Purposes Pocket Reader
Published on 9. November 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-0-13-228161-4 (ISBN)
Description
Each essay in the Purposes pocket reader has withstood the test of time and teaching, making it the perfect companion for any writing course. A Prentice Hall Pocket Reader is the perfect way to bring additional readings to writing courses. Can be packaged with any Prentice Hall English text, but it is also available to students as a stand-alone reader.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
154 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-228161-4 (9780132281614)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Observing
Annie Dillard, "Lenses"
Roland Barthes and Anna Quindlen, "Toys" and "Barbie at 35"
Jack London, "The San Francisco Earthquake"
Remembering
Judith Cofer, "Marina"
Sherman Alexie, "Autobiography"
Scott Russell Sanders, "The Men We Carry in Our Minds"
Investigating
Karen W. Arenson, "Reading Statistical Tea Leaves"
Fox Butterfield, "Why They Excel"
Eric Schlosser, "Kid Kustomer"
Explaining
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, "The Origins of Anorexia Nervosa"
Paul Gray, "Lies, Lies, Lies"
Stuart Hirshberg, "The Rhetoric of Advertising"
Evaluating
Margaret Lazarus, "All's Not Well in Land of 'The Lion King' "
Alan Pratt, "Andy Warhol: The Most Controversial Artist of the Twentieth Century?"
Gilbert Highet, "The Gettysburg Address"
Problem Solving
Bill McKibben, "It's Easy Being Green"
Stephen King, "On Writing"
Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
Arguing
Nat Hentoff, " 'Speech Codes' on the Campus and Problems of Free Speech"
Stanley Fish, "The Free-Speech Follies"
Stuart Taylor Jr., "It's Time to Junk the Double Standard on Free Speech"
Tim Robbins, "A Chill Wind is Blowing in This Nation"
Annie Dillard, "Lenses"
Roland Barthes and Anna Quindlen, "Toys" and "Barbie at 35"
Jack London, "The San Francisco Earthquake"
Remembering
Judith Cofer, "Marina"
Sherman Alexie, "Autobiography"
Scott Russell Sanders, "The Men We Carry in Our Minds"
Investigating
Karen W. Arenson, "Reading Statistical Tea Leaves"
Fox Butterfield, "Why They Excel"
Eric Schlosser, "Kid Kustomer"
Explaining
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, "The Origins of Anorexia Nervosa"
Paul Gray, "Lies, Lies, Lies"
Stuart Hirshberg, "The Rhetoric of Advertising"
Evaluating
Margaret Lazarus, "All's Not Well in Land of 'The Lion King' "
Alan Pratt, "Andy Warhol: The Most Controversial Artist of the Twentieth Century?"
Gilbert Highet, "The Gettysburg Address"
Problem Solving
Bill McKibben, "It's Easy Being Green"
Stephen King, "On Writing"
Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
Arguing
Nat Hentoff, " 'Speech Codes' on the Campus and Problems of Free Speech"
Stanley Fish, "The Free-Speech Follies"
Stuart Taylor Jr., "It's Time to Junk the Double Standard on Free Speech"
Tim Robbins, "A Chill Wind is Blowing in This Nation"