Back to the Lake: A Reader for Writers

By Thomas Cooley

Book Overview

A rhetorically arranged collection of essays, showing that description, narration, and the other so-called patterns of exposition are not just abstract concepts used in composition classrooms but are in fact the way we think--and write. Back to the Lake offers more than sixty carefully chosen readings--classics as well as more recent pieces, essays along with various real-world texts, all demonstrating how writers use the modes of discourse for many varied purposes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393925080
• ISBN13: 9780393925081
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 668 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 8.5"