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Longman Reader, The: Brief Edition

by: Nadell, Judith; Langan, John; Comodromos, Eliza A.

Longman Reader, The: Brief Edition

by: Nadell, Judith; Langan, John; Comodromos, Eliza A.

ISBN 13:
9780321112958
ISBN 10:
0321112954
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2003
Publisher: Longman
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Summary

Featuring the same superior teaching apparatus and thought-provoking selections as its widely-praised parent text, The Longman Reader, Brief Edition is an all new, shorter, more portable alternative to the best-selling, rhetorically-organized original, The Longman Reader (formerly titled The Macmillan Reader ).

Thematic Contents

xiii

Preface

xviii

The Reading Process

(12)

Get an Overview of the Selection

(1)

Deepen Your Sense of the Selection

(1)

Evaluate the Selection

(2)

Family Counterculture

(7)

Ellen Goodman

The Writing Process

(68)

Prewrite

(17)

Identify the Thesis

(5)

Support the Thesis With Evidence

(9)

Organize the Evidence

(8)

Write the First Draft

(15)

Revise the Essay

(6)

Student Essay

(2)

Commentary

(5)

Description

(46)

What Is Description?

(1)

How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience

(2)

Suggestions for Using Description in an Essay

(4)

Student Essay

(2)

Commentary

(4)

Activities: Description

(2)

Flavio's Home

(10)

Gordon Parks

Sister Flowers

106

(9)

Maya Angelou

Once More to the Lake

115

(12)

E. B. White

Additional Writing Topics

124

(3)

Narration

127

(34)

What Is Narration?

127

(1)

How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience

128

(1)

Suggestions for Using Narration in an Essay

128

(7)

Student Essay

135

(2)

Commentary

137

(3)

Activities: Narration

140

(2)

The Chase

142

(6)

Annie Dillard

Salvation

148

(5)

Langston Hughes

So Tsi-Fai

153

(8)

Sophronia Liu

Additional Writing Topics

159

(2)

Exemplification

161

(44)

What Is Exemplification?

161

(1)

How Exemplification Fits Your Purpose and Audience

162

(3)

Suggestions for Using Exemplification in an Essay

165

(5)

Student Essay

170

(2)

Commentary

172

(4)

Activities: Exemplification

176

(2)

The ``Values'' Wasteland

178

(11)

Charles Sykes

Bombs Bursting in Air

189

(7)

Beth Johnson

What I've Learned from Men

196

(9)

Barbara Ehrenreich

Additional Writing Topics

203

(2)

Division-Classification

205

(48)

What Is Division-Classification?

205

(2)

How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience

207

(2)

Suggestions for Using Division-Classification in an Essay

209

(5)

Student Essay

214

(4)

Commentary

218

(3)

Activities: Division-Classification

221

(3)

Doublespeak

224

(8)

William Lutz

Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising

232

(9)

Ann McClintock

But What Do You Mean?

241

(12)

Deborah Tannen

Additional Writing Topics

251

(2)

Process Analysis

253

(42)

What Is Process Analysis?

253

(1)

How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience

254

(2)

Suggestions for Using Process Analysis in an Essay

256

(6)

Student Essay

262

(3)

Commentary

265

(3)

Activities: Process Analysis

268

(3)

Your New Computer

271

(7)

Bill Bryson

Campus Racism 101

278

(7)

Nikki Giovanni

The Fine Art of Complaining

285

(10)

Caroline Rego

Additional Writing Topics

292

(3)

Comparison-Contrast

295

(36)

What Is Comparison-Contrast?

295

(1)

How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience

296

(1)

Suggestions for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay

297

(6)

Student Essay

303

(2)

Commentary

305

(4)

Activities: Comparison-Contrast

309

(2)

A Fable for Tomorrow

311

(4)

Rachel Carson

Workers

315

(8)

Richard Rodriguez

The Ugly Truth About Beauty

323

(8)

Dave Barry

Additional Writing Topics

328

(3)

Cause-Effect

331

(36)

What Is Cause-Effect?

331

(1)

How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience

332

(1)

Suggestions for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay

333

(7)

Student Essay

340

(3)

Commentary

343

(4)

Activities: Cause-Effect

347

(2)

Why We Crave Horror Movies

349

(5)

Stephen King

The Lie Detector

354

(5)

Lewis Thomas

Is Technology Making Us Intimate Strangers?

359

(8)

Jonathan Coleman

Additional Writing Topics

364

(3)

Definition

367

(34)

What Is Definition?

367

(1)

How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience

368

(1)

Suggestions for Using Definition in an Essay

369

(4)

Student Essay

373

(3)

Commentary

376

(3)

Activities: Definition

379

(2)

Entropy

381

(6)

K. C. Cole

Life as Type A

387

(7)

James Gleick

The Handicap of Definition

394

(7)

William Raspberry

Additional Writing Topics

399

(2)

Argumentation-Persuasion

401

(84)

What Is Argumentation-Persuasion?

401

(1)

How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience

402

(5)

Suggestions for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay

407

(19)

Student Essay

426

(7)

Commentary

433

(4)

Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion

437

(3)

In Praise of the ``F'' Word

440

(5)

Mary Sherry

Let's Tell The Story of All America's Cultures

445

(6)

Yuh Ji-Yeon

Examining an Issue: Date Rape

Rape: A Bigger Danger Than Feminists Know

451

(7)

Camille Paglia

Common Decency

458

(6)

Susan Jacoby

Examining an Issue: Affirmative Action

Racism Has Its Privileges

464

(11)

Roger Wilkins

Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference

475

(10)

Shelby Steel

Additional Writing Topics

483

(2)

Combining The Patterns

485

(20)

The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process

485

(1)

The Patterns in Action: In an Essay

486

(2)

The Death of the Moth

488

(7)

Virginia Woolf

Where Do We Go From Here: Community Or Chaos?

495

(5)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Santa Ana

500

(5)

Joan Didion

APPENDIX: A CONCISE GUIDE TO FINDING AND DOCUMENTING SOURCES

505

(28)

Using the Library to Find Books on Your Subject

505

(3)

Using the Library to Find Reference Works on Your Subject

508

(1)

Using the Library to Find Articles on Your Subject

509

(4)

Using the Internet to Research Your Subject

513

(6)

Documenting Sources

519

(1)

What to Document

520

(1)

How to Document

520

(5)

List of Works Cited

525

(8)

Glossary

533

(17)

Acknowledgments

550

(3)

Index

553

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