50 Essays: A Portable Anthology
by Samuel Cohen
from Bedford/St. Martin's
Easy Italian Reader (Easy Reader)
by Riccarda Saggese
from McGraw-Hill
The quick, easy, enjoyable way to learn how to read Italian
This new addition to the popular Easy Reader series allows beginners to start reading Italian right away and intermediate learners to hone their reading skills.
Rather than relying on dry grammar rules, EasyItalian Reader features engaging readings on Italian history, people, and contemporary literature that rapidly build comprehension, progressing in difficulty as readers’ abilities increase. Helpful review sections, comprehension questions, and proficiency-building games are included throughout to reinforce what is learned.
Easy Italian Reader:
- Provides timesaving new vocabulary footnotes
- Includes exercises and an answer key to test understanding
- Offers insights into Italian culture
Longman Reader, The (8th Edition)
by Judith A Nadell
from Longman
Widely praised for its superior teaching apparatus and thought-provoking readings, The Longman Reader remains the most successful rhetorically organized freshman composition reader.
Key Benefit: Provides superior teaching apparatus with thought-provoking readings.Key Topics:Reading Process Writing Process.
Market: General interest; Improving your writing
Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, with Readings
by Sylvan Barnet
from Bedford/St. Martin's
New Practical Chinese Reader, Textbook Vol. 1
by Zhang Kai
from Beijing Language & Culture Univ Pr
The first volume of the long-awaited revised edition of the popular Practical Chinese Reader series are finally available! This completely new edition (it will encompass six volumes in 70 lessons when completed) takes the student from an absolute beginner to an intermediate level, approximately 3 years of higher-level classroom instruction. The text follows the story of Ding Libo (the son of Gubo and Ding Yun from the first edition) and other international students as they live in China, learning about Chinese culture and society as they learn contemporary Mandarin. Emphasizing the basic skills of reading, writing (simplified characters), speaking, and listening, with supplementary exercises, many illustrations, charts, and in a larger 8 x 11 format.
Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers
by John Schilb
from Bedford/St. Martin's
Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing
by Gary Colombo
from Bedford/St. Martin's
Readings for Writers
by Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell
from Wadsworth Publishing
For more than three decades, READINGS FOR WRITERS has been the preeminent rhetorical reader for the freshman composition course. This best-seller continues its tradition of providing the most comprehensive coverage of writing, while offering the most selections of any other rhetorical reader- more than 100 selections from a broad range of topics and genres. Building on its extensive coverage of critical thinking and writing, the Twelfth Edition now features a new four-color "Image Gallery." The "Image Gallery" contains an extensive collection of captivating images related to the themes of the issues featured in the modes chapters. These engaging images prompt discussions and assignments-sparking students' imaginations, and encouraging them to write better essays. Now, more than ever, READINGS FOR WRITERS better prepares students to write successfully in college and the workplace than any other rhetorical reader.
The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction
from W. W. Norton & Company
With a wide variety of genres, authors, subjects, and styles, The Norton Reader offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosen collection of essays available in one volume. Fifty-four new essays maintain the Reader's long-standing balance of classic and contemporary, canonical and lesser-known selections. The Eleventh Edition also includes important new coverage of visual and spoken texts—over fifty photographs, paintings, drawings, and other images that were originally published with the essays, as well as a new prose form chapter on the spoken word.
Available in this Shorter Edition, with fourteen thematic chapters, The Norton Reader has been carefully designed to support a wide range of teaching styles and situations.
Literature and the Writing Process (8th Edition)
by Elizabeth McMahan
from Prentice Hall
Blending a complete writing about literature volume, a literature anthology and a handbook into one, this unique volume guides readers through the allied processes of critical reading and writing—illustrating the use of writing as a way of studying literature, and providing readers with all the tools necessary to analyze literature on their own. The book promotes interactive learning by integrating writing instruction with the study of literature. The volume addresses all aspects of literature and the writing process including an overview of composing, writing about short fiction, an extensive anthology of short fiction, writing about poetry, a casebook on love poetry, an extensive anthology of poetry, writing about drama, an anthology of drama and the editing process. For those interested in literature and the writing process.
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