Introduction to Critical Reading

Name: Introduction to Critical Reading
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ISBN: 9781413016215

ISBN-10: 1413016219

ISBN-13: 9781413016215

Edition: 6th 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Leah McCraney

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This unique college reading text gives students experience reading and evaluating poetry, short stories, essays, and textbook chapters. An innovative Instructor's Manual gives instructors a wealth of teaching ideas and background material on each piece with a focus on critical thinking.

Book details

List price: $149.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cengage Heinle
Publication date: 4/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Preface to the Student


Preface to the Instructor


Acknowledgments


Poetry


Lot's Wife



Genesis 19:12-26


Richard Cory



Warren Pryor



The Road Not Taken



I, Too, Harlem and Mother to Son



Those Winter Sundays



Austere



A Red Palm



Daystar



Once a Lady Told Me



My Father's Song



Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead



A Martian Sends a Postcard Home



Bedtime Story



Counting the Mad



Much Madness Is Divinest Sense



Four Poems from Spoon River Anthology



Minerva Jones


"Indignation" Jones


Doctor Meyers


Mrs. Meyers


Digging



Barbie Doll



Mr. Z



The Vacuum



Weakness



Power



The Chimney Sweeper, from Songs of Innocence, and The Chimney Sweeper, from Songs of Experience



Dulce et Decorum Est



Mending Wall



Lost Sister



Persimmons



Parsley



The Unknown Citizen



Curiosity



What Would Freud Say?



The Naked and the Nude



Fiction


Birthday Party



The Lottery



Hills Like White Elephants



Harrison Bergeron



Crusader Rabbit



The Gilded Six-Bits



A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings



The Veldt



Everyday Use



Gimpel the Fool



A Worn Path



I Stand Here Ironing



The Fat Girl



Life after High School



Islands on the Moon



What You Pawn I Will Redeem



What Means Switch



A Rose for Emily



The Chrysanthemums



Essays


Shame



Daddy Tucked the Blanket



A Hanging



Death and Justice



Mother Tongue



The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria



Making the Grade



What Is Child Pornography?



Disgusting Doesn't Make It "Speech"



Should a Man Be Put in Jail for What He's Thinking?



Starved Out



Heavy Judgment: A Sister Talks about the Pain of "Living Large"



When Is It Rape?



Time for a Change on Drugs: Americans Are Ahead of the Politicians on This One



Legalization of Narcotics: Myths and Reality



The Prisoner's Dilemma



Violent Crime: Myths, Facts, and Solutions



A Nasty Business



Torture's Allure and Effect



Textbook Chapters


Presidency in Crisis, from The American Past: A Survey of American History, Seventh Edition



Social Responsibility and Business Ethics, from Contemporary Business, Eleventh Edition



Glossary of Important Literary Terms


Index


Literary Credits


Photo Credits