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The Mercury Reader

Format:
Book
Price:
$8.00 base charge/book
plus $.09/page (80pp min)

Outside material is $.10/page
(plus any applicable permission fees)

Pricing applies to US market only

Minimum new order: 25 copies
Minimum reorder: 10 copies
Discipline:
English
Courses:
Composition

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Designed for your freshman composition course, The Mercury Reader now contains more than 800 contemporary and classic essays and works of literature from which you can customize a reader to meet the needs of your course.
 
Plus, include your own materials - up to 20% of the custom reader can be your own writing or come from outside sources such as course materials, questions, outside readings, and syllabi.
 
Need help organizing a committee decision for adoption? We can help.
 
For more information, please contact the Custom Library group.

Program features include:
  • Over 800 classic and contemporary readings including expository, narrative, persuasive, multicultural, multidisciplinary, personal, academic, journalistic, literary, visual works, and pedagogical apparatus
  • Choice of color covers, customized title page (which can include professor name, school, department, or course name and/or number) and a customized table of contents
  • Instructional Chapters Topics include: Peer Reviewing (including examples of brainstorming, early drafts, peer review questions, and revised drafts), Online Portfolios, and Argument - A Traditional Model.
  • 43 available images, including advertisements, cartoons, web captures, public service announcements, fine art, historic images, and propaganda.
  • On-line Professor Resource Center Here professors can learn about available on-line components to compliment their reader; view links to high-quality, academically-sound web resources; and find teaching tips that address evaluating sources, how to use the Mercury Reader questions and more! www.mercuryreader.com
  • Free evaluation copy! Once you have confirmed your table of contents, you can request a free evaluation copy of your reader which we will send you in as little as 7-10 days.

Your custom Mercury Reader is published in only 4-6 weeks from the time we receive your order from your bookstore. (If you are including outside material, please allow 8-10 weeks).

This custom solution is appropriate for the following course(s):

  • Composition
NEW IN 2009: The Mercury Reader now includes additional content on topics such as
 

The 2008 Presidential Election, Technology and Social Networking, Food and Nutrition, Human Impact on the Environment, Global Perspectives, Sports and Fitness, Religion and Spirituality, & War in the 21st Century

 
 
 
 
Use these suggested tables of contents as a guide to build your own composition reader.
 
 

  
Kathleen Shine Cain teaches at Merrimack College, where she has served as English Department Chair, Writing Center Director, and Women’s Studies Director.  She has taught American literature and writing at all levels, and spent 2005-2006 as a visiting professor at St. Mary’s University College in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She presents regularly at CCCC, IWCA, and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, and has served on the boards of NWCA, NCPTW, and the New England Writing Centers Association.  Her publications include essays on writing centers and American writers, as well as the text/ reference books Living in the USA, The Allyn and Bacon Workbook, Leon Uris: A Critical Companion, and The Pearson Custom Library: Introduction to Literature.

  
Janice Neuleib teaches at Illinois State University. Professor of English and Director of the English Education Program there, she has also served as Director of Writing Programs (1997-2005), Director of the University Center for Learning Assistance and Writing Assessment (1986-1996), and Director, Illinois State Writing Project since the summer of 1992. She consults for the College Board and the Educational Testing Service Advanced Placement Language Examination, and is the author of 60 plus book chapters and articles, including essays in College English, College Composition and Communication, Writing on the Edge, and The Journal of Teaching Writing, and is co-author of Things Your Grammar Never Told You, Inside/Out: A Guide to Writing, and The Pearson Custom Library: Introduction to Literature.  She has presented more than 300 workshops and papers at international, national, and regional conferences and has directed many dissertations on the teaching of writing.

  
Stephen Ruffus is chair of the English department at Salt Lake Community College where he directed the writing program for fifteen years, and founded the Student Writing Center and the Community Writing Center.  He has also taught advanced composition and creative writing at the University of Utah.  He has been chair and program chair for the western region of the Two-Year College Association and served on the Executive Committee of CCCC.   He has completed terms on the editorial boards of College Composition and Communication and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.  He has presented at CCCC, TYCA West, Computers and Writing, and Writing Development in Higher Education, chaired a statewide two-year writing assessment within the Utah System of Higher Education, and was a principle investigator on a statewide writing portfolio project funded by the Eisenhower Foundation. He is also co-editor of The Pearson Custom Library: Introduction to Literature.