The Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing (6th Edition)

Based on the assumption that lucid thinking, reading, and writing are so closely interwoven as to be one process, this rhetorical reader helps users improve their abilities to think, read, and write on progressively more sophisticated levels by providing a collection of 60 provocative, interesting, rhetorically organized 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. The reader explores all elements of reading, writing and thinking including description, narration, illustrating ideas, process analysis, division/classification, comparison/contrast, limiting the frame of reference, cause/effect and argument and persuasion. For individuals interested in exploring and expanding their abilities to think, read, and write.

• 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