Longman Writer, The: Rhetoric and Reader, Concise Edition, 7/E
Judith A Nadell
John Langan
Eliza A. Comodromos

ISBN-10: 0205642268
ISBN-13: 9780205642267

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 608 pp
Published: 02/18/2008

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Clear, step-by-step writing instruction, ample annotated student essays, and extensive practice opportunities for writing have made The Longman Writer one of the most successful methods-of-development guides for college writing.

 

Created by the authors of the best-selling Longman Reader, the text draws on decades of teaching experience to integrate the best of the "product" and "process" approaches to writing.  Its particular strengths include an emphasis on the reading-writing connection, a focus on invention and revision, attention to the fact that patterns blend in actual writing, and an abundance of class-tested activities and assignments–more than 350 in all.

  • Step-by-step coverage of the writing process features a separate chapter on every stage from prewriting through drafting, revising, and editing--and offers students opportunities for practice through extensive activities and collaborative exercises.
  • One student sample is shown at a different stage of development in every chapter in Part II so that students can see how ideas develop and drafts change shape–and so they can differentiate between revising and editing.
  • One annotated student paper in each method-of-development chapter in Part III illustrates decisions student writers make for each rhetorical pattern.  Subsequent pages of commentary, analysis, and “before and after” versions of student work are widely praised for helping students see how every decision a writer makes contributes to coherent and clear writing.
  • The widely-praised emphasis on purpose, audience, and point of view first appears in the chapter on prewriting and is then reiterated in assignments and commentary throughout the text, helping students to see that writers make decisions based in their writing context.
  • A full suite of apparatus includes comprehensive assignment sets accompanying every reading:

o         A “Pre-Reading Journal Entry” before each reading and a “Writing Assignment Using a Journal Entry as a Starting Point” after illustrate the reading/ writing connection and the process involved in shaping a piece of writing;

o         “Questions for Close Reading” and “Questions About the Writer’s Craft” ensure reading comprehension and rhetorical reading;

o         Writing assignments asking students to write an essay using the same pattern(s) as the selection are followed by writing assignments inviting students to mix the methods of development–ensuring that the “modes” are seen as strategies and not ends in themselves.

  • Writing in three different real-life writing contexts, "On Campus," "At Home or in the Community," and "On the Job,” is emphasized in the "Assignments with a Specific Purpose, Audience, and Point of View" at the end of each pattern chapter to help students recognize real-life applications of the concepts and skills they learn outside of the academic classroom.
  • Thorough instruction, prewriting activities, revising activities, and three professional essays in each pattern-of-development chapter ensure that students receive ample opportunities for practice and models for writing.
  • A wide variety of essays includes such classics as Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” along with new and previously unanthologized works in order to appeal to varied student interests and stimulate strong writing on range of topics such as gender, education, race, mass culture, family life, mortality, and others.
  • A comprehensive, three-step treatment of the reading process emphasizes the connection between reading and writing, ensuring students see how careful and critical reading can translate into improved writing skills.
  • Peer review is emphasized heavily: guidelines are suggested for reacting to colleagues’ work, responding to feedback from peers, and the use of email as a tool to facilitate peer response.
  • An exceptionally thorough discussion of argumentation and persuasion includes an easy-to-follow explanation of Toulmin and a chart on refutation strategies to help students understand how to support their claims with reasons and evidence.
  • Strategically placed icons throughout the text prompt students to: make intertextual connections between selections (indicated by a chain link); conduct ethical reading, writing, and research (indicated by the scales of justice); and view a student’s work in progress (indicated by hands at a keyboard).

  • New Process Diagrams spotlight each step of the writing process, showing students how each stage of composing an essay is integral in crafting an effective piece of writing (Chs 2-9). 

  • New professional selections on timely and interesting topics–including immigration, Hurricane Katrina, free speech, cultural style differences in email, and more–ensure material is engaging for students and fresh for teachers (Chs 10-18).

  • New Development Diagrams provide an at-a-glance picture of each pattern of development in detail, culling the distinctive features of each type of writing out of the narrative and highlighting key material as a reference tool for students’ quick review (Chs 10-18).

