Back to the Lake: A Reader for Writers - Softcover

 
9780393912685: Back to the Lake: A Reader for Writers

Inhaltsangabe

The Second Edition contains 34 new readings that teachers will want to teach and students will like to read, from Steven Pinker s Mind Over Mass Media to Alex Horton s Advice for College-bound Vets, as well as a chapter on academic writing, and editorial apparatus that explicitly links the readings to the writing instruction, with notes in the margins leading students from the text to specific examples in the readings and the reverse.

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Reseña del editor

The Second Edition contains 34 new readings that teachers will want to teach and students will like to read, from Steven Pinker's "Mind Over Mass Media" to Alex Horton's "Advice for College-bound Vets," as well as a chapter on academic writing, and editorial apparatus that explicitly links the readings to the writing instruction, with notes in the margins leading students from the text to specific examples in the readings-and the reverse.

Biografía del autor

Thomas Cooley (PhD, Indiana University) is professor of English at The Ohio State University. In addition to Back to the Lake, he is the editor of The Norton Sampler, 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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