Longman Reader, The

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For courses in first-year composition.

The acclaimed rhetorical modes reader, with detailed writing guidance

Best¿-seller The Longman Reader combines celebrated pedagogy with a wealth of readings to help students develop sound writing skills. The opening chapters focus on reading critically and the writing process, while subsequent chapters provide detailed writing instruction. To demonstrate various developmental patterns, the text presents professional essays ranging in approach and subject matter ― from the humorous to the informative, and from personal meditation to argument. The 12th Edition includes 23 new professional selections, a new, predominantly visual composition, and additional coverage of how to critically assess both words and images.

About our authors

Judith Nadell was Associate Professor of Communication at Rowan University (New Jersey). During her 18 years at Rowan, she coordinated the introductory course in the Freshman Writing Sequence and served as Director of the Writing Lab. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Tufts University, she received a doctorate from Columbia University. With a special commitment to grassroots literacy, she founded and designed an adult literacy program, a children's reading enrichment initiative and a family literacy project. She is the author of Becoming a Read-Aloud Coach and Vocabulary Basics (both Townsend Press); the creator of The King School Series (also Townsend Press); and the coauthor of Doing Well in College (McGraw-Hill), The Longman Reader, and The Longman Writer. The recipient of a New Jersey award for excellence in teaching writing, Judith Nadell lives with her coauthor husband, John Langan, near Philadelphia.

John Langan taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for more than 25 years. Before teaching, he graduated magna cum laude from LaSalle University and earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. Coauthor of The Longman Reader and author of a series of college textbooks on both reading and writing, he has published widely with McGraw-Hill Book Company, Townsend Press, and Longman. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit “Townsend Library,” a collection of more than 100 new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age.

Deborah Coxwell-Teague currently serves as director of Florida State University's College Composition Program. In this capacity, she is involved in the training and supervision of close to 150 graduate teaching assistants who teach approximately 425 sections of College Composition annually. She has also served as director of FSU's Reading/Writing Center and has taught composition at both the high school and community college levels. Her research interests focus on teacher training and composition.

Deborah's publications include Finding Our Way: A Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, coauthored with the late Wendy Bishop; Everything's a Text, a composition textbook coauthored with Dan Melzer; First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice, coauthored with Ronald Lunsford and recent editions of both The Longman Writer and The Longman Reader.