John Langan - ISE College Writing Skills with Readings

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COLLEGE WRITING SKILLS WITH READINGS

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About the Author

Zo L. Albright Courtesy of Zo L. Albright

Zo L. Albright has been involved in diverse aspects of education for twenty-five years. For the last twenty-one years, she has been a faculty member at Metropolitan Community CollegeLongview, teaching developmental writing, composition, and literature. She has created and implemented traditional and online curricula for high school and college English and composition courses and for a variety of literature courses. She continues to research new educational theory and practices. In addition to this extensive teaching experience, Zo served as co-author of the previous edition of College Writing Skills with Readings and has most recently served as co-author of English Skills with Readings , tenth edition, and Exploring Writing , fourth edition . She has also been a contributing author to other John Langan texts, including earlier editions of the Exploring Writing books and College Writing Skills with Readings . She received her M.A. from Goldsmiths, University of London; B.S. and B.A. from the University of Idaho; and A.A. from Cottey College. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Kansas, where her focus was on developmental writers and their identities. Zo currently resides near Kansas City, Missouri, with her family.

John Langan Courtesy of John Langan

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for more than twenty-five years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that, he says, is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously. While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. John now lives with his wife, Judith Nadell, near Philadelphia. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and turning on nonreaders to the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit Townsend Librarya collection of more than one hundred new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age.

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Brief Contents

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Contents

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READINGS LISTED BY RHETORICAL MODE

Note: Some selections are cross-listed because they illustrate more than one rhetorical method of development.

Description

Lous Place Beth Johnson

The Teacher Who Changed My Life Nicholas Gage

Stepping into the Light Tanya Savory

The Certainty of Fear Audra Kendall

Moving Beyond Pain bell hooks

Narration

Lous Place Beth Johnson

The Teacher Who Changed My Life Nicholas Gage

Shame Dick Gregory

Chief Seattles Speech of 1854 Chief Seattle

My Library A. A. Milne

Essay on the Importance of Teaching Failure Edward Burger

I Became Her Target Roger Wilkins

Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr

The Quiet Struggle of College Students with Kids Gillian B. White

A Memoir on What Happens to the Fairest of Them All Hope Wabuke

Exemplification

Dad Andrew H. Malcolm

How to Do Well on a Job Interview Glenda Davis

Propaganda Techniques in Todays Advertising Ann McClintock

My Library A. A. Milne

100 Years of The Secret Garden Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Colleges Must Confront Structural Racism Kevin V. Collymore

The Quiet Struggle of College Students with Kids Gillian B. White

What Academics Misunderstand about Public Writing Irina Dumitrescu

The Professor Is a Dropout Beth Johnson

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Purposefully Mispronouncing Kamala Harriss Name Is Racist, Plain and Simple Duaa Israr

Memes and the Art of Nonsense Serena G. Pellegrino

Moving Beyond Pain bell hooks

When a Classmate Is a Former Inmate Juleyka Lantigua-Williams

A Memoir on What Happens to the Fairest of Them All Hope Wabuke

Process

How to Do Well on a Job Interview Glenda Davis

from Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson

Colleges Must Confront Structural Racism Kevin V. Collymore

How to Make It in College, Now That Youre Here Brian OKeeney

What Academics Misunderstand about Public Writing Irina Dumitrescu

Cause and/or Effect

The Teacher Who Changed My Life Nicholas Gage

How to Do Well on a Job Interview Glenda Davis

Propaganda Techniques in Todays Advertising Ann McClintock

Essay on the Importance of Teaching Failure Edward Burger

Shame Dick Gregory

Stepping into the Light Tanya Savory

100 Years of The Secret Garden Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Brainology Carol S. Dweck

Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr

The Professor Is a Dropout Beth Johnson

A Memoir on What Happens to the Fairest of Them All Hope Wabuke

Comparison and/or Contrast

Chief Seattles Speech of 1854 Chief Seattle

Essay on the Importance of Teaching Failure Edward Burger

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Brainology Carol S. Dweck

Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr

What Academics Misunderstand about Public Writing Irina Dumitrescu

A Memoir on What Happens to the Fairest of Them All Hope Wabuke