Back to the Lake: A Reader and Guide - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393938441 ISBN 13: 9780393938449

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015

Synopsis

A new take on the traditional rhetorical modes, showing how they are used in the kinds of writing students are most often assigned―arguments, analyses, reports, narratives, and more. Now available in a high school hardcover edition.

Back to the Lake 3e includes new chapters on writing paragraphs and using rhetorical modes in academic writing―which shows how the patterns taught in this book are used in the kinds of writing college students are expected to do. New readings are on timely topics that will engage students. Templates and marginal notes that explicitly link the readings and the writing instruction help students apply the lessons in this book to their own writing. AP® is a trademark registered and/or owned by the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0393938441
• ISBN 13: 9780393938449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 912
• Editor: Cooley Thomas