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Back to the Lake: A Reader & Guide for Writers - Softcover

Cooley, Thomas

 
9781324060253: Back to the Lake: A Reader & Guide for Writers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1324060255 ISBN 13: 9781324060253
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2024

Synopsis

A balance of excellent model readings and writing advice that builds students’ skills with rhetorical patterns

A “thorough and engaging writing guide for students who need direction and encouragement” (Matt Byars, instructor at Lubbock Christian University), Back to the Lake shows students the connections between smart writing strategies and effective model essays. Robust and practical writing advice―with innovative templates to get started writing―is supported by interesting readings arranged by rhetorical mode and written by a mix of classic, contemporary, and student writers. Now with a new chapter on “Elements of the Essay”; a new modes chapter on “Analysis” covering critical and process analysis; and almost 50 percent new readings. Now available in a more interactive ebook version that takes student reading to the next level with questions that help them check their comprehension as they read.

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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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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1324060255
ISBN 13 
9781324060253
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
5
Number of pages
912