Book Details
- Purchase Benefits
-
Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer. -
Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
-
Customer Reviews Read Reviews
-
Write a Review
List Price: $58.53
-
Marketplace$1.09More Prices
Summary
Widely praised for its superior teaching apparatus and thought-provoking readings,The Longman Reader (formerly titledThe Macmillian Reader ) remains the most successful rhetorically organized freshman composition reader. 58 outstanding selections represent a blend of favorite standards and fresh, new pieces on a variety of topics such as family life, education, technology, race, mass culture, and morality.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| The Reading Process. | |
| Stage 1: Get an Overview of the Selection | |
| First Reading: A Checklist | |
| Stage 2: Deepen Your Sense of the Selection | |
| Second Reading: A Checklist | |
| Stage 3: Evaluate the Selection | |
| Evaluating a Selection: A Checklist | |
| Ellen Goodman,Family Counterculture | |
| The Writing Process. | |
| Stage 1: Prewrite | |
| Analyzing Your Audience: A Checklist | |
| Stage 2: Identify the Thesis | |
| Stage 3: Support the Thesis with Evidence | |
| Stage 4: Organize the Evidence | |
| Outlining: A Checklist | |
| Stage 5: Write the First Draft | |
| Turning Outline Into First Draft: A Checklist | |
| Stage 6: Revise the Essay | |
| Student Essay | |
| Commentary | |
| Description. | |
| What Is Description? | |
| How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
| Suggestions for Using Description in an Essay | |
| Description: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
| Student Essay | |
| Commentary | |
| Activities: Description | |
| Flavio's Home | |
| The Storm This Time | |
| Sister Flowers | |
| Once More to the Lake | |
| A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood | |
| Additional Writing Topics | |
| Narration. | |
| What Is Narration? | |
| How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
| Suggestions for Using Narration in an Essay | |
| Narration: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
| Student Essay | |
| Commentary | |
| Activities: Narration | |
| The Fourth of July | |
| Shooting an Elephant | |
| Charity Display? | |
| Salvation | |
| The Price We Pay | |
| Additional Writing Topics | |
| Exemplification. | |
| What Is Exemplification? | |
| How Exemplification Fits Your Purpose and Audience | |
| Suggestions for Using Exemplification in an Essay | |
| Exemplification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | |
| Student Essay | |
| Commentary | |
| Activities: Exemplification | |
| The "Values" Wasteland | |
| Black Talk and Pop Culture | |
| Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen | |
| Bombs Bursting in Air | |
| What I've Learned From Men | |
| Additional Writing Topics | |
| Di | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
