
The Second Edition contains 34 new readings that teachers will want to teach and students will like to read, from Steven Pinker's "Mind Over Mass Media" to Alex Horton's "Advice for College-bound Vets," as well as a chapter on academic writing, and editorial apparatus that explicitly...

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...

