Product Description: A new take on the traditional rhetorical modes, showing how they are used in the kinds of writing students are most often assigned―arguments, analyses, reports, narratives, and more. Now available in a high school hardcover edition...read more

W. W. Norton & Company is proud to present the Sixth Edition of The Norton Sampler. 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.

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Product Description: No markings. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket shows shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket is in mylar. All edges are clean. Dust Jacket is Unclipped. Includes index. Very clean, crisp, and tight copy...read more

Views the autobiographical writings of Henry Adams, Mark Twain, Henry James, and William Dean Howells as narratives of education that create their own fictions and traces the transformation of the genre in the following literary generation. Bibliogs