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Top reader compiled by two leaders in the field of composition features works by distinguished essayists. This rhetorically arranged reader contains 71 selections representing diverse voices and views from some of the most respected professional essayists working in the English language, along with short stories and student examples. Carefully developed apparatus, including headnotes and post-reading material, analyzes each reading in a context that helps students better understand the craft of writing and then apply what they learn to their own writing.
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This work is an anthology of 54 selections (primarily essays) arranged by the following rhetorical modes: narration and description; process analysis; comparison and contrast; division and classification; definition, cause and effect; and persuasion and argument. These rhetorical modes are presented not just as organizational forms but as ways of thinking and of discovering purpose. The concluding thematic unit illustrates all the modes and serves as a casebook for informal research papers. Each unit, otherwise consisting of essays, closes with a short story to provide a creative perspective on the mode under consideration. The selections provided aim to reflect a variety of disciplines in order to introduce students to the concerns they will encounter in the study outside of English. The "Persuasion and Argument" unit pairs essays that advance different views on the American Dream, animal rights, smoking, and welfare to allow students to develop critical thinking skills through the evaluation of opposing viewpoints on the same issue.
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