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Prentice Hall Reader (8TH 07 - Old Edition)by George Miller
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Publisher Comments:The Prentice Hall Reader is an outstanding learning tool and is key to your success in class; it will help you think, read, and write clearly both in college and beyond. Two especially helpful features are:
The Prentice Hall Reader Companion Website includes additional resources for every essay in Reader. The Website is divided into sections on Related, Background Information, Web Resources (with hot-links so that you can immediately access these sites), and Additional Writing Suggestions. Each chapter also has writing tasks that involve examining Websites and documents.
Synopsis:This best-selling collection features ten chapters focusing on the classic methods of narration, description, argument, and persuasion. It contains classic and contemporary essays about popular culture, along with advice about how to read analytically, and how to write persuasively and effectively. Each chapter is organized clearly and effectively, enabling the reader to not only understand each essay and but also what the writer was trying to convey. An excellent reference work as well as an interesting and thoughtful collection of essays. Table of ContentsTHEMATIC CONTENTS
PREFACE
HOW TO READ AN ESSAY Linking Reading and Writing How Does Reading Help You Write? How Does Writing Help You Read? Using the Active Reading Process What Is the Difference Between an Active and a Passive Reader? What Is the Active Reading Process? Prereading Reading Rereading Practicing Active Reading: An Annotated Sample LewisThomas / On Cloning a Human Being Some Things To Remember
HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY Writing: An Overview Choosing a Subject Having a Purpose Defining an Audience Prewriting Writing on an Assigned Topic Creating Your Own Topic Gathering Information Defining a Thesis Statement Writing a Thesis Statement Writing a Draft Organizing Your Essay Structuring the Body Beginning and Ending Checking Your Essay's Structure Some Things to Remember
HOW TO REVISE AN ESSAY What Does Revising Involve? Analyzing Your Own Writing Rethinking the Larger Issues Judging Length Analyzing the Structure of Your Paper Looking at Sentences and Word Choices Keeping a Revision Log Using Peer Readers Peer Editing Group Editing Using Your School's Writing Center or a Writing Tutor Using an OWL Conferencing with Your Instructor Proofreading Your Paper Is an Error-Free Paper an "A" Paper? Some Things to Remember
WRITERS AT WORK A Student Writer Finding a Topic and Prewriting Drafting Revising Tina Burton / The Watermelon Wooer A Professional Writer Finding a Topic and Prewriting Drafting Revising Gordon Grice / Caught in the Widow's Web
CHAPTER 1 GATHERING AND USING EXAMPLES
Preparing to Write What Role Do Examples Play in Writing? Where Can You Find Details and Examples? How Do You Gather Details and Examples from Your Experiences? How Do You Gather Information from Outside Sources? Prewriting Suggestions Writing How Many Examples Are Enough? How Do You Fit Examples into the Structure of an Essay? Drafting Suggestions? Revising How Do You Revise When Using Examples? Revising Suggestions Sample Student Essay Frank Smite / Looking for Love Some Things to Remember Example as a Literary Strategy Bret Lott / Night Reading for Examples Steven Pinker/ from The Language Instinct Responding to a Visual Reading and Writing about Images Visiting the Web Looking for Writing Suggestions
Anna Quindlen / The Name is Mine Bob Greene / Cut Edwidge Danticat / Westbury Court Leslie Heywood / One of the Girls George Orwell / Shooting an Elephant
CHAPTER 2 NARRATION
Preparing to Write What Is Narration and What Are its Elements? What Are the Common Forms of Narrative Writing? What Do You Write About If Nothing Ever Happened to You? What Do You Include in a Narrative? Prewriting Suggestions Writing How Do You Structure a Narrative? How Are Narratives Told? How Do You Write Dialogue? Drafting Suggestions Revising How Do You Revise a Narrative? Revising Suggestions Sample Student Essay Hope Zucker / The Ruby Slippers Some Things to Remember Narration as a Literary Strategy Peggy McNally /Waiting Reading Narration S. E. Schlosser / Blue Hen's Chicks Responding to a Visual Reading and Writing about Images Visiting the Web Looking for Writing Suggestions Langston Hughes / Salvation Maya Angelou / Sister Monroe Tom Haines / Facing Famine Judith Ortiz Cofer / Marina Evans D. Hopkins / Lockdown
