Title The Riverside Reader

Joseph F. Trimmer

ISBN 10: 0618133801 / ISBN 13: 9780618133802

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Title The Riverside Reader
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618133801
• ISBN 13: 9780618133802
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

This rhetorically arranged reader contains 69 selections (45 essays, 8 stories, 16 paragraphs) representing diverse voices and views from student and professional writers. The extensive apparatus in The Riverside Reader encourages students to view organizational forms not just as techniques for writing, but also as a means of thinking and a way to discover a purpose for writing. Throughout the text, readings progress from simpler to more complex. A thematic unit on the Internet offers eight selections, one for each rhetorical method plus a short story, with cross-references to other essays in book.

About the Author

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.