  • New Essay Structure Diagrams outline one professional reading in each method of development chapter to help students learn to recognize how a reading is organized and supported and why specifically the reading exemplifies a particular pattern of development (Chs 10-18). 

  • An appendix “A Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism” provides students with comprehensive yet brief instruction about what constitutes plagiarism and how following good research, writing, and documentation practices can help them avoid unintentional plagiarism.

    • I. THE READING PROCESS.

     

    1. Becoming a Strong Reader.

    Stage 1: Get an Overview of the Selection.

    Stage 2: Deepen Your Sense of the Selection.

    Stage 3: Evaluate the Selection.

    Ellen Goodman, Family Counterculture.

     

    II. THE WRITING PROCESS.

     

    2. Getting Started Through Prewriting.

    Observations About the Writing Process.

    Use Prewriting to Get Started.

    Keep a Journal.

    Understand the Boundaries of the Assignment.

    Determine Your Purpose, Audience, Tone, and Point of View.

    Discover Your Essay's Limited Subject.

    Generate Raw Material About Your Limited Subject.

    Organize the Raw Material.

    Activities: Getting Started Through Prewriting.

     

    3. Identifying a Thesis.

    What Is a Thesis?

    Finding a Thesis.

    Writing an Effective Thesis.

    Tone and Point of View.

    Implied Pattern of Development.

    Including a Plan of Development.

    Don't Write a Highly Opinionated Statement.

    Don't Make an Announcement.

    Don't Make a Factual Statement.

    Don't Make a Broad Statement.

    Arriving at an Effective Thesis.

    Placing the Thesis in an Essay.

    Activities: Identifying a Thesis.

     

    4. Supporting the Thesis with Evidence.

    What Is Evidence?

    How Do You Find Evidence?

    How the Patterns of Development Help Generate Evidence.

    Characteristics of Evidence.

    The Evidence Is Relevant and Unified.

    The Evidence Is Specific.

    The Evidence Is Adequate.

    The Evidence Is Dramatic.

    The Evidence Is Accurate.

    The Evidence Is Representative.

    The Evidence Is Documented.

    Activities: Supporting the Thesis with Evidence.

     

    5. Organizing the Evidence.

    Use the Patterns of Development.

    Select an Organizational Approach.

    Chronological Approach.

    Spatial Approach.

    Emphatic Approach.

    Simple-to-Complex Approach.

    Prepare an Outline.

    Activities: Organizing the Evidence.

     

    6. Writing the Paragraphs in the First Draft.

    How to Move from Outline to First Draft.

    General Suggestions on How to Proceed.

    If You Get Bogged Down.

    A Suggested Sequence for Writing the First Draft.

    Write the Supporting Paragraphs.

    Write Other Paragraphs in the Essay's Body.

    Write the Introduction.

    Write the Conclusion.

    Write the Title.

    Pulling It All Together.

    Sample First Draft.

    Harriet Davids, Challenges for Today's Parents.

    Activities: Writing the Paragraphs in the First Draft.

     

    7. Revising Overall Meaning, Structure, and Paragraph Development.

    Strategies to Make Revision Easier.

    Set Your First Draft Aside for a While.

    Work from Typed or Printed Text.

    Read the Draft Aloud.

    View Revision as a Series of Steps

    Evaluate and Respond to Instructor Feedback.

    Peer Review: An Additional Revision Strategy

    Evaluate and Respond to Peer Review

    Revising Overall Meaning and Structure.

    Revising Paragraph Development.

    Sample Student Revision of Overall Meaning, Structure, and Paragraph Development.

    Activities: Revising Overall Meaning, Structure, and Paragraph Development.

     

    8. Revising Sentences and Words.

    Revising Sentences.

    Make Sentences Consistent with Your Tone.

    Make Sentences Economical.

    Vary Sentence Type.

    Vary Sentence Length.

    Make Sentences Emphatic.

    Revising Words.

    Make Words Consistent with Your Tone.

    Use an Appropriate Level of Diction.

    Avoid Words That Overstate or Understate.

    Select Words with Appropriate Connotations.

