THE LONGMAN READER

Instructor's Manual for

THE LONGMAN

READER

SIXTH EDITION

Judith Nadell John Langan

Atlantic Community College

Eliza A. Comodromos

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Longman

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CONTENTS

TEACHING COMPOSITION WITH THE LONGMAN READER 1

A SUGGESTED SYLLABUS 9

ANSWERS FOR "THE WRITING PROCESS" CHAPTER 14

DESCRIPTION 18

Opening Comments 18 Answers for Prewriting Activities 19 Answers for Revising Activities 19 Gordon Parks, Flavio's Home 20 Russell Baker, In My Day 22 Maya Angelou, Sister Flowers 24 E. B. White, Once More to the Lake 28 Judith Ortiz Cofer, A Partial Remembrance of a

Puerto Rican Childhood 30

NARRATION 35

Opening Comments 35 Answers for Prewriting Activities 36 Answers for Revising Activities 37 Audre Lorde, The Fourth of July 38 George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant 41 Annie Dillard, The Chase 43 Langston Hughes, Salvation 47 Sophronia Liu, So Tsi-Fai 48

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EXEMPLIFICATION 52

Opening Comments 52 Answers for Prewriting Activities 52 Answers for Revising Activities 53 Charles Sykes, The "Values" Wasteland 54 Alleen Pace Nilsen, Sexism and Language 57 James Thurber, University Days 59 Beth Johnson, Bombs Bursting in Air 61 Barbara Ehrenreich, What I've Learned

From Men 64

DIVISION-CLASSIFICATION 68

Opening Comments 68 Answers for Prewriting Activities 69 Answers for Revising Activities 71 Judith Viorst, Friends, Good Friends--and Such

Good Friends 72 William Zinsser, College Pressures 74 William Lutz, Doublespeak 76 Ann McClintock, Propaganda Techniques

in Today's Advertising 79 Deborah Tannen, But What do You Mean? 81

PROCESS ANALYSIS 85

Opening Comments 85 Answers for Prewriting Activities 85 Answers for Revising Activities 86 Bill Bryson, Your New Computer 87 Nikki Giovanni, Campus Racism 101 90 Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death 92 Paul Roberts, How to Say Nothing in

500 Words 95 Caroline Rego, The Fine Art of Complaining 97

COMPARISON-CONTRAST 100

Opening Comments 100 Answers for Prewriting Activities 100 Answers for Revising Activities 101 Rachel Carson, A Fable for Tomorrow 102

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Suzanne Britt, That Lean and Hungry Look 103 Richard Rodriguez, Workers 104 Dave Barry, The Ugly Truth About Beauty 106 Stephen Chapman, The Prisoner's Dilemma 111

CAUSE-EFFECT 115

Opening Comments 115 Answers for Prewriting Activities 116 Answers for Revising Activities 117 Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies 118 Jacques D'Amboise, Showing What Is Possible 123 Alice Walker, Beauty: When the Other Dancer

Is the Self 125 Lewis Thomas, The Lie Detector 126 Jonathan Coleman, Is Technology Making Us

Intimate Strangers? 127

DEFINITION 131

Opening Comments 131 Answers for Prewriting Activities 131 Answers for Revising Activities 132 K. C. Cole, Entropy 133 James Gleick, Life As Type A 135 Gloria Naylor, "Mommy, What Does

`Nigger' Mean?" 137 Marie Winn, TV Addiction 141 William Raspberry, The Handicap

of Definition 142

ARGUMENTATION-PERSUASION 146

Opening Comments 146 Answers for Prewriting Activities 148 Answers for Revising Activities 149 Mary Sherry, In Praise of The "F" Word 151 Yuh Ji-Yeon, Let's Tell the Story of All America's

Cultures 154 Mark Twain, The Damned Human Race 157 Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal 159 Nat Hentoff, Free Speech on Campus 160

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Camille Paglia, Rape: A Bigger Danger Than Feminists Know 164

Susan Jacoby, Common Decency 167 Daniel Kevles, Study Cloning, Don't Ban It 170 Charles Krauthammer, Of Headless Mice . . . and

Men 173 Roger Wilkins, Racism Has Its Privileges 175 Shelby Steele, Affirmative Action: The Price

of Preference 179

COMBINING THE PATTERNS 182

Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women 182 Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From

Here: Community or Chaos? 183 The World House 184 Joan Didion, On Going Home 184 The Santa Ana 185

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