The Best American Essays, College Edition by Robert Atwan

The Best American Essays, College Edition by Robert Atwan

THE BEST AMERICAN ESAYS, Seventh College Edition, presents highly regarded contemporary authors at their best. The essays are thematically arranged and selected from the popular trade series of the same name. They also cover common rhetorical modes, including narration and argumentation, providing instructors optimal flexibility with respect to course approach. In the introduction, Robert Atwan offers an overview of various types of essays to prepare students for the readings that follow. To further prepare students, Essayists on the Essay offers insightful commentaries about the genre from many of today's top writers. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http: //gocengage.com/infotrac.

Robert Atwan is director of The Blue Hills Writing Institute at Curry College and the series editor of the annual Best American Essays, which he founded in 1985. His essays, reviews, and critical articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, River Teeth, and many other publications. For Bedford/St. Martin s, he has also edited Ten on Ten: Major Essayists on Recurring Themes (1992); Our Times (1998); and Convergences (2009). He has coedited (with Jon Roberts) Left, Right, and Center: Voices from Across the Political Spectrum (1996), and is coeditor with Donald McQuade of The Writer s Presence (2009).

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ISBN 13	9781133310341
ISBN 10	1133310346
Title	The Best American Essays, College Edition
Author	Robert Atwan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wadsworth Publishing
Year published	2013-01-04
Number of pages	400
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