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1 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 New York San Francisco Boston London Toronto Sydney Singapore Madrid Mexico City Munich Paris Cape Town Hong Kong Montreal 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.

2 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. iii 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.

3 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.

4 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. iv 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.

5 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.

6 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. v 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.

7 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. vi TEACHING COMPOSITION. WITH THE. LONGMAN READER . Teaching offers many pleasures. Among the foremost, for us, is the chance to get together with colleagues for some shoptalk. Trading ideas, airing problems, sharing light moments, speculating about why some assignments set off fireworks and some fizzle all this helps us in our day-to-day teaching.

8 In this Instructor's Manual, we would like to share with you some thoughts about teaching freshman composition and about using THE. LONGMAN READER . We'll explain our approach for introducing each pattern of development and indicate what we emphasize when discussing the professional essays in each section. Also, we'll offer possible answers to the Questions for Close Reading and Questions About the Writer's Craft that follow each professional essay. These responses aren't meant to be definitive. Although we purposely avoided open-ended, anything-goes questions, we understand that the responses represent our view only.

9 You may not agree with all our interpretations. That's fine. If nothing else, our answers may suggest another way of viewing an essay. AT THE START OF THE COURSE. Frankly, many students dread freshman composition a bitter pill to swallow for those of us who have made the teaching of writing our life's work. But it's important to understand that many students' past experiences with writing have not been positive. Rather than trying to pretend that all our students are pleased about being in a writing class, we work to get out in the open any unhappiness they may have about writing and writing teachers.

10 Here's how we go about airing any negative feelings that may exist. On the first day of class, we acknowledge students' feelings by saying something like this: I guess some of you wish you didn't have to take this course. In fact, you may feel that the only thing worse would be having to take a course in public speaking. Our remark elicits smiles of self-recognition from many students, and the whole class seems to relax a bit. Then we ask students to explain why they approach the writing course with such uneasy feelings. Many have sad tales to tell about writing courses and writing teachers.