Product Description: Gathering together to talk and decide about the communal future has become an increasingly important means of social integration. As a means of distinction for the elite, the stylization of meetings has replaced the stylization of drinking and eating...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Writing Choices is a composition reader that recognizes that writing instructors and writing students read in different ways. While students read for content comprehension and focus on what is presented, instructors often focus on how the writing itself conveys the writer's ideas - the how and the why of the content presentation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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