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Short Takes, 9/E
Elizabeth Penfield, University of New Orleans

ISBN-10: 0321488156
ISBN-13: 9780321488152

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 368 pp
Published: 12/11/2006

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This lively collection of fifty-two short, readable selections by both student and professional writers provides useful models of the rhetorical modes.

 

In addition to familiar names such as Nora Ephron, Barry Lopez, and William Raspberry, this reader features many fresh voices such as Jonathan Franzen, Anchee Min, Thomas Sowell, Laura Lee, and Darrin Bell.   Detailed chapter openers discuss the writing process and introduce each rhetorical mode. Headnotes for each essay give a brief biography of its author, explain its context, and pinpoint one of the writer’s techniques. Questions on “Organization and Ideas” and “Technique and Style” and many suggestions for writing journal entries and essays follow each selection. Each chapter ends with additional writing assignments that ask students to compare two or more of the essays.

  • “Freeze Frame: Reading and Writing,” a brief section that introduces students to the principles of critical reading and writing, opens the text.
  • Fifty-two short, engaging, accessible reading selections are included, along with helpful introductions to each rhetorical pattern.
  • Headnotes for each selection describe the author, give some context for the reading, and point to at least one notable stylistic feature of the selection.
  • Includes questions on organization, ideas, technique, and style after each selection, engaging students to think critically about the readings.
  • For each selection, a number of topics for writing journal entries and essays are provided.
  • Each chapter concludes with more writing suggestions that encourage students to compare two or more of the selections in the book and also to practice writing in each rhetorical mode. 
  • Selections in the last chapter, “Multiple Modes, Varied Opinions,” offer students differing points of view so they can construct their own arguments.
  • An alternate thematic table of contents is provided.
  • The Instructor’s Manual includes key words and phrases for each essay, suggestions for group work, and additional writing suggestions keyed to the thematic table of contents.

  • New readings touch on fresh topics that engage students by analyzing subjects as varied as what makes a perfect ice cream sundae and the place of morality in the college curriculum.
  • The 18 new readings in this edition feature such notable selections as “We Have Retreated Into the iWorld,” by Andrew Sullivan; “Who’s Watching? Reality TV and Sports,” by Frank Deford; “Countdown,” by Jonathan Franzen and many more.
  • Five new sets of “paired essays” present differing arguments on timely subjects so students can construct their own arguments in response.
  • Revised chapter on argument (Chapter 9) includes paired essays as well as a new cartoon and comic strip so students can analyze differing views and different ways of presenting them.
  • Almost all the selections in Chapters 9 and 10 are new, including several longer, more academic selections that touch on everything from guest worker and immigration policies, to gay marriage, to the uses and abuses of torture during times of war.

Freeze Frame: Reading and Writing

1.       On Using Description.

“A Sandwich,” Nora Ephron

“The Bridge,” Jason Holland             

“Countdown,” Jonathan Franzen

“El Hoyo,” Mario Suarez

“Left Sink,” Ellery Akers

2.       On Using Narration

“Hell,” Steve Martin

“Learning, then College,” Meg Gifford

“The Night of Oranges,” Flavius Stan

“Time to Look and Listen,” Magdoline Asfahani

“Footprints on the Flag,” Anchee Min

3.       On Using Definition

“Chocolate Equals Love,” Diane Ackerman

“I Was a Member of the Kung Fu Crew,” Henry Han Xi Lau

“The Handicap of Definition,” William Raspberry

“Where Nothing Says Everything,” Suzanne Berne

“Crippled by Their Culture,” Thomas Sowell

4.       On Using Example

“Sweatin’ for Nothin’,” Michael Barlow

“Stop Ordering Me Around,” Stacey Wilkins

“All Black Fan of Country Music Finally Tells All,” Lena Williams

“Step Away form the Bear,” Laura Lee

“Bananas for Rent,” Michiko Kakutani

5.       On Using Division and Classification

“A Good Word on Politics,” Steven Doloff

“Always, Always, Always,” Bill Rohde

“The Search for Human Life in the Maze of Retail Stores,” Michelle Higgins

“The Plot Against People,” Russell Baker

“Desert Religions,” Richard Rodriguez

6.       On Using Comparison and Contrast

“Living on Tokyo Time,” Lynnika Butler

“Who’s Watching? Reality TV and Sports,” Frank Deford

“Playing House,” Denise Leight

“World and America Watching Different Wars,” Danna Harman

“The Raven,” Barry Lopez

7.       On Using Process

“Accessorizing the Scoops of Summer,” Kay Rentschler

“Runner,” Laura Carlson

“Independence Day,” Dave Barry

“Halloween and the Eulogy: Death, Be Not Ponderous,” Cyrus M. Copeland

“A Woman’s Place,” Naomi Wolf

8.       On Using Cause and Effect

“Tiffany Stephenson — An Apology,” Bjorn Skogquist

“When Music Heals Body and Soul,” Oliver Sacks

“Wrestling with Myself,” George Felton

“Black Men and Public Space,” Brent Staples

“We Have Retreated into the iWorld,” Andrew Sullivan

9.       On Using Argument

“Last Rites for Indian Dead,” Suzan Shown Harjo

“Don’t Impede Medical Progress,” Virginia Postrel

“Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal,” Thomas B. Stoddard

“Dearly Beloved,” Cal Thomas

“Guest Workers and the U.S. Heritage,” Jay Bookman

“We Don’t Need ‘Guest Workers’,” Robert J. Samuelson

“Americans and Jobs,” (cartoon) Steve Kelley

“All These Illegals,” (comic strip) Darrin Bell

10.   For Further Reading: Multiple Modes, Varied Opinions

On Disabilities

“Mind Over Matter,” Roger Rosenblatt

“Macho-Man — An In-depth Analysis of the Prejudices of Disability,” Bryan Tortolani

On Morality, Values, and Higher Education

“When Ideas Kill,” Alan Wolfe

“Aim Low,” Stanley Fish

On Torture

“Terror and Torture,” Hendrik Hertzberg

“A Case for Torture,” Mirko Bagaric

Credits

Index of Authors, Essays, and Terms

  • Exam Copy, 9/E
    Penfield
    © 2007 | Longman | Paper; 368 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205537545 | ISBN-13: 9780205537549


  • Instructor's Manual, 9/E
    Penfield
    © 2007 | Longman | Paper; 108 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205539440 | ISBN-13: 9780205539444

    Instructor's Manual, 9/E
    Penfield
    © 2007 | Longman | Paper;108 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205539440 | ISBN-13: 9780205539444

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