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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Reading
Reading Attentively
Reading Critically
Preparing
Reading Actively
]Using a Reading Checklist
]CHECKLIST FOR CRITICAL READING
Analyzing a Sample Essay
Barbara Lazear Ascher, The Box Man
Meaning
Purpose and Audience
Method and Structure
Language
2. Writing
GETTING STARTED THROUGH DRAFTING
Getting Started
Considering Your Subject and Purpose
Considering Your Audience
Discovering Ideas
Journal Writing • Freewriting • Brainstorming • Using the Methods of Development
]Forming a Thesis
Identifying Your Main Point
Drafting and Revising a Thesis Sentence
Organizing
Creating a Plan
Thinking in Paragraphs
Considering the Introduction and Conclusion
Drafting
Writing, Not Revising
Grace Patterson’s First Draft
3. Writing
REVISING AND EDITING
Revising
Reading Your Own Work Critically
Looking at the Whole Draft
Purpose and Thesis • Unity • Coherence • Organization • Development • Tone
Using a Revision Checklist
CHECKLIST FOR REVISION
Grace Patterson’s Revised Draft
Editing
Making Sentences Clear and Effective
Conciseness • Emphasis • Parallelism • Variety
Choosing Clear and Effective Words
Denotations and Connotations • Concrete and Specific Words • Figures of Speech • Fresh Language
Using an Editing Checklist
CHECKLIST FOR EDITING
Grace Patterson’s Editing and Final Draft
Grace Patterson, A Rock and a Hard Place (student essay)
4. Description
SENSING THE NATURAL WORLD
Reading Description
Analyzing Description in Paragraphs
David Mura, from Turning Japanese
Diane Ackerman, from A Natural History of the Senses
Developing a Descriptive Essay
Getting Started
]Forming a Thesis
Organizing
Drafting
Revising and Editing
FOCUS ON CONCRETE AND SPECIFIC LANGUAGE
A Note on Thematic Connections
Marta K. Taylor, Desert Dance (student essay)
]Dagoberto Gilb, My Landlady’s Yard
Joan Didion, The Santa Ana
Writing with the Method
Writing about the Theme
5. Narration
RECALLING CHILDHOOD
Annie Dillard, The Chase
Langston Hughes, Salvation
]Kaela Hobby-Reichstein, Learning Race (student essay)
6. Example
USING LANGUAGE
Kim Kessler, Blah Blah Blah (student essay)
Kirk Johnson, Today’s Kids Are, Like, Killing the English Language
Perri Klass, She’s Your Basic L.O.L. in N.A.D.
7. Division or Analysis
LOOKING AT POPULAR CULTURE
]Dave Barry, Humvee Satisfies a Man’s Lust for Winches
Shafeeq Sadiq, Racism and Sexism in Advertising (student essay)
]Thomas de Zengotita, American Idol Worship
8. Classification
]SORTING GROUP IDENTITIES
Jonathan R. Gould, Jr., The People Next Door (student essay)
Marion Winik, What Are Friends For?
]Walter Mosley, Show Me the Money
9. Process Analysis
]EXAMINING THE HUMAN BODY
]Rachel Hannon, How to Donate Plasma and Save More Lives (student essay)
]Atul Gawande, The Central Line
]Jessica Mitford, Embalming Mr. Jones
10. Comparison and Contrast
]EVALUATING STEREOTYPES
Leanita McClain, The Middle-Class Black’s Burden
]Cheryl Peck, Fatso
]Alaina Wong, China Doll (student essay)
11. Definition
]CLARIFYING FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
Reena Nadler, Chromosomes in Common (student essay)
Judy Brady, I Want a Wife
]Andrew Sullivan, The ÒM-WordÓ: Why It Matters to Me
12. Cause-and-Effect Analysis
]UNDERSTANDING MARKETS AND CONSUMERS
]Charles Fishman, The Squeeze
]Stephanie Alaimo and Mark Koester, The Backdraft of Technology (student essay)
]Gerald Early, Black Ball
13. Argument and Persuasion
]DEBATING LAW AND ORDER
Jeremy Steben, Small Town, Quiet Town, Safe Town (student essay)
]Anna Quindlen, The C Word In the Hallways
]Wilbert Rideau, Why Prisons Don’t Work
]Ira Glasser, Drug Busts = Jim Crow
]James R. McDonough, Critics Scapegoat the Antidrug Laws
]Appendix: Working with Sources
Writing about Readings
Using Research to Support a Thesis
Finding Sources
Evaluating Sources
Synthesizing Source Material
Summarizing
Paraphrasing
Quoting
Integrating
Avoiding Plagiarism
Documenting Sources (MLA Style)
Parenthetical Citations
List of Works Cited
Sample Documented Essay
]Tae Andrews, Urban Neanderthals: The Damaging Effects of Media Stereotypes on Young African American Males (student essay)
Glossary
Index of Authors and Titles
] new to this edition
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Gabriel Levy
reviewed The Compact Reader: Short Essays by Method and Theme on July 07, 2016
The Compact Reader
Excellent reader for AP Lang
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