title: The Macmillan Reader
author:  Judith Nadell 
description: Successful, and widely praised for its superior instructional apparatus and thought-provoking readings, The Macmillan Reader offers fresh examples of professional essays, separate chapters on reading and writing, detailed introductions to the patterns of development, and "before" and "after" essays for each pattern. This edition now contains 58 readings, a blend of classics and fresh new selections, chosen for their engaging and inspiring qualities. Two detailed introductory chapters discuss the reading and writing processes and illustrate the integration of these processes. Annotated essays, "before and after" versions, and commentaries illustrate the writing and revising process and highlight the kind of thinking necessary for revision. Detailed introductions to the rhetorical patterns, and uniquely thorough coverage of argumentation-persuasion includes sections on logic, refutation strategies, audience analysis, Toulmin logic, Rogerian argument, detecting bias, maintaining objectivity, and establishing common ground. Also new in this edition is coverage of computers in composition, and a documentation guide for online research. For those interested in sharpening their reading, writing and critical thinking skills.
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  **ACKNOWLEDGMENTS**
  
  
  I’ve been lucky, before setting out to write this book and since, to have
  worked with and learned from a number of superlative editors: at _Agni,_
  Askold Melnyczuk; at _Harper’s,_ Lewis Lapham, Ben Metcalf, Colin Harrison,
  John Jeremiah Sullivan, Ellen Rosenbush, Jen Szalai, and Bill Wasik, among
  others; at _The New York Times Magazine_ , Alex Star; at _Outside_ , Will
  Palmer; and at Viking, Joshua Kendall, who faithfully and skillfully piloted
  this book through calms and storms, even when—especially when—it seemed to
  have sprung a leak.
  
  
  But the editor to whom I’m most indebted is Lewis Lapham’s successor at the
  helm of _Harper’s_ , Roger Hodge. It was Roger who, when I called him from my
  classroom one afternoon in the spring of 2005 and recounted what little I then
  knew about the legend of the rubber ducks lost at sea, saw what I saw: the
  germ of a story, the makings of a quest. At the time I was already under
  commission to write a piece about the elephants 