Longman Reader, The: Brief Edition
ISBN: 9780321481740 | 0321481747
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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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
| Thematic Contents | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xviii |
| The Reading Process | p. 1 |
| Get an Overview of the Selection | p. 2 |
| First Reading: A Checklist | p. 2 |
| Deepen Your Sense of the Selection | p. 3 |
| Second Reading: A Checklist | p. 3 |
| Evaluate the Selection | p. 4 |
| Evaluating a Selection: A Checklist | p. 4 |
| Family Counterculture | ... MORE |
| The Writing Process | p. 12 |
| Prewrite | p. 13 |
| Analyzing Your Audience: A Checklist | p. 17 |
| Identify the Thesis | p. 27 |
| Support the Thesis with Evidence | p. 31 |
| Organize the Evidence | p. 39 |
| Outlining: A Checklist | p. 43 |
| Write the First Draft | p. 46 |
| Turning Outline Into First Draft: A Checklist | p. 47 |
| Revise the Essay | p. 60 |
| Student Essay | p. 65 |
| Commentary | p. 68 |
| Description | p. 71 |
| What Is Description? | p. 71 |
| How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 71 |
| Suggestions for Using Description in an Essay | p. 74 |
| Revision Strategies | p. 77 |
| Description: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 77 |
| Student Essay | p. 78 |
| Commentary | p. 80 |
| Activities: Description | p. 82 |
| Flavio's Home | p. 84 |
| The Storm this Time | p. 92 |
| Sister Flowers | p. 100 |
| Additional Writing Topics | p. 107 |
| Narration | p. 109 |
| What Is Narration? | p. 109 |
| How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 110 |
| Suggestions for Using Narration in an Essay | p. 111 |
| Revision Strategies | p. 116 |
| Narration: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 116 |
| Student Essay | p. 117 |
| Commentary | p. 119 |
| Activities: Narration | p. 121 |
| Charity Display? | p. 123 |
| Salvation | p. 127 |
| The Price We Pay | p. 131 |
| Additional Writing Topics | p. 139 |
| Exemplification | p. 141 |
| What Is Exemplification | p. 141 |
| How Exemplification Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 141 |
| Suggestions for Using Exemplification in an Essay | p. 144 |
| Revision Strategies | p. 148 |
| Exemplification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 149 |
| Student Essay | p. 149 |
| Commentary | p. 151 |
| Activities: Exemplification | p. 154 |
| Black Talk and Pop Culture | p. 156 |
| Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen | p. 165 |
| Bombs Bursting in Air | p. 172 |
| Additional Writing Topics | p. 178 |
| Division-Classification | p. 180 |
| What Is Division-Classification? | p. 180 |
| How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 182 |
| Suggestions for Using Division-Classification in an Essay | p. 184 |
| Revision Strategies | p. 188 |
| Division-Classification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 188 |
| Student Essay | p. 189 |
| Commentary | p. 192 |
| Activities: Division-Classification | p. 195 |
| Psst! "Human Capital" | p. 197 |
| Doublespeak | p. 201 |
| Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising | p. 208 |
| Additional Writing Topics | p. 216 |
| Process Analysis | p. 218 |
| What Is Process Analysis? | p. 218 |
| How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 219 |
| Suggestions for Using Process Analysis in an Essay | p. 221 |
| Revision Strategies | p. 225 |
| Process Analysis: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 225 |
| Student Essay | p. 226 |
| Commentary | p. 229 |
| Activities: Process Analysis | p. 232 |
| Talk About Editing | p. 234 |
| Cyberschool | p. 239 |
| The Fine Art of Complaining | p. 245 |
| Additional Writing Topics | p. 251 |
| Comparison-Contrast | p. 253 |
| What Is Comparison-Contrast? | p. 253 |
| How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 254 |
| Suggestions for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay | p. 255 |
