Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition / Edition 9

by Thomas Cooley

Overview

Short essays with just enough writing instruction.

A trusted and engaging collection of 65 short essays, both classic and contemporary. All are arranged by rhetorical pattern, with practical instruction on how to write an essay. The Ninth Edition has a brand-new design, 22 NEW readings, a NEW chapter on the elements of the essay, and the most easy-to-use organization of any reader of its kind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900393602912
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	08/31/2017
Edition description:	Ninth Edition
Pages:	672
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Thomas Cooley (PhD, Indiana University) is emeritus professor of English at The Ohio State University. In addition to Back to the Lake, he is the editor of The Norton Sampler and 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.