The Writer's World Reading Selections

by Gaetz, Lynne; Phadke, Suneeti

• ISBN13: 9780131727700
• ISBN10: 0131727702
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-14
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The Writer's World addresses the diverse needs of your students by meeting the needs of nonnative English speakers, visual learners and students with varying skill levels! Now, The Writer's World addresses the diverse needs of instructors! Prentice Hall is proud to offer The Writer's World: Paragraphs and Essays in four individual volumes. Developed to provide maximum flexibility for both instructors and students, the volumes were created directly from the pages of The Writer's World: Paragraphs and Essays by Lynne Gaetz and Suneeti Phadke. Volume four, the Writer's World: Reading Strategies and Selections offer tips, readings, and follow-up questions to the twenty-eight reading selections. Students learn how to write by observing and dissecting what they read and will have ample opportunity to practice these skills with the thematic reading selections.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Reading Strategies and Selections	p. 524
From Reading to Writing	p. 525
Reading Strategies	p. 525
Reading Selections	p. 530
"Aunt Tree,"	p. 530
"Dealing with People,"	p. 533
"How to Get All-Day Energy,"	p. 536
"When the Legal Thing Isn't the Right Thing,"	p. 538
"My Head Rolled in Syria,"	p. 541
"Enough Is Enough,"	p. 545
"Growing Up in Cyberspace,"	p. 548
"Nothing But Net,"	p. 552
"Fads,"	p. 554
"The Never-Ending Question: Who Am I?"	p. 557
"Dancing with Fear,"	p. 560
"Interview with Jimmy Baca,"	p. 562
"It's Class, Stupid!"	p. 565
"The Case for Affirmative Action: An Open Letter to Five Justices,"	p. 568
"Body Over Mind,"	p. 572
"Dying to Be Bigger,"	p. 575
"Bound Feet,"	p. 580
"The Old-Time Pueblo World,"	p. 583
"The Diagnosis,"	p. 586
"Religious Faith Versus Spirituality,"	p. 589
Credits	p. 613
Index	p. 615
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