    Use Specific Rather Than General Words.

    Use Strong Verbs.

    Delete Unnecessary Adverbs.

    Use Original Figures of Speech.

    Avoid Sexist Language.

    Sample Student Revision of Sentences and Words.

    Activities: Revising Sentences and Words.

     

    9. Editing and Proofreading.

    Edit Carefully.

    Use the Appropriate Manuscript Format.

    Proofread Closely.

    Student Essay: From Prewriting Through Proofreading.

    Harriet Davids, Challenges for Today's Parents.

    Commentary.

    Activities: Editing and Proofreading.

     

    III. THE PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT.

     

    10. Description.

    What Is Description?

    How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

    Prewriting Strategies.

    Strategies for Using Description in an Essay.

    Revision Strategies.

    Student Essay: From Prewriting Through Revision.

    Marie Martinez, Salt Marsh.

    Commentary.

    Activities: Description.

    Prewriting Activities.

    Revising Activities.

    Professional Selections: Description.

    *David Helvarg, The Storm this Time.

    Maya Angelou, Sister Flowers.

    Gordon Parks, Flavio's Home.

    Additional Writing Topics: Description.

     

    11. Narration.

    What Is Narration?

    How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

    Prewriting Strategies.

    Strategies for Using Narration in an Essay.

    Revision Strategies.

    Student Essay: From Prewriting Through Revision.

    Paul Monahan, If Only.

    Commentary.

    Activities: Narration.

    Prewriting Activities.

    Revising Activities.

    Professional Selections: Narration.

    George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant.

    Audre Lorde, The Fourth of July.

    *Charmie Gholson, Charity Display?

    Additional Writing Topics: Narration.

     

    12. Illustration.

    What Is Illustration?

    How Illustration Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

    Prewriting Strategies.

    Strategies for Using Illustration in an Essay.

    Revision Strategies.

    Student Essay: From Prewriting Through Revision.

    Michael Pagano, Pursuit of Possessions.

    Commentary.

    Activities: Illustration.

    Prewriting Activities.

    Revising Activities.

    Professional Selections: Illustration.

    Beth Johnson, Bombs Bursting in Air.

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

    *Leslie Savan, Black Talk and Pop Culture.

    Additional Writing Topics: Illustration.

     

    13. Division-Classification.

    What Is Division-Classification?

    How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

    Prewriting Strategies.

    Strategies for Using Division-Classification in an Essay.

    Revision Strategies.

    Student Essay: From Prewriting Through Revision.

    Gail Oremland, The Truth about College Teachers.

    Commentary.

    Activities: Division-Classification.

    Prewriting Activities.

    Revising Activities.

    Professional Selections: Division-Classification.

    Scott Russell Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds.

    *David Brooks, Psst! Human Capital.

    William Lutz, Double Speak.

    Additional Writing Topics: Division-Classification.

     

    14. Process Analysis.

    What Is Process Analysis?

    How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

    Prewriting Strategies.

    Strategies for Using Process Analysis in an Essay.

    Revision Strategies.

    Student Essay: From Prewriting Through Revision.

    Robert Barry, Becoming a Videoholic.

    Commentary.

    Activities: Process Analysis.

    Prewriting Activities.

    Revising Activities.

    Professional Selections: Process Analysis.

    Diane Cole, Don't Just Stand There.

    Clifford Stoll, Cyberschool

    *David Shipley, Talk About Editing.

    Additional Writing Topics: Process Analysis.

     

    15. Comparison-Contrast.

    What Is Comparison-Contrast?

    How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

    Prewriting Strategies.

    Strategies for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay.

    Revision Strategies.

    Student Essay: From Prewriting Through Revision.

    Carol Siskin, The Virtues of Growing Older.

    Commentary.

    Activities: Comparison-Contrast.

    Prewriting Activities.

    Revising Activities.

    Professional Selections: Comparison-Contrast.

    Toni Morrison, A Slow Walk of Trees.

    Patricia Cohen, Reality TV: Surprising Throwback to the Past?

    *Eric Weiner, Euromail vs. Amerimail.

