The prose reader : essays for thinking, reading, and writing. The Prose reader : essays for thinking, reading, and writing. The prose reader: essays for thinking, reading, and writing.
Prose reader: essays for thinking, reading, and writing. Prose reader: essays for thinking, reading and writing. All rights reserved. Please sign in to WorldCat Don't have an account? Remember me on this computer. Cancel Forgot your password? Showing all editions for 'The Prose reader : essays for thinking, reading, and writing'. Year 3 5 5 2 4 Show more Language English. Displaying Editions 1 - 10 out of First Prev 1 2 3 Next Last. The prose reader : essays for thinking, reading, and writing by Kim Flachmann; Michael Flachmann;.
Can music really characterize a generation? Tierney says it can and set out to prove it in this essay. What makes an activity a sport? What about an Olympic sport? Norman has strong opinions to share on this topic. Everyone agrees that all bullying must be stopped, but very few have any concrete suggestions for doing so. However, Svoboda offers some guidelines we need to consider for addressing virtual assault. Psychologist Mary Pipher attempts to answer this intriguing question by examining the effect that different categories of family members have on our ability to function in the world around us.
Binge drinking is a dangerous type of drinking that Hanson claims is on the decline among current college students. Do you think society deals with drinking and youth responsibly?
Seen any good horror movies lately? Best-selling author Stephen King explains why we are so fascinated by films that appeal to our darker instincts. An angry and frustrated Michael Dorris describes the long-term damage done to his adopted son, Adam, by the ravages of fetal alcohol syndrome.
Why should we read literature? Can video games increase your ability to learn? Markman has some evidence that demonstrates some of the positive results of these games. How do you think the Internet is affecting your brain? Carr provides some startling evidence in this essay to prove that the Internet is dramatically changing the ways we think.
Retired Col. Dave Grossman questions the role models we are creating for our kids through violence on TV. In this essay, he challenges us to regain control of child abuse, racism, and poverty in American society. Are you aware of how people refer to mental health issues in their everyday lives?
Are they always respectful of different mental illnesses in their references? Through this essay, Pugsley helps us build a sensitivity to these issues. When is social media constructive? When is it destructive? Being aware of its advantages and disadvantages is part of improving our ability to communicate in society. How reliable is DNA evidence in the courtroom?
In this speech, Watson suggests that we all share the responsibility of gender equity. Doing so will benefit us all. Poet Laureate Billy Collins praises the art of scribbled comments in the margins of books, which often reveal volumes about the people who write them. William Stafford describes through brilliant and evocative metaphors the very moment he realized he had to be a poet. During a hot summer in Oakland, surrounded by drug dealers and social misfits, author Jessica Anya Blau investigates the mysterious relationship between art and life.
The Illusion of Multitasking. Pearson offers affordable and accessible purchase options to meet the needs of your students. Connect with us to learn more. She has published numerous articles on rhetoric and American literature and has written seven textbooks—among them a college reader The Prose Reader Pearson in its eleventh edition , a series of three books for developmental English called Mosaics: Reading and Writing Sentences , Mosaics: Reading and Writing Paragraphs , and Mosaics: Reading and Writing Essays ,.
Kim has dedicated her career to helping students achieve their goals in life through communication. Her mission has always been to teach others how to write well, which she believes is one of the most important gifts we can give our students.
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Description For courses in first-year composition. Organized by rhetorical modes to showcase contemporary works by diverse authors Lucid writing follows lucid thinking — and The Prose Reader, Eleventh Edition helps students think more clearly and logically in their minds and on paper.
About the Book NEW! Nineteen new selections on high-interest topics — such as Mars, making friends, video games, the Internet, binge drinking, social media, and gender equality— have been added. Graphic flowcharts of the reading and writing processes for each rhetorical mode consist of questions that guide the reading and writing in each chapter. Students who see how a particular rhetorical mode works as they read are more likely to be able to manipulate and use those same features as they write.
A multigenre chapter of readings reflects the primary changes in the Writing Program Administrator Outcomes for First-Year Composition. It includes one autobiography, one speech, two poems, one piece of fiction, and a creative photograph, giving students practice with genres other than essays as they near the end of the course. Composing in Different Genres , a new category of writing assignments at the end of each chapter in Part II, complements the new multigenre additions to this text.
It offers two writing assignments — one multimedia and one multigenre — so students can vary their responses to their readings, if such projects align with your course goals. Critical thinking, in the context of a particular rhetorical pattern , is discussed in each of the modes chapters. This walks students through the writing process for the pattern, and presents a polished student essay as a realistic example.
A Checklist, specific to each chapter , supports the reading and writing process at a glance. Four "Thinking Critically" questions, in a cluster following each essay, instill a macro perspective on the piece. Five clusters of questions conclude each selection and are designed to help students move sequentially from the literal to the analytical. New to This Edition. About the Book Nineteen new selections on high-interest topics — such as Mars, making friends, video games, the Internet, binge drinking, social media, and gender equality— have been added.
If students actually see how a particular rhetorical mode works as they read, they are more likely to be able to manipulate and use those same features as they write.
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