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9780205171378
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Publisher
Pearson Education
ISBN-10
0205171370
ISBN-13
9780205171378
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71656342

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
288 Pages
Publication Name
Short Takes
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Subject
Rhetoric, Readers, Composition & Creative Writing
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Author
Elizabeth Penfield
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number
11
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2012-017749
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
808/.0427
Table Of Content
Freeze Frame: Reading and Writing Chapter 1: Description and Narration Lori Jakiela, "You'll Love the Way We Fly" Kelly Ruth Winter, "Tommy" Mary Roach, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: You Do Not Need Brains To Go To The Harvard Brain Bank, Only A Brain" Alex Abadi, "What Is So Close, Yet So Far, Alex?" (student selection) Flavius Stan, "The Night of Oranges" (student selection)* Matthew Gooi, Coming to America Magdoline Asfahani, "Time to Look and Listen" (student selection) Ann Telnaes, And Women Are Created Equal (editorial cartoon) Chapter 2: Example Lena Williams, "A Black Fan of Country Music Finally Tells All" Gina Barreca, Why English Professors Love Country Music Stacey Wilkins, "Stop Ordering Me Around" Allison Silverman, "Have Fun" Richard O'Mara, Baltimore Tales Chapter 3: Definition Diane Ackerman, "Chocolate Equals Love" Henry Han Xi Lau, "I Was a Member of the Kung Fu Crew" (student selection) William Raspberry, "The Handicap of Definition" Derek Jensen, High on Progress Rick Kirkman, Jerry Scott, "Baby Blues" (cartoon) Chapter 4: Comparison, Contrast, Division, and Classification Lynnika Butler, "Living on Tokyo Time" Frank Deford, Watching the Clock: A Sport All Its Own Denise Leight, "Playing House" (student selection) Wise Geek, What Are the Different Types of Social Networks John C. Abell, Five Reasons Why E-Books Aren't There Yet Frank Deford, "Who's Watching? Reality TV and Sports" David Pierce, Top Tablet Comparison: iPad vs. Xoom vs. TouchPad vs. Playbook Russell Baker, "The Plot Against People" Mike Twohy, "Very, Sort of, Very Sort of" (cartoon) Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker, "Dustin" (cartoon) Chapter 5: Process Laura Carlson, "Runner" (student selection) Kate Hopper,Becoming a Sanvicenteña: Five Stages Dave Barry, "Independence Day" Naomi Wolf, "A Woman's Place" Chapter 6: Cause and Effect Bjorn Skogquist, "Tiffany Stephenson - An Apology" (student selection) Oliver Sacks, "When Music Heals Body and Soul" Alexandar Reinaldo Perez, "On the Gettysburg Address" (student selection) Andrew Sullivan, "We Have Retreated into the iWorld" Visual: John Deering, "The Class of 2008" (cartoon) Chapter 7: On Using Argument Barbara Ehrenreich, "Dance, Dance, Revolution" Patricia J. Williams, "Freshman Specimen" Anne Applebaum, "Veiled Insult" Jay Bookman, "Guest Workers and the U.S. Heritage" Robert J. Samuelson, "We Don't Need 'Guest Workers'" Darrin Bell, "All These Illegal's," (comic strip) Steve Kelley, "Americans and Jobs" (cartoon) Sandra Steingraber, "When Cowboys Cry: In Today's Wild West, Energy Corporations are the New Outlaws" Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association, "Protecting the Environment" Mindy Lubber, "Drilling Down Deep" Signe Wilkinson "Would Madam Care for Water?" (cartoon) EnergyTomorrow.org, "With Smart Policies, Secure Supplies From the United States and Canada Could Provide 92% of America's Liquid Fuel Needs by 2030." (ad) Chapter 8: Multiple Modes: Two Topics, Six Views Place Johon Wideman, Life in 'My Town" Stuart Overlin, Paducah, Kentucky Mario Suarez, El Hoyo Freedom, Censorship, and Education Ursula LeGuin, "Whose Lathe?" Anna Quindlen, "With a No. 2 Pencil, Delete" Michael Chabon, "Solitude and the Fortress of Youth" Credits Index of Authors, Essays, and Terms
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
This lively collection of fifty-three short, readable selections by both student and professional writers provides useful models of the rhetorical modes. ¿ In addition to familiar names such as Barbara Ehrenreich, Richard Rodriguez, and William Raspberry, this reader features many fresh voices such as Anchee Min, Thomas Sowell, Anna Quindlen, Michael Chabon, and Dave Barry.¿¿ Detailed chapter openers¿offer strategies for using each rhetorical mode, including short examples from the readings within each chapter. Headnotes for each essay give a brief biography of its author, explain its context, and pinpoint one of the writer's techniques. Questions on "Organization and Ideas" and "Technique and Style" and many suggestions for writing journal entries and essays follow each selection. Each chapter ends with additional writing assignments that ask the reader to compare two or more of the essays., This lively collection of fifty-three short, readable selections by both student and professional writers provides useful models of the rhetorical modes. In addition to familiar names such as Barbara Ehrenreich, Richard Rodriguez, and William Raspberry, this reader features many fresh voices such as Anchee Min, Thomas Sowell, Anna Quindlen, Michael Chabon, and Dave Barry. Detailed chapter openers offer strategies for using each rhetorical mode, including short examples from the readings within each chapter. Headnotes for each essay give a brief biography of its author, explain its context, and pinpoint one of the writer's techniques. Questions on "Organization and Ideas" and "Technique and Style" and many suggestions for writing journal entries and essays follow each selection. Each chapter ends with additional writing assignments that ask the reader to compare two or more of the essays., This lively collection of fifty short, readable selections by both student and professional writers provides useful models of the rhetorical modes. In addition to familiar names such as Anna Quindlen, Richard Rodriguez, Dave Barry, and William Raspberry, this reader features many fresh voices such as Sandra Steingraber, Thomas Sowell, Michael Chabon, and Gina Barreca. Detailed chapter openers offer strategies for using each rhetorical mode, including short examples from the readings within each chapter. Headnotes for each essay give a brief biography of its author, explain its context, and pinpoint one of the writer's techniques. Questions on "Organization and Ideas" and "Technique and Style" and many suggestions for writing journal entries and essays follow each selection. Each chapter ends with additional writing assignments that ask students to compare two or more of the essays.
LC Classification Number
PE1417.P43 2012

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