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Back to the Lake - Softcover

Cooley, Thomas

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Synopsis

The perfect balance of readings and writing instruction

The reader and writing guide that helps developing writers succeed using engaging essays and practical writing instruction. Back to the Lake presents reading and writing strategies together using marginal annotations to show the connections. Readings―arranged by strategy and written by classic, contemporary, and student writers―are balanced with writing advice. Now with new readings―including ones debating the value of “grit”―new advice on reading critically, and a new chapter on editing sentences.

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About the Author

Thomas Cooley (PhD, Indiana University) is emeritus professor of English at The Ohio State University. In addition to Back to the Lake, he is the editor of The Norton Sampler and the Norton Critical Edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the author of several other books, among them Educated Lives: The Rise of Modern Autobiography in America and The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America.

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