Longman Reader, The, 12th edition
- Judith Nadell
- , John Langan
- , Deborah A Coxwell-Teague
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The Longman Reader is the acclaimed rhetorical modes reader designed to provide you with detailed writing guidance. It combines celebrated pedagogy with a wealth of readings to help you develop sound writing skills. The opening chapters focus on both reading critically and the writing process, while subsequent chapters provide detailed writing instruction. To demonstrate various developmental patterns, the text presents professional essays ranging in approach and subject matter, from the humorous to the informative, and from personal meditation to argument.
The 12th Edition includes 23 new professional selections, a new, predominantly visual composition and additional coverage of how to critically assess both words and images.
Published by Pearson (July 14th 2021) - Copyright © 2019
ISBN-13: 9780137536450
Subject: Composition
Category: Readers
BRIEF CONTENTS
- Becoming a Critical Reader and Thinker
- The Writing Process
- Description
- Narration
- Illustration
- Division-Classification
- Process Analysis
- Comparison-Contrast
- Cause-Effect
- Definition
- Argumentation-Persuasion
- Combining the Patterns
FULL CONTENTS
- Thematic Contents
- Overview of Checklists
- Revision/Peer Review Checklist
- Preface
- Becoming a Critical Reader and Thinker
- Critical Reading: An Introduction
- 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: Critically Evaluate the Selection
- Critically Evaluating a Selection: A Checklist
- Critically Assess Visuals in a Reading
- Critically Assessing an Image: An Example
- Critically Assessing a Graph: An Example
- A Model Annotated Reading
- Larry Rosen, “Our Obsessive Relationship with Technology”
- The Writing Process
- The Steps in the Writing Process
- Stage 1: Using Prewriting to Get Started
- Keep a Journal
- Understand the Boundaries of the Assignment
- Determine Your Purpose, Audience, and Tone
- Analyzing Your Audience: A Checklist
- Discover Your Essay’s Limited Subject
- Generate Raw Material About Your Limited Subject
- Conduct Research
- Organize the Raw Material
- Activity Set 1: Prewrite
- Stage 2: Identify the Thesis
- Writing an Effective Thesis
- Avoiding Thesis Pitfalls
- Activity Set 2: Identify The Thesis
- Stage 3: Support the Thesis with Evidence
- What Is Evidence?
- Where Do You Find Evidence?
- How the Patterns of Development Help Generate Evidence
- Characteristics of Evidence
- Activity Set 3: Support the Thesis with Evidence
- Stage 4: Organize the Evidence
- Use the Patterns of Development
- Select an Organizational Approach
- Prepare an Outline
- Outlining: A Checklist
- Activity Set 4: Organize the Evidence
- Stage 5: Write the First Draft
- How to Proceed
- Turning an Outline into a First Draft: A Checklist
- Write the Supporting Paragraphs
- Connect Ideas in the Supporting Paragraphs
- Write the Introduction
- Write the Conclusion
- Create the Title
- Pull It All Together
- Sample First Draft by Caylah Francis
- Commentary
- Activity Set 5: Write the First Draft
- Stage 6: Revise the Essay
- Five Revision Strategies
- Peer Review: An Additional Revision Strategy
- Revision/Peer Review Checklist
- Peer Review Worksheet
- Stage 7: Edit and Proofread
- Student Essay: Final Edited and Proofread Draft by Caylah Francis
- Commentary
- Activity Set 6: Revise the Essay
- Description
- What Is Description?
- How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience
- Objective and Subjective Description
- Tone and Language
- Strategies for Using Description in an Essay
- Revision Strategies
- Description: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist
- Student Essay by Leanna Stoufer
- Commentary
- Activities: Description
- Professional Selections: Description
- Mario Suárez, “El Hoyo”
- Cherokee Paul McDonald, “A View from the Bridge”
- Judith Ortiz Cofer, “A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood”
- Patricia Smith, “Talking Wrong”
- Michael Johnston, “The Human Eye”
- Additional Writing Topics
- Narration
- What Is Narration?
