Great Writing: A Reader for Writers

This rhetorically-arranged reader offers an exciting option for first-semester freshman composition courses. GREAT WRITING provides a multi-genre collection of essays, memoirs, speeches, stories, poems, and a play--all presented within familiar rhetorical contexts. Each reading was selected to show language at its very best--pieces that are clearly written, elegantly and intelligently reasoned, and suited to specific rhetorical strategies. Now in a new second edition, the authors have fine-tuned the balance between long pieces with short ones, humorous pieces with serious ones, and intense pieces with relaxed ones. The second edition also includes expanded chapter introductions for each rhetorical strategy, expanded coverage of the writing process, and many new readings that provide a greater diversity of authorship.