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Short Takes, 10/E
Elizabeth Penfield

ISBN-10: 0205725473
ISBN-13:  9780205725472

Publisher:  Longman
Copyright:  2010
Format:  Paper; 320 pp
Published:  06/18/2009
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Description

This lively collection of fifty-three short, readable selections by both student and professional writers provides useful models of the rhetorical modes.

 

In addition to familiar names such as Barbara Ehrenreich, Richard Rodriguez, and William Raspberry, this reader features many fresh voices such as Anchee Min, Thomas Sowell, Anna Quindlen, Michael Chabon, and Dave Barry.   Detailed chapter openers offer strategies for using each rhetorical mode, including short examples from the readings within each chapter. Headnotes for each essay give a brief biography of its author, explain its context, and pinpoint one of the writer’s techniques. Questions on “Organization and Ideas” and “Technique and Style” and many suggestions for writing journal entries and essays follow each selection. Each chapter ends with additional writing assignments that ask students to compare two or more of the essays.


Features

  • “Freeze Frame: Reading and Writing,” a brief section that introduces students to the principles of critical reading and writing, opens the text.
  • Fifty-three short, engaging, accessible reading selections are included, along with helpful introductions to each rhetorical pattern.
  • Headnotes for each selection describe the author, give some context for the reading, and point to at least one notable stylistic feature of the selection.
  • Includes questions on organization, ideas, technique, and style after each selection, engaging students to think critically about the readings.
  • For each selection, a number of topics for writing journal entries and essays are provided.
  • Each chapter concludes with more writing suggestions that encourage students to compare two or more of the selections in the book and also to practice writing in each rhetorical mode. 
  • Selections in Chapter 10, For Further Reading: Two Topics, Six Views," presents six essays with different views on two topics: reality and television; and censorship and education. Students can use these essays to practice how to synthesize differing perspectives and information so that they can respond critically and construct their own arguments.
  • An alternate thematic table of contents is provided.
  • The Instructor’s Manual includes key words and phrases for each essay, suggestions for group work, and additional writing suggestions keyed to the thematic table of contents.


New To This Edition

  • This new edition includes about 20 new selections (out of a total of 53), including new selections by such notable authors as Anna Quindlen, Barbara Ehrenreich, Garrison Keillor, Michael Chabon, and others.
  • Chapters 9 (On Using Argument) & 10 (For Further Reading: Two Issues, Six Views) are almost entirely new, with selections that touch on wide-ranging, compelling issues, such as: guest worker and immigration policies, religious freedom in the workplace, censorship of artistic expression, and connections between binge drinking behavior and the legal drinking age.
  • This edition includes a few longer, more academic selections, notably in Chapters 9 & 10.
  • The "Freeze Frame" introduction, which provides an overview of basic reading strategies and the writing process, has been revised and updated to include a sample of annotated reading (to demonstrate critical, interactive reading) and also a sample of a draft and revised sample paragraph (to demonstrate the revision stage of the writing process). 
  • Chapter introductions for Chapters 1-9 are more concise and readable, and these also now include more examples, drawing from the readings within that respective chapter.  
  • Seven visual selections now comment on and add to the essays included in this new edition.      


Table of Contents

(* = readings that are new to this edition)

 

Freeze Frame: Reading and Writing

 

Chapter 1: On Using Description

 

*Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Summer Wind”

Jason Holland, “The Bridge” (student selection)

*Kelly Ruth Winter, "Tommy”

*Lori Jakiela, ”You’ll Love the Way We Fly”

Mario Suarez, “El Hoyo” 

 

Chapter 2: On Using Narration

 

* Pete Dexter, “A Fowl Trick”

Meg Gifford, “Learning, then College” (student selection)

Flavius Stan, “The Night of Oranges” (student selection)

Magdoline Asfahani, “Time to Look and Listen” (student selection)

Anchee Min, “Footprints on the Flag”

*Visual:  Ann Telnaes,  “The Flag” (cartoon)

 

Chapter 3: On Using Example

 

Michael Barlow, “Sweatin’ for Nothin’” (student selection)

* Allison Silverman, “Have Fun”

Stacey Wilkins, “Stop Ordering Me Around”

Lena Williams, “A Black Fan of Country Music Finally Tells All”

Michiko Kakutani, “Bananas for Rent”

 

Chapter 4: On Using Definition 

 

Diane Ackerman, “Chocolate Equals Love”

Henry Han Xi Lau, “I Was a Member of the Kung Fu Crew” (student selection)

*Cecilia Munoz, “Getting Angry Can Be a Good Thing”

William Raspberry, “The Handicap of Definition”

Thomas Sowell, “Crippled by Their Culture”

*Visual: Dave Coverley, “Speed Bump” (cartoon)

 

Chapter 5: On Using Comparison and Contrast

 

Lynnika Butler, “Living on Tokyo Time”

Frank Deford, “Who’s Watching? Reality TV and Sports”

Denise Leight, “Playing House” (student selection)

*Cheryl Merrill, ”Singing Like Yma Sumac”

Danna Harman, “World and America Watching Different Wars”

 

Chapter 6: On Using Division and Classification

 

*Marion Winik, “What Are Friends For?”

Russell Baker, “The Plot Against People”

Michelle Higgins, “The Search for Human Life in the Maze of Retail Stores”

Richard Rodriguez, “Desert Religions”

 

Chapter 7: On Using Process

 

Laura Carlson, “Runner” (student selection)

Dave Barry, “Independence Day”

*Garrison Keillor, “How to Write a Letter”

Naomi Wolf, “A Woman’s Place”

 

Chapter 8: On Using Cause and Effect

 

Bjorn Skogquist, “Tiffany Stephenson – An Apology” (student selection)

Brent Staples, “Black Men and Public Space”

Oliver Sacks, “When Music Heals Body and Soul”

*Samantha Power, “Technology’s Power to Narrow Our View”

Andrew Sullivan, “We Have Retreated into the iWorld”

*Visual: John Deering, “The Class of 2008” (cartoon)

 

Chapter 9: On Using Argument

 

*Barbara Ehrenreich, “Dance, Dance, Revolution”

*Anne Applebaum, “Veiled Insult”

*John Cloud, “Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered?”

*Debra J. Saunders, “Old Enough to Vote, Old Enough to Drink,”

 *Visuals:

   Chip Bok, “College Life” (cartoon)

   Adrian Raeside, “The Other Coast” (comic strip)

Jay Bookman, “Guest Workers and the U.S. Heritage”

Robert J. Samuelson, “We Don’t Need ‘Guest Workers’”

Visuals:

    Darrin Bell, “All These Illegals,” (comic strip)

    Steve Kelley, “Americans and Jobs” (cartoon)

 

Chapter 10: For Further Reading: Two Topics, Six Views

 

On Reality and Television

 

*Anna Quindlen, “Watching the World Go By”

*James Poniewozik, “Ugly, the American”

*Amelia Meyer, “Queens of the hills” (student selection)

 

On Freedom and Censorship

 

*Ursula LeGuin, "Whose Lathe?" 

*Anna Quindlen, “With a No. 2 Pencil, Delete”

*Michael Chabon, “Solitude and the Fortress of Youth”

 

Credits

Index of Authors, Essays, and Terms


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  • Short Takes, 9/E
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    ©2007  |  Longman  |  Paper; 368 pp  |  Out of Print
    ISBN-10: 0321488156  |  ISBN-13: 9780321488152
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