num_pages: 406
description: This book combines creative, up-to-date writing instruction using short, high-interest readings that provide ideas for writing, suggest ways to approach a topic, and show how to organize and present information. Topics include: active reading, the reading-writing connection, narration and description, example and illustration, definition and explanation, classification and division, comparison and contrast, process and direction, cause and effect, and argument and persuasion. For anyone interested in improving their writing skills.
language: English
title: The Simon & Schuster Short Prose Reader
titlecomplete: The Simon & Schuster Short Prose Reader
genres: Textbooks
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Longman Pub Group