Back to the Lake

Product Description

The perfect balance of readings and writing instruction
The reader and writing guide that helps developing writers succeed using engaging essays and practical writing instruction. Back to the Lake presents reading and writing strategies together using marginal annotations to show the connections. Readings―arranged by strategy and written by classic, contemporary, and student writers―are balanced with writing advice. Now with new readings―including ones debating the value of “grit”―new advice on reading critically, and a new chapter on editing sentences.

Book Description

with Back to the Lake Ebook, The Little Seagull Handbook Third Edition Ebook, and InQuizitive for Writers

About the Author

Thomas Cooley is Emeritus Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is the author of articles and books on American literature, including
The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America and
Educated Lives: The Rise of Modern Autobiography in America. He is also the editor of
Back to the Lake, The Norton Sampler, and other textbooks in rhetoric and composition.