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Writing Prose is designed to acquaint students with the techniques of good prose through a range of writing samples including classics, such as Swift's 'A Modest Proposal', as well as contemporary essays by lesser-known authors. Ranging in length from short paragraphs to complete essays, the readings are grouped according to traditional rhetorical categories--exposition, argument, description, and narration, along with definition, persuasion, and 'writing about writing'.

Table of Contents:
Preface A Note to the Student EXPOSITION Illustration Barbara W. Tuchman: Patterns Roger Revelle: Our Deteriorating Environment Wayne Grady: The Haunting Powers of God's Dog John Henry Raleigh: The London Poor J.A. Davidson: Talking 'Funny' James McCook: Man's Best Friend? Wayne Johnston: A Whale of a Time Gerald Hannon: Romancing the Stones Restatement Roy Vontobel: Reluctant Villain George Woodcock: From Gabriel Dumont Christina Hoff Sommers: Indignation, Resentment, and Collective Guilt Steve Burgess: Blazing Skies Comparison Nora Ephron: The New Porn Jacques Barzun: What If?--English versus German and French Elizabeth Kelly: Untamed World Analogy L.M. Myers: The Parts of Speech Nanette Vonnegut Mengel: The Dissertation and the Mime Gerald Weissmann: Titanic and Leviathan Pico Iyer: In Praise of the Humble Comma John Upkike: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Masters Reasons Charles Gordon: The Threat to Canada's Beauty Christopher Buckley: How I Learned to (Almost) Love the Sin Lobbyists Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco: That &*?#@ Machine Effects Joan Didion: Los Angeles Notebook Carl Sagan: Night Walkers and Mystery Mongers: Sense and Nonsense at the Edge of Science Bart Robinson: Cold Fury, White Death Alan Rayburn: Hot and Bothered by 'Disgusting' Names Analysis Charles K. Long: Out of the Shadow of The Bay Dale Eisler: Cultural Genocide Frederick Allen: Unreasonable Facsimile Joanne Kates: The Chicken Farm Kevin Patterson: The Right Call Charles Siebert: Call of the Wild DEFINITION Hugh Rawson: Toilet E.M. Forster: Plot Roderick Haig-Brown: Conservation Defined Allan Anderson: Scouts Henry Fairlie: The Fact of Sin Wayne Grady: The Metric System (Sort Of) PERSUASION Charles Gordon: Bungee Jumping over Victoria Falls Donna Lopiano: Purse Snatching Harry F. Harlow: Of Love in Infants Ruth Morris: Women in Prison Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal James S. Trefil: The Golf Ball on the Grass William Faulkner: On Receiving the Nobel Prize John McPhee: The Search for Marvin Gardens P.J. O'Rourke: Fiddling while Africa Starves Peter C. Newman: Igniting the Entrepreneurial Spark ARGUMENT Ralph Heintzmann: Liberalism and Censorship Martha Bayles: The Shock-Art Fallacy Lester B. Pearson: The Implications of a Free Society Jane Jacobs: Streets that Work Northrop Frye: The Motive for Metaphor Peter Shawn Taylor: Be Fruitful, Or Else DESCRIPTION Pierre Berton: Hard Times in the Old West Mark Twain: Stagecoach Station Winston Collins: The Belly of Ontario George Orwell: A Paris Plongeur Dan Schneider: Biter's Banquet Adrian Forsyth: Flights of Fancy Hugh Dempsey: The Snake Man Henry David Thoreau: Bubbles in the Ice Paul Hemphill: Welcome to the Death Hilton David Bergen: Lucy in the Sky Charles Wilkins: Above the Line Sid Marty: In the Eye of the Wind NARRATION Margaret Atwood: True North Robert Carse: The Loss of the Cospatrick James Thurber: The Unicorn in the Garden William Francis Butler: From The Great Lone Land Annie Dillard: On a Hill Far Away Harry J. Boyle: Tobogganing Stephen Leacock: A, B, and C Anne U. Forber: Overeating in College E.B. White: Once More to the Lake Susan Juby: A Tale of a Canadian Book up against the System WRITING ABOUT WRITING Scott Russell Sanders: The Singular First Person F.L. Lucas: Courtesy to Readers--Clarity William Zinsser: CLUTTER Lewis Thomas: Notes on Punctuation Steve Rushin: Cliches Aren't Everything Victoria Branden: Mad Metaphors Drew Hayden Taylor: Native Themes Cynthia Ozick: Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body Acknowledgements Glossary Thematic Index Author-Title Index

About the Author :
Maurice Legris is Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Alberta. Thomas Kane and Leonard Peters are both at the University of Connecticut.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195412871
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 539 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0195412877
  • Publisher Date: 09 Oct 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 504
  • Sub Title: Techniques and Purposes, Canadian Edition
  • Width: 153 mm


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