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Longman Reader, The (Book Alone), 7/E
Judith Nadell
John Langan
Eliza A. Comodromos

ISBN-10: 0321236424
ISBN-13: 9780321236425

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 720 pp
Published: 04/01/2004
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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 Seventh Edition offers fresh examples of professional essays that range widely in subject matter and approach, from the humorous to the informative, from personal meditation to argument. Each selection captures students' interest and clearly illustrates a specific pattern of development. The text also includes separate chapters on reading and writing, detailed introductions to the patterns of development, “before and after” student essays for each pattern, and more activities and assignments than any comparable reader.

Two detailed introductory chapters discuss the reading and writing processes and show the integration of these processes, allowing students to see the entire reading-writing process illustrated.

Fifty-eight outstanding selections represent a blend of favorite standards and fresh, new pieces on a variety of topics such as family life, education, technology, race, mass culture, and morality.

Annotated student essays, in “before and after” versions, and detailed commentaries on the student's work, illustrate the writing and revising process and highlight the kind of thinking necessary for successful revision.

Detailed introductions to the rhetorical patterns clarify for students the unique demands posed by each pattern.

Each selection is followed by the most extensive writing activities in any text of this kind, including three sets of questions and four separate writing assignments.

Unusually thorough coverage of argumentation-persuasion includes sections on audience analysis, refutation strategies, Toulmin's approach, Rogerian argument, detecting bias, maintaining objectivity, and establishing common ground.

A “Pre-Reading Journal Entry” and a “Writing Assignment Using a Journal Entry as a Starting Point” frame each selection in the book to help students understand not only the connection between reading and writing but also the process involved in shaping a piece of writing.

More than one quarter of the selections are new. Whether written by well-known writers such as Joan Didion or relative newcomers such as Adam Mayblum, the new selections encourage students to think about and write on a variety of topics. Thought-provoking selections, such as Henry Porter's “Now the Talk Is About Bringing Back Torture,” examine the consequences of the September 11th attacks.

Thought-provoking selections, such as Henry Porters “Now the Talk is About Bringing Back Torture,” examine the consequences of the September 11th attacks.

All new Appendix B, “Avoiding Ten Common Writing Errors,” identifies ten skill areas that give student writers the most trouble and provides explanations and corrected examples of each.

Updated and Expanded Appendix A, “A Concise Guide to Finding and Documentating Sources,” includes up-to-date information on both library and Internet research, highlighting the most useful and authoritative research tools and sources.

The “Assignments with a Specific Purpose, Audience, and Point of View,” at the end of each pattern chapter have been revised to focus on the way a particular pattern can be used in three different, real-life writing contexts: “On Campus,” “At Home or in the Community,” and “On the Job.”

Greater emphasis is placed on the way writers combine patterns of development as evidenced by the new student essay, “The Super-Sizing of America's Kids” (Ch. 12), showing how a student writer uses a variety of patterns in a paper.

Adapting strategies described in Mortimer Adler's classic essay “How to Mark a Book,” the “Reading Process” chapter discusses techniques for annotating material when reading.

Design is more user-friendly than ever, with new checklists, boxes, and graphics, including an “Overview of Checklists” on the inside back cover.
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Preface.

1. 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.

2. The Writing Process.

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.

3. 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.

Gordon Parks, Flavio's Home.

*Gary Soto, The Jacket.

Maya Angelou, Sister Flowers.

E.B. White, Once More to the Lake.

Judith Ortiz Cofer, A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood.

Additional Writing Topics.

4. 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.

Audre Lorde, The Fourth of July.

George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant.

Annie Dillard, The Chase.

Langston Hughes, Salvation.

*Adam Mayblum, The Price We Pay.

Additional Writing Topics.

5. 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.

Charles Sykes, The “Values" Wasteland.

Alleen Pace Nilsen, Sexism and Language.

*Kay S. Hymowitz, Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen.

Beth Johnson, Bombs Bursting in Air.

Barbara Ehrenreich, What I've Learned From Men.

Additional Writing Topics.

6. Division-Classification.

What Is Division-Classification?

How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

Suggestions for Using Division-Classification in an Essay.

Division-Classification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist

Student Essay.

Commentary.

Activities: Division-Classification.

*Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We Lie.

