Back to the Lake A Reader for Writers

Name: Back to the Lake A Reader for Writers
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ISBN: 9780393925081

ISBN-10: 0393925080

ISBN-13: 9780393925081

Edition: N/A

Authors: Thomas Cooley

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A rhetorically arranged collection of essays, showing that description, narration, and the other so-called patterns of exposition are not just abstract concepts used in composition classrooms but are in fact the way we thinkand write. Back to the Lake offers more than sixty carefully chosen readingsclassics as well as more recent pieces, essays along with various real-world texts, all demonstrating how writers use the modes of discourse for many varied purposes.

Book details

List price: $36.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 668
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

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.