Purposes Pocket Reader
7th Edition
Published on 28. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-13-225069-6 (ISBN)
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Edition
7th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
163 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-225069-6 (9780132250696)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Observing.
Lenses Annie Dillard.
Toys Roland Barthes.
Barbie at 35 Anna Quindlen.
The San Francisco Earthquake Jack London.
2. Remembering.
Marina Judith Ortiz Cofer.
The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me ShermanJ. Alexie Jr.
The Men We Carry in Our Minds Scott Russell Sanders.
3. Investigating.
Reading Statistical Tea Leaves Karen W. Arenson.
Why They Excel Fox Butterfield.
Kid Kustomers Eric Schlosser.
4. Explaining.
The Origins of Anorexia Nervosa Joan Jacobs Brumberg.
Lies, Lies, Lies Paul Gray.
The Rhetoric of Advertising Stuart Hirschberg.
5. Evaluating.
All's Not Well in Land of "The Lion King" Margaret Lazarus.
Andy Warhol: The Most Controversial Artist of the Twentieth Century? Alan Pratt.
The Gettysburg Address Gilbert Highet.
6. Problem Solving.
It's Easy Being Green Bill McKibben.
On Writing Stephen King.
A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift.
7. Arguing.
"Speech Codes" on the Campus and the Problems of Free Speech Nat Hentoff.
The Free-Speech Folllies Stanley Fish.
It's Time to Junk the Double Standard of Free Speech Stuart Taylor Jr.
A Chill Wind Is Blowing in This Nation Tim Robbins.
Credits.
Lenses Annie Dillard.
Toys Roland Barthes.
Barbie at 35 Anna Quindlen.
The San Francisco Earthquake Jack London.
2. Remembering.
Marina Judith Ortiz Cofer.
The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me ShermanJ. Alexie Jr.
The Men We Carry in Our Minds Scott Russell Sanders.
3. Investigating.
Reading Statistical Tea Leaves Karen W. Arenson.
Why They Excel Fox Butterfield.
Kid Kustomers Eric Schlosser.
4. Explaining.
The Origins of Anorexia Nervosa Joan Jacobs Brumberg.
Lies, Lies, Lies Paul Gray.
The Rhetoric of Advertising Stuart Hirschberg.
5. Evaluating.
All's Not Well in Land of "The Lion King" Margaret Lazarus.
Andy Warhol: The Most Controversial Artist of the Twentieth Century? Alan Pratt.
The Gettysburg Address Gilbert Highet.
6. Problem Solving.
It's Easy Being Green Bill McKibben.
On Writing Stephen King.
A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift.
7. Arguing.
"Speech Codes" on the Campus and the Problems of Free Speech Nat Hentoff.
The Free-Speech Folllies Stanley Fish.
It's Time to Junk the Double Standard of Free Speech Stuart Taylor Jr.
A Chill Wind Is Blowing in This Nation Tim Robbins.
Credits.