50 Essays: A Portable Anthology
ISBN: 9780312609658 | 0312609655
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 9/17/2010
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50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is the best-selling value-priced reader in the country because its virtues don't stop at the price.
Its carefully chosen selections include enough classic essays to reassure instructors, and enough high-interest and high-quality contemporary readings to keep things lively and relevant for students. The editorial apparatus is more extensive than in competing value readers, but still is flexible and unobtrusive enough to support a variety of approaches to teaching composition.
This colle... MORE
In its third edition, 50 Essays continues to offer selections that instructors enjoy teaching, at a price students won't resist, but with more editorial emphasis than before on the critical thinking and academic writing skills of today's composition courses.
Preface for Instructors
Alternate Tables of Contents
By Theme
By Paired Readings
By Rhetorical Mode
By Purpose
By Chronological Order
Introduction for Students: Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and the Writing Process
*Student Essay: Jonathon Schaff, “Dangerous Duality: How Racism Splits Us in Two”
*Student Essay: Jonathon Schaff, “Dangerous Duality: How Racism Splits Us in Two”
Sherman A... MORE
Documentation Guide
Glossary of Writing Terms
SAMUEL COHEN (Ph.D., City University of New York) is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Missouri where he won the 2008 Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award. He is the author of After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s (University of Iowa Press, 2009) and has published in such journals as Novel, Clio, Twentieth-Century Literature, The Journal of Basic Writing, and Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists. He is also coauthor of Literature: The Human Experience, Tenth Edition.