CHAPTER 3 DESCRIPTION
Preparing to Write What is Description? If Recording Sense Impressions in Words Is Difficult, Why Bother? What Is the Difference Between Objective adn Subjective Description? What Do You Include in and What Do You Exclude from a Description? Prewriting Suggestions Writing How Do You Describe an Object or a Place? How Do You Describe a Person? How Do You Organize a Description? Drafting Suggestions Revising How Do You Revise a Description? Keeping Focused Revising Suggestions Sample Student Essay Nadine Resnick /Natalie Some Things to Remember Example as a Literary Strategy Duane BigEagle / Traveling to Town Reading Description Charles Dickens / from Bleak House Responding to a Visual Reading and Writing about Images Visiting the Web Looking for Writing Suggestions
Debra Anne Davis / A Pen by the Phone N. Scott Momaday / The Way to Rainy Mountain William Least Heat Moon / Nameless, Tennessee Terry Tempest Williams / The Village Watchman Scott Russell Sanders / The Inheritance of Tools
CHAPTER 4 DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION
Preparing to Write What Is Division? What Is Classification? How Do You Choose a Subject? Prewriting Suggestions Writing How Do You Revise a Division or Classification? How Do You Structure a Division or Classification Essay? Drafting Suggestions Revising How Do You Revise a Division or Classification? Sample Student Essay Evan James / Riding the Rails: The American Hobo Some Things to Remember Division and Classification as a Literary Strategy Elizabeth Barrett Browning / How Do I Love Thee? Reading Division and Classification Mark Lester / from Grammar in the Classroom Responding to a Visual Reading and Writing about Images Visiting the Web Looking for Writing Suggestions
David Bodanis / What's in Your Toothpaste? Barbara Ehrenreich / In Defense of Talk Shows Aaron Copeland / How We Listen to Music Judith Ortiz Cofer / The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria Bernard R. Berelson / The Value of Children Joseph Epstein / What Are You Afraid of?
CHAPTER 5 COMPARISION AND CONTRAST
Preparing to Write What Is Comparision and Contrast How Do You Choose a Subject? Do You Always Find Both Similarities and Differences? Prewriting Suggestions Writing How Do You Structure a Comparison and Contrast? How Do You Use Analogy, Metaphor, and Simile? Drafting Suggestions Revising How Do You Revise a Comparison and Contrast Essay? Revising Suggestions Sample Student Essay Alicia Gray / Minimizing the Guesswork in a Library Search Some Things to Remember Comparison and Contrast as a Literary Strategy Martin Espada / Cola-Cola and Coco-Frio Reading Comparision and Contrast John McPhee / from Oranges Responding to a Visual Reading and Writing about Images Visting the Web Exploring on Your Own
Esmeralda Santiago / Guavas William Zinsser / The Transaction: Two Writing Processes Mary Pipher / Academic Selves Suzanne Britt / Neat People vs. Sloppy People Danzy Senna / The Color of Love Meghan Daum / Virtual Love
CHAPTER 6 PROCESS
Preparing to Write What Is Process? How Do You Choose a Subject to Write About? Prewriting Suggestions Writing How Do You Structure a Process Paper? Drafting Suggestions Revising How Do You Revise a Process Essay? Revising Suggestions Sample Student Essay Julie Anne Halbfish / How to Play Dreidel Some Things to Remember Process as a Literary Strategy Janice Mirikitani / Recipe Reading Process CAREERWOMEN.COM / Getting the Inverview Edge "Apprentice Style" Responding to a Visual Reading and Writing about Images Visitng the Web Exploring on Your Own
Lars Eighner / My Daily Dives in the Dumpster Nora Ephron / Revision and Life: Take It from the Top — Again Diane Cole / Don't Just Stand There David Brooks / The Culture of Martyrdom Charlie Drozdyk / Into the Loop: How to Get the Job You Want after Graduation Jennifer Kahn / Stripped for Parts
CHAPTER 7 CAUSE AND EFFECT
