The Working Reader

Forty short selections for essay-level developmental writers focus on work and the workplace. Writing activities focus on the types of writing that students will be required to do when they start to work, such as reports, memorandums, business letters, and charts and graphs.

Table of Contents:
1. Work--What Is It? The Journal The Essay The Summary Nickie McWhirter, What You Do Is What You Are Robert Murray Davis, Work and Play Bonnie Smith-Yackel, My Mother Never Worked Ana Vaciana-Suarez, Working Just to Live Is Perverted into Living Just to Work 2. Choosing a Career The Table The Report Alan M. Webber, Choices: Vocation, Career, or Job Rebecca Knight, Liberal Arts Gave Me a Liberal Dose of Life Lessons Joannie M. Schrof, Different Paths to Success Matthew Mariani, Cooperative Education: Learn More, Earn More, Prepare for the Workplace Barbara Moses, Find Work That You Love 3. Family and Gender Issues Business Letters Cokie Roberts, A Woman's Place Ebony Magazine, Women Who Stay at Home and Love It! Joan K. Peters, Being There: The Father Quandry James A. Levine and Todd L. Pittinsky, What Today's Fathers Want Elizabeth McGuire, Still Seeking the Perfect Balance 4. Ethics Memorandums O.C. Ferrell and Gareth Gardiner, What Is Ethics Anyway? Calvin Trillin, The Twenty-Dollar Bill Michael Korda, Defining Success Ellen Goodman, It's Failure, Not Success Society Magazine, Unethical Workers and Illegal Acts John Davidson, The Business of Ethics 5. Time Management, Problem Solving and Decision Making The Time Log Problem Solving Decision Making Time Management Barbara Ehrenreich, The Cult of Busyness Edwin Bliss, Managing Your Time Problem Solving Lois Duncan, How Not to Lose Friends over Money Michael Barrier, Putting the Lid on Conflicts Decision Making Winston Fletcher, It's Time to Make up Your Mind Geanne Rosenberg, Truth and Consequences 6. Discrimination and Harassment Pie Charts, Bar Charts, and Line Graphs K.C. Cole, Women and Physics Andrew Sullivan, Do We Need These Laws? Elizabeth Birch, Earth to Andrew Peter Passell, Why Black Men Have Lost Ground May Ann Farrell, Know Your Rights--And Go for the Job Anne Fisher, After All This Time, Why Don't People Know What Sexual Harassment Means? 7. Technology and the Workplace Email Internet Research USA Today Magazine, The Ins and Outs of E-Mail Kimberley S. Young, Caught in the Net Deborah Branscum, Bigbrother@the.office.com Edward C. Baig, Saying Adios to the Office 8. Managing Your Life The Resumé The Cover Letter The Thank You Letter Tim O'Brien, Set a Course for Lifelong Learning Cassandra Hayes, Stop the World, I Want to Get Off Kathleen Green, Traditional Degrees, Nontraditional Jobs: A Degree Is Not a Life Sentence Ralph Warner, What Will You Do When You Retire?

About the Author :
Mary Lou Conlin completed her education at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, earning a B.A. and M.A. in English, and a Ph.D. in education with concentrations in special education, reading, and curriculum. Conlin worked for over twenty-five years teaching English Composition and developing curriculum for developmental reading and writing at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. She developed individualized reading and writing instruction, and also established a Learning Center staffed with instructional assistants and tutors who provided both individual and small group instruction. In addition, Conlin developed computer-assisted instruction and tracking in the early 1980s.Her publications include PATTERNS, PATTERNS PLUS, CONCEPTS OF COMMUNICATION: WRITING, and CONCEPTS OF COMMUNICATION: READING. The Concepts texts, a modular series, became the basis for the individualized program provided through the Learning Center. Other publications include SIMON PERKINS OF THE WESTERN RESERVE, a biography of an early land agent of the Western Reserve published by the Western Reserve Historical Society.

Review :
1. Work--What Is It? The Journal The Essay The Summary Nickie McWhirter, What You Do Is What You Are Robert Murray Davis, Work and Play Bonnie Smith-Yackel, My Mother Never Worked Ana Vaciana-Suarez, Working Just to Live Is Perverted into Living Just to Work 2. Choosing a Career The Table The Report Alan M. Webber, Choices: Vocation, Career, or Job Rebecca Knight, Liberal Arts Gave Me a Liberal Dose of Life Lessons Joannie M. Schrof, Different Paths to Success Matthew Mariani, Cooperative Education: Learn More, Earn More, Prepare for the Workplace Barbara Moses, Find Work That You Love 3. Family and Gender Issues Business Letters Cokie Roberts, A Woman's Place Ebony Magazine, Women Who Stay at Home and Love It! Joan K. Peters, Being There: The Father Quandry James A. Levine and Todd L. Pittinsky, What Today's Fathers Want Elizabeth McGuire, Still Seeking the Perfect Balance 4. Ethics Memorandums O.C. Ferrell and Gareth Gardiner, What Is Ethics Anyway? Calvin Trillin, The Twenty-Dollar Bill Michael Korda, Defining Success Ellen Goodman, It's Failure, Not Success Society Magazine, Unethical Workers and Illegal Acts John Davidson, The Business of Ethics 5. Time Management, Problem Solving and Decision Making The Time Log Problem Solving Decision Making Time Management Barbara Ehrenreich, The Cult of Busyness Edwin Bliss, Managing Your Time Problem Solving Lois Duncan, How Not to Lose Friends over Money Michael Barrier, Putting the Lid on Conflicts Decision Making Winston Fletcher, It's Time to Make up Your Mind Geanne Rosenberg, Truth and Consequences 6. Discrimination and Harassment Pie Charts, Bar Charts, and Line Graphs K.C. Cole, Women and Physics Andrew Sullivan, Do We Need These Laws? Elizabeth Birch, Earth to Andrew Peter Passell, Why Black Men Have Lost Ground May Ann Farrell, Know Your Rights--And Go for the Job Anne Fisher, After All This Time, Why Don't People Know What Sexual Harassment Means? 7. Technology and the Workplace Email Internet Research USA Today Magazine, The Ins and Outs of E-Mail Kimberley S. Young, Caught in the Net Deborah Branscum, Bigbrother@the.office.com Edward C. Baig, Saying Adios to the Office 8. Managing Your Life The Resume The Cover Letter The Thank You Letter Tim O'Brien, Set a Course for Lifelong Learning Cassandra Hayes, Stop the World, I Want to Get Off Kathleen Green, Traditional Degrees, Nontraditional Jobs: A Degree Is Not a Life Sentence Ralph Warner, What Will You Do When You Retire?