The Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing - Softcover

Flachmann, Kim; Flachmann, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130293253 ISBN 13: 9780130293251

Publisher: Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

For courses in Freshman Composition.

Based on the assumption that lucid thinking, reading, and writing are so closely interwoven as to be one process, this rhetorical reader helps students improve their abilities to think, read, and write on progressively more sophisticated levels by providing a collection of 60 provocative and interesting essays. The essays are accompanied by apparatus that includes clear, well-developed rhetorical introductions, sample student essays, prewriting questions, and flexible writing assignments. The essays cover a broad range of contemporary topics and portray the universality of human experience as expressed through the viewpoints of men and women, many different ethnic and racial groups, and a variety of ages and social classes.

About this title

From the Back Cover

NEW FEATURES

• Fifteen new essays that introduce interesting and provocative topics
• A stronger commitment to cultural and gender diversity
• New end-of-chapter writing assignments that offer practice in the mode and additional assignments that focus on contemporary topics regardless of the rhetorical strategy
• Completely renovated capstone chapter ("Thinking, Reading, and Writing") that provides a strong conclusion to the theoretical framework of the text

COMPANION WEBSITE™
www.prenhall.com/flachmann

The companion website provides students with additional chapter by chapter exercises, links, and activities that reinforce and build upon the material presented in the text.

Features include:

• Additional essay and short answer questions for every reading in the text
• Web links that provide additional author biographical information
• Web destinations that relate to every essay topic
• Instructor area that includes downloadable quizzes for every reading

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130293253
• ISBN 13: 9780130293251
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 680