Product Review

The Longman Reader, Brief Edition features highly praised
writing pedagogy in a rhetorically-organized reader.  The
opening chapter offers specific strategies for active reading, and
for each pattern-of-development chapter, The Longman Reader,
Brief Edition includes a detailed introduction that asks
students to consider audience and purpose, concrete revision
strategies, a peer review checklist, an annotated student essay
with extensive analysis, prewriting and revising activities, and a
comprehensive list of possible writing topics.  Both beloved
and fresh professional essays range widely in subject matter and
approach, from the humorous to the informative, from personal
meditation to argument, and capture students' interest while
clearly illustrating a specific pattern of development.