The Riverside Reader: Alternate Edition

Trimmer, Joseph F.

ISBN 10: 0618907262 / ISBN 13: 9780618907267

Published by Wadsworth Publishing, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Riverside Reader: Alternate Edition
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618907262
• ISBN 13: 9780618907267
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This alternate edition of The Riverside Reader includes 48 pages on the writing process adapted from Joseph Trimmer's Writing with a Purpose. This collection of expository essays and short stories is arranged by rhetorical modes with a final thematic unit illustrating all of the modes.

About the Author

Joseph F. Trimmer is Professor of English Emeritus and Director Emeritus of The Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry at Ball State University. He is the author of numerous articles on literature, culture, and literacy, including 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 RIVER READER, 12th Edition (formerly the RIVERSIDE READER (2016), and eFICTIONS (2002). Trimmer's A GUIDE TO MLA DOCUMENTATION, 9th Edition is a perennial bestseller; he has also published A GUIDE TO APA DOCUMENTATION.