The Prose Reader

by Flachmann, Kim

• ISBN13: 9780130954060
• ISBN10: 0130954063
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This rhetorical reader is designed to help individuals improve their abilities to think, read, and write on progressively more sophisticated levels. It features a collection of 56 provocative, interesting, rhetorically organized essays accompanied by clear, well-developed rhetorical introductions, sample essays, and carefully sequenced prereading and prewriting questions, comprehension questions, and writing projects. Contains essays representing the four main purposes of writing -- description, narration, exposition, persuasion. Organizes essays to reflect progressively more sophisticated levels of thinking, reading, and writing. The essays cover a broad range of contemporary topics and portray the universality of human experience as expressed through the viewpoints of men and women, many different ethnic and racial groups, and a variety of ages and social classes. Presents biographical information about the authors -- explaining the real experiences from which the essay emerged poses provocative prereading questions that help readers focus on the purpose, audience, and subject of the essay. Provides complete sample essays illustrating each rhetorical pattern, accompanied by the writer's own thorough analysis of the writing experience -- explaining the most enjoyable, exasperating, or noteworthy aspects of writing that particular essay. For anyone interested in refining their basic composition skills.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Thinking, Reading, and Writing

Description: Exploring through the Senses

Defining Description

Thinking Critically Through Description

Reading Descriptive Essays

Writing Descriptive Essays

Student Essay: Description at Work

Some Final Thoughts on Description

Summer Rituals

Notes from the Country Club

The Pines

The View from 80

NEW!

Dwellings

Narration: Telling a Story

Defining Narration

Thinking Critically Through Narration

Reading Narrative Essays

Writing Narrative Essays

Student Essay: Narration at Work

Some Final Thoughts on Narration

For My Indian Daughter

New Directions

The Saturday Evening Post

Only daughter

How the Crab Apple Grew

Example: Illustrating Ideas

Defining Examples

Thinking Critically Through Examples

Reading Example Essays

Writing Example Essays

Student Essay: Examples at Work

Some Final Thoughts on Examples

The Baffling Question

Public and Private Language

Darkness at Noon

Mother Tongue

A Brother's Murder

Process Analysis: Explaining Step by Step

Defining Process Analysis

Thinking Critically Through Process Analysis

Reading Process Analysis

Essays

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