The Longman ReaderFeaturing the same superior teaching apparatus and thought-provoking selections as its widely-praised parent text, The Longman Reader, Brief Edition is a shorter and even more economical alternative to the best-selling, rhetorically-organized original, The Longman Reader. The Seventh Edition offers fresh examples of professional essays that range widely in subject matter and approach, from the humorous to the informative, from personal meditation to argument. Each selection captures students interest and clearly illustrates a specific pattern of development. The text also includes separate chapters on reading and writing, detailed introductions to the patterns of development, before and after student essays for each pattern, and more activities and assignments than any comparable reader. |
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... things being compared are alike ; and personification attributes human characteristics to inanimate things . The examples that follow show how effective figurative language can be in descriptive writing . Moving as jerkily as a ...
... things being compared are alike ; and personification attributes human characteristics to inanimate things . The examples that follow show how effective figurative language can be in descriptive writing . Moving as jerkily as a ...
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... things , dealing with the complications they create , and working madly to buy more things or pay for the things we already have . We devote a great deal of our lives to acquiring the material goods we imagine are essential to our well ...
... things , dealing with the complications they create , and working madly to buy more things or pay for the things we already have . We devote a great deal of our lives to acquiring the material goods we imagine are essential to our well ...
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... things on tape had become an obsession , and I was taping all the time . In the fourth stage , videoholism creeps ... things to occupy my time during the school week , cold sweats overcame me whenever I thought about everything on TV I ...
... things on tape had become an obsession , and I was taping all the time . In the fourth stage , videoholism creeps ... things to occupy my time during the school week , cold sweats overcame me whenever I thought about everything on TV I ...
Contents
THE READING PROCESS | 1 |
Ellen Goodman Family Counterculture | 6 |
THE WRITING PROCESS | 12 |
Copyright | |
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