About the Book
For courses in first-year composition.
The acclaimed rhetorical modes reader with detailed writing guidance Revel(TM) 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.
Revel is Pearson's newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience - for less than the cost of a traditional textbook.
NOTE: Revel is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. This ISBN is for the standalone Revel access card. In addition to this access card, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.
About the Author:
Judith Nadell was Associate Professor of Communication at Rowan University (New Jersey). During her eighteen 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 co-author 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 co-author husband, John Langan, near Philadelphia.
John Langan taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for more than twenty-five 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 a hundred 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 T
he Longman Reader.
