The Short Prose Reader


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Featuring 19 new essays, this reader includes a discussion of the considerations important for good writing and active reading. Five types of questions following each reading focus on vocabulary, the writer's technique and ideas, guided writing ideas and evaluating the essay. Summing Up questions and writing assignments at the end of each chapter encourage critical thinking and provide innovative writing projects.




The Short Prose Reader


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The Short Prose Reader is a rhetorically organized reader that maintains the best features of the earlier editions: lively reading selections supported by helpful apparatus to integrate reading and writing in college composition and reading courses. In working through the text, the student progresses from key aspects of the writing and reading processes to chapters on the essential patterns of writing and then to more rigorous forms of analysis and argument. Each chapter provides diverse and lively prose models suited for discussion, analysis, and imitation.




The Short Prose Reader


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This is a collection of brief essays on sophisticated and compelling topics. Organized rhetorically, it provides a variety of writing styles and subjects that offer many options for instructors, and a nice balance of current and classic authors. 30 per cent of the essays in this edition are new. - An alternate thematic table of contents is provided. Opening chapters discuss the considerations important for good writing and active reading. - After each reading, five types of integrated questions focus on vocabulary, the writer's technique and ideas, guided writing assignments, and evaluating the essay. - Summing Up questions and writing assignments at the end of each chapter encourage critical thinking and provide innovative writing projects.




Short Prose Reader 9/E


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The Short Prose Reader


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Patterns Plus


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The Short Prose Reader with Student Access to Catalyst


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This rhetorically organized reader, maintains the best features of the earlier editions: lively reading selections supported by helpful apparatus to integrate reading and writing in college composition and reading courses. In working through the text, the student progresses from key aspects of the writing and reading processes to chapters on the essential patterns of writing and then to more rigorous forms of analysis and argument. Each chapter provides diverse and lively prose models suited for discussion, analysis, and imitation.




The Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader


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The Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader is process-oriented and based on interactive pedagogy; it combines creative, up-to-date writing instruction with traditional concerns for correctness, coherence, and clarity. Short, high-interest readings provide ideas for writing, suggest ways to approach a topic, and illustrate strategies for organizing and presenting information.




Patterns


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The Short Prose Reader


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This rhetorically organized, student-friendly reader includes short essays on a range of topics. Each selection is supported by exceptionally thorough and thoughtfully designed editorial apparatus that integrates reading, writing, and critical thinking. The quality, variety, and number of reading, writing, and thinking prompts provide students with ample support for reading and writing and can be adapted to a number of teaching approaches.