The Short Prose Reader
ISBN: 9780073533148 | 0073533149
Edition: 12thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 12/8/2008
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This rhetorically organized reader, maintains the best features of the earlier editions: lively reading selections supported by helpful apparatus to integrate reading and writing in college composition and reading courses. In working through the text, the student progresses from key aspects of the writing and reading processes to chapters on the essential patterns of writing and then to more rigorous forms of analysis and argument. Each chapter provides diverse and lively prose models suited for discussion, analysis, and imitation.
| Preface | |
| On Writing | |
| I Think, Therefore IM | |
| How to Write with Style | |
| Simplicity | |
| Mother Tongue (Mixing Patterns) | |
| Summing Up: Chapter 1 | |
| From Seeing to Writing | |
| On Reading | |
| Volar | |
| Prison Studies | |
| “See Spot Run”: Teaching My Grandmother to Read | ... MORE|
| One Idea (Mixing Patterns) | |
| Summing Up: Chapter 2 | |
| From Seeing to Writing | |
| Description | |
| Farewell to Summer and Its Buzzing Creatures | |
| In the Jungle | |
| Catfish in the Bathtub | |
| My Ticket to the Disaster (Mixing Patterns) | |
| Summing Up: Chapter 3 | |
| From Seeing to Writing | |
| Narration | |
| The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl | |
| Salvation | |
| Let It Snow | |
| A Hanging (Mixing Patterns) | |
| Summing Up: Chapter 4 | |
| From Seeing to Writing | |
| Process Analysis | |
| Your New Computer | |
| How to Foil a Terrorist Plot in Seven Simple Steps | |
| Camping Out | |
| In the Kitchen (Mixing Patterns) | |
| Summing Up: Chapter 5 | |
| From Seeing to Writing | |
| Illustration | |
| Night Walker | |
| What I’ve Learned from Men | |
| Homeless on Campus | |
| Globalization Rocked the Ancient World Too (Mixing Patterns) | |
| Summing Up: Chapter 6 | |
| From Seeing to Writing | |
| Comparison and Contrast | |
| A Fable for Tomorrow | |
| Punch and Judy | |
| The Body of the Beholder | |
| Home Alone (Mixing Patterns) | |
| Summing Up: Chapter 7 | |
| From Seeing to Writing | |
| Cause-and-Effect Analysis | |
| Why We Crave Horror Movies | |
| The America I Love | |
| Why I Live Where I Live | |
| Who’s Your Daddy? (Mixing Patterns) | |
| Summing Up: Chapter 8 | |
| From Seeing to Writing | |
| Classification | |
| Friends, Good Friends-and Such Good Friends | |
| Shades of Green | |
| The American Dream for Sale: Ethnic Images in Magazines | |
| How Do We Find the Student in a World of Academic Gymnasts and Worker Ants? (Mixing Patterns) | |
| Summing Up: Chapter 9 | |
| From Seeing to Writing | |
| Definition | |
| The Posteverything Generation | |
| Pride | |
| Generation Q | |
| A Word’s Meaning (Mixing Patterns) | |
| Summing Up: Chapter 10 | |
| From Seeing to Writing | |
| Argumentation and Persuasion | |
| Arguments Pro and Con: Can Torture Be Justified? | |
| A Case for Torture | |
| Torture’s Terrible Toll | |
| Perspectives on Identity: Who Are We, and How Are We Formed? | |
| Are the Homeless Crazy? | |
| The American Neighborhood | |
| The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority | |
| Perspectives on the Mommy Wars: Should Mothers Work? | |
| Off to Work She Should Go | |
| Baby Battle | |
| The Good Enough Mother | |
| Perspectives on Political Rights: Are We Truly Free? | |
| Get a Knife, Get a Dog, But Get Rid of Guns | |
| I Have a Dream | |
| Jena, O.J. and the Jailing of Black America | |
| Summing Up: Chapter 11 | |
| From Seeing to Writing | |
| Appendix: A Guide To Research And Documentation | |
| What Are Research and Documentation? | |
| The Research Process | |
| Phase I: Choosing and Limiting a Topic | |
| Phase II: Gathering and Organizing Material | |
| Phase III: Writing the Paper | |
| Phase IV: Documenting Sources | |
| Sample Student Research Paper | |
| Glossary | |
| Credits | |
| Index of Authors and Titles | |
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