William Zinsser, College Pressures.

William Lutz, Doublespeak.

Ann McClintock, Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising.

Deborah Tannen, But What Do You Mean?

Additional Writing Topics.

7. Process Analysis.

What Is Process Analysis?

How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

Suggestions for Using Process Analysis in an Essay.

Process Analysis: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist

Student Essay.

Commentary.

Activities: Process Analysis.

Bill Bryson, Your New Computer.

Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death.

*Clifford Stoll, Cyberschool.

Paul Roberts, How to Say Nothing in 500 Words.

Caroline Rego, The Fine Art of Complaining.

Additional Writing Topics.

8. Comparison-Contrast.

What Is Comparison-Contrast?

How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

Suggestions for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay.

Comparison-Contrast: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist.

Student Essay.

Commentary.

Activities: Comparison-Contrast.

Rachel Carson, A Fable for Tomorrow.

*Joseph H. Suina, And Then I Went to School.

Richard Rodriguez, Workers.

Dave Barry, The Ugly Truth About Beauty.

Stephen Chapman, The Prisoner's Dilemma.

Additional Writing Topics.

9. Cause-Effect.

What Is Cause-Effect?

How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

Suggestions for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay.

Cause-Effect: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist.

Student Essay.

Commentary.

Activities: Cause-Effect.

Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies.

Jacques D'Amboise, Showing What Is Possible.

Alice Walker, Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self.

*John M. Darley & Bibb Latané, Why People Don't Help in a Crisis.

*Jay Walljasper, Our Schedules, Our Selves.

Additional Writing Topics.

10. Definition.

What Is Definition?

How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

Suggestions for Using Definition in an Essay.

Definition: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist.

Student Essay.

Commentary.

Activities: Definition.

K.C. Cole, Entropy.

James Gleick, Life as Type A.

Gloria Naylor, “Mommy, What Does ‘Nigger’ Mean?”

*Alexandra Robbins & Abby Wilner, What Is the Quarterlife Crisis?

William Raspberry, The Handicap of Definition.

Additional Writing Topics.

11. Argumentation-Persuasion.

What Is Argumentation-Persuasion?

How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

Suggestions for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay.

Using Rogerian Strategy: A Checklist.

Questions for Using Toulmin Strategy: A Checklist.

Argumentation-Persuasion: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist.

Student Essay.

Commentary.

Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion.

Mary Sherry, In Praise of the “F” Word.

Yuh Ji-Yeon, Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures.

*James Barszcz, Can You Be Educated from a Distance?

Mark Twain, The Damned Human Race.

Nat Hentoff, Free Speech on Campus.

Examining an Issue: Date Rape.

Camille Paglia, Rape: A Bigger Danger than Feminists Know.

Susan Jacoby, Common Decency.

Examining an Issue: Torture.

*Jonathan Alter, Time to Think About Torture.

*Henry Porter, Now the Talk Is About Bringing Back Torture.

Examining an Issue: Affirmative Action.

Roger Wilkins, Racism Has Its Privileges.

Shelby Steele, Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference.

Additional Writing Assignments.

12. Combining the Patterns.

The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process.

The Patterns in Action: In an Essay.

Student Essay

Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth.

Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos?

Martin Luther King, Jr., The World House.

Joan Didion, The Santa Ana.

*Joan Didion, Marrying Absurd.

Appendix A: A Concise Guide to Finding and Documenting Sources.

Using the Library to Find Books on Your Subject.

Using the Library to Find Reference Works on Your Subject.

Using the Library to Find Articles on Your Subject.

Using the Internet to Research Your Subject.

Focusing a Web Search: A Checklist.

Evaluating Internet Materials: A Checklist.

Documenting Sources.

What to Document.

How to Document.

Citing Sources: A Checklist.

List of Works Cited.

Appendix B: Avoiding Ten Common Writing Errors.

1. Fragments.

2. Comma Splices and Run-ons.

3. Faulty Subject-Verb Agreement.

4. Faulty Pronoun Agreement.

5. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers.

6. Faulty Parallelism.

7. Comma Misuse.

8. Apostrophe Misuse.

9. Confusing Homonyms.

10. Misuse of Italics and Underlining.

Glossary.

Acknowledgments.

Index.

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