The Longman Reader
ISBN: 9780321481733 | 0321481739
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007
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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, ... MORE
| 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. | ... MORE |
| 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 | |
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