Gilbert Muller,
City University of New York Harvey Wiener,
City University of New York
ISBN: 0073383937 Copyright year: 2013
New To This Edition
Many new reading selections, with essays by John Grisham,
Anna Quindlen, Richard Rodriguez, Barry Lopez, Andrew Lam,
and Deborah Tannen. We balance these contemporary readings—
all published since 2000—with favorites from earlier editions of
The Short Prose Reader, such as Langston Hughes’s “Salvation,”
George Orwell’s “A Hanging,” Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue,”
and Rachel Carson’s “A Fable for Tomorrow.”
New topics and issues that will appeal to students, among them
texting from an automobile, Internet privacy, the Facebook phenomenon,
and Muslim identity.
A revised table of contents that lets students move from easier
rhetorical strategies to more challenging ones (like classifi cation
and defi nition) that stress synthetic and higher-order cognitive
abilities.
New units in the thematic table of contents, including Scenes
and Places, Cultures and Ethnicities, Nature and the Environment,
and Language and Identity.
A major revision of Chapter 11, Argumentation and Persuasion, with a fresh pro/con pair on social networking and new
selections on the “Perspectives on Ethnicity” Unit.
New visuals throughout The Short Prose Reader that encourage
students to move from seeing to writing.
A Guide to Research and Documentation, which follows the
most recent MLA guidelines.
Links to the online learning center (OLC) integrated throughout
the text. The OLC provides students with links to more.
2013