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Tables of Contents for The Longman Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Thematic Contents
xix
Preface
xxvii
The Reading process
1
12
Get an Overview of the Selection
2
1
Deepen Your Sense of the Selection
3
1
Evaluate the Selection
4
9
Family Counterculture
6
7
Ellen Goodman
The Writing Process
13
70
Prewrite
14
17
Identify the Thesis
31
6
Support the Thesis With Evidence
37
9
Organize the Evidence
46
8
Write the First Draft
54
15
Revise the Essay
69
6
Student Essay
75
2
Commentary
77
6
Description
83
62
What Is Description?
83
1
How Description Fits Your Purpose and Audience
84
2
Suggestions for Using Description in an Essay
86
4
Student Essay
90
2
Commentary
92
4
Activities: Description
96
49
Flavio's Home
98
10
Gordon Park
In my day
108
8
Russel Baker
Sister Flowers
116
9
Maya Angelou
Once More to the Lake
125
9
E. B. White
A Partial Remembrance of A Puerto Rican Childhood
134
9
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Additional Writing Topics
143
2
Narration
145
52
What Is Narration?
145
1
How Narration Fits Your Purpose and Audience
146
1
Suggestions for Using Narration in an Essay
147
6
Student Essay
153
2
Commentary
155
3
Activities: Narration
158
39
The Fourth of July
160
7
Audre Loyde
Shooting An Elephant
167
9
George Orwell
The Chase
176
7
Annie Dillard
Salvation
183
5
Langston Hushes
So Tsi-Fai
188
7
Sophronia Liu
Additional Writing Topics
195
2
Exemplification
197
62
What Is Exemplification?
197
1
How Exemplification Fits Your Purpose and Audience
198
3
Suggestions for Using Exemplification in an Essay
201
5
Student Essay
206
2
Commentary
208
4
Activities: Exemplification
212
47
The ``Values'' Wasteland
214
11
Charles Sykes
Sexism and Language
225
9
Alleen Pace Nilsen
University Days
234
8
James Thurber
Bombs Bursting In Air
242
7
Beth Johnson
What I've Learned From Men
249
7
Barbara Ehrenreich
Additional Writing Topics
256
3
Division-Classification
259
66
What Is Division-Classification?
259
2
How Division-Classification Fits Your Purpose and Audience
261
2
Suggestions for Using Division-Classification in an Essay
263
5
Student Essay
268
4
Commentary
272
3
Activities: Division-Classification
275
50
Friends, Good Friends-And Such Good Friends
278
7
Judith Viorst
College Pressures
285
11
William Zinsser
Doublespeak
296
8
William Lutz
Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising
304
9
Ann McClintock
But What Do You Mean?
313
10
Deborah Tannen
Additional Writing Topics
323
2
Process Analysis
325
64
What Is Process Analysis?
325
1
How Process Analysis Fits Your Purpose and Audience
326
2
Suggestions for Using Process Analysis in an Essay
328
6
Student Essay
334
3
Commentary
337
3
Activities; Process Analysis
340
49
Your New Computer
343
7
Bill Bryson
Campus Racism 101
350
7
Nikki Giovanni
The American Way Of Death
357
8
Jessica Mitford
How To Say Nothing in 500 Words
365
15
Paul Roberts
The Fine Art of Complaining
380
7
Caroline Rego
Additional Writing Topics
387
2
Comparison-Contrast
389
48
What Is Comparison-Contrast?
389
1
How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience
390
1
Suggestions for Using Comparison-Contrast in an Essay
391
6
Student Essay
397
2
Commentary
399
4
Activities: Comparison-Contrast
403
34
A Fable for Tomorrow
405
4
Rachel Carson
That Lean and Hungry Look
409
5
Suzanne Britt
Workers
414
8
Richard Rodriguez
The Ugly Truth About Beauty
422
5
Dave Barry
The Prisoner's Dilemma
427
8
Stephen Chapman
Additional Writing Topics
435
2
Cause-Effect
437
52
What Is Cause-Effect?
437
1
How Cause-Effect Fits Your Purpose and Audience
438
1
Suggestions for Using Cause-Effect in an Essay
439
8
Student Essay
447
2
Commentary
449
4
Activities: Cause-Effect
453
36
Why We Crave Horror Movies
455
5
Stephen King
Showing What is Possible
460
7
Jacques D'Amboise
Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self
467
10
Alice Walker
The Lie Detector
477
5
Lewis Thomas
Is Technology Making Us Intimate Strangers?
482
5
Jonathan Coleman
Additional Writing Topics
487
2
Definition
489
48
What Is Definition?
489
1
How Definition Fits Your Purpose and Audience
490
1
Suggestions for Using Definition in an Essay
491
4
Student Essay
495
3
Commentary
498
3
Activities: Definition
501
36
Entropy
503
6
K. C. Cole
Life as Type A
509
7
James Gleick
``Mommy, What Does 'Nigger' Mean?''
516
6
Gloria Naylor
TV Addiction
522
7
Marie Winn
The Handicap of Definition
529
5
William Raspberry
Additional Writing Topics
534
3
Argumentation-Persuasion
537
122
What Is Argumentation-Persuasion?
537
1
How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience
538
5
Suggestions for Using Argumentation-Persuation in an Essay
543
19
Student Essay
562
7
Commentary
569
4
Activities: Argumentation-Persuasion
573
86
In Praise of the ``F'' Word
576
5
Mary Sherry
Let Tell This Story of All America's Cultures
581
6
Yuh Ji-Yeon
The Demanded Human Race
587
8
Mark Twain
A Modest Proposal
595
11
Jonathan Swift
Free Speech on Campus
606
9
Nat Hentoff
Examining an Issue: Date Rape
Rape: A Bigger Danger Than Feminists Know
615
7
Camille Paglia
Common Decency
622
6
Susan Jacoby
Examining an Issue: Cloning
Study Cloning, Don't Ban It
628
5
Daniel Kevles
Of Headless Mice... and Men
633
5
Charles Krauthammer
Examining an Issue: Affirmative Action
Racism has its Privileges
638
11
Roger Wilkins
Affirmative Action: The Price of Reference
649
8
Shelby Steele
Additional Writing Assignments
657
2
Combining the Patterns
659
32
The Patterns in Action: During the Writing Process
659
1
The Patterns in Action: In an Essay
660
31
The Death of the Moth
662
7
Virginia Woolf
Professions for Women
669
6
Virginia Woolf
Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos?
675
5
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The World House
680
5
Martin Luther King Jr.
On Going Home
685
3
Joan Didion
The Santa Ana
688
3
Joan Didion
APPENDIX: A CONCISE GUIDE TO FINDING AND DOCUMENTING SOURCES
691
28
Using the Library to Find Books on Your Subject
691
3
Using the Library to Find Reference Works on Your Subject
694
1
Using the Library to Find Articles on Your Subject
695
4
Using the Internet to Research Your Subject
699
6
Documenting Sources
705
1
What to Document
706
1
How to Document
706
5
List of Works Cited
711
8
Glossary
719
18
Acknowledgments
737
6
Index
743