One Hundred Great EssaysRobert DiYanni · The Great Essays collections are part of the Penguin Academic series of low-cost, high quality texts. These alphabetically-organized readers offer the most commonly taught classic and contemporary essays and minimal apparatus. · A wide variety of writing styles represent diverse authorship. · Introduction to history and context of the essay and the pleasures of reading and writing essays. · Supplements: IM and CW (www.ablongman.com/diyanni) |
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... readers may be inter- ested in the historical overview of the essay's development . And all readers can practice their reading skills by reading Susan Sontag's essay " A Woman's Beauty : Put - Down or Power Source ? " along with the com ...
... readers may be inter- ested in the historical overview of the essay's development . And all readers can practice their reading skills by reading Susan Sontag's essay " A Woman's Beauty : Put - Down or Power Source ? " along with the com ...
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... Reading essays involves essentially four interrelated mental acts : observing , connecting , inferring , and con- cluding . Good readers attend to the details of language and structure of the essays they read . They note not only the ...
... Reading essays involves essentially four interrelated mental acts : observing , connecting , inferring , and con- cluding . Good readers attend to the details of language and structure of the essays they read . They note not only the ...
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... readers . Readers can determine what a writer is saying only from the words on the page . Good writing is coherent writing . Coherence refers to how a writer's sentences " hang together , " how those sentences relate to one another ...
... readers . Readers can determine what a writer is saying only from the words on the page . Good writing is coherent writing . Coherence refers to how a writer's sentences " hang together , " how those sentences relate to one another ...
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU | 3 |
JAMES BALDWIN | 5 |
Arriving at an Interpretation | 30 |
Copyright | |
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