
The Norton Sampler
Short Essays for Composition
Thomas Cooley(Editor)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
6th Edition
Published on 4. March 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-393-97882-7 (ISBN)
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Description
As a rhetorically arranged collection of short essays for composition, our Sampler echoes the cloth samplers once done in colonial America, presenting the basic patterns of writing for students to practice just as schoolchildren once practiced their stitches and ABCs on needlework samplers. This new edition shows students that description, narration, and the other patterns of exposition are not just abstract concepts used in composition classrooms but are in fact the way we think-and write.
The Norton Sampler contains 63 carefully chosen readings-classics as well as more recent pieces, essays along with a few real-world texts-all demonstrating how writers use the modes of discourse for many varied purposes.
The Norton Sampler contains 63 carefully chosen readings-classics as well as more recent pieces, essays along with a few real-world texts-all demonstrating how writers use the modes of discourse for many varied purposes.
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Edition
Sixth Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
514 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-97882-7 (9780393978827)
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Person
Thomas Cooley (PhD, Indiana University) is emeritus professor of English at The Ohio State University. In addition to Back to the Lake, he is the editor of The Norton Sampler and the Norton Critical Edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the author of several other books, among them Educated Lives: The Rise of Modern Autobiography in America and The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America.