The Best American Essays
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Editor: Robert AtwanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-07-21
ISBN: 0618333703
Number of pages: 428
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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This is a great compilation of essays. They are easy to read but very thought-provoking. I use it in my high school English class and the students enjoy reading and discussing the essays and themes present within them. It was money well spent!!!
Summary of The Best American Essays
The college version of The Best American Essays, Fourth Edition, is a collection of essays for first-year composition courses, loosely arranged by broad aims of discourse, including narrative, informative, and argumentative essays. In addition to its rhetorical organization, the reader also offers flexibility for instructors who prefer a thematic or alphabetical organization. The editor introduces students to various types of essays, followed by commentary from well-known writers on such subjects as "Essayists Must Tell the Truth" and "Essays Are Not Scientific Documents."Essays Books
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