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.
• Key Value Pack—The Longman Reader + MyCompLab, ISBN 0321280148.

Preface.


1. The Reading Process.

2. The Writing Process.

3. Description.

4. Narration.

5. Exemplification.

6. Division-Classification.

7. Process Analysis.

8. Comparison-Contrast.

9. Cause-Effect.

10. Definition.

11. Argumentation-Persuasion.

12. Combining the Patterns.

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

Appendix B: Avoiding Ten Common Writing Errors.

Glossary.


Acknowledgments.


Index.

 

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