The Longman Reader: Brief Edition Book

Thematic Contents     xiii
Preface     xviii
The Reading Process     1
Get an Overview of the Selection     2
First Reading: A Checklist     2
Deepen Your Sense of the Selection     3
Second Reading: A Checklist     3
Evaluate the Selection     4
Evaluating a Selection: A Checklist     4
Family Counterculture     6
The Writing Process     12
Prewrite     13
Analyzing Your Audience: A Checklist     17
Identify the Thesis     27
Support the Thesis with Evidence     31
Organize the Evidence     39
Outlining: A Checklist     43
Write the First Draft     46
Turning Outline Into First Draft: A Checklist     47
Revise the Essay     60
Student Essay     65
Commentary     68
Description     71
What Is Description?     71
How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience     71
Suggestions for Using Description in an Essay     74
Revision Strategies     77
Description: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist     77
Student Essay     78
Commentary     80
Activities: Description     82
Flavio's Home     84
The Storm this Time     92
Sister Flowers     100
Additional Writing Topics     107
Narration     109
What Is Narration?     109
How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience     110
Suggestions for Using Narration in an Essay     111
Revision Strategies     116
Narration: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist     116
Student Essay     117
Commentary     119
Activities: Narration     121
Charity Display?     123
Salvation     127
The Price We Pay     131
Additional Writing Topics     139
Exemplification     141
What Is Exemplification     141
How Exemplification Fits Your Purpose and Audience     141
Suggestions for Using Exemplification in an Essay     144
Revision Strategies     148
Exemplification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist     149
Student Essay     149
Commentary     151
Activities: Exemplification     154
Black Talk and Pop Culture     156
Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen     165
Bombs Bursting in Air     172
Additional Writing Topics     178
Division-Classification     180
What Is Division-Classification?     180
How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience     182
Suggestions for Using Division-Classification in an Essay     184
Revision Strategies     188
Division-Classification: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist     188
Student Essay     189
Commentary     192
Activities: Division-Classification     195
Psst! "Human Capital"     197
Doublespeak     201
Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising     208
Additional Writing Topics     216
Process Analysis     218
What Is Process Analysis?     218
How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience     219
Suggestions for Using Process Analysis in an Essay     221
Revision Strategies     225
Process Analysis: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist     225
Student Essay     226
Commentary     229
Activities: Process Analysis     232
Talk About Editing     234
Cyberschool     239
The Fine Art of Complaining     245
Additional Writing Topics     251
Comparison-Contrast     253
What Is Comparison-Contrast?     253
How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience     254
Suggestions for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay     255
Revision Strategies     260
Comparison-Contrast: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist     260
Student Essay     261
Commentary     263
Activities: Comparison-Contrast     266
A Fable for Tomorrow     268
And Then I Went to School     272
The Ugly Truth About Beauty     279
Additional Writing Topics     283
Cause-Effect     285
What Is Cause-Effect?     285
How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience     286
Suggestions for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay     287
Revision Strategies     293
Cause-Effect: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist     293
Student Essay     294
Commentary     296
Activities: Cause-Effect     299
Why We Crave Horror Movies     301
Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self     306
Innocents Afield     315
Additional Writing Topics     321
Definition     323
What Is Definition?     323
How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience     324
Suggestions for Using Definition in an Essay     325
Revision Strategies     329
Definition: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist     329
Student Essay     330
Commentary     332
Activities: Definition     334
Entropy     336
The Cute Factor     341
What is the Quarterlife Crisis?     348
Additional Writing Topics     356
Argumentation-Persuasion     358
What Is Argumentation-Persuasion?     358
How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience     359
Suggestions for Using Argumentation-Persuasion in an Essay     363
Using Rogerian Strategy: A Checklist     368
Questions for Using Toulmin Logic: A Checklist     378
Revision Strategies     380
Argumentation-Persuasiont: A Revision/Peer Review Checklist     380
Student Essay     381
Commentary     387
Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion     391
Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures     393
Free-Speech Follies     398
Examining an Issue: Date Rape
Rape: A Bigger Danger Than Feminists Know     405
Common Decency     411
Examining an Issue: Illegal Immigration
The Border on Our Backs     416
Se Habla Entitlement     421
Additional Writing Topics     426
Combining the Patterns     428
The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process     428
The Patterns in Action: In an Essay     429
Student Essay     430
The Death of the Moth     436
Where Do We Go from Here: Community or Chaos?     442
Marrying Absurd     446
A Concise Guide to Finding and Documenting Sources     449
Using the Library to Find Books on Your Subject     449
Using the Library to Find Reference Works on Your Subject     452
Using the Library to Find Articles on Your Subject     453
Using the Internet to Research Your Subject     456
Focusing a Web Search: A Checklist     461
Evaluating Internet Materials: A Checklist     462
Documenting Sources     462
What to Document      463
How to Document     463
Citing Sources: A Checklist     466
List of Works Cited     469
Avoiding Ten Common Writing Errors     476
Fragments     477
Comma Splices and Run-ons     478
Faulty Subject-Verb Agreement     478
Faulty Pronoun Agreement     480
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers     481
Faulty Parallelism     483
Comma Misuse     483
Apostrophe Misuse     485
Confusing Homonyms     486
Misuse of Italics and Underlining     487
Glossary     489
Acknowledgments     503
Index     506