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The Short Prose Reader with Student Access to Catalyst
This rhetorically organized reader, maintains the best features of the earlier lively reading selections supported by helpful apparatus to integrate reading and writing in college composition and reading courses. 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. Each chapter provides diverse and lively prose models suited for discussion, analysis, and imitation.
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Published July 27, 2005
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November 18, 2012
I came across a 1987 edition of this and bought it because I enjoy essays and sometimes am needing books to give to my ESL students who have big dreams. Even though this is a text book, most of the essays are very engaging. Though short, their language is too sophisticated for ESL students. I'm going to pass it on to a friend my age. Several of the essays are timeless (Langston Hughes' "Salvation," Ray Bradbury's "Tricks! Treats! Gangway!" among others) but many are dated. A number of the essays are humorous takes on society or situations. I would gladly pick up a later edition to see what it now includes. If the editorial slant remained the same, I'm sure it would be enjoyable.
November 3, 2017
I have read through these stories for my college English class, and I have to say, I really love how this was set up. With the introduction before the short essays, and the many questions afterwards that help to understand the essays more. My favorite was "What I've learned from Men" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Also I have the 13th edition, so I'm not sure if that story appears in other editions of this.
Also I have the 13th edition, so I'm not sure if that story appears in other editions of this.
July 14, 2010
This was the book for my English Comp. class I had to take to fulfill my General Ed. Requirement for school. I figured I'd read so much of it, I might as well finish and be able to put it on here. I have to say, I'm actually a fan of the short essay and short essays. Is my attention span just getting shorter as I get older? Definitely Possible! But I did thoroughly enjoy it. Thank you Professor!
September 23, 2010
Some stories were better than others. Good choice for my English class though.
October 13, 2021
This is more useful for those who wants to find tools on essay writing. With activities on guided writing. I found the first four chapters of this book which was what I wanted.
January 22, 2016
Too textbook-like to enjoy.
January 21, 2018
This is a review of the (I think) second edition, published in 1982. My copy is also a very poorly put together paperback and not a hardback, but this was the closest edition to mine that I could find here on Goodreads. I have not been able to find a picture of the cover online and I don't currently have a working camera, so I can't take a photo of mine. Sorry. It's various colored thin rectangles that look like book silhouettes against a dark blue background.
This is an incredibly boring book. I'd read an essay or two to help get me drowsy enough to fall asleep. The notations in the margins made by a previous owner were more interesting. If you really want to knock yourself out, read the questions after the essays, too. And answer them any way you like. There are no right answers, apparently, since no answer list (or even a hint of one) appears in this book. So I'm not sure how well it can teach anybody anything -- except maybe how not to put an anthology together, I guess.
The glue holding the spine was deteriorating before I got my copy so every now and then things would liven up when the book would slip out of my hands and burst into a pile of very large pieces of confetti. The book now helps holds the air filter for my goldfish aquarium. That's the best use for it I could find -- other than sticking it in the recycle bin. There's a nice Ray Bradbury essay and one by Hemingway and that's about all she wrote, folks.
This is an incredibly boring book. I'd read an essay or two to help get me drowsy enough to fall asleep. The notations in the margins made by a previous owner were more interesting. If you really want to knock yourself out, read the questions after the essays, too. And answer them any way you like. There are no right answers, apparently, since no answer list (or even a hint of one) appears in this book. So I'm not sure how well it can teach anybody anything -- except maybe how not to put an anthology together, I guess.
The glue holding the spine was deteriorating before I got my copy so every now and then things would liven up when the book would slip out of my hands and burst into a pile of very large pieces of confetti. The book now helps holds the air filter for my goldfish aquarium. That's the best use for it I could find -- other than sticking it in the recycle bin. There's a nice Ray Bradbury essay and one by Hemingway and that's about all she wrote, folks.
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