Back to the Lake: A Reader for Writers (New Rhetoric Reader) - Softcover

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 carefully chosen readings--classics as well as more recent pieces, essays along with various real-world texts, all demonstrating how writers use the modes of discourse for many varied purposes.

Taking its title from Once More to the Lake, the classic essay by E. B. White found in all rhetorically arranged readers, Back to the Lake offers much that is new, from 40 readings never before anthologized in a composition reader to templates to help students get started.