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Product Description: Great Writing provides a multi-genre collection of rhetorically organized essays, memoirs, speeches, stories, poems, and a play - all presented within familiar rhetorical contexts. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

After deciding to let her boyfriend sweep her away to Guatemala, Betsy learns that after all these years her father, who was often in trouble with the law because of his labor activism, may not be dead.

Product Description: The Questioning Reader is an innovative, thematic anthology that asserts the primacy of questioning and inquiry as strategies for gaining knowledge. Because the vital give-and-take of conversation between a writer and a questioning reader lives in every good piece of writing, questioning infuses this reader's organization and pedagogy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "In 1991, troops sent to Iraq for the first Gulf War returned home with a litany of physical, neurological, and psychological symptoms that collectively became known as Gulf War syndrome. Eisenberg bravely sheds light on the resultant devastation suffered by one small group of friends and their families...read more