- How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience
- Strategies for Using Narration in an Essay
- Revision Strategies
- Narration: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist
- Student Essay by Laura Rose Dunn
- Commentary
- Activities: Narration
- Professional Selections: Narration
- Audre Lorde, “The Fourth of July”
- Lynda Barry, “The Sanctuary of School”
- Daniel “Nane” Alejandrez, “César Chávez Changed My Life”
- David Bardeen, “Lives; Not Close Enough for Comfort”
- Dorothea Lange, “Migrant Mother”
- Additional Writing Topics
- Illustration
- What Is Illustration?
- How Illustration Fits Your Purpose and Audience
- Strategies for Using Illustration in an Essay
- Revision Strategies
- Illustration: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist
- Student Essay by Charlene Adams
- Commentary
- Activities: Illustration
- Professional Selections: Illustration
- Kay S. Hymowitz, “Tweens: Ten Going On Sixteen”
- Casey Cavanaugh, “Why We Still Need Feminism”
- Stuart Rojstaczer, “GradeInflation.com: Grade Inflation at American Colleges and Universities”
- Beth Johnson,”Bombs Bursting in Air”
- Emmy Blotnick, “A Visual History of Shoes”
- Additional Writing Topics
- Division-Classification
- What Is Division-Classification?
- How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience
- Strategies for Using Division-Classification in an Essay
- Revision Strategies
- Division-Classification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist
- Student Essay by Catherine Gispert
- Commentary
- Activities: Division-Classification
- Professional Selections: Division-Classification
- Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”
- David Brooks, “Harmony and the Dream”
- Francis Gilbert, “What Makes a Great Teacher?”
- Todd Kliman, “Coding and Decoding Dinner”
- Truity Psychometrics, “The Best Careers for Your Personality Type”
- Additional Writing Topics
- Process Analysis
- What Is Process Analysis?
- How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience
- Problem Solving
- Process Analysis Combined with Other Strategies
- Strategies for Using Process Analysis in an Essay
- Revision Strategies
- Process Analysis: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist
- Student Essay by Jared Mosley
- Commentary
- Activities: Process Analysis
- Professional Selections: Process Analysis
- Amy Sutherland, “What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage”
- Alex Horton, “On Getting By”
- Caroline Rego, “The Fine Art of Complaining”
- Werner Gundersheimer, “A Mother’s Secret”
- Antonia C. Novello, “First Aid for Choking”
- Additional Writing Topics
- Comparison-Contrast
- What Is Comparison-Contrast?
- How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience
- Strategies for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay
- Revision Strategies
- Comparison-Contrast: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist
- Student Essay by Blake Norman
- Commentary
- Activities: Comparison-Contrast
- Professional Selections: Comparison-Contrast
- Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, “A Mickey Mouse Approach to Globalization”
- Pico Iyer, “Chapels: On the Rewards of Being Quiet”
- Stefany Anne Golberg, “You Can Take It with You”
- Savita Iyer, “The Pros and Cons of Going Vegan”
- Fatima Alissa, “Aleppo: Before and After the Syrian Civil War”
- Additional Writing Topics 326
- Cause-Effect
- What Is Cause-Effect?
- How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience
- Strategies for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay
- Revision Strategies
- Cause-Effect: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist
- Student Essay by Erica Zwieg
- Commentary
- Activities: Cause-Effect
- Professional Selections: Cause-Effect
- Jane S. Shaw, “Nature in the Suburbs”
- Leila Ahmed, “Reinventing the Veil”
- Jacques D’Amboise, “Showing What Is Possible”
- Juan Williams, “The Ruling That Changed America”
- DecideToDrive, “OMG”
- Additional Writing Topics
- Definition
- What Is Definition?
- How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience
- Strategies for Using Definition in an Essay
- Revision Strategies
- Definition: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist
- Student Essay by Olivia Fletcher
- Commentary
- Activities: Definition
- Professional Selections: Definition
- Jhumpa Lahiri, “My Two Lives”
- Laura Fraser, “The Inner Corset”
- Lillian Comas-Díaz, “Hispanics, Latinos, or Americanos: The Evolution of Identity”
- Josie Appleton, “The Body Piercing Project”
- Quinn Mathews, “Global Warming Brochure”
- Additional Writing Topics
- Argumentation-Persuasion
- What Is Argumentation-Persuasion?