| Revision Strategies | p. 260 |
| Comparison-Contrast: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 260 |
| Student Essay | p. 261 |
| Commentary | p. 263 |
| Activities: Comparison-Contrast | p. 266 |
| A Fable for Tomorrow | p. 268 |
| And Then I Went to School | p. 272 |
| The Ugly Truth About Beauty | p. 279 |
| Additional Writing Topics | p. 283 |
| Cause-Effect | p. 285 |
| What Is Cause-Effect? | p. 285 |
| How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 286 |
| Suggestions for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay | p. 287 |
| Revision Strategies | p. 293 |
| Cause-Effect: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 293 |
| Student Essay | p. 294 |
| Commentary | p. 296 |
| Activities: Cause-Effect | p. 299 |
| Why We Crave Horror Movies | p. 301 |
| Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self | p. 306 |
| Innocents Afield | p. 315 |
| Additional Writing Topics | p. 321 |
| Definition | p. 323 |
| What Is Definition? | p. 323 |
| How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 324 |
| Suggestions for Using Definition in an Essay | p. 325 |
| Revision Strategies | p. 329 |
| Definition: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 329 |
| Student Essay | p. 330 |
| Commentary | p. 332 |
| Activities: Definition | p. 334 |
| Entropy | p. 336 |
| The Cute Factor | p. 341 |
| What is the Quarterlife Crisis? | p. 348 |
| Additional Writing Topics | p. 356 |
| Argumentation-Persuasion | p. 358 |
| What Is Argumentation-Persuasion? | p. 358 |
| How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience | p. 359 |
| Suggestions for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay | p. 363 |
| Using Rogerian Strategy: A Checklist | p. 368 |
| Questions for Using Toulmin Logic: A Checklist | p. 378 |
| Revision Strategies | p. 380 |
| Argumentation-Persuasiont: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist | p. 380 |
| Student Essay | p. 381 |
| Commentary | p. 387 |
| Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion | p. 391 |
| Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures | p. 393 |
| Free-Speech Follies | p. 398 |
| Examining an Issue: Date Rape | |
| Rape: A Bigger Danger Than Feminists Know | p. 405 |
| Common Decency | p. 411 |
| Examining an Issue: Illegal Immigration | |
| The Border on Our Backs | p. 416 |
| Se Habla Entitlement | p. 421 |
| Additional Writing Topics | p. 426 |
| Combining the Patterns | p. 428 |
| The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process | p. 428 |
| The Patterns in Action: In an Essay | p. 429 |
| Student Essay | p. 430 |
| The Death of the Moth | p. 436 |
| Where Do We Go from Here: Community or Chaos? | p. 442 |
| Marrying Absurd | p. 446 |
| A Concise Guide to Finding and Documenting Sources | p. 449 |
| Using the Library to Find Books on Your Subject | p. 449 |
| Using the Library to Find Reference Works on Your Subject | p. 452 |
| Using the Library to Find Articles on Your Subject | p. 453 |
| Using the Internet to Research Your Subject | p. 456 |
| Focusing a Web Search: A Checklist | p. 461 |
| Evaluating Internet Materials: A Checklist | p. 462 |
| Documenting Sources | p. 462 |
| What to Document | p. 463 |
| How to Document | p. 463 |
| Citing Sources: A Checklist | p. 466 |
| List of Works Cited | p. 469 |
| Avoiding Ten Common Writing Errors | p. 476 |
| Fragments | p. 477 |
| Comma Splices and Run-ons | p. 478 |
| Faulty Subject-Verb Agreement | p. 478 |
| Faulty Pronoun Agreement | p. 480 |
| Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | p. 481 |
| Faulty Parallelism | p. 483 |
| Comma Misuse | p. 483 |
| Apostrophe Misuse | p. 485 |
| Confusing Homonyms | p. 486 |
| Misuse of Italics and Underlining | p. 487 |
| Glossary | p. 489 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 503 |
| Index | p. 506 |
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