Name: The Short Prose Reader By Gilbert Muller
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The Short Prose Reader by Gilbert Muller

Now in its Ninth Edition, The Short Prose Reader is a superb rhetorically organized collection of high-interest, brief essays (no more than 3 pages each) combined with extensive support for reading and writing, including focused, step-by-step suggestions for writing essays on topics suggested by the readings.

About Gilbert Muller

Gilbert H. Muller, who received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University, is currently professor of English and Special Assistant to the President at the LaGuardia campus of the City University of New York. He has also taught at Stanford University, Vassar College, and several universities overseas. Dr. Muller is the author of the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery OConnor and the Catholic Grotesque, Chester Himes , and other critical studies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He is also a noted author and editor of textbooks in English and composition, including The Short Prose Reader with Harvey Wiener, and with John A Williams, The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Literature, Bridges: Literature across Cultures, and Ways In: Reading and Writing about Literature. Among Dr. Mullers awards are National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship. Harvey S. Wiener is currently affiliated with Marymount Manhattan College after serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Adelphi University. Previously University Dean for Academic Affairs, the City University of New York, he was founding president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Dr. Wiener is the author of many books on reading and writing for college students and their teachers, including The Writing Room (Oxford, 1981). He is co-author of The McGraw-Hill College Handbook, a reference grammar and rhetoric text. Dr. Wiener has chaired the Teaching of Writing Division of the Modern Language Association (1987). He has taught writing at every level of education from elementary school to graduate school. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brooklyn College, he holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature. Dr. Wiener has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, and the Exxon Education Foundation.

CHAPTER 1: On WritingKurt Vonnegut, Jr.: How to Write with Style*Walter W. Benjamin: When an A Meant SomethingAmy Tan: Mother TongueWilliam Zinsser: SimplicityCHAPTER 2: On ReadingEudora Welty: Moon on a Silver SpoonMalcolm X: Prison StudiesEllen Tashie Frisina: See Spot Run: Teaching My Grandmother to Read*Vivian Gornick: Apostles of the Faith That Books MatterCHAPTER 3: Descripton Louise Erdrich: The Blue Jay's DanceMaxine Hong Kingston: Catfish in the BathtubRichard Selzer: The Discus Thrower*Mary Cantwell: The Burden of a Happy ChildhoodCHAPTER 4: NarrationElizabeth Wong: The Struggle to Be an All-American GirlLangston Hughes: SalvationGeorge Orwell: A Hanging*Grace Paley: TravellingCHAPTER 5: IllustrationBrent Staples: Night Walker*Barbara Ehrenreich: What I've Learned From MenJames Popkin with Katia Hetter: America's Gambling CrazeLewis Thomas: Death in the OpenCHAPTER 6: Comparison and ContrastRachel Carson: A Fable for Tomorrow*Robert C. Ritchie: The Coast with the MostEllen Goodman: The Tapestry of FriendshipsMichele Ingrassia: The Body of the BeholderCHAPTER 7: DefinitionJanice Castro with Dan Cook and Cristina Garcia: SpanglishSuzanne Britt Jordan: Fun, Oh Boy. Fun. You Could Die from It.Gloria Naylor: A Word's Meaning*Kirk Johnson: Today's Kids Are, Like, Killing the English Language, Yeah, RightCHAPTER 8: ClassifcationJudith Viorst: Friends, Good Friends-and Such Good FriendsE.B. White: The Three New YorksJames T. Baker: How Do We Find the Student in a World of Academic Gymnasts and Worker Ants?*William Golding: Thinking as a HobbyCHAPTER 9: Process Analysis*Jerrold G. Simon: How to Write a ResumeRussell Baker: Slice of LifeErnest Hemingway: Camping OutHenry Louis Gates, Jr.: In the KitchenCHAPTER 10: Cause-and-Effect AnalysisStephen King: Why We Crave Horror MoviesAnnie Roiphe: Why Marriages Fail*Nancy Shute: Why Do We Age?Susan Jacoby: When Bright Girls Decide That Math is a Waste of TimeCHAPTER 11: Argument and Persuasion*Molly Ivins: Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of GunsJudy Brady: I Want a WifeMotimer B. Zuckerman: The Case for More CopsJonathan Kozol: Are the Homeless Crazy?CHAPTER 12: Prose for Further ReadingShort Classics*Plato: The Allegory of the Cave*Samuel L. Clemens: Advice to Youth*Virginia Woolf: The Death of the Moth*Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a DreamModern EssaysAnnie Dillard: An American ChildhoodYolanda Cruz: A Twofer's LamentAnna Quindlen: Women Are Just Better*Scott Russell Sanders: Death of a Homeless ManJamaica Kincaid: The Ugly TouristTama Janowitz: He Rocked, I Reeled* Indicates New Essay

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9780072292633

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0072292636

Title

The Short Prose Reader by Gilbert Muller

Author

Gilbert Muller

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Used - Good

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Paperback

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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Year published

19990916

Number of pages

496

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