40 Model Essays: A Portable Anthology

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1457610248 ISBN 13: 9781457610240

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012

Combining concise but thorough instruction in the methods of development with a conscientiously picked selection of classic and contemporary model readings for writers, 40 Model Essays contains advice on forming a thesis statement alongside a wealth of captivating new writing topics to help you succeed.

About the Author:

Jane E. Aaron is a professional writer and editor as well as an experienced teacher. She is the author of the best sellingLittle, Brown Handbook and coeditor of the best-selling Bedford Reader, Eighth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003). She has served as consultant, editor, or writer on more than a dozen other textbooks for the first-year composition course.Ellen Kuhl Repetto (M.A., University of Massachusetts Boston) is a freelance editor and writer who has contributed to more than twenty composition readers, handbooks, and rhetorics. She is the author ofThe Bedford/St. Martin's Textbook Reader (2003), Readings for Discoveries: A Collection of Short Essays (2006), andHope over Hardship: A History of the Boston Home, 1881 - 2006 (2007).