Stepping on My Brother's Head and Other Secrets Your English Professor Never Told You A College Reader

Name: Stepping on My Brother's Head and Other Secrets Your English Professor Never Told You A College Reader
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ISBN: 9780867095920

ISBN-10: 086709592X

ISBN-13: 9780867095920

Edition: 2010

Authors: Charles I. Schuster, Sondra Perl

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"Good Writers Read for Pleasure." -Sondra Perl and Charles SchusterSondra Perl and Charles Schuster know the importance of inspiring your writers to read. That's what inspired them to develop a new kind of college reader-one that tells never-before-seen stories and serves them up in surprising ways. These twelve provocative essays by some of America's most distinguished teachers of writing were written to grab your students' interest. The essays will keep them turning pages. We think they'll want to read them and re-read them, talk about them, think about them, and learn to do what they do best: engage an audience through a unique blend of form, content, style, verve, and voice.Bring the…

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List price: $34.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 3/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Sondra Perl, Ph.D., is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she coordinates the Ph.D. program in composition and rhetoric. An acclaimed teacher and a Guggenheim Fellow, Dr. Perl has been leading writing workshops on college campuses and in universities, in North America and abroad, for over 20 years.



Introduction



Stepping On My Brother's Head



Sneaking into the Movies



"Help"



Surfacing: Secrets of the Women's Locker Room



Leaving Home



Theories of Intelligence



E-Love



The Time of Lies



"Just Like in Benheim"



The City in the Back of the Mind



Ella: Family Stories, Family Secrets



Revealing Secrets, Writing Poems