Acting on Words An Integrated Rhetoric, Reader and Handbook

Now in its third edition, this text is designed with an interlinked structure and meant to be explored from various angles, giving instructors the flexibility to begin with readings, writing practice, or grammar review, and allowing students to skip certain sections or highlight others. In one complete package, this book offers you the full support needed for first-year composition courses. Updated and current content makes readings and student essays more relevant. The research guide features expanded and updated coverage of MLA and APA.

David Brundage is an Assistant Professor of English in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Athabasca University. Here he teaches composition and creative writing at undergraduate and masters levels, directs a developing program in creative writing, and supervises a number of independent literary studies students at the maters level. He holds an MA in English along with a MFA in Playwriting from the University of Alberta, and is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Lampeter. 

Michael Lahey is a Professor of English at the University of Alberta. In 2002 he won a Canadian Research Chair Postdoctoral Fellowship and in 2003 a Faculty of Arts award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. His research interests include Faulkner, Atwood, Springsteen, Maria Campbell, and law literature.