    Additional Writing Topics: Comparison-Contrast.

     

    16. Cause-Effect.

    What Is Cause-Effect?

    How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

    Prewriting Strategies.

    Strategies for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay.

    Revision Strategies.

    Student Essay: From Prewriting Through Revision.

    Carl Novack, Americans and Food.

    Commentary.

    Activities: Cause-Effect.

    Prewriting Activities.

    Revising Activities.

    Professional Selections: Cause-Effect.

    Steven King, Why We Crave Horror Movies.

    *Buzz Bissinger, Innocents Afield.

    Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space.

    Additional Writing Topics: Cause-Effect.

     

    17. Definition.

    What Is Definition?

    How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

    Prewriting Strategies.

    Strategies for Using Definition in an Essay.

    Revision Strategies.

    Student Essay: From Prewriting Through Revision.

    Laura Chen, Physics in Everyday Life.

    Commentary.

    Activities: Definition.

    Prewriting Activities.

    Revising Activities.

    Professional Selections: Definition.

    K. C. Cole, Entropy.

    James Gleick, Life as Type A.

    *Natalie Angier, The Cute Factor.

    Additional Writing Topics: Definition.

     

    18. Argumentation-Persuasion.

    What Is Argumentation-Persuasion?

    How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience.

    Prewriting Strategies.

    Strategies for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay.

    Revision Strategies.

    Student Essay: From Prewriting Through Revision.

    Mark Simmons, Compulsory National Service.

    Commentary.

    Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion.

    Prewriting Activities.

    Revising Activities.

    Professional Selections: Argumentation-Persuasion.

    Mary Shelly, In Praise of the Word.

    * Stanley Fish, Free Speech Follies.

    Debating the Issues: Date Rape.

    Camille Paglia, A Bigger Danger than Feminists Know.

    Susan Jacoby, Common Decency.

    *Debating the Issues: Immigration

    *Roberto Rodriguez, The Border On Our Backs.

    *Star Parker, Se Habla Entitlement.

    Additional Writing Topics: Argumentation-Persuasion.

     

    IV. THE LITERARY PAPER AND EXAM ESSAY.

     

    19. Writing About Literature.

    Elements of Literary Works.

    How to Read a Literary Work.

    Read to Form a General Impression.

    Ask Questions About the Work.

    Reread and Annotate.

    Modify Your Annotations.

    Write the Literary Analysis.

    Prewrite.

    Identify Your Thesis.

    Support the Thesis with Evidence.

    Organize the Evidence.

    Write the First Draft.

    Revise Overall Meaning, Structure, and Paragraph Development.

    Edit and Proofread.

    Pulling It All Together.

    Read to Form a General Impression.

    Langston Hughes, Early Autumn.

    Ask Questions about the Work.

    Reread and Annotate.

    Student Essay.

    Karen Vais, Stopping to Talk.

    Commentary.

    Additional Selections and Writing Assignments.

    Robert Frost, Out, Out!

    Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour.

     

    20. Writing Exam Essays.

    Three Forms of Written Answers.

    Short Answers.

    Paragraph-Length Answers.

    Essay-Length Answers.

    How to Prepare for Exam Essays.

    At the Examination.

    Survey of the Entire Test.

    Understand the Essay Question.

    Write the Essay.

    Prewrite.

    Identify Your Thesis.

    Support the Thesis with Evidence.

    Organize the Evidence.

    Write the Draft.

    Revise, Edit, and Proofread.

    Sample Essay Answer.

    Commentary.

    Activity: Writing Exam Essays.

      

    Appendix: A Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism

     

    Index.

     


      One of the most successful writing texts on the market, this "all-in-one" rhetoric, reader, and handbook, organized around the patterns of development, contains everything students need for courses in freshman composition.

      Created by the authors of the best-selling Longman Reader, the text draws on decades of teaching experience to integrate the best of the "product" and "process" approaches to writing. Its particular strengths include an emphasis on the reading-writing connection, a focus on invention and revision, more attention to the fact that patterns blend in actual writing, and an abundance of class-tested activities and assignments—more than 350 in all.  
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