This classic, best-selling reader focuses on the modes of writing--offering an abundance of interesting and appealing essays and varied writing assignments to help readers develop skill in using each rhetorical mode. Features 64 readings--organized according to rhetorical mode and level of difficulty--ranging from classic to contemporary selections, and including essays written by women and minority writers. Supporting content includes separate chapters on How to Read an Essay; How to Write an Essay; and Revision; and a section on "Gathering, Using, and Documenting Sources" (including finding, using, and documenting electronic sources). Features examples of revision done by professional writers showing early drafts as well as final versions of their published works, including a case study of a revision that follows an essay from journal entries to published format--with an interview with the author. For anyone interested in gaining writing proficiency in the various rhetorical modes.
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THE COMPANION WEBSITE is the largest, most extensive website of any read. Among its highlights, the site features hotlinks, additional background information on the readings, writing assignments, and practice using web-based materials. Additionally, each chapter in the text features activities and suggestions related to material on the website.
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Preface
The Prentice Hall Reader is predicated on two premises: that reading plays a vital role in learning how to write and that writing and reading can best be organized around the traditional division of discourse into a number of structural patterns. Such a division is not the only way that the forms of writing can be classified, but it does have several advantages.
First, practice in these structural patterns encourages students to organize knowledge and to see the ways in which information can be conveyed. How else does the mind know except by classifying, comparing, defining, or seeking cause and effect relationships? Second, the most common use of these patterns occurs in writing done in academic courses. There students are asked to narrate a chain of events, to describe an artistic style, to classify plant forms, to compare two political systems, to tell how a laboratory experiment was performed, to analyze why famine occurs in Africa, to define a philosophical concept, or to argue for or against building a space station. Learning how to structure papers using these patterns is an exercise that has immediate application in students' other academic work. Finally, because the readings use these patterns as structural devices, they offer an excellent way in which to integrate reading into a writing course. Students can see the patterns at work and learn how to use them to become more effective writers and better, more efficient readers.
WHAT IS NEW IN THE SIXTH EDITION
The sixth edition of The Prentice Hall Reader features 57 selections, 17 of which are new, and another 11 papers written by student writers. As in the previous editions, the readings are chosen on the basis of several criteria: how well they demonstrate a particular pattern of organization, appeal to a freshman audience, and promote interesting and appropriate discussion and writing activities.
The sixth edition of The Prentice Hall Reader includes a number of new features:
The sixth edition retains and improves some of the popular student features from earlier editions:
OTHER DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THIS TEXT
PROSE IN REVISION
As every writing instructor knows, getting students to revise is never easy. Having finished a paper, most students do not want to see it again, let alone revise it. Furthermore, for many students revising means making word substitutions and correcting grammatical and mechanical errors—changes that instructors regard as proofreading, not revising. To help make the need for revision more vivid and to show how writers revise, the Prentice Hall Reader includes three features:
SELECTIONS
The sixth edition of The Prentice Hall Reader offers instructors flexibility in choosing readings. No chapter has fewer than five selections and most have six or more. The readings are scaled in terms of length and sophistication. The selections in each chapter begin with a student essay and the selections from professional writers are arranged so that they increase in length and in difficulty and sophistication.
WRITING SUGGESTIONS
Each reading is followed by four writing suggestions: the first is a journal writing suggestion; the second calls for a paragraph-length response; the third, an essay; and the fourth, an essay involving research. Each of the suggestions is related to the content of the reading and each calls for a response in the particular pattern or mode being studied. The material in the Annotated Instructor's Edition includes a fifth writing suggestion for each reading, bringing the total number of writing suggestions in the sixth edition to nearly 300. Even more writing suggestions can be found at the Prentice Hall Reader Website http://www.prenhall.com/miller.
INTRODUCTIONS
The introduction to each chapter offers clear and succinct advice to the student on how to write that particular type of paragraph or essay. The introductions anticipate questions, provide answers, and end with a checklist, titled "Some Things to Remember," to remind students of the major concerns they should have when writing.
HOW TO READ AN ESSAY
The first introductory section offers advice on how to read an essay, following prereading, reading and rereading models. A sample analysis of an essay by Lewis Thomas shows how to use this reading model to prepare an essay for class.
HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY
The section, "How to Write an Essay," offers an overview of every stage of the writing process, starting with advice on how to define a subject, purpose, and audience and an explanation of a variety of prewriting techniques. The section also shows students how to write a thesis statement, how to decide where to place that statement in an essay, and how to approach the problems of revising an essay. Finally it contains a student essay as well as two drafts of the student's two opening paragraphs.
ANNOTATED INSTRUCTOR'S EDITION
An annotated edition of The Prentice Hall Reader is available to instructors. Each of the selections in the text is annotated with
INSTRUCTOR'S QUIZ BOOKLET
A separate Instructor's Quiz Booklet for The Prentice Hall Reader is available from your Prentice Hall representative. The booklet contains two quizzes for each selection in the reader—one on content and the other on vocabulary. Each quiz has five multiple-choice questions. The quizzes are intended to be administered and graded quickly. They provide the instructor with a brief and efficient means of testing the student's ability to extract significant ideas from the readings and of demonstrating his or her understanding of certain vocabulary words as they are used in the essays. Keys to both content and vocabulary quizzes are included at the back of the Quiz Booklet.
TEACHING WRITING WITH "THE PRENTICE HALL READER"
A separate manual on planning the writing and the reading in a composition course is available from your Prentice Hall representative. Primarily addressed to the new graduate teaching assistant or the adjunct instructor, the manual includes sections on teaching the writing process, including how to use prewriting activities, to conference, to design and implement collaborative learning activities, and to grade. In addition, it provides advice on how to plan a class discussion of a reading and how to avoid pointless discussions. An appendix contains an index to all of the activities and questions in The Prentice Hall Reader that involve grammatical, mechanical, sentence- or paragraph-level subjects, three additional sample syllabi, and a variety of sample course materials including self-assessment sheets, peer editing worksheets, and directions for small group activities.
"THE PRENTICE HALL READER" WEBSITE
The Reader has an extensive Website that includes additional resources for both the student and the instructor for every essay in the Reader. The Website is divided into sections on Related Readings (print or on-line documents that are related to the topic under discussion or to the author), Background Information, Web Resources (with hot-linked sites so that the students can immediately access these sites), and Additional Writing Suggestions. Each chapter also has writing tasks that involve examining Websites and documents. The Website adds a new dimension to the Reader and allows instructors to integrate the World Wide Web into their freshman English courses. Additional student essays are also available there and you can submit the best of your students' work for inclusion as well!
George Miller
University of Delaware
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