Encounters: Readings for Advanced Composition

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William Epperson

Mark Hall

Words, Language & Grammar

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

Strategies for Reading and Writing, ed. William R. Epperson, Linda C. Gray, and Mark R. Hall, anthologizes essays, stories, and poems for students writing academic essays in the liberal arts. The book focuses on basic skills such as active reading, summarizing, and paraphrasing and suggests writing assignments that provide practice in the classic modes of development (e.g., description, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect) Exemplary essays of these modes are provided by such writers as Henry David Thoreau, C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jonathan Swift, E. M. Forster, George Orwell, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. Selected stories provide material for analysis, discussion, and student reflection though such fiction writers as Stephen Crane, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Guy de Maupassant, Flannery O’Connor, Mark Twain, and John Updike. Poets from John Donne, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins to T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Theodore Roethke, reveal how poetry contributes in its distinct way to the subjects and themes presented in the essays and short stories. The book serves as a balanced, concise anthology, a source of ideas and insights from some of our finest writers, stimulating discussion, evaluation, and thoughtful essays, particularly for freshman composition students at Christian colleges. Accompanied by a composition handbook, it provides material for a well-designed course.

Strategies for Reading and Writing

Linda Gray

Kendall/Hunt Publishing Authors: Epperson, Givens, Gray, Hall Part I: Encountering God; Part II: Developing a Moral Perspective; PartIII: Discovering Individuality; Part IV: Living in Relationship

ENCOUNTERS: CONNECTING, CREATING, COMPOSING

Jeri Ruth Givens

New Second Edition Coming Soon!
Encounters: Readings for Advanced Composition features selections and an editorial viewpoint that is appropriate for advanced writing courses at Christian colleges or universities.
The publication fosters critical inquiry and response by challenging students to examine their own assumptions; to actively "hear" another voice and "see" another view; to analyze content, methods, and style; to exercise discernment; to evaluate and to synthesize ideas; and to apply insights to their own lives and cultures.
Encounters: Readings for Advanced Composition
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<li>Helps readers encounter particular problems-posed by modern notions of work, ecology, and historical validity and meaning. They are challenged to engage these issues within the perspective of a Christian world view.</li>
<li>Introduces students to the broad subjects of imagination and creativity, presenting selections that explore the aesthetic implications of Christian doctrine-particularly Creation and the Incarnation.</li>
<li>Features a workbook format, unusual in an anthology, in order to teach and encourage active reading skills.</li>
<li>Is interactive! Questions following each selection require students to mark or annotate the text, to analyze particulars of style or content, to explain relationships of textual units, and to question or apply the insights suggested by the readings.</li>
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