The American College Handbook of Contemporary English

Reference

Muller, Gilbert H.

Words, Language & Grammar

Harpercollins College Div

Featuring 19 new essays, this reader includes a discussion of the considerations important for good writing and active reading. Five types of questions following each reading focus on vocabulary, the writer's technique and ideas, guided writing ideas and evaluating the essay. "Summing Up" questions and writing assignments at the end of each chapter encourage critical thinking and provide innovative writing projects. An instructor's manual is also available (ISBN 0-07-044017-4).

Short Prose Reader

English as a Second Language

Mcgraw-Hill College

This rhetorically organized reader, maintains the best features of the earlier editions: 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.

The Short Prose Reader

McGraw=Hill

rhetorically organized, student-friendly reader includes short essays on a range of topics. Each selection is supported by exceptionally thorough and thoughtfully designed editorial apparatus that integrates reading, writing, and critical thinking. The quality, variety, and number of reading, writing, and thinking prompts provide students with ample support for reading and writing and can be adapted to a number of teaching approaches.About the 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 Flannery O’Connor 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, Literature across Cultures, and Ways Reading and Writing about Literature. Among Dr. Muller’s 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.

Wiener, Harvey S.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

WAYS IN provides a brief, inexpensive and complete guide to reading and writing about literature. It highlights the reading and writing process, surveys major critical approaches to reading, interpreting, and evaluating literature, and enhances the awareness of the relationship between the writer's voice and his or her culture. The straightforward presentation engages students' interest, and provides them with strategies for making discoveries about literature.

Ways In: Approaches To Reading and Writing About Literature

Humor & Entertainment

WILLIAMS, John A.

Movies

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Both an American and a global anthology, BRIDGES is ideally suited for today's composition and literature courses. It includes over 300 stories, poems, and plays, and features an exciting mix of writers - those who have been the world's literary standard bearers, as well as those who are relatively less known. Together, these diverse, provocative readings encourage the reconciliation of viewpoints - bridges - discovered within them. Thematically arranged, BRIDGES contains a rich mix of contemporary and classic selections, works from men and women, ethnic American, European, Asian, Latin American, and African writers.

Bridges: Literature Across Cultures

History & Criticism

THE McGRAW-HILL INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE, now in its second edition, presents a dynamic and diverse anthology for literature and composition courses. Designed with an eye for both the uniqueness and the universality of outstanding literature, this text offers a unified, multicultural approach to the meaning, form, technique, and values in fiction, poetry, and drama. Organized by genre, the anthology contains three sections - fiction, poetry, and drama - each with a prefatory essay. Within each section are self-contained chapters arranged around literary selections that reveal the application of specific techniques. The extensive anthologies that follow are arranged alphabetically and provide a rich selection of both classic and contemporary authors as well as a broad range of women, ethnic, and international authors to advocate both a truly American and a pluralistic collection of literature.

The McGraw-Hill Introduction To Literature

Now you can provide your freshman students with a collection of recently published essays from well-known publications on topics they are sure to find compelling. HERE AND NOW features 55 essays organized thematically around such provocative topics as reconsituted families, generational differences, career options, ethnic and gender identity, political correctness, entertainment, and other issues that define today’s campus life, American culture, and global society. What’s more, all these articles were published in respected publications like Time, Esquire, Working Woman, Harper’s Magazine, Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker, and Essence—none earlier than 1993! If, like most freshman, your students are curious and opinioned, eager to deal critically with social realities, then this is the collection for your class.

Here and Now: Current Readings for Writers

Addressing the continuing interest in core liberal arts issues, interdisciplinary themes, multicultural perspectives, and critical thinking, THE MCGRAW-HILL READER provides students with a full range of quality prose works spanning various ages, cultures, and subjects. The finely-tuned editorial apparatus encourages students to respond actively to the essays, to formulate their own critical judgments, and to develop in writing their reactions to and perspectives on the thematic concerns of the selections. The Seventh Edition features thirty-eight new essays that address current issues such as the quality of education, the role of technology, and the impact of media. The text concludes with a new appendix on writing a research paper.

The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across the Disciplines

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The American College Handbook of Contemporary English

Short Prose Reader

The Short Prose Reader

The Short Prose Reader

The Short Prose Reader

Ways In: Approaches To Reading and Writing About Literature

Bridges: Literature Across Cultures

The McGraw-Hill Introduction To Literature

Here and Now: Current Readings for Writers

The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across the Disciplines