Preparing to Write What Is Cause and Effect? Why Do You Write a Casue-and-Effect Analysis? How Do You Choose a Subject? How Do You Isolate and Evaluate Causes and Effects? Prewriting Suggestions Writing How Do You Structure a Cause-and-Effect Analysis? Drafting Suggestions Revising How Do You Revise a Cause-and-Effect Essay? Revising Suggestions Sample Student Essay Cathy Ferguson / The Influence of Televised Violence on Children Some Things to Remember Cause and Effect as a Literary Strategy Marge Piercy / Barbie Doll Reading Cause and Effect WWW.EMEDICINEHEALTH.COM / What Causes Migraine Headaches? Responding to a Visual Reading and Writing about Images Visiting the Web Looking for Writing Suggestions
E. M. Forster / My Wood Joan Jacobs Brumberg / The Origins of Anorexia Nervosa Andres Martin / On Teenagers and Tattoos Brent Staples / Black Men and Public Space Veronica Chambers / Dreadlocked Malcom Gladwell / The Trouble with Fries
CHAPTER 8 DEFINITION
Preparing to Write What Is Definition? What is the Difference Between Denotation and Connotation? How Much Do You Include in a Definition? Prewriting Suggestions Writing How Do You Structure a Definition Essay? Drafting Suggestions Revising How Do You Revise a Definition Essay? Revising Suggestions Some Things to Remember Sample Student Essay Sherry Heck / Infallible Definition as a Literary Strategy Alice Jones / The Foot Reading Definition COLUMBIA ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA / Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Responding to a Visual Reading and Writing about Images Visiting the Web Looking for Writing Suggestions
Ben Stein / How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World? Judy Brady / I Want a Wife Robin D. G. Kelley / The People in Me Amy Tan / Mother Tongue John Hollander / Mess Margaret Atwood / The Female Body
CHAPTER 9 ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION
Preparing to Write What Is the Difference Between Argument and Persuasion? What Do You Already Know about Arguing and Persuading? How Do You Analyze Your Audience? What Does It Take to Persuade Your Reader? Prewriting Suggestions Writing How Do You Make Sure That Your Argument Is Logical? How Do You Structure an Argument? Drafting Suggestions Revising How Do You Revise an Argumentative or Persuasive Essay? Revising Suggestions Sample Student Essay Beth Jaffe / Lowering the Cost of a College Education Some Things to Remember Argument and Persuasion as a Literary Strategy Wilfred Owen / Dulce et Decorum Est Reading Argument and Persuasion WWW.TEENADVICE.ABOUT.COM / Top 5 Reasons Youth Should Vote Responding to a Visual Reading and Writing about Images Looking for Writing Suggestions Debate: Is a College Education Worth Its Cost?
Katherine Porter / The Value of a College Degree Linda Lee / The Case Against College Debate: Are College Grades Inflated? Ronna Vanderslice / When I Was Young an A Was an A Alfie Kohn / The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation Debate: Should Murderers Be Executed? Sister Helen Prejean / Memoirs of a Dead Man Walking David Gelernter / What Do Murderers Deserve? Martin Luther King Jr. / I Have a Dream Richard Rodriguez / None of This Is Fair
CHAPTER 10 COMBINATIONS AT WORK
Johnathan Swift / A Modest Proposal Virginia Woolf / The Death of the Moth E. B. White / Once More to the Lake Joan Didion / On Keeping a Notebook Peter Singer / The Singer Solution to World Poverty APPENDIX
FINDING, USING AND DOCUMENTING SOURCES
Finding Sources Using Reference Books as a Starting Point; Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Finding Books: Your Library's Catalog Choosing the Right Subject Heading Finding Sources on the Web Choosing a Search Engine Web Search Tips Using Your Search for Subject Headings and Keywords to Revise Your Topic Finding Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers Finding Government Documents Interviewing Using Sources Evaluating Sources Knowing How Much Quotation to Use Working Quotations into Your Text Documenting Your Sources Plagiarism, Academic Dishonesty, and the Misuse of Sources Acknowledging Sources in Your Text The "List of Works Cited" or "References" Electronic Sources Annotated Sample Student Research Paper (MLA Documentation Style) Eric Miller / The Cell Phone and Its Hold on Today's Youth
GLOSSARY AND READY REFERENCE
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