75 Readings Plus - Softcover

Buscemi, Santi; Smith, Charlotte

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ISBN 10: 007246545X ISBN 13: 9780072465457

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

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75 Readings Plus is a version of the best-selling 75 Readings that supplies additional guidance for student readers. Both books are rhetorically arranged and collect the most popular essays for first-year writing. The readings represent a wide variety of authors, disciplines, issues, and interests, and at ten dollars less than most composition readers, 75 Readings Plus is an excellent value for students.

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Thirteen new readings: These include Nancy Mairs, "On Being Cripple"; William Lutz, "Doublespeak"; Scott Russell Sanders, "The Men We Carry in Our Minds"; Barbara Huttman, "A Crime of Compassion"; and Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue."
Mixed Strategies: A new Chapter (11) demonstrates how writers often use more than one rhetorical mode to support their main point.
Restructured Argument Chapter: Chapter 10 now has paired essays on topics of current interest to students, including media ethics, welfare reform, and free speech.
Cross References: The table of contents is cross-referenced for instructors who want to teach multiple perspectives on a particular topic.

About the Author:

Santi V. Buscemi teaches reading, composition, and literature at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, where he was chair of the Department of English for twenty-eight years. He is the author of A Reader for College Writers, 75 Readings, and 75 Readings Plus. He has lectured on freshman composition and developmental education at regional and national conferences in the United States and South Africa.

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