Overview
Think Critically.
THE BRIEF PROSE READER helps you improve your ability to think, read, and write on progressively more sophisticated levels by integrating critical thinking and reading apparatus into every chapter and within the context of the rhetorical pattern you are studying.
Synopsis
This brief reader helps users improve their ability to write on progressively more sophisticated levels by integrating learning tools that develop critical thinking and reading skills into every chapter. The selections are accompanied by clear, well-developed rhetorical introductions, sample essays, prewriting questions, and flexible writing assignments.
Diversity is strongly emphasized through essays covering a broad range of contemporary topics portraying the universality of human experience as expressed through the viewpoints of men and women, many different ethnic and racial groups, and a variety of ages and social classes.
For writers trying to compose professional pieces that express their feelings, thoughts, observations, and opinions.