The Riverside Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618433848 ISBN 13: 9780618433841

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div, 2004

Synopsis

Top reader compiled by two leaders in the field of composition features works by distinguished essayists. This rhetorically arranged reader contains 71 selections representing diverse voices and views from some of the most respected professional essayists working in the English language, along with short stories and student examples. Carefully developed apparatus, including headnotes and post-reading material, analyzes each reading in a context that helps students better understand the craft of writing and then apply what they learn to their own writing.

• Expanded treatment of the writing process offers more guidance in planning, drafting, and revising.
• Visual texts, including one photograph per chapter and an eight-page color photo essay, emphasize the power of images to evoke insights and ideas and encourage new ways for students to create writing topics based on what they see.
• A thematic unit on "Discoveries" features eight selections, one for each rhetorical method plus a short story, by such writers as John Fleischman, Witold Rybczynski, H.W. Ruslander, Dava Sobel, Andrew Sullivan, and Arthur C. Clarke.

About this title

About the Authors

Joseph F. Trimmer is the professor of English and director of The Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry at Ball State University. The author of numerous articles on literature, culture and literacy, Professor Trimmer's books include THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS (1978), UNDERSTANDING OTHERS: CULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE (1992), and NARRATION AS KNOWLEDGE: TALES OF THE TEACHING LIFE (1997). Professor Trimmer has also worked on 20 documentary films for PBS including the six-part series, "Middletown" (1982). His textbooks include WRITING WITH A PURPOSE, 14th Edition (2004), THE RIVERSIDE READER 9th Edition (2008), and eFICTIONS (2002). Trimmer's A GUIDE TO MLA DOCUMENTATION, 9th Edition is a perennial bestseller and he has recently published A GUIDE TO APA DOCUMENTATION.

Maxine Hairston (1922-2005) (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) specialized in the teaching of expository writing. She was active in two major professional associations for the teaching of writing, the National Council of Teachers of English and the Conference on College Composition and Communication. In 1985 she served as Chair of the CCCC conference. Dr. Hairston also published several articles in professional journals and authored five textbooks on the teaching of college composition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618433848
• ISBN 13: 9780618433841
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 715
• Editor: Trimmer Joseph F., Hairston Maxine