AP* Course Match

The Prentice Hall Reader, 8/e

DESCRIPTION

This best-selling rhetorical modes reader features ten chapters focusing on the classic methods of narration, description, argument, and persuasion. Each chapter offers readings scaled by difficulty, suggestions for using the strategy in other disciplines, connecting and anticipating questions, detailed writing exercises, and extensive revision activities. The Prentice Hall Reader illuminates the importance of revision in the writing process by presenting a student essay in both its first and final draft in each chapter.

FEATURES

• Strong Writing Apparatus—Students explore nine rhetorical modes of writing through a consistent chapter organization—introduction; sample student essay; writing checklist; five or more reading selections; questions for pre-reading, Subject and Purpose, Strategy and Audience, and Vocabulary and Style; plus four writing suggestions for each essay.
• Appropriate Essays—Fifty-four classic to contemporary selections provide the depth and breadth of literary examples required for AP* students.
• Reading and Writing Instruction—The opening chapter on how to read an essay is followed by a chapter on how to write an essay that models every stage of the writing process.
• Emphasis on Revision—Each essay is supported with Writing Links that reinforce important skills (word choice, punctuation, sentence structure, typographical devices, building paragraphs).
• Visual, Literary, and Cross-Curricular Connections—Textbook sections connect the rhetorical strategies for each mode to visual, literary, and cross-curricular examples.

SUPPLEMENTS

• Annotated Instructor's Edition (0-13-195575-6)
  Included in this resource are "teaching strategies" for each essay, class activities, collaborative learning activities, critical reading activities, and links to writing. The book provides possible responses to all the discussion questions in the textbook at point of use in side-column margins next to student textbook pages.
• NEW! Instructor's Resource Manual with AP* Test Prep Guide (0-13-243297-8)
  This instructor's supplement includes a correlation to the AP* curriculum, test prep questions, suggested syllabi, information about each selection in The Prentice Hall Reader, and more.
• Instructor's Quiz Book (0-13-195574-8)
  The booklet contains two quizzes for each selection in the reader—one on content and the other on vocabulary.
• Access to Research Navigator Web Site
  The site not only gives students a set of tools for conducting online research for projects and papers but also teaches the entire process for writing the research paper. Students have access to four exclusive databases: EBSCO's ContentSelect, The New York Times Article Archive, Link Library, and Financial Times. Preview the site at http://www.researchnavigator.com/.

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