- How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience
- Logos, or Soundness of the Argument
- Pathos, or the Emotional Power of Language
- Ethos, or Credibility and Reliability
- Analyzing Your Audience
- Strategies for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay
- Using Rogerian Strategy: A Checklist
- Questions for Using Toulmin Logic: A Checklist
- Revision Strategies
- Argumentation-Persuasion: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist
- Student Essay by Lydia Gumm
- Commentary
- Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion
- Professional Selections: Argumentation-Persuasion
- Stanley Fish, “Free-Speech Follies”
- Mary Sherry, “In Praise of the ‘F’ Word”
- Wendell Berry, “Farming and the Global Economy”
- Mike Rose, “Blue-Collar Brilliance”
- Paired Readings: Obesity in America
- Michael Marlow & Sherzod Abdukadirov, “Government Intervention Will Not Solve Our Obesity Problem”
- Anna Brones, “Should the Government Be Responsible for Regulating Obesity?”
- Paired Readings: Gender in the Classroom
- Gerry Garibaldi, “How the Schools Shortchange Boys”
- Michael Kimmel, “A War Against Boys?”
- Paired Readings: Selling Human Organs
- Alexander T. Tabarrok, “A Moral Solution to the Organ Shortage”
- Virginia Postrel, “Need Transplant Donors? Pay Them”
- Tami Luhby, Tal Yellin, and Caroline Matthews, “Just How Much Better Off Are College Grads Anyway?”
- Additional Writing Topics
- Combining the Patterns
- The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process
- The Patterns in Action
- Student Essay by Houston Barber
- Professional Selections: Combining the Patterns
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Remarks to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women Plenary Session”
- Alice Steinbach, “The Miss Dennis School of Writing”
- Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
- Paramount Pictures, “Selma”
Appendix A: A Guide To Using Sources
- Understanding Primary Versus Secondary Research
- Conducting Primary Research
- Conducting Interviews
- Gathering Information with Surveys
- Conducting Secondary Research
- Finding Books on Your Subject
- Finding Periodicals on Your Subject
- Finding Sources on the Internet
- Learning More About the Advantages and Limitations of the Library and the Web
- Preparing an Annotated Bibliography
- Recording Information About the Source
- Critically Evaluating Sources
- Relevance
- Timeliness
- Seriousness of Approach
- Objectivity
- Critically Evaluating Articles and Books: A Checklist
- Critically Evaluating Internet Materials: A Checklist
- Analyzing and Synthesizing Source Material
- Analyzing Source Material
- Synthesizing Source Materials
- Analyzing and Synthesizing Source Material: A Checklist
- Effectively Using Quotation, Summary, and Paraphrase
- Quotation
- Summary
- Paraphrase
- Using Quotation, Summary, and Paraphrase: A Checklist
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Integrating Sources into Your Writing
- Using Sources Effectively
- Awkward Use of a Quotation
- Effective Use of a Source
- Introducing a Source
- Using Variety in Attributions
- Shortening or Clarifying Quotations
- Capitalizing and Punctuating Short Quotations
- Presenting Statistics
- Integrating Sources into Your Writing: A Checklist
- Documenting Sources to Avoid Plagiarism
- What Needs to Be Documented?
- What Does Not Need to Be Documented?
- Creating In-Text References: MLA Format
- Preparing the Works Cited List: MLA Format
- General Instructions for the MLA Works Cited List
- Citation Examples
- Preparing the References List: APA Format
- Parenthetic Citations in the Text
- General Instructions for the APA References List
- Citing Print Sources–Periodicals
- Citing Print Sources–Books
- Citing Sources Found on a Website
- Citing Sources Found Through an Online Database or Scholarly Project
- Citing Other Common Sources
- Examining How Sources Are Used Correctly in Both MLA and APA Formats in a Student-Authored Research Essay
- MLA Style Documentation
- APA Style Documentation
Appendix B: Avoiding Ten Common Writing Errors
- Fragments
- Comma Splices and Run-ons
- Faulty Subject—Verb Agreement
- Faulty Pronoun Agreement
- Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
- Faulty Parallelism
- Comma Misuse
- Apostrophe Misuse
- Confusing Homonyms
- Misuse of Italics and Underlining
Acknowledgments
Index
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