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The Norton Sampler

Short Essays for Composition - Second Edition

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  • 422 páginas
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As a rhetorically arranged collection of short essaysfor composition, our Sampler echoes the cloth samplers once done incolonial America, presenting the basic patterns of writing for studentsto practice just as schoolchildren once practiced their stitches andABCs on needlework samplers. This new edition shows students thatdescription, narration, and the other patterns of exposition are notjust abstract concepts used in composition classrooms but are in factthe way we think and write.The Norton Sampler contains 63 carefully chosen readings classics aswell as more recent pieces, essays along with a few real-worldtexts all demonstrating how writers use the modes of discourse for manyvaried purposes.

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The Norton Sampler, Thomas Cooley

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1981
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(Tapa blanda),
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Título
The Norton Sampler
Subtítulo
Short Essays for Composition - Second Edition
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
W. W. Norton
Publicado en
1981
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
422
ISBN10
0393951790
ISBN13
9780393951790
Serie
Descripción
As a rhetorically arranged collection of short essaysfor composition, our Sampler echoes the cloth samplers once done incolonial America, presenting the basic patterns of writing for studentsto practice just as schoolchildren once practiced their stitches andABCs on needlework samplers. This new edition shows students thatdescription, narration, and the other patterns of exposition are notjust abstract concepts used in composition classrooms but are in factthe way we think and write.The Norton Sampler contains 63 carefully chosen readings classics aswell as more recent pieces, essays along with a few real-worldtexts all demonstrating how writers use the modes of discourse for manyvaried purposes.