Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition

By Elizabeth Penfield

Book Overview

This lively collection of fifty-three short, readable selections by both student and professional writers provides useful models of the rhetorical modes. In addition to familiar names such as Barbara... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321014707
• ISBN13: 9780321014702
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"

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