The Short Prose Reader - Softcover

Muller, Gilbert; Wiener, Harvey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072292636 ISBN 13: 9780072292633

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1999

Synopsis

Now in its Ninth Edition, The Short Prose Reader is a superb rhetorically organized collection of high-interest, brief essays (no more than 3 pages each) combined with extensive support for reading and writing, including focused, step-by-step suggestions for writing essays on topics suggested by the readings.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Fifteen New Essays: Including authors such as Vivian Gornick, Robert C. Ritchie, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Molly Ivins.
Brief and Current: The lively selections address topics such as childhood and the family, men and women, the minority experience, and language and thought.
Apparatus: Each reading is supported by prereading questions, vocabulary help, critical thinking questions, and a unique Ideas for Writing section that gives students specific, step-by-step suggestions for prewriting and drafting an essay on a topic suggested by the reading as well as questions to consider when commenting on their classmates' essays.
Introduction to the Writing Process: Chapter 1 offers a sample student essay that evolves from prewriting to the final draft and four lively professional essays on the topic of writing.
Critical Reading: Chapter 2 includes guidelines for critical reading, an annotated professional essay, and essays that celebrate the experience of reading, including One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty and Prison Studies by Malcolm X.
Contemporaries and Classics: Two sections in Chapter 12, Prose for Further Reading, offer widely taught classic essays, including The Allegory of the Cave by Plato and I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr., along with six modern essays by such distinguished contemporary author as Annie Dillard, Scott Russell Sanders, and Jamaica Kincaid.

About the Author:

Gilbert H. Muller, who received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University, is currently professor of English and Special Assistant to the President at the LaGuardia campus of the City University of New York. He has also taught at Stanford University, Vassar College, and several universities overseas. Dr. Muller is the author of the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery OConnor and the Catholic Grotesque, Chester Himes , and other critical studies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He is also a noted author and editor of textbooks in English and composition, including The Short Prose Reader with Harvey Wiener, and with John A Williams, The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Literature, Bridges: Literature across Cultures, and Ways In: Reading and Writing about Literature. Among Dr. Mullers awards are National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0072292636
• ISBN 13: 9780072292633
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496