... 62 George Steiner The Future of Reading 82 Richard Selzer The Discus Thrower 119 Elizabeth Wong The Struggle to Be an ... Valve 248 Elizabeth Janeway Soaps , Cynicism , and Mind Control Anne Roiphe Why Marriages Fail 353 Linda Bird ...
... Fail 361 Linda Bird Francke The Ambivalence of Abortion 382 Susan Jacoby When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is " A Waste of Time " 393 Judy Syfers I Want a Wife 407 The Minority Experience Malcolm X Prison Studies 63 Elizabeth Wong ...
This book presents brief, lively essays meant to spur ideas for writing, suggest ways to approach a topic, and illustrate methods for organizing and presenting information.
Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster from Close to Home by Ellen Goodman . Copyright © 1979 by The Washington Post Company . Hemingway , Ernest . “ Camping Out ” is reprinted with permission of Scribner , a Division of ...
... ONLINE TOOL FOR WRITING & RESEARCH The Short Prose Reader gives students access to a Catalyst 2.0powered Web site at www.mhhe.com/shortprose . ... Additional resources on authors whose work appears in The Short Prose Reader .
... of Simon & Schuster , Inc. Patricia Cayo Sexton , " Backdrop of Poverty , " from pages 1-2 in Spanish Harlem : Anatomy of Poverty by Patricia Cayo Sexton . Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row , Publishers , Inc. John Slote , " The ...
In working through the text, the student progresses from key aspects of the writing and reading processes to chapters on the essential patterns of writing and then to more rigorous forms of analysis and argument.
Five types of questions following each reading focus on vocabulary, the writer's technique and ideas, guided writing ideas and evaluating the essay.
The Short Prose Reader is a rhetorically organized reader that maintains the best features of the earlier editions: lively reading selections supported by helpful apparatus to integrate reading and writing in college composition and reading ...
The Short Prose Reader
The Short Prose Reader